When someone is murdered, it’s natural to ask why. Rarely are we astonished or perplexed when we read news reports where the motive seems to be love, hate, or money and greed. There are also atrocities by madmen and madwomen as rare and inexplicable as the people committing them. Then there are crimes with motives that read like absurd jokes, […]
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Annual juried student art shows are an important standard for academic art galleries. Cleveland State University students get real life experiences and a firsthand look into the professional world of art. For many, this is the first time their work is critiqued by outside judges who are not their professors or fellow students. They experience the joy of acceptance, as […]
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The Galleries at CSU are pleased to present Ongoing Matter: Democracy, Design and the Mueller Report for the Fall 2020 semester. We are excited to reopen to students and the public with this timely exhibition. The United States presidential election of 2016 has emerged as one of the most consequential political moments in modern history. Though it is challenging to capture […]
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The holiday break in the art schedule gives us a minute to reflect on what’s been going on for the last year. While I would never sum up 2019 by saying it was the year of this or that, many of the year’s most significant exhibits and events in Cleveland point to big picture evolution in the art world. […]
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2020 season, Timeless Vision: Earth, Sea and Sky, curated by our new assistant gallery director Kendall Christian. The exhibition will open with a reception on Friday, January 31, from 5:00 to 8:00pm. Gallery conversations with artists and the curator will begin at 6:00pm. The exhibition includes artwork by local and regional, as well as internationally recognized artists working in the […]
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This exhibition season, after a seven-year hiatus, the Galleries at CSU once again present works by CSU studio art faculty and distinguished alumni. With many recent changes—retirements, graduations, and new hires—this seems like a good time to take a new look at ourselves. The faculty exhibition will feature installations by Irina Koukhanova (sculpture) and Robert Thurmer (conceptual art); new works […]
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XTINGUISH THE PAST, IGNITE THE FUTURE! The 1969 Cuyahoga River fire has become a powerful cultural symbol as well as a rallying cry for better water protection. Discover a story of extraordinary resilience and recovery, captured by photographers from Northeast Ohio. Fifty years ago, the Cuyahoga River was so polluted by industrial waste that it caught fire. The event generated […]
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The Galleries at CSU, located at 1307 Euclid Avenue on Playhouse Square, are pleased to present the second installment of the exhibition: A TRADITION RE-INTERPRETED II: NEW WORK BY CHINESE ARTISTS March 8 to April 20 This exhibition is curated by Professor Qian Li of Cleveland State University. The exhibition features recent works by contemporary Chinese artists who re-interpret the […]
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The Galleries at CSU, located at 1307 Euclid Avenue on Playhouse Square, are pleased to bring back the People’s Art Show this fall for the twenty-third time. The People’s Art Show is a Cleveland tradition reaching back into the early ’80s, celebrating freedom of expression, creativity, diversity and imagination. The exhibition is free and open to all—no judge, no jury, […]
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Democracy rules every edition of the biennial People’s Art Show in the Galleries at Cleveland State University, an unjuried, un-curated, uncensored display of just about every artistic pursuit on the Cleveland art scene. The 23rd iteration is on view October 26 – December 7. This year, a couple of interactive works in the show are particularly relevant to democracy, and […]
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