Winter 2022-2023 Events
Your easy, chronological guide to exhibits and opportunities at Northeast Ohio galleries, studios, and museums coming in the next few months. More information about many of these exhibits can be found elsewhere in the pages of CAN Journal.
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, we encourage you to check with galleries for current protocols. Some in-person indoor events require proof of vaccination or a negative test, and some continue to, or will again, require wearing facial covering.
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CONTINUING EVENTS
Through November 26
24th Robert Thurmer People’s Art Show
THE GALLERIES AT CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY
Through November 26
Ryan Harris: “Hairitage: Don’t Touch My Hair!”
FUTURE INK GRAPHICS
Through November 30
Barrie Kaufman: A Fragile Environment
MASSILLON MUSEUM GALLERY M
Through December 2
A Big Relief! woodblock prints
FAWICK GALLERY AT BALDWIN WALLACE UNIVERSITY
Through December 2
Sculptural Imprints
KINK CONTEMPORARY
Through December 3
Shawn Powell: PARK
Shawn Powell was previously in several group exhibitions at Abbatoir, but PARK is his first solo show there. His acrylic paintings depict common objects of leisure including a bike, a shuttlecock and a park bench, depicted from above in isolation on a field of grass: vivid, colorful, realistic and lonely. It also features a variety of shaped paintings of similar objects, including a hula hoop and parasols.
ABBATOIR GALLERY
Through December 4
Morgan Bukovec: SERVICE INDUSTRY STITCH PROJECT
KAISER GALLERY
Through December 12
Exquisite Surface: Work by Tomasko, Leech & Eiskamp
LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE STOCKER GALLERY
Through December 13
New Directions: Abstract Prints by Yoshida Tōshi
Wit and Wisdom: Social and Political Satire in the Prints of Hogarth, Goya and Daumier
Life Full of Changes: Kenji Nakahashi
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM
Through December 14
51st Annual Juried Art Exhibition
VALLEY ART CENTER
Through December 16
Harmony
ART GALLERY AT BEACHWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER
Through December 16
Julie Schenkelberg: CURRANT
Schenkelberg is the Sculpture Center’s first artist in residence, and her show CURRANT christens its new space. Returning to her native Cleveland after several years away, she found herself drawn to connections with the past. In CURRANT, she draws on her own past and family history as she weaves personal images with castings of plants, religious symbols, abandoned buildings, family dishware and tombstones in Lake View Cemetery, located just across the street from The Sculpture Center.
Sarah Dittrich: In slowness there is fullness
THE SCULPTURE CENTER
Through December 17
Fall Exhibitions
SUMMIT ARTSPACE
Through December 17
Ruddy Roye: Outhwaite Homes Estates Exhibition
CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM
Through December 18
Cleveland Photo Fest Menlo Park Academy show
PRAMA ARTSPACE
Through December 21
Katlin Shae: Tragic Miracle
Shae’s new work explores her complex relationship with her late grandmother in equally complicated pieces. Her digitally-woven works integrate images and texts passed down from her grandmother in textured pieces that show subtle, graduated coloring and diverse patterns. She earned her BFA at Kent State University, where she currently teaches, and she has also spent time in Athens, Georgia, where she got her MFA.
PRAXIS FIBER WORKSHOP GALLERY
Through December 22
Faculty Exhibition
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART REINBERGER GALLERY
Through December 23
FRONT International Triennial: Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows
Bakunin’s Barricade by Ahmet Öğüt
Objects of Encounter: American Myths of Place
Inches Away, The Heavens Open: Blue and Green Landscapes from the AMAM Collection
Scholars and Ancestors: Traditional Functions of Portraiture in China and Korea
Mobility and Exchange: 1600-1800
Divergent Paths
Beyond the Barricade
ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM
Through December 24
The 53rd Annual Holiday Fair
MANSFIELD ART CENTER
Through December 30
Heights Arts Holiday Store
HEIGHTS ARTS
Through December 31
FRONT International Triennial: Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows
Nicole Eisenman: A Decade of Printing
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Through December 31
Timothy Callaghan: Factotum
WILLIAM BUSTA PROJECTS
Through January 1
FRONT Triennial Show: Contact
Some pieces of the FRONT Triennial are still on view even though the event officially ends in early October. That includes Contact, curated by Cleveland native Renée Green, which fills the building with video, film, sound, photos, prints, paintings, sculpture and installations by a dizzying array of artists on a dizzying array of topics, most having at least a tangential relationship to issues of justice and freedom. As Green said at the opening, you’ll probably need to spend a few hours to take it all in.
MOCA CLEVELAND
Through January 4
INTO LIGHT Ohio: Continuing the Conversation
Erasing the stigma of drug addiction
MASSILLON MUSEUM
Through January 6
Rick Rollenhagen: The Spirituality of Spontaneity
MARIA NEIL ART PROJECT
Through January 7
The Series and The Multiple
YARDS PROJECT
Through January 8
“Carry On”: A Century of Swing
MASSILLON MUSEUM
Through January 8
Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection
Tales of the City: Drawing in the Netherlands from Bosch to Breughel
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Through January 14
Now and Then: Seven Decades of Kent State Ceramics
KSU DOWNTOWN GALLERY
Through January 14
Fallout: Rebecca Kaler, Paintings from 2003-2022
Kaler’s inaugural exhibition as an archived artist features work made by the Mansfield-born artist inspired by her travels around the world. The subject matter of her work ranges from landscapes, to clouds, to graffiti, to dogs, to the horrors of war, in works infused with light and alluring color and dripping with symbolic markings that blur the boundaries of figurative and abstract art. The show will also include sculptural boxes which turn the same ideas into portable cubes.
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE
Through January 15
FRONT International Triennial: Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows
Firelei Baez: the vast ocean of all possibilities
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Through January 25
Lakeland Community College Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition
GALLERY AT LAKELAND
Through January 29
Beyond Cute: The Doll Show
URSULINE COLLEGE WASMER GALLERY
Gregory Halpern: 19 Winters/7 Springs
Through February 5
Buffalo, NY artist Halpern is touted as being in the “American social documentary tradition,” and for this show, which features color photos and sculptures, he’s trained his camera on a subject close to him: his struggling hometown. In the past 15 years, he’s looked at its people and its built environment from different angles in keeping with his interest in showing social conditions in today’s America: “issues of class and equity in a post-capitalist society.”
TRANSFORMER STATION
Through February 15
Art by the Falls Call for Artists
VALLEY ART CENTER
Through February 19
Cycles of Life: The Four Seasons Tapestries
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Through February 26
State of the Art: Constructs
AKRON ART MUSEUM
Through March 5
Text and Image in Southern Asia
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Through April 30
Old and New in Korean Art
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Through May 7
Modern Impressions — Light and Water in Chinese Prints
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Through May 14
Eighty-Six Reasons for Asylum Admission
Cleveland artist Kimberly J. Chapman’s porcelain sculptural works look at the history of how “mental illness” and its treatment were used to control and repress women and how misogyny drove its definition, leading to diagnoses that seem laughable today. The work was inspired by the West Virginia Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum’s Reasons for Admission that catalogued preconditions for mental illness.
ERIE ART MUSEUM
Through May 14
Good Hope
AKRON ART MUSEUM
Through June 4
Kinship
AKRON ART MUSEUM
Through June 18
Modern Japan
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Through July 30
The Medieval Top Seller: The Book of Hours
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
NOVEMBER
18
CAN Winter Issue Launch Party
LOGANBERRY BOOKS
Third Friday
5-9pm
78th STREET STUDIOS
Cleveland Photo Fest: One Million Photos (and a couple of thousand from local high school and college students)
The third annual Cleveland Photo Fest solicited work from photographers, both amateur and professional, all over the world to create large panels displaying thousands of tiny images. Will there be an actual million? Come find out, and good luck counting them! This year’s festival also includes a room packed with diverse images by local high school and college students, and a few surprises tucked into the Bostwick’s multiple gallery spaces. It will also feature a series of Friday night programs, including one November 25, presented by noted Cleveland concert photographer (and CAN contributor) Anastasia Pantsios.
Opening reception 5pm November 18
Through December 31
BOSTWICK DESIGN ART INITIATIVE
Jessica Pinsky: I Can’t Remember Anything
Opening 5-8pm
Through December 30
HEDGE GALLERY
Leave it at the Door: Works by Amy Kreiger, Karen Sacco & Christina Sadowski
Through December 16
E11EVEN2 GALLERY
19
Artventure: Earl James and Linda Zmina glass and fabrication studios
10am-noon
YARDS PROJECT
20
Photographs in Ink
This show uses works by historical photographers such as Eadweard Muybridge, Alvin Langdon and Alfred Stieglitz, noted 20th-century artists such as Andy Warhol and currently working artists such as Lorna Simpson to explore how artists adapted their work for photomechanical reproduction and wide dissemination as opposed to a unique darkroom print or digital image. We’re told the show has two goals: to show how these processes drove the wide distribution of images and demonstrate how fine artists deliberately used them as an aesthetic choice.
Through April 2
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
25
Potion Park: The Kaleidoscopic Garden of Steve Ehret & Kat Francis
Right Place, Right Time: Paintings by Robert Coleman Jackson
Color Wonder from the CMA Collection
Thinking with Animals
More than 50 ceramics artists will be displaying a vast array of stylistic approaches to depicting animals. The artists represent a diverse group in terms of culture, gender identity, background and career stages, and use a variety of techniques to create their work. Symbolism and metaphor abound as artists use animals to make statements about human behavior.
Through March 5
CANTON MUSEUM OF ART
26
Destroy All Nonprofits, featuring artist Topiltzin
4pm
LA COSECHA GALERIA
Waterloo Arts Holiday Co-op Sale
Through December 18
WATERLOO ARTS
27
Artists Sunday
Noon-5pm
SUMMIT ARTSPACE
Genghis Khan Cleveland
Small Press and Independent Comic Convention
Noon-5pm
FUTURE INK GRAPHICS
28
Zygote Press Member Mixer – A Celebration of Printmaking!
6-8pm at Cleveland Urban Winery
Free for Zygote members, or get your membership at the door
ZYGOTE PRESS
29
Robert Thurmer People’s Art Show artwork pick-up
11am-4pm November 29–December 3
THE GALLERIES AT CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY
DECEMBER
1
Ekphrastacy: Artists Talk + Poets Respond
6pm
VALLEY ART CENTER
Community Culture Night with Stormy Sweitzer
7-8:30pm
ART HOUSE INC
Tangents Colloquium
moCa Cleveland, in partnership with the Cleveland Museum of Art, presents this free program in which students at the Cleveland Institute of Art offer works of “creative criticism” inspired by moCa’s still-on-view FRONT Triennial show, Contact, curated by Renée Green. They respond with both their personal takes and theories of inspiration.
6-7:45pm
MOCA CLEVELAND
Letterpress Holiday Cards Happy Hour with Wendy Partridge
6:30-8:30pm
ZYGOTE PRESS
2
Walk All Over Waterloo
6-10pm
WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT
Little Italy Art Walk
The Little Italy Holiday Art Walk has been an annual event for over 30 years. This event is a celebration of arts, culture, and food.
5-9pm December 2
Noon-9pm December 3
Noon-5pm December 4
LITTLE ITALY NEIGHBORHOOD
Cleveland Institute of Art Student Holiday Sale
December 2 & 3
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART MANDEL ATRIUM
Artspass Off the Wall Holiday Members’ Showcase
5-8pm
PRAXIS FIBER WOPRKSHOP
9
Walkabout Tremont
5-10pm
TREMONT NEIGHBORHOOD
Critical Conversations: Art in Practice
Cleveland Institute of Art students collaborate with The Progressive Art Collection
Through January 23
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART ANN AND NORMAN ROULET STUDENT + ALUMNI GALLERY
ArtsPass Off the Wall Holiday Members’ Showcase
5-8pm
ZYGOTE PRESS
10
A Renaissance Is Now
DEEP ROOTS EXPERIENCE
free body by Aja Joi Grant
Opening reception 11am-3pm
CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM
Artist Talk with Rebecca Kaler
Her show, Fallout, is currently on view.
1-2:30pm
ARTISTS ARCHIVES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE
Coty Gianelli: Days with Delsie
Through January 22
MASSILLON MUSEUM GALLERY M
11
China Through the Magnifying Glass: Masterpieces in Miniature and Detail
Through February 6
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
14
Unsilent Night
As Time Out New York said, “Phil Kline’s postmodern boombox caroling walk [Unsilent Night] is more than just performance art: It’s a demonstration of community.” And as the New York Times said, “Unsilent Night immerses the listener in suspended wonderment, as if time itself had paused inside a string of jingle bells.” The participatory bit of seasonal performance art –a walk around the neighborhood, with music–was created in New York by Akron Native Phil Kline in 1992, and returned to Cleveland—specifically to Tremont—last year. For 2022, participants will gather at 6:30 at the Lincoln Park gazebo, and begin the walk at 7 pm—streaming Kline’s composition on cell phones, broadcasting on the Bluetooth speakers they (and you) bring.
LINCOLN PARK GAZEBO, TREMONT
15
Screenprint an Ugly Sweater with Michael Whitehead
5-8:30pm
ZYGOTE PRESS
16
Third Friday 5-9pm
78th STREET STUDIOS
ArtsPass Off the Wall Holiday Members’ Showcase
5-8pm
SPACES GALLERY
21
The Africa The World Seldom Sees
Through January 18
ART GALLERY AT BEACHWOOD COMMUNITY CENTER
23
Another great group show
Opening 6-10pm
Through January 22
PRAMA ARTSPACE
JANUARY
6
Walk All Over Waterloo
6-10pm
WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT
Desire Paths
Opening 5-9pm
Through February 3
KINK CONTEMPORARY
9
Lorain County Region Scholastic Art Exhibit and Awards
Reception 1-3pm January 15
Gold Key Reception 1-3pm January 29 in Hoke Theatre, Art Gallery and Lobby
Through February 16
LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE STOCKER GALLERY
10
Re-envisioning Narratives: Creating Books with Found Materials
Virtual workshops 5-8pm January 10 & 24
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
13
Walkabout Tremont
5-10pm
TREMONT NEIGHBORHOOD
Winter Exhibitions open
Through March 18
SUMMIT ARTSPACE
Jason Milburn: Rafts
Opening reception 5-8pm
Through February 14
BAYARTS
17
Beyond Borders: The Art of Siona Benjamin
Through March 17
20
Third Friday
5-9pm
78th STREET STUDIOS
Dale Goode: Prints, Paintings and Sculpture
Opening 5-8pm
HEDGE GALLERY
Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
Through June 11
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
7-Up!
An exhibition highlighting seven artists & the work they do so well: Scott Kraynak, Emma Anderson, Dan Kearsey, Bob Peck, Inky Lorain, Sean Wheeler, Michele Janosky.
Through February 17
E11EVEN2 GALLERY
Connie Fu
Opening 5:30-8pm
Through March 4
THE SCULPTURE CENTER
21
Archival Mounting and Matting Techniques for Works on Paper
In-person workshop 10am-4pm
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
26
Beyond Borders: The Art of Siona Benjamin
Reception 5pm with the CSU Department of Theatre and Dance
THE GALLERIES AT CSU
27
“Tattoo You!”: a show of six artists that are also tattooists
Opening 6-10pm
Through February 19
PRAMA ARTSPACE
Nevadomi: An Intimate Look
Through April 21
JUDSON PARK
Annual Student Faculty Show
Opening 6pm
Through March 8
VALLEY ART CENTER
Dope Boy Chic
DEEP ROOTS EXPERIENCE
Links Between Roots
Mexican/American print show features 16 Mexican artists and 16 American artists with Mexican roots.
Through March 18
KSU DOWNTOWN GALLERY
28
Introduction to Western Papermaking
Two session in-person workshop
10am-4pm January 28
10am-4pm January 29
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
30
Blizzard Book
Virtual workshop 6-8pm
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
31
Historical Valentines
Virtual workshop 5-8pm
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
FEBRUARY
3
Walk All Over Waterloo
6-10pm
WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT
Dan Miller: Melancholy and Malignancy
Opening reception 5-9pm
Through April 7
MARIA NEIL ART PROJECT
10
Walkabout Tremont
5-10pm
TREMONT NEIGHBORHOOD
11
Contemporary Longstitch
In-person Workshop 10am-4pm
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
12
Celebrate Women’s History Month
from WOMAN XVI… Created by women, of women, and about women
Curated by Mary Urbas
For the 16th time, Lakeland’s gallery coordinator Mary Urbas rounds up a large group of the best local women artists in a huge range of media, and tosses in a few from around the region and even farther afield, to comment on what it looks like to be a woman in these times. And these times have gotten even more fraught and desperate for women so this year’s show should be especially interesting.
Artist reception 3:30-5pm March 26
Through March 31
GALLERY AT LAKELAND
15
Art by the Falls Call for Artists deadline
VALLEY ART CENTER
17
Third Friday
5-9pm
78th STREET STUDIOS
2023 Student Independent Exhibition
Through March 19
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART REINBERGER GALLERY
20
Paper Choice for Letterpress Printing
Virtual workshop 6-8pm
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
21
Hiding in Plain Sight: An Introduction to Natural Dyes on Paper
Two session virtual workshop
6-8pm February 21 &
6-8pm February 28
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
24
“Now That’s What I Call Art Vol 1,” a group show
Opening reception 6-10pm
Through March 19
PRAMA ARTSPACE
Karen Miraldi: Bringing in the Light
Opening reception 4:30-7:15pm
Through March 23
LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE STOCKER GALLERY
26
The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England
Through May 14
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
27
Drum Leaf: A Lay Flat Binding
Virtual workshop 6-8pm
MORGAN CONSERVATORY
MARCH
2
Siona Benjamin
Thursday Night Art Talk
5pm
THE GALLERIES AT CSU
3
CAN Spring Issue Release Party
6-8pm
PRAMA ARTSPACE & GALLERY
Walk All Over Waterloo
6-10pm
WATERLOO ARTS DISTRICT
10
Walkabout Tremont
5-10pm
TREMONT NEIGHBORHOOD
Akron Art Walk
4-9pm
AKRON HISTORIC ARTS DISTRICT
11
The Annual ABC Chili Cook-Off benefit
1-4pm
ART HOUSE INC.
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