art and lane

Artists Osmievy Ortega and Alejandro Aguilera enrich the community as Artists-In-Residence at Cleveland Institute of Art: the Cuba Project.

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Dr. David Hart, Chief Organizer of the Cuba Project, and Artist-In-Residence, Osmievy Ortega, attend the Sculpture X-2 Conference held at CIA on October 15, 2011

Cuban Artists-In-Residence Osmievy Ortega and Alejandro Aguilera have made this a memorable semester for students and faculty at the Institute. Personable and outgoing, they have become vibrant additions to the Institute's community. Both have produced substantial artwork while here. Aguilera recently completed a large-scale painting in his Institute Studio while Ortega has been busy in the Print department producing large-scale relief prints and working with master printer Karen Beckwith. Their remarkable works have provided inspiration for the students working in close proximity with them.

Their personal styles have as well made them exciting visitors for area school children when they recently traveled to Villaview Community School and Hope Academy-East. While there Aguilera and Ortega spoke with young people about their own careers as artists and their homeland of Cuba. Students peppered them with questions about subjects as diverse as "Where did you get their ideas from?" and "Who is the president of Cuba?". Before leaving Cleveland they are looking forward to other such opportunities to engage the public in general and young people in particular.

Plans are currently being developed to exhibit the works of the Cuban Artists-In-Residence near the end of the project and there is still the spring semester ahead when the Institute will welcome its second round of artists. (An exhibition was held at the start of the program at MOCA - Cleveland which presented existing works by artists from the Cuba Project).

The Alejandro Aguilera and Osmievy Ortega will speak publicly at the Institute as part of the Lunch on Fridays series:
Friday, November 18, - 12:15 pm
CIA's Gund Building

Profiles of Aguilera and Ortega:

Alejandro Aguilera is an artist and Cuban émigré to the U.S. Born in 1964 in Holguín, Cuba, he received his BFA from Escuela de Arte (in Holguín) and his MFA from the Instituto Superior de Arte (, ISA,) in Havana. He currently lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia settling there after a period of living in Mexico because of his interest in the region’s history and in its burgeoning Latin community.

Over the last ten years Aguilera’s work has increasingly responded to a number of personal experiences and circumstances including rethinking Cuban identity and the creation of work that engages the conditions of the place he lives in. Working through sculpture, installation and drawing, and employing mechanisms of improvisation, Aguilera explores his relationships to art and its history as it is directed through his condition as an immigrant. The ideas and themes that inform these works are often directed by modern and contemporary works that critique the long history of primitivism in Modernist art. Aguilera has said of his own work, “I intend to expand upon the idea that artistic forms constantly permeated by notions of religiousness, freedom and beauty are never historically definitive.”

Cuba Art NY: Alejandro Aguilera

Osmievy Ortega was born in 1980 in Havana, Cuba. He lives and works in Havana, Cuba.

Rooted in the significant lithographic traditions such as the Cuban “tobacco stamps”, Osmievy Ortega revitalizes the print medium to represent scenes of subcultures, social margins and identity. Ortega recontextualizes the implicit beauty in the natural world through the exquisite handling and execution of his work. The linoleum reduction prints in the Cuba isla Pintoresca series recreate this inherit aesthetic in the rich colors and textured fibers of their organic and animal-like forms. In the series Puntos Cardinales, a labyrinth of lines form floating heads that come into contact with their local and dominating environments, creating a sense of torment and confusion.

Shown extensively throughout Cuba at the Biennials, Instituto Superior de Arte, and Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wilfredo Lam, Ortega has also been a part of several group shows in the USA, Mexico and at the Grechen Biennial in Switzerland. In recognition of his superior print making skills, Ortega was the recipient of the Joven Estampa (Young Printer) in 2009.

Both artists participated in the first Cuba Project Symposium held at the Institute alongs side scholar Alejandro de la Fuente.

Works by Osmievy Ortega:

The Cuba Project is supported by funds from The Cleveland Foundation's Creative Fusions Grant.

Workshops and school visits by the artists are part of CIA's Arts + Achievement Program which is supported through the Key Foundation.

THE CUBA PROJECT

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Friday's edition of CIA's Lunch on Fridays features artist Alejandro Aguilera. Aguilera was born in Cuba and currently lives in Atlanta. His talk is part of a week-long residency at the Institute and offers a preview of Cleveland Institute of Art’s Cuba Project.

“During the last ten years, my artistic work has been completely immersed in my experience as an immigrant – something I consider to be a type of condition, which, in turn, facilitates a particular relationship with the world and history of art…” – Alejandro Aguilera.

The Cuba Project is a year-long program that is highlighted by two symposia focusing on questions surrounding Cuba and contemporary creativity. In addition the Cuba Project brings five contemporary Cuban artists to Cleveland to engage and interact with the Institute’s community and the Cleveland community at large. The first symposium is on Thursday, Oct. 13 starting at 5:30 pm and in addition to Alejandro Aguilera will feature Cuban artist Osmeivy Ortega and scholar Alejandro de la Fuente, a Latin American Studies professor with the University of Pittsburgh. He is also the author of _A Nation for All: Race, Inequality and Politics in Twentieth Century Cuba_. The evening’s conversation will be moderated by the Institute’s own David Hart, Phd and will feature a keynote address by Professor de la Fuente.

Cleveland Institue of Art's Cuba Project represents a truly remarkable opportunity for the Cleveland Community and as well as the Institute's internal community. Over the course of the year the five Cuban Artists-In-Residence, each living in Cleveland for eight weeks, will literally become part of Cleveland's daily life. They will be visiting area schools and arts organizations and interacting with Institute students through studio visits and workshops. The first event associated with the Cuba Project is the exhibition currently on view at MOCA-Cleveland ...

The Cuba Project: The Cleveland Institute of Art at MOCA

This extraordinary project has grown out of The Cleveland Foundation's visionary Creative Fusion program which provided the funding to bring these artists to Cleveland. This program brings accomplished artists from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines to Cleveland for extended periods of time. While here they are embedded within existing cultural Institutions through which they become an active participant in Cleveland's Creative Community. The result is an atmosphere which readily fosters fusions in thought and creative thinking and which further energizes Cleveland's already vital Creative life.

The Cuba Project - selected Fall Programming:

Friday, Oct. 7, LOF, 12:15 - Alejandro Aguilera, artist's talk, CIA Gund Building, Ohio Bell Auditorium, Cinematheque entrance

Through December 31 - The Cuba Project: Cleveland Institute of Art at MOCA, exhibition

Thursday, Oct. 13, 5:30 pm - The Fall Cuba Project Symposium, CIA Gund Building, Aitken Auditorium, Cinematheque entrance

Friday, Oct. 14, 9:20 pm - Cinematheque presents the film "Fallen Gods" (Cuba/Mexico, 2008), directed by Ernesto Daranas. Cuban actress Annia du Maure will conduct a Q&A following the film. Note: Adult Content.

Friday, Nov. 18, LOF, 12:15 - Osmievy Ortega and Abel Barroso, artists' talks, CIA Gund Building, Ohio Bell Auditorium, Cinematheque entrance

The Cleveland Foundation - Creative Fusion

Other funding for The Cuba Project has been provided by the Cleveland Institute of Art's Visual Arts and Technologies Environment and its Liberal Arts Environment.

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Sarah Kabot - covert agent?

2011-08-26T05:52:00.000-07:00

So, as many of you know, Ms. Kabot went mysteriously missing last spring around mid-term. It had all the earmarks of a CIA covert operation. Rumors were rampant that she was actually part of the team that took out Bin Laden. On her return no additional info was forthcoming which merely confirmed everyone’s suspicions that she was the U.S. equivalent of 007 … a highly trained special agent living undercover as a mild-mannered artist … no doubt working for CIA was a merry ruse designed to throw operatives off the track who might suspect her connections to THE CIA.

Finally though, the truth is revealed … and I’m just saying it doesn’t disprove my long-held suspicion that she’s a covert operative … but now we know … OMG!!! Sarah was a contestant on Season 2 of “Work of Art”!

So now new suspense … DOES SHE TAKE IT ALL???? Tune in to find out.

(yay! Sarah! -- really, really exciting!)
Sarah Kabot's Bio on Work-of-Art

The Cleveland Institute of Art: The Cuba Project - this will be amazing

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Over the course of the 2011/2012 year The Cleveland Institute of Art will be hosting a total of five Cuban Artists as part of its Cuba Project. Coming in the fall: Abel Barroso Arencibia and Osmeivy Ortega Pacheco ... and in the spring: Alex Hernandez Dueñas; José Ángel Toirac Batista and Meira Marrero Día.

The Cuba Project represents a coordinated program designed to broaden exposure to Cuban art and life, and to dis-spell many of the myths surrounding life in Cuba. A core component of the program is cross-generational and cross-cultural dialogues. The centerpieces are two symposia dealing with nation and creative generations. The first of these will occur on the evening of Thursday, October 13.

In addition there will be a number of public talks, exhibitions, and other opportunities to engage these artists, their work, and Cuban culture.

CIA Associate Professor David Hart, PhD., is the Project Lead.

The Cleveland Institute of Art's Cuba Project is made possible by generous support from the Cleveland Foundation through its Creative Fusion initiative. (THANK YOU!)

Coming in 2011/2012 ...

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Right now most of us are away on adventures. We are vacating, traveling, focusing on the work that is our work. Academic artists in particular, rely on the summers to be the artists they want to be ...

Coming in the fall will reports on all our doings and a view of the work and lives of four Cuban artists who will be in residence over the course of the year at the Cleveland Institute of Art.

We will see you then.

John Ewing, Thursday + Jeremy Bailey, Friday - See what CIA has to Offer!!!

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Here's a list of some of CIA's spring events!!!
CIA's Website

This Friday!!!

TIME VISITING ARTIST
JEREMY BAILEY

Friday, Feb 4th
12:00 - 1:00pm, Aitken Auditorium, Gund
Pizza provided!

http://jeremybailey.net/
Jeremy Bailey is a Toronto-based new media artist whose work explores custom software in a performative context. Powered by humor and computer vision, his work wryly critiques the uneasy relationship between technology and the body while playfully engaging the protocols of digital media (Greg J Smith, Rhizome). His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and festivals internationally including upcoming exhibitions at Tate Liverpool and the New Museum in New York.
He received his MFA in Art Media Studies from Syracuse University in 2006.

LOF is sponsored by the Foundation and Liberal Arts Environments. Jeremy Bailey is sponsored by the TIME Department!

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John Ewing Award Ceremony + Showing of Rare French Film
Wednesday, Feb 3, 7:30pm

At the awards ceremony hosted by CIA and The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA), Cinematheque Director John Ewing will receive a distinguished French honor performed by the French consulate in Chicago. Ewing was named a Chevalier (Knight) in the Order of Arts of Letters of the Republic of France for his many years of promoting culture at both the Cinematheque and the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA), where he is Associate Director of Film.

Following the ceremony, Cinematheque will show one of Ewing’s all-time favorite French films, THE SKY IS YOURS (LA CIEL EST A VOUS.) Jean Grémillon’s masterpiece, undistributed in the U.S. and shown here in a rare archival print, tells of a provincial married couple (Madeleine Renaud, Charles Vanel) whose mundane, middle-class life together is turned upside down by a sudden passion for flying. Made during the Nazi Occupation of France during WWII, the film bravely (and subversively) celebrated the strength, courage, and forbearance of ordinary French citizens, both men and women. Moving and magnificent! Subtitles. 16mm. 105 min. Special thanks to the Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley (Susan Oxtoby, Mona Nagai).
Aitken Auditorium. Information and special event ticket prices at cia.edu/cinematheque.

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Life Drawing Classes Wednesdays: Jan 19 – Apr 6 (7-9pm)
Pay as you go continuing education that supports your individual pace, whether you’re a beginner or advanced artist wanting to develop or refine your drawing skills.
Gund Building, Room 303. $15 pay at the door. cia.edu/continuinged
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CINEMATHEQUE

Audrey Hepburn: Sophisticated Lady Jan 15 – Feb 27
This film series will include film prints of seven movies starring the Oscar-winning actress: ROMAN HOLIDAY, SABRINA, FUNNY FACE, CHARADE, BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S, TWO FOR THE ROAD, and WAIT UNTIL DARK.
Aitken Auditorium. Movie times, information, and ticket prices at cia.edu/cinematheque
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65th Student Independent Exhibition Feb 18 – Mar 26
Opening Reception Feb 18, 6-9pm
A student sponsored and organized exhibition now in its sixty-fifth year, the SIE invites a jury of professional artists and designers to select the very best from hundreds of student submissions. Watch CIA’s young rising stars mingle with serious art collectors. Come early – the art sells quickly.
Reinberger Galleries. Free and Open.
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CINEMATHEQUE

Sergei Eisenstein's landmark film, Battleship Potemkin Feb 10 - 13
A landmark film from the Soviet master made in 1925 will screen in a new 35mm restoration print. Aitken Auditorium. Movie times, information, and ticket prices at cia.edu/cinematheque.

DOUBLE-STOP with filmmakers and stars in person Sunday, Feb 20, 2:30pm
This 1968 largely forgotten feature film, shot in Cleveland, directed by Gerald Sindell and never released on DVD tells the story of racial tolerance against the backdrop of parents struggling with equal opportunity education and the bussing of their child in a rough-and-tumble school. Screened at The Cannes Film Festival and winner of the Silver Phoenix award at the Atlanta Film Festival. The director, actor Billy Kurtz (the little boy in the film), and co-star Patti Fairchild (Fox 8's Stefani Schaefer's mother) will appear for a Q + A following the screening.
Aitken Auditorium. Information and special event ticket prices at cia.edu/cinematheque.

THE TAQWACORES with filmmaker Eyad Zahra in person Feb 24, 7pm + Feb 25, 9:30pm
Set in Buffalo but shot in Cleveland by ex-Clevelander Eyad Zahra, this groundbreaking look at the Muslim punk scene by unorthodox Islamic twenty-somethings who pray all day and party all night. Based on a 2003 novel by Michael Muhammad Knight. Director Zahad will answer audience questions both nights; on Thursday a panel discussion will take place after the film organized by InterAct Cleveland.
Aitken Auditorium. Information and special event ticket prices at cia.edu/cinematheque.

THE LEAPORD February 26 – 27
The Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque presents a new 35mm color restoration of Luchino Visconti’s 1963 French-Italian epic THE LEAPORD starring Burt Lancaster.
Aitken Auditorium. Movie times, information, and ticket prices at cia.edu/cinematheque.
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Lunch on Fridays – February
Free and open to the public, these Friday lectures showcase a variety of artists and designers including CIA faculty. For a full listing go to: cia.edu/events.
February 4, Jeremy Bailey, Visiting Artist T.I.M.E.-Digital Arts
February 11, Student Independent Exhibition Juror Panel
February 18, Report from Cuba: David Hart, Professor; Saul Ostrow, Chair Visual Arts and Technologies; and Charles Tucker, Head, Sculpture
February 25, Kerry McAleer-Keeler, Visiting Artist, Foundation
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Nick Cave, Bickford Visiting Artist Tuesday, Feb 15, 7 pm
http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/n/nick_cave_artist/index.html
Nick Cave is one the most important artists working today. Employing approaches that reference traditional craft processes such as crochet, macramé, and sewing he seamlessly combines these with strategies which tap into newer traditions such as performance and social sculpture. His best known works are his soundsuits which combine dance, sound and costume design. His works are at once provocative and mesmerizing.

Cave is an internationally exhibited arts having shown in Sweeden and the Netherlands. He is currently represented by Jack Shainman Gallery in New York.

His appearance is made possible by CIA’s George P. Bickford Fund for Visiting Artists and the Fibers and Materials Studies Department.
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Allan Ludwig, Liberal Arts Visiting Artist, Tuesday, Feb 22, 7 pm
Photographer of the New Grotesque
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CINEMATHEQUE
Charlie Chaplin Retrospective Mar - June
Beginning in March, the Cinematheque will show all of Chaplin's feature films (and many of his classic shorts), most in new 35mm film prints. March and April will focus on Chaplin's silent work (THE KID, THE GOLD RUSH, THE CIRCUS, CITY LIGHTS, et al.) while his sound features (MODERN TIMES, THE GREAT DICTATOR, LIMELIGHT, et al.) will show in May and early June.
Aitken Auditorium. Movie times, information, and ticket prices at cia.edu/cinematheque
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March
Lunch on Fridays
Free and open to the public, these Friday lectures showcase a variety of artists and designers including CIA faculty. For a full listing go to: cia.edu/events.
4 Barbara Stanczak, Professor, Foundation
18 Allen Zimmerman, Poetry, Calligraphy and Landscape in Chinese Art
25 Gary Sampson, Return to Zeitgeist: Piranesi and Contemporary Design Thinking
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Clarence Morgan, Painting Bickford Visiting Artist
Tuesday, Mar 15, 7 pm
http://www.clarence-morgan.com/

Clarence Morgan is a painter who lives and works in Minneapolis. He has exhibited his work nationally and internationally. Solo and group exhibitions include Reeves Contemporary (New York), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Romo Gallery (Atlanta), Gallery Joe (Philadelphia), Harwood Museum of Art (New Mexico), David Lusk Gallery (Memphis), Kidder Smith (Boston), Thomas Barry Fine Art (Minneapolis), Rosenberg Kaufman Fine Art (New York), Palmer Art Museum (Pennsylvania), Art in General (New York). He received his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978 and a four-year certificate from the Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts in 1975. Grants include a Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship, McKnight Foundation Artist Fellowship, Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, Minnesota State Arts Board Grant, North Carolina Arts Council Visual Artist Fellowship, Southern Arts Federation NEA Regional Fellowship, a grant from Art Matters, Inc. His work is included in the collections of the Cleveland Art Museum, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Art Institute, General Mills, and University of Alabama, among others. Morgan currently teaches painting in the Department of Art at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, where he is a professor and formerly chair of the department.
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THE SPRING SHOW @CIA- Apr 1 – 30
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April
Lunch on Fridays -
Free and open to the public, these Friday lectures showcase a variety of artists and designers including CIA faculty. Ohio Bell Auditorium. Free and Open. For a full listing 1 Ramez Islambouli, Liberal Arts Visiting Scholar
go to: cia.edu/events.
8 Mary Davis, Liberal Arts Visiting Scholar
15 Rita Goodman, CIA Professor of Art History
22 Debra Rosen + Todd Pownell , Visiting Artists, Foundation
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Marek Cecula, Bickford Visiting Artist Wednesday, Apr 6, -
Time and Place to be Announced. Please watch the website.
Marek Cecula,
http://www.marekcecula.com/index.php

Cecula has built a career in ceramics as an artist, designer and educator working through the conceptual implications of ceramic objects and their meanings in contemporary culture. His work conveys his own seduction by ceramic work and the aesthetic values it carries.

Born in Poland, Cecula currently lives and works in both New York and Poland. In 2004 he curated The Third Biennale for Israeli Ceramics and in 2009 he served as a guest curator for “Object Factory II” at the Museum of Arts & Design New York. His work is included in such collections as the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and Le Musee royal de Mariemont, Belgium.

Marek Cecula’s visit is made possible by CIA’s George P. Bickford Fund for Visiting Artists and the Ceramics Department.
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MAY
BFA Thesis Exhibitions May 2 – 7
This school-wide event showcases over ninety BFA candidates with hundreds of works of art and design in all media and disciplines. A feast for the senses!

The Student Summer Show May 14 through the summer
has something for everyone with work in all media including painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, industrial design, communications, medical illustration, animation, video, and more.

CINEMATHEQUE
Charlie Chaplin Retrospective Mar - June
Beginning in March, the Cinematheque will show all of Chaplin's feature films (and many of his classic shorts), most in new 35mm film prints. March and April will focus on Chaplin's silent work (THE KID, THE GOLD RUSH, THE CIRCUS, CITY LIGHTS, et al.) while his sound features (MODERN TIMES, THE GREAT DICTATOR, LIMELIGHT, et al.) will show in May and early June.
Aitken Auditorium. Movie times, information, and ticket prices at cia.edu/cinematheque

Visiting Artists: Jim Campbell and Jill Sigman

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Tuesday, Nov. 16
CIA welcomes Visiting Artist
Jim Campbell

5:30 pm there will be an open reception – Lobby - Gund
7 pm Artist’s Talk – Aitken Auditorium

Tuesday is a big night at the Institute as CIA welcomes Bickford and IME visiting artist Jim Campbell. I had the chance to see his work last year and it really is amazing. This is definitely a talk worth coming and ... there will be a full reception beforehand with tons of delicious food from Tommy's! (We love Tommy's on Coventry they've been really good to us.)

So check out Jim Campbell's website and the recent write up on him in New York Magazine.

Then don't forget there's still Lunch on Fridays and this week it's Jill Sigman and her talk promises to be really eye-opening.

Body, Object, Material: How I Am My Work
Choreographer and multi-media artist Jill Sigman will discuss her process and projects using her body as a tool for asking questions about the world. Sigman’s work exists at the intersection of dance, theater, and installation, and often involves quotidian materials such as Cheetos, eggshells, wax, and plastic. She is currently at work on The Hut Project, a series of site-specific structures built of found and re-purposed materials, investigating themes of sustainability, real estate, and apocalypse. www.thinkdance.org

LOF and the State of Sculpture and a wealth of amazing events!

2010-11-03T11:19:00.000-07:00

The State of Sculpture

Steve Litt's write up on the Conference

SculptureX website

The Sculpture Center - Cleveland

The Institute hosts The State of Sculpture on Saturday, November 6 ... running from 10 am until 8 pm the event is designed to stimulate dialogue on and around the contemporary sculpture as well as to provide and opportunity for artists to network and exchange ideas. A reception at the Sculpture Center in Cleveland closes things with a presentation of new works by a variety of artists including Beth Campbell, who will CIA's Artist-in-Residence in the Spring.

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Remember to take advantage of the wealth of all of CIA's exciting events!!! Here’s a list of reminders to help you do just that …

In association with Case Western Reserve's English Department -
CIA's Liberal Arts Environment is sponsoring ...
Mark Irwin - Poet
Thursday, November 4
5 pm
Guilford House Parlor
11112 Bellflower RD
(Refreshments to follow.)

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Lunch on Fridays
Jenniffer Omaitz – Bickford Painting Visting Artist
Friday, November 5
12:15
Ohio Bell Auditorium, CIA – Gund

Jenniffer Omaitz is a nationally exhibited painter and installation artist. Omaitz received her BFA in Painting from the Cleveland Institute of Art and her MFA in Painting from Kent State University. Omaitz has been exhibiting her work in Cleveland and Denver since 2002. Her most recent shows include a site-specific installation commissioned for the 2010 Biennial of the Americas in Denver. Omaitz is the recipient of an award from the Sculpture Center in Cleveland Ohio and her installation work will be featured in a solo show at the Center in 2011. Omaitz lives and works in Kent, OH.

The Lunch on Fridays Series is sponsored by CIA's Liberal Arts and Foundation Environments. Ms. Omaitz appears through the support of the Institute's George P. Bickford Endowment for Visiting Artists in Painting and the Painting Department.

Jen Omaitz's website

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Anatomica Aesthetica Exhibition Opening
Friday, November 5
5 pm - Lecture by Guest Curator Laura Lindgren
6 to 8 pm – Opening Reception
Reinberger Gallery, CIA – Gund Building
11141 East Blvd.

The aesthetics of the living body have long intrigued artists working in every medium of art. Are you curious too? Come to CIA's Reinberger Galleries to explore the enduring bond between art and medicine in Anatomica Aesthetica: Photographs from the Mütter Museum and H. F. Aitken Illustrations from the Dittrick Medical History Center. Join us on Friday, November 5 for the opening night. The show will be on view in CIA’s Reinberger Galleries through December 18. Learn more at cia.edu/anatomica.

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Saturday, November 6
The State of Sculpture
10 am to 5 pm Lunch will be served
4th Floor Joseph McCullogh Center – CIA
11610 Euclid Avenue – Cleveland, Ohio

This event marks the launch of the Sculpture Xchange website www.sculpturex.org and in support of the 2011 SuclptureX exhibits to be held at The Sculpture Center – Cleveland, The Erie Art Musuem and curated by critic and author David Carrier.

Keynote speaker: Jeanne Silverthorne, noted artist and educator.

Jeanne Silverthorne is an artist who lives and works in New York. She is best known for sculptures cast in rubber, but her installations often include photographs, videos and kinetic elements as well. She has exhibited at the Whitney Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Albright Knox Museum, among others, and her work is in the collections of those museums as well the Leum Samsung Museum, Korea, FINAC, Denver Museum, Weatherspoon
Museum, Houston Museum, Sheldon Museum, the Contemporary Museum Honolulu, the RISDi Museum. She is represented by McKee Gallery in New York and ShoshanaWayne Gallery in LosAngeles. Reviews and articles about her work have appeared in ARTFORUM. Art in America, Art News and Sculpture Magazine. A feature on her projects is scheduled to be published in a forthcoming issue of Sculpture Magazine. This year she has been nominated for a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award. Since 1993, she has taught at the School of Visual Arts and for seven years she was on the faculty of the MFA program at Columbia University.

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Foundation Visiting Artist
Tommy Simpson
Tuesday, Nov. 9,
7 pm
Aitken Auditorium

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LOF – Visiting Artist in Fibers
Jill Sigman
Friday, November 12
12:15
OBA, Gund – CIA

Jill Sigman describes her work as “experimental dance theater” and “movement-based performance.” Trained in ballet, art history, and with a Ph.D. in philosophy, she creates a new process of physical exploration with every piece she creates, whether in residence with Cleveland’s GroundWorks or with her own New York-based company, jill sigman/thinkdance [thinkdance.org].

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IME and Bickford Visiting Artist
Jim Campbell
Tuesday, November 16 –
5:30 reception, Gund – CIA Lobby
7 pm talk, Aitken, Gund – CIA

Internationally known as an artist working at the edge of electronic media, Jim Campbell holds degrees from MIT in both Mathematics and Electrical Engineering. Born in Chicago in 1956 and now living in San Francisco, Jim Campbell is a former Silicon Valley engineer turned artist who explores the inherent qualities of electronic media forgoing the seductive lure of its capacity through digital to produce high resolution imagery. He instead chooses to investigate the limits of perception working with LED lighting and pixelation. He is most interested in the limits of visual information to transform into meaning. An internationally known artist his work relates to many disciplines including photography and installation.

He shows regularly in New York, Canada, San Francisco and throughout Europe. Most recently his work was on view at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery in New York.

http://www.jimcampbell.tv/

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Visiting Artist in Printmaking –
Suzanne Michele Chouteau
Thursday, November 18
7 pm
Ohio Bell Auditorium – Gund
Free + Open

Manjello, Manjello, Manjello

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Right now CIA has agents in Cuba ... really ... we have three intrepid travelers visiting the island nation in search of a future artist-in-residence for the Institute. Its a research trip that's being supported by a Creative Fusion grant from the Cleveland Foundation. Next spring they'll be giving a talk on their adventures so look for an announcement of that coming up.

But currently the scene in Cleveland proper continues to heat up. Thursday night there's the upcoming Manjello performance at CIA's VATe Coventry Center (see below for details) and then this weekend there's The Unsung Torsos Event at MOCA - Cleveland. That's on Saturday the 30th from 7 pm until 10 pm - tickets are just $5.

Unsung Torsos - MOCA - Cleveland

One of the most remarkable performances you will ever witness:

Manjello performed by Canadian artists - Joe Kelly and Jay Crocker
Thursday, October 28, 7 pm
CIA’s VATe Coventry Center
1854 Coventry Rd.

Free + Open

Collaborators Crocker and Kelly will create a real-time drawn-on-film animation with accompanying soundtrack in front of a live audience. Kelly will create evolving imagery on a loop of clear 16mm film, progressively building visuals with inks and with each subsequent pass of the film loop through the projector. Crocker will respond to the developing animation with an array of digital and analogue noisemaking devices. This work creates a transitory footprint of the visual and auditory mark-making journey taken by Kelly and Crocker.

On Friday the pair will appear as part of the Lunch on Fridays Series, giving their audience an overview of their careers and insights into how they make work.

A Canadian and Newfoundland-born media artist currently living and working in Alberta, Calgary, Kelly has made a number of films that have received international awards. He works primarily with film, and has completed and screened ten films on super 8, 16 and 35mm formats. He also creates film and video-based installations and has shown all across North America, from Halifax to Victoria, all over the United States, and in Europe and Asia. His work has been featured in the following festivals: Images, Black Maria, PS1, and Ann Arbor.

Joe Kelly's Website

Jay Crocker is a musical explorer, multi-instrumentalist, analog recordist/producer, and general creative wunderkind. Over the last decade Crocker has been relentless in his contribution to both the Canadian independent music scene as well helping to put Calgary's avant-guard and noise scene on the map. He is best known for his work as a leader, as well as being a full time member in both the trash jazz noise group Nomoreshapes, and the progressive experimental pop outfit Ghostkeeper. His work has received critical acclaim in such publications as the New York Times, the Paris Transatlantic, exclaim! Magazine and countless others. Always searching for new sounds and ways to conceive and perform his work, Crocker is boundless as an artist and performer.

Jay Crocker's Website

These events are made possible by The Cleveland Institute of Art’s Visual Arts and Technologies Environment, CIA’s Sculpture Department and CIA’s George P. Bickford Endowment for Visiting Artist.

LOF at CIA - The Bang Group - this is going to be cool!

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Our most unique LOF yet:

Friday, October 22
12:15 pm

AITKEN AUDITORIUM
11141 East Blvd.

Latter Day Hoofers
With David Parker and The Bang Group

http://www.thebanggroup.com/images.php

http://www.notsoobvious.com/home.php

New York's David Parker and The Bang Group work their alchemy on traditional tap and vaudeville forms, transforming these most traditional of styles into fully contemporary dances about love, friendship and current social mores. Parker telescopes time in his work, merging the past with the present in pieces based on the great legacy of American popular dance but shot-through with a modern, urban wit and agility. These smart, funny works feature musical accompaniment made by the performers themselves as they dance. Parker will be joined by long -term Bang Group colleagues Jeffrey Kazin and Nic Petry in a show which looks forward and backward at once.

The Lunch on Fridays Series is sponsored by the Liberal Arts and Foundation Environments. This event and most others are free and open to the public. The Bang Group appear at CIA as part of their residency with Cleveland-based GroundWorks.

poster design by: the monkey in the basement

Brinsley Tyrrell to speak as part of Lunch on Fridays, Friday, Oct. 15

2010-10-11T09:39:00.000-07:00

LOF welcomes ...
Enameling Visiting Artist -
Brinsley Tyrrell
Friday, Oct. 15
12:15

A local legend known for his work as a sculptor and as a public artist, Brinsley Tyrrell has embedded himself deeply into the region's culture in a profound way. Areas of our life are regularly punctuated and enriched by his work as we walk down a street or through an airport.

In 2007 in response to a commission for an RTA station, Brinsley Tyrrell began exploring the potential of enamel. It was a medium for which he had no formal training. The results were a series of large-scale, often over 48 inches in their largest dimension, enameled landscapes fired in the vintage oversized kiln located at Kent State University. Sometimes refiring a plate 15 to 20 times, Tyrrell let his lack of expertise give him permission to experiment beyond the boundaries. It proved a process that gave way to unfettered, expressive images of the land drenched in saturated color.

Most recently on view at the William Busta Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio, Tyrrell will discuss these and other works as part of his artist talk at the Cleveland Institute of Art.

Brinsley Tyrrell is a native of Godstone, England. He received his education at Camberwill School of Arts and Crafts at the The University of London. He is a Professor Emeritus at Kent State University. His work is represented by Cleveland-based gallerist William Busta.

William Busta Gallery

Join us this Friday and take advantage of this rare opportunity to hear this remarkable artist speak. These talks are free and open to the public.

Cleveland.com Brinsley Tyrrell

The Lunch on Fridays Lecture Series is generously supported by the Liberal Arts and Foundation Environments. Brinsley Tyrrell appears with the support of the Enameling Department. Special thanks to William Busta Gallery.

LOF - Kristen Baumlier!

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Lunch on Fridays presents
"The Petroleum Pop Princess Baroness Mistress" herself
Kristen Baumlier
Friday, Oct. 1
12:15
OBA - Gund - CIA

Free and open to the public.
*Pizza ...

Come find out what "The Petroleum Pop Princess Baroness Mistress" has been up to and listen as Kristen Baumlier discusses her unusual path as an artist ...

including the recent release of her album: “Deplete Me” …

Kristen Baumlier’s work spans the full spectrum of interdisciplinary media, including performance, interactive installation, video and audio works. She received her MFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1994, where she began utilizing humor, combined with interactive performance as core elements in her work.

In 1996, Baumlier transformed herself into the role of a fitness guru and developed a performative exercise program, “Buns of Butter,” where food was used as exercise equipment to explore issues of irony as related to food and body perception.

She received an Ohio Arts Council Fellowship in 2004, and an ArtsLink project grant in 2005 to produce a site specific collaborative work in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia.

During a residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in 2005, Baumlier developed “Oh, Petroleum,” where she transformed into “The Petroleum Pop Princess;” a pop icon engaging viewers in debate over materialism and oil consumerism. She is a founding member of the collaborative group, Fossil Fools, which presents issues about energy and fuel consumption.

Baumlier has performed at the Mattress Factory, the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and at the Select Media Festival in Chicago, IL.

LOF is generously sponsored by the Foundation and Liberal Arts Environments.

Brent Green at Lunch on Tuesday and then Cinematheque!

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Brent Green - Sept. 21

Brent Green
Nervous Films
Tuesday,
September 21
12:15
JMC M323
(IME Video Lab)

Brent Green’s lunchtime talk is co-sponsored by the Visual Arts and Technologies and Integrated Media Environments pizza will be served.

On Tuesday, September 21, at 12:15, students will have a rare opportunity to attend an intimate artist’s talk with one of the most innovative artists working today, Brent Green.

Later that evening through Cinematheque there will a full screening of his film “Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then” with a more formal talk from the artist. Presented by Cinematheque at 7 pm in Aitken. CIA ID holders and Cinematheque members get in for $7. Cinematheque Schedule

Green is a self-taught filmmaker and animator whose work spans a variety of disciplines including music, drawing, sculpture, animation and film. His presence on the art scene has become increasingly prominent with exhibitions, screenings and live performances through such venues as: Sundance Film Festival; the Andy Warhol Museum; Bellwether Gallery in New York; the London-based Parasol Unit for Contemporary Art; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum; Houston-based Aurora Picture Show; and New York MoMA.

an opening, two talks and something to do with food ... Karl Anderson; VAT Coventry Center and Thu Tran

2010-09-07T07:57:00.000-07:00

Degrees of Separation
"noman" by Noah Hrbek
LOF - Karl Anderson
Thu Tran from Food Party

This Friday … September 10, the Lunch on Fridays lecture series returns with free pizza and a lunchtime filled with people talking about what you’re most interested in … all things even vaguely art related.

This Friday the series hosts CIA Drawing alum, gallerist and artist, Karl Anderson. An up and coming talent both as an art-maker and an exhibition curator, Anderson, along with fellow artists Michael Abarca (CIA ’09), Nicholas Gulan (CIA ’09) and Paul Woznicki (currently at the University of Akron) is the co-founder and co-director of Forum Artspace, the current site of some of Cleveland’s most innovative and fresh art programming.

Friday, September 10, 12:15
Ohio Bell Auditorium
CIA Gund Building – 11141 East Blvd.
Cleveland
- free and open to the public

Anderson most recently conceived of and worked to organize the VAT Coventry Center show, “Degrees of Separation” … which coincidentally opened last night,

Thursday, September 9, 6 to 9 pm,
“Degrees of Separation”
CIA’s VAT Coventry Center
1854 Coventry Rd. – Upper Level
Cleveland Heights

Five young artists and CIA alums come together for an exhibition to see how they relate, and create in the new environment of a professional life. Themes of interaction, and connectivity run strong, whether it be through performance, bringing people together, or questioning the social construct of materialism - these artists are interested in sparking more than just thoughts, but conversations.

Featuring the work of:

Karl Anderson, Drawing, 2009
- http://www.forumartspace.blogspot.com/
- Karl is a locally based artist and gallerist and is one of the founders and co-directors of Forum Artspace frequently acting as curator.

Jerry Birchfield, Photography, 2009
- www.jerrybirchfield.com
- Jerry is a locally based artist who has exhibited widely including the Toledo
Museum of Art and the Print Center in Philadelphia, PA. His work has been included in the permanent collections of the Cleveland Clinic, Dealer Tire, LLC and the Avery Denison Corporation.

Noah Hrbek, Sculpture, 2007
- http://www.laughterleague.com/noah-hrbek/
- Noah is a locally based artist and improvisational comedian and talented musican

Ben Kinsley, TIME, 2005
- http://www.bkinsley.com/
- Ben is currently resides in Pittsburgh, PA. He is a multidisciplinary artist who creates site-specific responses to particular situations, often through collaboration and playful exchange with local residents. He received his MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2008.

Shoko Yamamura, Painting, 2008
- http://sites.cca.edu/gradthesisevents/2010/finearts/Shoko_Yamamura/3.html
- Originally from Japan, Shoko is an artist based in San Francisco. Her career has previously been marked by a questioning of the lines between art, “non-art” and life. Today she has moved beyond “what is art?” to “How can an artist be?” She received her MFA in Studio Art this past spring from the California College of the Arts.

and ...

7 pm Sunday
Thu Tran
Cinematheque

CIA grad Thu Tran ’05, the creator and host of the Independent Film Channel’s award-winning Food Party, will appear in person on Sunday, September 12 when the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque presents the special program “A Food Party Party with Thu Tran” at 7pm in CIA’s Aitken Auditorium. Ms. Tran will show highlights from her hit TV series and answer audience questions about it.

Tickets to “A Food Party Party with Thu Tran” cost $10 (Cinematheque members $7) and must be purchased at the door on Sunday, September 12 between 2:45 and 3:45pm or after 6pm. Free parking is available in the Cleveland Institute of Art lot. The program is presented courtesy of IFC with special thanks to Douglas Marshall. For information or images, call Tim Harry or John Ewing at 216.421.7450 or go to CIA Cinematheque

Pay attention! you might miss something!

2010-08-25T20:07:00.000-07:00

Degrees of Separation

Thursday, Sept. 2nd –
Faculty Opening (6 pm) + Emit! (8 pm)

Party!

Come to The Cleveland Institute of Art on Thursday, September 2 for a blockbuster evening! First, the Faculty Exhibition opens with a free, public reception. Then CIA student work is shown on the Cinematheque’s silver screen at the free EMIT film festival. And finally, following the festival is a late-night student after-party.

The 2010 Faculty Exhibition Reception (6pm, Reinberger Galleries) CIA’s new president Grafton Nunes introduces the Faculty Exhibition, which will be on view until October 9. A tradition that spans over eight decades, the Faculty Exhibition is a celebration of art and its makers and an opportunity for the public to view new, original, and innovative works from our world-renowned art and design faculty. The public is invited to this free opening reception with music on September 2 at 6pm.

EMIT Student Film Festival (8pm, Aitken Auditorium)  CIA students from all disciplines contribute innovative and original short videos and animation in this one-night screening event, which immediately follows the Faculty Exhibition reception. The innovative and original short videos and animations will delight, amaze, and shock filmgoers. EMIT features student pieces in all genres, from 3D animation to experimental video. The public is invited to this free event on September 2 at 8pm.

College Student After-Party (10pm, Gund Building lobby) Following EMIT will be a special late-night student party with music and refreshments. Cleveland college students can show ID to get in free.

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Thursday, September 9, 6 to 9 pm,
“Degrees of Separation”
CIA’s VAT Coventry Center
1854 Coventry Rd. – Upper Level
Cleveland Heights

Five young artists and CIA alums come together for an exhibition to see how they relate, and create in the new environment of a professional life. Themes of interaction, and connectivity run strong, whether it be through performance, bringing people together, or questioning the social construct of materialism - these artists are interested in sparking more than just thoughts, but conversations.

Featuring the work of:

Karl Anderson, Drawing, 2009
- Forum Artspace Blog
- Karl is a locally based artist and gallerist and is one of the founders and co-directors of Forum Artspace frequently acting as curator.
Jerry Birchfield, Photography, 2009
- Jerry Birchfield's website
- Jerry is a locally based artist who has exhibited widely including the Toledo
Museum of Art and the Print Center in Philadelphia, PA. His work has been included in the permanent collections of the Cleveland Clinic, Dealer Tire, LLC and the Avery Denison Corporation.
Noah Hrbek, Sculpture, 2007
- Laughter League, Noah Hrbek
- Noah is a locally based artist and improvisational comedian and talented musican
Ben Kinsley, TIME, 2005
- Ben Kinsley's website
- Ben is currently resides in Pittsburgh, PA. He is a multidisciplinary artist who creates site-specific responses to particular situations, often through collaboration and playful exchange with local residents. He received his MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2008.
Shoko Yamamura, Painting, 2008
-Shoko Yamamura on CCA's 2010 MFA website
- Originally from Japan, Shoko is an artist based in San Francisco. Her career has previously been marked by a questioning of the lines between art, “non-art” and life. Today she has moved beyond “what is art?” to “How can an artist be?” She received her MFA in Studio Art this past spring from the California College of the Arts.
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Cinematheque presents:
Tuesday, September 21, at 7:00 pm
Filmmaker Brent Green in Person!
GRAVITY WAS EVERYWHERE BACK THEN
USA, 2010, Brent Green
Brent Green, Nervous Films
11141 East Blvd.
CIA – the Gund Building
Cleveland, OH

The first feature by sculptor, folk artist, and self-taught animator Brent Green was inspired by the true story of Leonard Wood, a Kentucky hardware clerk who turned his house into a ramshackle “healing machine” after his wife got cancer. Meticulously re-creating Wood’s dwelling on his Pennsylvania farm, Green employs live actors, stop-motion, music, and voiceover to tell his touching, poetic tale.

Green, whom The Village Voice has called “an emerging Orson Welles of handmade experimental cinema,” will answer audience questions after the screening, along with the film’s co-writer and star, Donna K. “Critics’ Pick…A tinkerer’s ode to a tinkerer, and a romantic’s tribute to a romantic…Radiates an oddball homemade charm.” –The NY Times. Cleveland premiere. Blu-ray. 75 min. site.nervousfilms.com Special admission $10, members and CIA students & staff $7; no passes, radio winners, or twofers.

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Thurday, October 7, 6 to 9 pm, “Self-Initiated” an exhibition curated by Senior Industrial Design students exploring the intersection between art and self-initiated design. Under the direction of CIA Industrial Design faculty Matt Beckwith. Closes Sunday, October 24.

CIA’s VAT Coventry Center
1854 Coventry Rd. – Upper Level
Cleveland Heights

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Thursday, October 28 – Realtime Animation with sound and light artist’s Joe Kelly and Jay Crocker … doors open at 6 pm … performance at 7 pm

AMAZING – MUST BE SEEN TO BE APPRECIATED!

Sponsored by the Bickford Visiting Artists and VAT’s Sculpture Department

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Thursday, November 18, 6 to 9 pm – “Creative Resistance”
CIA’s VAT Coventry Center
1854 Coventry Rd. – Upper Level
Cleveland Heights

Through the guidance of faculty and multi-media artist Sarah Paul, CIA students will present a semester culminating media installation employing strategies integrating social change with media art and performance designed to operate as social commentary and critique. Show closes Friday, December 10.

CIA's Sculpture Head Charles Tucker on residency at Art Farm

2010-08-22T19:24:00.000-07:00

Residencies are odd and amazing things …

They always cost the artist money, even when they don’t. They always provide unique challenges of survival. How do I get materials here? How do I get my work back? Difficulties that are compounded when the residency is in another country.

Pregnant with possibilities … a residency can lead an artist to truly unexpected solutions, producing true breakthroughs in work and can generate personal connections that could never be foreseen, altering lives and directions; irrevocably changing the course of careers and human hearts.

Recently I had the occasion to visit my colleague and frequent collaborator Charles Tucker while he was on his residency at the Art Farm. It was magic in a most unexpected way. Let me begin by saying that it is not a place for the faint of heart, the delicate or infirm. At the height of summer it is hot, buggy, a little steamy, while touting what could only be described as rustic accommodations … and it was unbelievably beautiful … and when I say magic I mean spellbinding. The range of work is profound, moving between the mundane, the inauspicious to the breathtaking. It takes on the feel of a revolving Artists' Commune with Ed at the helm.

While there Tucker continued his work exploring the means of home construction and the implications of stored valued, relegated spaces and a re-definition of Environment. He is building a cottage in a meadow which he plans to complete on his return in April of 2011. It is meant as a space of contemplation, a private space meant to provide quiet and shelter to the creative minds that might venture there … rising over the prairie it sits in conversation with its predecessor Beili Liu’s replica of her parents’ home. A community of two … Liu’s structure speaks of the past and a earthbound grittiness. While Tucker’s work raises softly … floating just down the way.

My visit to the Art Farm was remarkable and I hope to return there on my own residency in the not too distant future. I would love to set up in the old school house and do nothing but paint and work in the Artist’s Garden. But for now I am ensconced at Gallery Aferro in Newark, New Jersey… a most magical place in its own right … and one I may not want to leave … you’ll hear more about that later though. In the meantime … here are some images from Nebraska’s Art Farm...

a studio at Art Farm: "The Little School House"
Residents' House: "Victoria"
View of the Artists' Vegetable Garden
Beili Liu: "Home"
Charles Tucker: "Cottage"

Art Farm, Nebraska
Gallery Aferro, New Jersey

Just a few other CIA faculty who have been away on residency: Sarah Kabot; Barry Underwood; Megan Ehrhart; Amanda Almon …

thanks to Tommy's in Cleveland Heights and Midwest Box for Fundred help!

2010-08-14T05:18:00.000-07:00

Special shout out to Tommy's in Cleveland Heights for the delicious food they hooked us up for our Cleveland Fundred Kick-off event at CIA's VAT Coventry Center (1854 Coventry Rd. - upper level).

Also thanks to Midwest Box Company for donating boxes to make it easier for people to make take-away Fundred Stations.

Midwest Box Comapny
9801 Walford Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44102-4788
(216) 281-3980

We'll be posting pics and updates on the ACT-C blog

Thanks to everyone who came out and if you want to participate go to ACT-C or the Fundred Site, just click on "Get Involved Now" ... you don't need us to participate!

the fall and an amazing line up beginning Aug 13

2010-08-03T14:30:00.001-07:00

Mel Chin: Cleveland Fundred Drawing Station

below is a preliminary schedule of events associated with CIA ... mark your calendars and keep a weather eye for changes in events ...

CC = the Coventry Center at 1854 Coventry Road, upper level next to McNulty's ...
LOF = the Lunch on Fridays Lecture Series ...

All of the events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.

All LOF start at 12:15 and take place in CIA’s Gund Building. LOF is generously sponsored by the Liberal Arts and Foundation Environments.

CC -- Friday, August 13 – “30 Fundred Stations (more or less)”, 6 to 9 pm ... Featuring Fundred Drawing Stations designed by area artists and concerned citizens ... with a special submission by Mel Chin ...

Make a Fundred, lobby congress, change lives.

Fundred, specifically, is a drawing project in which citizens are asked to “donate” by doing their own redesign of the hundred-dollar bill. These redesigns, dubbed “fundreds”, are then collected at various Fundred Collection Centers. Once a total of 3 million Fundreds has been amassed, the equivalent of $300 million dollars, an armored truck, retrofitted to run on waste vegetable oil, will complete a cross-country collection journey by delivering the Fundreds to Washington D.C. with a request for an even exchange for the value of the art currency for actual funds. (http://www.fundred.org/)

As a project, Fundred was first initiated by internationally known artist and activist, Mel Chin, in order to address issues of environmental contamination through lead. Since 2008, Chin has worked on “Operation Paydirt” which is targeted at addressing lead contamination in New Orleans, and even more importantly, providing a model for attacking the issue across the Nation’s most lead-contaminated cities including Cleveland.

“30 Fundred Stations (more or less)” is an exhibit of Fundred Stations designed locally (some by area artists) … after the show these stations will be distributed throughout the area to assist in the making and collection of Fundreds.

For more information: http://act-c.blogspot.com/
And
www.fundred.org

Monday, August 23 – CIA classes start

LOF (sort of) - Friday, August 27 – Convocation, meet the New President, Grafton Nunes!!!

EMIT & THE FACULTY EXHIBITION -
Thursday, September 2nd ... Faculty show opens at 6 pm with remarks from our new president, Grafton Nunes!! the show is followed by EMIT video festival in Aitken Auditorium. This is going to be an amazing night ... a do not miss kind of event. Music and food and wonderful people!!

LOF -- September 3 -- Year One at CIA (special for 1st year students at CIA)

CC – Thursday, September 9, 6 to 9 pm, “Degrees of Separation: a Show Offering Proof of Life after Graduation”

A show in part organized by CIA alum and Forum Gallerist, Karl Anderson. The exhibition references the networks and synergy of young artists creating a professional practice while making an art world of their own. Show closes Sunday, October 3.

LOF - Friday, September 10 -- Karl Anderson, CIA drawing alum and co-director of Forum Gallery talks about his experiences since graduation and what it’s taken to survive while cultivating a career in art. Karl will also reflect on the Coventry Center Exhibition “Degrees of Separation” which includes his work and which he helped organize.

LOF - Friday, September 17 – Mark Gottsegen of Amien

AMIEN is part of the Education Department of the ICA, America's oldest regional art conservation laboratory. This talk will introduce artists at the CIA to both the ICA and the free services of AMIEN, the Art Materials Information and Education Network. AMIEN is a Discussion Forum for questions and answers about art materials; we do not discuss esthetics, promote or recommend brands of art materials, or prescribe methods of making works of art.

Mark Gottsegen studied painting with Philip Guston, taught (drawing, painting, materials of art) in North Carolina from 1976 - 2007, and is the author of The Painter's Handbook. He has participated in more than 50 group and solo exhibitions. Since 1978 he has been a member of ASTM International, which has written 14+ standards for artists' materials and other similar organizations; he is the recipient of grants for research from the National Park Service and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and has given numerous talks about art materials throughout the US and in western Europe since the early 1980s.

LOF - Friday, September 24 – Tommy White
CIA welcomes new faculty member Tommy White to its Painting program. White has works in many private collections as well as the permanent collections of Binney and Smith and with exhibitions in locales as far flung as Seoul, South Korea; Melbourne, Australia; and St Louis, Missouri, White exemplifies the professional artist practice which is the hallmark of CIA faculty. He brings to the Institute an extensive teaching experience including nine years at Virginia Commonwealth University and most recently three years at the University of Oklahoma. He now maintains his studio in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

LOF - Friday, October 1 – Kristen Baumlier

Integrated Media Environmental Chair Kristen Baumlier discusses her own practice as an artist and the impact of environmental issues on her work. Including the recent release of her album “Deplete Me.”

Kristen Baumlier’s work spans the full spectrum of interdisciplinary media, including performance, interactive installation, video and audio works. She received her MFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1994, where she began utilizing humor, combined with interactive performance as core elements in her work.

In 1996, Baumlier transformed herself into the role of a fitness guru and developed a performative exercise program, “Buns of Butter,” where food was used as exercise equipment to explore issues of irony as related to food and body perception.

She received an Ohio Arts Council Fellowship in 2004, and an ArtsLink project grant in 2005 to produce a site specific collaborative work in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia.

During a residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in 2005, Baumlier developed “Oh, Petroleum,” where she transformed into “The Petroleum Pop Princess;” a pop icon engaging viewers in debate over materialism and oil consumerism. She is a founding member of the collaborative group, Fossil Fools, which presents issues about energy and fuel consumption.

Baumlier has performed at the Mattress Factory, the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and at the Select Media Festival in Chicago, IL.

CC – Thurday, October 7, 6 to 9 pm, “Self-Initiated” an exhibition curated by Senior Industrial Design students exploring the intersection between art and self-initiated design. Under the direction of CIA Industrial Design faculty Matt Beckwith. Closes Sunday, October 24.

LOF - Friday, October 8 – Gretchen Goss

Through the work of her own practice, Gretchen Goss will introduce the audience to unique and wonderful qualities of enameling as a discipline and an art form. She will discuss her own career and her passionate investment in natural forms thus setting the stage for our next LOF speaker Brinsley Tyrrell and giving audience members a delicious glimpse into her own art-making.

Gretchen Goss, one of the school’s most revered faculty is a twenty year veteran of the Institute. She is Professor and Chair of the Material Culture Environment at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Her work has been supported by Ohio Arts Council Individual Artists Grants, and is shown in exhibits nationally and internationally. She has been a visiting artist and taught numerous workshops on enameling nationally and in England. Her work is driven by her intrigue with the natural world.
Education: M.F.A., Kent State University; B.F.A., Kent State University

LOF - Friday, October 15 – Brinsley Tyrrell, Visiting Artist in Enamel

A local legend known for his work as a sculptor and as a public artist, Brinsley Tyrrell, a native of Godstone, England, has embedded himself deeply into the local culture in a profound way. Areas of our life are regularly punctuated and enriched by his work as we walk down a street or through an airport where his work is installed. He has recently turned to landscape and enamel in truly spectacular work that was first seen at William Busta Gallery here in Cleveland. Take advantage of a rare opportunity to hear this accomplished artist speak and to hear of his life and work particularly as it relates to his recent experiments in enamel.

http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2008/10/brinsley_tyrrell_enamels_at_wi.html

LOF - Friday, October 22 – special performance

CC – Thursday, October 28 – Realtime Animation with sound and light artist’s Joe Kelly and Jay Crocker … doors open at 6 pm … performance at 7 pm

Sponsored by the Bickford Visiting Artists and VAT’s Sculpture Department

LOF - Friday, October 29 – Joe Kelly and Jay Crocker … artist’s talk
Sponsored by the Bickford Visiting Artists and VAT’s Sculpture Department

Born in Newfoundland, Joe Kelly is a Canadian artist who builds “filmic” devices based on old technologies such as zoetropes. In performances that can only be described as mesmerizing, he and his creative partner Jay Crocker create real-time animations to real-time music. Crocker is a professional dj and musician who creates his own instruments and sound-making devices from found objects such as discarded toys. Kelly, widely known as an artist exploring the limits of technology and the moving image, has made a number of films that have screened internationally. He has shown work throughout North American from Halifax to Victoria, Canada and all over the United States as well as having shown in Europe and Asia. In addition he has had work shown at a variety of festivals including: Images; Black Maria; PS1 and Ann Arbor.

http://www.renoworks.com/websites/joekelly/bio_cv/cv.htm
http://www.joekelly.ca/

LOF - Friday, November 5 – Jenniffer Omaitz

In a talk sponsored by the Bickford Painting Visiting Artist fund, Jennifer Omaitz, a nationally exhibited painter and installation artist, will discuss her work and her career. Omaitz received her BFA in Painting from the Cleveland Institute of Art and her MFA in Painting from Kent State University. Omaitz has been exhibiting her work in Cleveland and Denver since 2002. Her most recent shows include a site-specific installation commissioned for the 2010 Biennial of the Americas in Denver. Omaitz is the recipient of an award from the Sculpture Center in Cleveland Ohio and her installation work will be featured in a solo show at the Center in 2011. Omaitz lives and works in Kent, Ohio.

Artist’s Talk - Tuesday, November 16 – Jim Campbell

Internationally known as an artist working at the edge of electronic media, Jim Campbell holds degrees from MIT in both Mathematics and Electrical Engineering. Born in Chicago in 1956 and now living in San Francisco, Jim Campbell is a former Silicon Valley engineer turned artist who explores the inherent qualities of electronic media forgoing the seductive lure of its capacity through digital to produce high resolution imagery. He instead chooses to investigate the limits of perception working with LED lighting and pixelation. He is most interested in the limits of visual information to transform into meaning. An internationally known artist his work relates to many disciplines including photography and installation.

He shows regularly in New York, Canada, San Francisco and throughout Europe. Most recently his work was on view at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery in New York.

http://www.jimcampbell.tv/

LOF - Friday, November 12 – Panel discussion with some alums … “Life after Graduation: a Survivor’s Guide”

CC – Thursday, November 18, 6 to 9 pm – “Creative Resistance”

Through the guidance of faculty and multi-media artist Sarah Paul, CIA students will present a semester culminating media installation employing strategies integrating social change with media art and performance designed to operate as social commentary and critique. Show closes Friday, December 10.

LOF - Friday, November 19 – Kidist Getachew

An alum of CIA’s TIMe program, Getachew makes work that exploits the full potential of digital as media. Born and raised in Ethiopia, she has lived in the United States since 1982. This has given her a cosmopolitan vision which has poetically and elegantly informed her work.

New York, New York ... and a giant rat

2010-03-14T10:47:00.001-07:00

students viewing Peter Halley at Mary Boone

the rat from the Independent Art Fair in Chelsea

Every year CIA’s Visual Arts and Technology Environment hosts a New York Art Excursion for students. Students from all over the school participate and while there they have the opportunity to engage a board spectrum of contemporary art. It’s a strictly low frills affair but the chance to see work of such scope is priceless and the trip further adds to the sense of a lifelong community among the students.

This year students were doubly lucky in that both the Whitney Biennial and the Armory Show were available for viewing. In addition students visited the Metropolitan Museum and walked the Chelsea Galleries with CIA Professor Saul Ostrow who also happens to write for Art in America and is the Art Editor for Bomb Magazine.

so much to do ... Wook Kim, et. al.

2010-03-10T09:59:00.001-08:00

LOF - Friday, March 19
12:15 – Ohio Bell Auditorium, The Gund
William Brouillard
Professor of Ceramic Art – The Cleveland Institute of Art

Listen in as master ceramist William Brouillard discusses a personal practice which merges edgy imagry with superior craft.

William Brouillard has been inspiring young artists at the Cleveland Institute of Art for the past 30 years. A ceramist of renown, his work is held in private and public collections around the world and is included in collections owned by the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Art. From 1975 to 1979 he was a resident Potter at the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina which is known as a epicenter for the promotion of contemporary craftwork and cutting edge craft skills. Brouillard has shared his personal expertise through lectures and workshops throughout the United States while maintaining his own practice through his studio on Cleveland’s near west side.

Foundations Visiting Artist
Wook Kim
Tuesday, March 23
7 pm – Aitken Auditorium, The Gund

Wook considers art an integral presence in the every day.

His wall coverings, eschewing distinctions made between “art” and the “decorative arts,” reflect his philosophy. His limitless inspirations range from a mix of decorative histories, entomology, tessellation, the urban landscape and beyond.

Wook Kim was born in Seoul, Korea and raised in the United States. His passion for textile design first emerged while a student. Wook continued to hone his craft as a designer at Sunbury Textile Mills in New York, and later as a graduate student at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Wook's design and installation work has been featured in the New York Times, Wallpaper Magazine, Lucky magazine, among others. A recent project is an installation in the flagship store for Philip Lim in Seoul South Korea.

LOF - Friday, April 2
12:15 – Ohio Bell Auditorium, The Gund
Gary Sampson, PhD
Professor of Art History – The Cleveland Insitute of Art

Currently an important member of the Insitute’s Liberal Arts Faculty, Dr. Sampson has taught at California State University, St. Lawrence University and Grand Valley State University. He has acted as a curator and is known for his expertise in Photographic History. He has contributed articles to such publications as Imag(in)ing Race and Place in Colonialist Photography: Transitory Propositions and Unmasking the Colonial Picturesque: Samuel Bourne’s Photographs of Barrackpore Park.

He has helped to develop the undergraduate program in digitial media. Further since coming to CIA in 1998 he has been seminal in promoting intellectual exchange and generating opportunities for professional dialogue between Studio and Liberal Arts. He is the former Chair of Liberal Arts and served as Dean of Graduate Programing.

Of his upcoming Lunch on Friday talk, Sampson says:
“This is a work-in-progress talk. As an art, design, and photography historian, my primary research interest is in the representation of landscapes and space through photography and digital media. One of my current projects involves the modern industrial and urban environment in relationship to the emerging city of globalized systems, which grew out of my own photography and a recent interdisciplinary seminar sponsored by the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University. What concerns me especially is how utopian impulses of the early twentieth-century are evident in the architecture and technological infrastructure of the contemporary urban landscape; and how such impulses are portrayed in visual culture.”

LOF - Friday, April 9
12:15 – Ohio Bell Auditorium, The Gund
Sarah Kabot: Artist’s Talk
Head of Drawing – Cleveland Institute of Art
West Prize Finalist

Kabot has given new meaning to what it means to emerge as an artist. She has been included in gallery shows at Mixed Greens, NYC; The Drawing Center, NYC; and Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY. She has been a resident artist at Dieu Donne Papermill, NYC; and at Sculpture Space, Utica, NY. Most recently she is one of the finalists for the highly prestigious 2010 West Prize.

With unique authority and through the impetus of work that is exquiste in its fragile vision, Sarah Kabot speaks to what it means to have a career beyond locale demonstrating clearly those possibilities in her own practice.

LOF – Friday, April 16
12:15 – Ohio Bell Auditorium, The Gund
Petra Soesemann: Artist’s Talk
Environmental Chair – Cleveland Institute of Art
2009 Roswell Resident

In 2009 Soesemann, the Chair of the Insitute’s Foundation Environment, went on sabbatical to focus on her work while in residence at the Roswell Program. Noted for her works constructed of layered shears, evocative of mystery, she is the subject of the recently published biographic poetry collection Incident Light by H.L. Hix. She has also been the reciepent of of a Fulbright Fellowhsip which took her to Peru to student Incan Arachitecture. She has studied Mayan Art and Architecture in Mexico, Honduras and Gatemala with the support of travel grants. Grants and awards include support from Cornell University; the Illinois Arts Council; and the Ford Foundation. More recently her studies have taken her to Turkey to explore historic and contemporary Islamic and Turkish art.

ChromaWaves

2010-02-23T18:41:00.000-08:00

Open to the Public!!

Cleveland Institute of Art's Lunch on Fridays
Presents -
Chromawaves - with Professor Knut Hybinette

Friday, Feb. 26
12:15
OBA
Free and Open
Pizza

Listen in on game design professor Knut Hybinette and student game-developers from the T.I.M.E. -Digital Arts department as they host a panel discussing both the pitfalls and liberties of game development in an educational environment. The panel will be focusing the topic towards ChromaWaves, which was developed last fall by artists and programmers in the Game Production course – a collaborative seminar between CIA and CWRU.

ChromaWaves is an ambient color mixing game for the iPhone and iPod touch platforms. Meant to be played in quick pick-up-and-play sessions, ChromaWaves adopts the multi-touch features of the iPhone for basic color-mixing and matching play mechanics. Backed with abstract visuals and sound, ChromaWaves is currently intended to be available on the AppStore this coming March.

Lunch on Fridays is generously sponsored by the Foundation and Liberal Arts Environments. Chromawaves is presented through the support of the Integrated Media Environment and the TIME department.

Judith Salomon and then Chroma Wars ...

2010-02-17T16:15:00.000-08:00

Lunch on Fridays at CIA presents:
A former winner of the Sckreckengost Teaching Award Winner and distinguished artist:
Judith Salomon
Friday, Feb. 19
12:15
OBA - in the Gund

Free and Open + Pizza

Judith earned her BFA at Rochester Institute of Technology in 1975 and her MFA at New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred, New York in 1977, the same year she began teaching at the Institute. In the decades since, Judith has nurtured, challenged and inspired hundreds of ceramicists.

As a successful working artist, Judith is an inspiration and fabulous role model for her students. She creates and exhibits distinctive ceramic work that is in numerous private collections and in prestigious public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Cleveland Museum of Art.

In recognition of her accomplishments, Judith has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council and she is a winner of the Cleveland Arts Prize, among many other honors.

LOF is generously sponsored by the Foundation and Liberal Arts Environments. Judith Salomon appears through the support of the Craft and Material Culture Environment and the Ceramics Department.

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LOF -
Chroma Wars
Friday, Feb. 26
12:15
OBA - Gund

Listen in on game design professor Knut Hybinette and student game-developers from the T.I.M.E. -Digital Arts department as they host a panel discussing both the pitfalls and liberties of game development in an educational environment. The panel will be focusing the topic towards ChromaWaves, which was developed last fall by artists and programmers in the Game Production course – a collaborative seminar between CIA and CWRU.

ChromaWaves is an ambient color mixing game for the iPhone and iPod touch platforms. Meant to be played in quick pick-up-and-play sessions, ChromaWaves adopts the multi-touch features of the iPhone for basic color-mixing and matching play mechanics. Backed with abstract visuals and sound, ChromaWaves is currently intended to be available on the AppStore this coming March.

first week in Feb - Sam Bower, Cinematheque and Shannon Stratton

2010-01-30T13:42:00.000-08:00

Just to note ... I have so many great colleagues who really push my own level of professionalism. I have to give shout outs to everyone and am looking to (if i find the time lol) writing something here on all there great accomplishments. In the meantime here are some things happening at the Cleveland Institute of Art that you really should know about....

Sam Bower is an artist, Executive Director of the Green Museum as well as a founding member of the organization. Through his work he advocates for positive change for humans and their environment. He is pro-nature and pro-people.
Bower will speak in The Cleveland Institute of Art’s Aitken Auditorium to introduce the SEEDs project.

The SEEDS project will offer a collaborative base for artists, curators,
producers (of all ages,) and presenters for the production and distribution
of - artistic, cultural, social, political projects that will serve the
environment and the community, as well as sparking the imagination and
challenging existent practices in the cultural field.

Consequently, we are asking artists, designers, and activists to submit
plans and instructions for works focusing on the public sphere and in
particular on issues of sustainability. These projects should be do-able
anywhere and by anyone for a budget of 300 dollars or less. The first
compilation will be published as a PDF publication, which will be available
for free from greenmuseum.org's website. There will also be an archive
documenting executed projects, a social network, and real world exhibitions
and publications, which should serve as a resource to participants, curators
and presenters interested in organizing projects based on the SEEDS project.

Sam Bower
and
the launch of the SEEDS project

February 1, 2010
7:00 pm
in CIA's Aitken Auditorium

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Show Cinematheque the love! Come ...

Tuesday, Feb. 2 ... 7 to 9 pm

Be among the “first responders” to this year’s Oscar nominations during this special event on Tuesday, February 2, from 7-9 p.m. in the Institute’s Aitken Auditorium. “Oscars 2010: Cleveland Reacts” will take place only ten hours after this year’s nominees are announced.

Co-sponsored by The Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque, CIA’s Office of Continuing Education, and CINEMA Cleveland, this event is an interactive first look at the 2010 Academy Award nominations by a panel of local film experts. Cinematheque Director John Ewing will serve as the panel’s moderator.

The panelists
Eric Swinderman, executive director of CINEMA Cleveland
Clint O’Connor, film critic for The Plain Dealer
David Huffman, marketing director of Cleveland Cinemas
Kim Neuendorf, film studies professor at Cleveland State University

(this entry is a repost of an entry by Julie Mason on the CIA blog ...

be sure to check out the Cinematheque film schedule

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LOF
Shannon Stratton
Friday, Feb. 5
12:15 - Ohio Bell Auditorium

Shannon Stratton is a Canadian born cultural worker living in Chicago. She is a co-founder of threewalls where she remains Director and Curator. Stratton curates independently and with colleagues Jeff M. Ward and Judith Leemann, current projects including Ps & Qs with Ward at the Hyde Park Art Center and Gestures of Resistance with Leemann at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, both in 2010. She teaches in Art History and Arts Administration at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

the end of fall -- and it's packed

2009-11-09T14:30:00.001-08:00

Tues., Nov. 10

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
Film Screening
Tuesday, Nov. 10
7 pm
Aitken Auditorium CIA
The Public is Invited

“The powerful story of the first decade of the AIDS epidemic, as told through the lives of five very diverse individuals.”
* sponsored by Metro Hospital and CIA’s Fiber & Material Studies Department in conjunction with the display of the names project at Metro Health Nov. 30 – Dec. 7.

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Wed., Nov. 11

IME VISITING ARTIST LECTURE
The Benjamin Kinsley ¾ Variety Hour
with free cider & donuts
Wednesday, November 11th
3:30p in the JMC TIME Shooting Space

Free and open to all CIA students
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Also on Nov. 11

Living with HIV
Wed., Nov. 11
CIA – Gund RM 214
7 pm

Please join us for a discussion featuring several young Clevelanders living with HIV/AIDs to hear their stories, talk to them about what it’s like to live with HIV and learn how to protect yourself from HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. This lecture is in conjuntion with the screening of “Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt” on Tues., Nov. 10, at 7 pm.

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Thurs., Nov. 12
Lucy Kim
OBA
6:30 pm

Painter, artist – 2007 MFA graduate from Yale. Kim will speak on her work, the graduate school experience and applying for graduate school. She has an extensive exhibition record having shown frequently in New York. Check her out online at:
http://lucykim.com/

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Fri., Nov. 13

NEXT

9:35 a.m. Panel Discussion: "Professionals like you " Five panelists answer pre-submitted audience questions about school and career paths. The panelists include:
Brian Peterson, Automotive Interior Designer, Chrysler
Lizzy Lee, Art Director / Partner, Rini Uva Lee design firm (www.riniuvalee.com )
Sarah Kabot, (www.sarahkabot.com ) Assistant Professor of Drawing, The Cleveland Institute of Art
Emily Embrescia, Teacher, John Hay High School; Jewelry Designer
Benjamin Rodriguez, MFA Film Student, New York University

1:30 p.m. Keynote Speaker Michael Bierut, partner of top New York design firm Pentagram: "Self Discovery and Leading a Creative Life"

• The events listed are open to CIA students and faculty
• Further information is available at: http://www.cia.edu/next/index.html
The Gund Building. Inside the Gund Building, our program starts in Aitken Auditorium 11141 East Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio 44106

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Thurs., Nov. 19

Mary Magsamen
7 pm
OBA

Artist/curator’s talk

Mary Magsamen has been working for many years with her husband and artistic partner Stephen Hillerbrand after the pair first met at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Undoubtedly influenced by this she recently curated “Co-Existing and Co-Llaborating” featuring film and video by collaborative teams of artists and currently on view at spaces gallery here in Cleveland.

Mary Magsamen’s past exhibitions include shows at Momenta Art, Anna Kustera Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, and White Columns. In addition, she has been awarded a residency from the Longwood Cyber Residency Program and a Finishing Fund from the Experimental Television Center. Mary is currently the curator at the Aurora Picture Show.
• This talk is generously sponsored (always say thank you!) by CIA’s Photography Department – it is free and open to the public.
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Fri., Nov. 20

Sarah Rich
LOF
OBA – 12:15

Sarah Rich
Sarah Rich is a writer and editor working where sustainability intersects with design, architecture, art, food, urbanism, branding and consumer culture. She is an editor at Dwell magazine and the editor of Dwell Digital. Previously Sarah was the managing editor of Worldchanging and co-authored the book by the same name. She launched and edited the Slow Food Nation blog in 2008 and co-founded the site that emerged from that event, CivilEats.com. She lives in San Francisco.
Free and Open.
http://www.inhabitat.com/author/sarah/

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Also on Fri., Nov. 20

INVADING SPACES

Friday Nov 20th / 6-9pm
SPACES (3rd Floor Loft)
2220 Superior Viaduct, Cleveland, Oh, 44113

A one-night only extravaganza featuring temporary, site-responsive works created inside, outside, and all around the 3rd floor of SPACES gallery. This project is a collaboration between students in two T.I.M.E. - Digital Arts classes at the Cleveland Institute of Art: "Creative Coding, Hacks and Space" and "Media Installation". The event is facilitated by artist Ben Kinsley, who has worked with the students for 6 weeks through workshops and studio consultations.

Ben Kinsley is a multidisciplinary artist who creates site-specific responses to particular situations, often through collaboration and playful exchange with local residents. His projects have ranged from conducting an orchestra of screaming humans, directing a maritime-themed play for boaters on a lake in Maine, organizing a shadow play in the middle of the California High Desert, and choreographing a neighborhood intervention into Google Street View.

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Fri., Dec. 4

“The Making & Discovery of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK: THE ADAPTATION”
12:15 – 1:30 pm
Aitken
Pizza –
Free and open to the public.

The co-creators of what Harry Knowles (Aint It Cool News) describes as “the best damn fan film ever” – RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK: THE ADAPTATION – give a presentation and discussion, revealing how it was that their film was made against great odds – and equally incredibly, how it came to be discovered and shown all over the world, engendering the praise of Eli Roth, Quentin Tarantino, and ultimately Steven Spielberg himself. This talk is the perfect primer / preview of the film itself, which screens in the evening at

guided by charles tucker -- cia's sculpture students take a bite of the apple

2009-11-09T14:22:00.000-08:00

The Cleveland Institute of Art's Sculpture students made a run on New York City while their studios were getting new windows. Students made the run on the Chelsea Galleries, not to mention the Half King.

The Cleveland Institute of Art ... LOF and some wednesdays...

2009-09-24T19:14:00.000-07:00

CIA is rockin' ... all term long.

We've got some amazing Lunch on Fridays talks coming up and we're busy at work for the spring. Put it on your calendars and be there. Also make note... Wednesdays are starting to crank as well with "Some Wednesdays" now providing additional opportunities to hear people talk about the things you love. And... of course... there's Cinematheque. John Ewing and Tim Harry keep us entertained when no one else can. (Did you see the NY Times Travel section on Cleveland. So True.) Check out Cinematheque.

To kick off the Wednesdays... This Wednesday, September 30, 5 pm ... Cuban Contemporary Art Specialist Helmo Hernandez will be speaking in Aitken. This is a great chance to really see some edgy work and there will be a reception to follow. This amazing event is being made possible by The Cleveland Foundation. If you're at all interested in Cuban OR Contemporary Art you should definitely come.

One of our focuses for the fall LOF talks has been the professional activities of Cleveland Institute of Art Faculty. Royden Watson speaks tomorrow and he's shown all over the place including Berlin... and then on October 2 we will have the opportunity to hear Photography Head Barry Underwood speak. Both artists are amazing and Underwood has been instrumental in blazing the residency trail. He has had a number of residencies, including one at The Banff Centre, and more recently at the Headlands in California. I personally find his work intriguing and beautiful and am looking forward to his talk.

As many of you may know Saul Ostrow and Charles Tucker were the organizers of The Banff Centre's Spring Residency "Analogous Fields." A perfect artist fit for this investigatory look into the overlaps between art and science was the Institute's own Amanda Almon. As a residency participant she spent the spring in the Canadian Rockies pursuing her own work. Almon, the Head of CIA's remarkable Biomedical Arts program, works in an overlap of her own exploring the intersects of studio art through the skills and knowledge of her applied field. The results of her explorations are currently on view as part of CIA's faculty exhibit and the public can hear her speak about her work on Friday, October 9.

LOF, October 16 – Matthew Beckwith -- Industrial Design's up and coming young faculty member is one of Cleveland's hottest talents. He is also notable for his abilities in connecting with his students and his outreach work ... including his current engagement with the students of Design Lab, located at Jane Addams High School.

LOF, October 23 – Megan Ehrhart

Like her colleague Amanda Almon, Ehrhart is another young and exciting artist crossing boundaries in her digital media-based work. Over the course of the summer she lived and worked in the remote French countryside while an Artist in Residence at Camac Centre D'Art in Marnay-Sur-Seine. While there she generated the piece, "Echoes of Abandonment", a facet of a larger media installation entitled "Grounded."

While in France, Ehrhart has said the remote location forced her to slow down and look to innovation and self-reflection to generate her work. Consequently, while there, her worked thrived. Another talk I'm really looking forward to...

Really one of my favorite things about being in Cleveland is getting to meet so many truly interesting people who are as into what they do as I am.

Cleveland Institute of Art Faculty residents take center stage at Lunch on Fridays

2009-08-27T16:59:00.000-07:00

“Lunch on Fridays” happens Fridays at 12:15 in CIA’s Gund Building. It runs from August 28 to November 20 in the Fall and from January 15 to April 16 in the Spring. It is an ongoing series that is free and open to the public. The series is jointly sponsored by the Liberal Arts and Foundation Environments with additional support coming from other Cleveland Institute of Art Environments.

Speakers and Events are subject to change – please check the Institute Website for updates.
All events take place in Ohio Bell Auditorium, located in the Gund Building unless otherwise specified.
All the listings below are part of Lunch on Fridays unless otherwise specified.
CIA Faculty Exhibition

Thursday, September 4, 6:30 pm
Reinberger Galleries (next door to Cinematheque)
Cleveland Institute of Art – Gund Building

And then…

EMIT, Student Film Festival:
Thursday, September 4, 8 pm
Aitken Auditorium
Cleveland Institute of Art – Gund Building

Free and Open to the public – EMIT is the premier showcase for the film, video and animation creations of CIA students. It will screen in the same auditorium as Cinematheque taking full advantage of the silver screen.

LOF, September 4 – Heather Lemonedes and Caroline Goeser from CMA

On Friday, September 4th, as part of the Friday Lunch Lecture Series, students and the CIA community will be introduced to the "CIA Students: Cleveland 2009" exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art. In short, CIA students have been invited to mount an exhibition in the CMA cafe gallery, juried through a proposal process in conjunction with the CMA "Paul Gauguin: Paris 1889" exhibition.

Heather Lemonedes, Ph.D., Associate Curator of Drawings from the CMA will speak about the influence of this Volpini Exhibition on the art career of Paul Gauguin, and Caroline Goeser, Associate Director for Interpretation, CMA, will speak to the assembly about the Café Exhibition at the conclusion of the lecture. Time will be given for a Question & Answer session from the students.

LOF, September 11 – Lizzy Lee

Title of Talk: Anonymous (Graphic Designer) Nobody

After receiving her BFA in communication design from Parsons School of Design in 1998, Lizzy has been a graphic designer and art director in the fields of design, advertising, and branding for such clients as The New York Times, Martha Stewart, Jean-Georges Vongrichten, and The Gap/Banana Republic with agencies including Doyle Partners, Number Seventeen, Gyro Advertising, and Desgrippes Gobé. In 2006, she moved from NYC to Cleveland, where she worked as the Exhibition Graphic Designer for the Cleveland Museum of Art designing special exhibitions, wayfinding, and environmental graphics. Early in 2009, she and Danielle Rini Uva, a fellow graphic designer and educator created a collaborative design partnership, Rini Uva Lee. RUL happily works long hours for their clients, including the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Public Art, and the AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland.

LOF, September 18 – Barbara Stanczak

Barbara Stanczak pillar of the Cleveland Art Community and influential and revered Professor at CIA discusses her travels and her life as an artist.
“I take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth. My sculptures are an expression of gratitude, a search for parallel, tangible, formal experiences that can be shared with others.”

http://barbarastanczak.com/

LOF, September 25 – Royden Watson

Internationally exhibited artist Royden Watson has shown in cities including Berlin and New York and was MOCA Cleveland’s 2002 featured Pulse artist. Watson was born in Cleveland and received his undergraduate degree from Pratt with an MFA from Kent State.

He is noted for his conceptually cutting works which transform wooden studs and gallons of milk into the subjects of trompe l’oeil works. Watson will discuss his artistic practice and the choices he’s made to achieve his goals. Audience members will have the rare opportunity to see an overview of his rich career.

He is currently teaching for the Institute in the Drawing Major and in the Foundation Environment.

LOF, October 2 – Barry Underwood

Internationally exhibited photographer and head of the Institute’s Photography program, Underwood will discuss his summer at the Headlands Residency outside San Francisco. He will also provide an overview of his intriguing, ephemeral and beautiful imagery.

“Appearing as intrusions and interventions within the landscape, these photographs explore issues of illusion, imagination, narrative, and the potential of the ordinary… transformed into the extraordinary through light and composition…”

http://www.barryunderwood.com/

Barry Underwood’s work is housed in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; TIAA-CREFF, New York; Speak Magazine, San Francisco; as well as many numerous private collections across the country.

LOF, October 9 – Amanda Almon

Head of the Biomedical Arts Program at CIA, Almon works in the professional arena doing state of the art 3D animations of scientific subjects and in the Visual Arts exploring the intersect between the observed scientific and existing social issues. In her talk Almon will give an overview of her integrated professional practice with particular attention given to her six-week summer residency at the Banff Centre located in Alberta, Canada.

http://bioartmedia.com/home.html

LOF, October 16 – Matthew Beckwith

A young and vibrant talent, Beckwith works in the professional and educational realms as an Industrial Designer. He is particularly noted for his ability to work collaboratively and lead. He is currently acting as a volunteer consultant with the Design Lab program located at Jane Addams High School as well as teaching her at the Institute.

LOF, October 23 – Meghan Ehrhardt

Discusses her French Summer residency.

LOF, October 30 – Special Halloween Event!!!!

LOF, November 6 – Richard Martel

Special Friday presentation, November 13 – NEXT

LOF, November 20 – (TBD)

2009 BFAs at CIA rocked...

2009-05-21T10:59:00.000-07:00

BFA week is always my favorite time of year at school. I love walking around to all the exhibits, seeing and hearing what students have been working on and having frankly interesting conversations with my colleagues about my favorite topics... art, philosophy, etc.

It's interesting to me to see as well how students grapple, really for the first time, with those issues which confront us throughout our careers as artists...

What are we doing?
How should we do it?
Who are we doing it for?
How do I get an audience (without being a complete and total ass or maybe how do I become a complete and total ass so I don't have to worry about this part any more?)
How do I talk about my work?

I sometimes find student work particularly interesting because students (not always) but sometimes are less self-conscious about the work itself. Some, unfortunately, can't turn the voices off and end up making or defending work for some imagined, mental Frankenstein of another... Oh well... that's a creature I know as well.

I think the BFA defense is an incredible experience for these young artists. What a confidence builder to be able to take on your faculty and remain aware. It's a thrill to see them accomplish this.

The images are from Matthew Palmer's BFA defense.

julie's talk...

2009-05-17T21:18:00.001-07:00

I'll post more later... for now.

CIA BFAs - May 4 through May 9 - Party May 8!

2009-05-03T16:27:00.000-07:00

Thomas Zummer gave the last “Lunch on Fridays” talk of the spring semester. The turnout was excellent and the pizza was delicious as always. A wonderfully witty and deeply intelligent man we’re looking forward to having him with us as a visiting artist for the Fall semester.

Coming up this week are of course BFAs. It’s always an exciting week that gives the CIA community an opportunity to see what all the seniors have been working on and engage in the always scintillating exchanges that go along with the defenses. While not open to the public during the day, in the evenings and especially on Friday night when there’s a huge party the public’s invited in to take a look around. It’s my favorite week of the school year.

The Cleveland Institute of Art
BFA Thesis Show
JMC – the Factory
11610 Eculid Ave
Cleveland

Public Hours –
Monday, May 4 to Thursday, May 7
7 pm to 9 pm
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Saturday, May 9
10 am to 5 pm
+

Friday, May 8
BFA Reception and Party
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
7 pm to 11 pm

Thomas Zummer -- the last "Lunch on Fridays" for this season

2009-04-21T20:55:00.001-07:00

I'm really looking forward to this talk. I think it's going to be interesting.

Friday, April 27
12:15
Ohio Bell Auditorium - CIA - Gund

Static, Fragments, Afterimages: Problematics of the Image
a talk by - Thomas Zummer

An investigation into the technics and mediation of images, from drawing to digital.

Professor Zummer will discuss some of the practical, and philosophical, aspects of the disposition of images in relation to the technologies, theories and practices of contemporary art-making. He will also present a selection of his own works.

Whether they are used in a primary, secondary, or subsidiary capacity, digital technologies are both ubiquitous and unavoidable for artists and academics. Even the Göttingen Manual, a medieval ‘recipe book’ for the admixture of pigments, or the archives of the Maison du companionage (preserving ancient texts on methods of ironwork, stonework, carpentry, stained glass and tapestry) are available in a digital format. It is also the case that contemporary artists have recourse to remarkable technologies for research and investigation; digital technologies that shape and constrain—and preserve—other media, in a process of remediation. While this process may be masked, or foregrounded (depending upon notions of affect, purity or truth to materials) in primary artworks, it is to be found in almost every subsidiary aspect of a professional career: in the technical reproduction of images, in preliminary compositions, in books, portfolios, curriculae vitae, reviews, promotional materials, and historical archives.

Mr. Zummer will be teaching a sculpture class for the Visual Arts and Technology Environment – “Rhetorical Object (Conceptual Constructions)”

As always “Lunch on Fridays” is free and open to the public. It is sponsored jointly by the Foundation and Liberal Arts Environments. Mr. Zummer appears through the courtesy of the Visual Arts and Technology Environment.

Sarah Kabot and Coventry Creations

2009-04-17T04:25:00.000-07:00

Remember -- Tonight Sarah Kabot 5:30 opening (that's right I had the time wrong!) and 6:30 artist talk at the Sculpture Center here in Cleveland, Ohio.

Also tonight -- "Animal Talk Back" as part of Coventry Creations -- 6 pm.
and opening also at 6 pm in the same space, "Imagining a Sustainable Life" opens (curator - Will Laughlin) both are at 1854 Coventry Road. (Charles Tucker will be in a Turkey suit.)

CIA Tax Week Events!

2009-04-14T07:09:00.000-07:00

This Week – There is no “lunch on Fridays” – but there’s so much going on you won’t miss it this once. Check out the whole list so you don’t miss anything.
And remember… do folks a favor… let them know when something interesting is going on.
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hella hybrid brought to you by T.I.M.E. - Digital Arts
ICE CREAM SOCIAL CLOSING PARTY WITH IAN CHARNAS
wednesday april 15th @ 3:30pm
KULAS auditorium JMC
MAKE YOUR OWN SUNDAE @ 3:30 - LECTURE @ 4:00
FREE AND OPEN TO ALL
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Wednesday, April 15 –
The Glass Department presents:
Marc Petrovic
10 am Artist Talk in Kulas – 3rd flr JMC (The Factory - Euclid)
2 pm Glass Hot Shop Demo
7 pm Potluck in the 4th flr Gallery/Crit Space in the JMC

If you can, check this out. The glass department always puts on a good show and are warm hospitable people. They’re wonderful to hang out with.
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Thursday, April 16 –
Liberal Arts (Visual Culture Emphasis) in collaboration with Biomedical Arts presents:
Robert D. Hicks, Ph.D – Director of the Mutter Museum
Exquisite Corpses
7 pm Ohio Bell Auditorium – The Gund (East Blvd)

(There will be Pizza!)

Images of post mortem human remains are fascinating and disquieting. They amuse children at Halloween and disturb adults when on display at museums. Today’s omnipresent imagery of people doing everything at all times has not accustomed us to depictions of human mortality. The dead are speedily removed from view, and our direct contact with the dead is limited and controlled. Although mortal images can arouse empathy and may develop tolerance for a spectrum of human physical variation, other cultural voices argue for proscription and censure. In this presentation, Robert Hicks explores our dialogue with post mortem human imagery by examining its relationship to politics and ownership of the dead. He incorporates perspectives drawn from anthropology, art criticism, history, museum curatorship, and criminal justice.
This should prove to be a fascinating discussion and definitely worth the trip.
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Run from Coventry to the Sculpture Center! Because Sarah Kabot, Head of Drawing and artist extraordinaire is having an opening!
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Friday, April 17
Sarah Kabot – “Enough” Opening
Artist Talk at 6:15
7 pm
The Sculpture Center

Sarah Kabot's site-specific installation, Enough, is a full scale, three-dimensional, gray and white paper line drawing of the Main Gallery's architecture. The physical elements of the gallery, meticulously and sparingly recreated, are shifted by one foot towards the center of the room. These bland, mundane architectural elements - the most basic, apparently unalterable materiality of the space and the parts that usually recede in the mind's eye of the viewer - are brought to the fore to spark considerations of the nature of reality. With the insistent emphasis upon the physical parts of the space, their particular spatial locations, and their transformation by reproduction and relocation, Kabot's work challenges the viewer's daily perceptions and comprehension of any object's possible structure, location, and meaning. Her work presents the positivist likelihood of endless other possibilities.

http://www.sarahkabot.com/

http://www.sculpturecenter.org/

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This Weekend, VATe, the Sculpture Department, the Kacalieff Visiting Artist Series, and the Coventry Village Special Improvement District comet together to present Coventry Creations – basically it’s an art party meant to raise awareness of the animals that live among us. Come out and play!

Friday, 6 pm 1854 Coventry Rd
Animal Talk Back, a performance piece in which artists take on the garb and personas of local animals and speak from their points of view. This should be a hoot with Biomedical Arts Head Amanda Almon and Sculpture Head Charles Tucker participating. (Tucker will be wearing a special Turkey suit of his own creation!)
Also on Friday, 6 pm to 9 pm, another in Will Laughlin’s curatorial successes “Imagining a Sustainable Life” will be opening also in 1854 Coventry Rd

Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm all over Coventry Rd
Animals roam free on the street, children will parade, music will play (local bands), and real animals with Harvey Webster from the Cleveland Natural History Museum will be there for humans to visit with. (The Animal show is 12 noon to 12:30 – sorry so short but the animals have schedules to keep).

Sunday, 7 to 9 pm 1854 Coventry Rd
Fritz Haeg will speak and be present for a reception. Fritz Haeg is an internationally known artist working with issues of environment. He appears as part of the Kacalieff Series.

http://www.fritzhaeg.com/

http://coventrycreations.blogspot.com

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Remember to check out CIA's blog for more and different kinds of Cleveland Institute of Art Information.

All of these events are part of the Cleveland Institute of Art's Programming and are Free and open to the public. Also, please be sure to check out Cinematheque's Screenings. These cost but they're inexpensive and worth every penny.

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images of april at CIA

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Top two images: Students from the Don Kimes Visiting Artist Talk.

Don Kimes is the Artistic Director at the Chautauqua School of Art as well as being an internationally known painter in his own right. check the link for more info.

Kathe Widen at Will Laughlin's Collected Fictions.

Will's been curating for the Coffeehouse Gallery and doing an amazing job. His Collected Fictions was an intriguing look at what some of CIA's younger artists are doing.

Students with Toby Devan Lewis and Julie Langsam following their Report from New Orleans.

Ms. Langsam's painting students did a great job relating their experiences from the Prospect 1 Biennial. Tales such as meeting Mel Chin and seeing first hand the devastation of the 9th Ward, as well as their reflections on the works they saw made for one of the seasons most interesting talks. Thanks to Julie for setting this up. It was great!

Cleveland Institute of Art - March 27 and more... New Orleans Biennial

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(*Please note that Wednesday, March 25's Hella Hybrid Series talk with Andrew Lynn has been cancelled. TIME's Hella Hybrid will return Wednesday, April 1, 3:30 pm in Kulas with Jesse Stiles -- see below for further details.)

This Friday - Lunch on Fridays Presents -
Report from New Orleans: the Prospect 1 Biennial

Friday, March 27
12:15 pm
Aitken Auditorium - Gund (*NOTE - Location Change)
11141 East Blvd
Cleveland, OH

Students sponsored by money from the Motto Chair Award (given to painting head Julie Langsam) visited the historic Biennial and give their report. There should be lots of images and lots of witty banter to go along with the presentation. If you weren't able to actually go to New Orleans in November, or if you just want a refresher, this is definitely the talk for you.

http://www.prospectneworleans.org/

Sponsored by the Foundation and Liberal Arts Environments, Lunch on Fridays is free and open to the public. Pizza is served for the audience. Venues unless otherwise noted are located in CIA’s Gund building at 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106.

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Hella Hybrid Series
TIME-Digital Arts
Jesse Stiles
Wednesday, April 1
3:30 PM
Kulas Auditorium

Jesse Stiles (a.k.a. The Jesse Stiles 3000, a.k.a. jts3k, a.k.a. Face Removal Services) is a musician and digital artist living in upstate New York.

Stiles was born in 1978 in Boston, MA and adopted the computer as his primary compositional/performance instrument at the age of 12. By the age of 17 Stiles had begun doing computer-based performances before large crowds as well as televised audiences and national conferences. Stiles received a B.A.from Vassar College in Cognitive Science, writing his thesis on Music Perception. Upon graduating from Vassar in 2000, Stiles was awarded a Fellowship from the Thomas J. Watson Foundation to travel around the world for one year while creating electronic music. This fellowship culminated in a “backpack record” by The Jesse Stiles 3000 (Stiles beat-oriented performance/recording project), titled “Watson Songs”.

Free and Open to the Public!

CIA JMC Building, 11610 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106

a great week - Steve Kurtz; Benjy Davies and Jenny Mendes

2009-03-21T10:32:00.000-07:00

This past week The Cleveland Institute of Art played host to a ceramicist, Jenny Mendes; a printmaker, Benjy Davies; and the Bickford Visiting Artist, Steve Kurtz. In addition Cinematheque screened the film “Strange Culture” and the Painting Department conducted a panel featuring the artists from “Light of Day” – an exhibition currently on view at William Busta Gallery here in Cleveland.

(Weeks like this remind me what an amazing environment I have the privilege to work and teach in. There is such an abundance of energy and so many creative minds.)

All of these events received high marks from those in attendance. Steve Kurtz gave a particularly powerful talk. With great wit, he spoke about his career and the difficulties his encountered through the course of his work.

Kurtz, for those of you who weren’t able to attend, is, along with his late wife Hope, a founding member of the “tactical media” protest and performance artist collective, the Critical Art Ensemble. The group’s work has dealt with, among other subjects, issues of biotechnology. The Ensemble has authored several books including “Digital Resistance: Explorations in Tactical Media” and “Electronic Civil Disobedience and Other Unpopular Ideas.” The groups’ work has been presented at such prestigious venues as The Whitney Museum, The New Museum in New York, The Corcoran, The ICA in London, the MCA in Chicago, the Musee d’art de la Ville de Paris and the London Museum of Natural History.

As detailed in the film “Strange Culture” by Lynn Hershman Leeson, from 2004 to 2008, Kurtz had hanging over him the threat of a 20 year prison sentence. These charges came about as the result of an investigation relating to the death of his wife Hope due to heart failure and were the product of a gross and rather sinister misinterpretation of the work he and his wife were doing. Over the course of those four years, and in the shadow of his tragic personal loss, Kurtz has persevered in the defense of his own civil liberties and by extension in defense of the rights of all other artists and free thinkers. It has only been since late May of 2008 that the Buffalo Prosecutor’s Office declined to reopen the case which had been dismissed. Steve Kurtz is now free.

** Special thanks to Sarah Paul for acting as liaison with Steve Kurtz.

http://www.critical-art.net

http://www.critical-art.net/biotech/sra/SRAweb/index.html

http://www.strangeculture.net/

http://www.cia.edu/academicResources/cinematheque/filmSchedule.php?action=upcoming

March 19 and 20 - CIA welcomes Bickford Visiting Artist Steve Kurtz!

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Wednesday, March 4th was Brett Kashmere's Hella Hybrid talk, and although mid-terms and the coming spring break kept some away -- the talk was well worth hearing and seeing. Brett has made some interesting work and took on issues that have to do with copyright in really creative ways. Check out Brett's blogs and his website... and go see him whenever you get the chance to hear him speak or see his work first hand.

This week Bickford Visiting Artist Steve Kurtz.

Thursday, March 19 at 5 pm. Cinematheque Screening of Strange Culture.

Friday, March 20 at 2:30, Bickford Visiting Artist Talk by Steve Kurtz, the subject of the film Strange Culture.

Both events are in Aitken.

See below for further details.

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Also this week Printmaking Visiting Artist Benjy Davies.

Printmaking Department (VATe) Visiting Artist:
Benjy Davies
Wednesday, March 18
10 am
G209 (Gund)
Presentation of Work and Demonstration beginning at 10 am and continuing through the day

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Thursday, March 19
Food arrives at 4:15
Starting at 5 pm – Aitken Auditorium

Cinematheque SCREENING of
Strange Culture
Followed by a Q + A with Artist Steve Kurtz

Free to CIA and Case ID holders and $5 to general public.
(Proceeds benefit Cinematheque.)

The film examines the case of artist and professor Steve Kurtz, a member of the Critical Art Ensemble (CAE). The work of Kurtz and other CAE members dealt with genetically modified food and other issues of science and public policy. After his wife, Hope, died of heart failure, paramedics arrived and became suspicious when they noticed petri dishes and other scientific equipment related to Kurtz's art in his home. They summoned the FBI, who detained Kurtz within hours on suspicion of bioterrorism.

As Kurtz could not legally talk about the case, the film uses actors to interpret the story, as well as interviews with Kurtz and other figures involved in the case. Through a combination of dramatic reenactment, news footage, animation, and testimonials, the film scrutinizes post-9/11 paranoia and suggests that Kurtz was targeted because his work questions government policies. At the film's close, Kurtz and his long-time collaborator Dr. Robert Ferrell, former chair of the Genetics Department at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, await a trial date.

(update) As of late May 2008, the Buffalo Prosecutor has declined to reopen the case within the 30 day window in which he was allowed to do so. So, Steve Kurtz is free.
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Friday, March 20 - 2:30 pm
Aitken Auditorium
Food Arrives at 2:00 pm
Bickford Visiting Artist’s Talk
Steve Kurtz
Free and Open to the Public!

This lecture is a brief overview of the points where applied life sciences, politics, economy, and cultural representations begin to intersect. On the one hand, it will examine the economic and political pressures that push life science research in one direction at the expense of another, and the rhetorics used to justify these trajectories of research. On the other hand, it will also consider the release of derivative products into the public sphere, and how the public is socialized to accept them. These two moments, in which the cultural context for research initiatives or biotechnological products is in the first stage of construction, are the points of intervention where cultural activists can have the greatest impact. This presentation will be illustrated by participatory theater projects by Critical Art Ensemble.

Reception to Follow at Mi Pueblo.

You Shouda Been There - Report: the Cleveland Institute of Art Recent Artist's Talks

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Last Friday, February 27, CIA’s Lunch on Friday’s Series presented Chadd Lacy a local but noted glass artist (http://www.chaddlacyglass.com/). The series has been lucky to have the support of the glass department this semester with Brent Kee Young (http://www.jsauergallery.com/sagemoon/artistPages/bky_lg.html), the head of the glass program, speaking on February 13. The Cleveland Institute of Art is noted for its glass program, as well as its many other craft-based disciplines. These two artists (Lacy works as the department’s Technical Assistant) make it abundantly clear why the school maintains such a strong reputation.

Young spoke to a full house and gave a talk that allowed rare access into the creative process of a committed glass artist. Through video and still images he step by step revealed the source of his nature-based and fossil inspired forms as well as his technical process for realizing these works. An affable speaker, his generosity of spirit was made clear in his willingness to openly share his methods for achieving the stunning visual effects of his work.

The evening of February 27th also saw Nina Katchadourian speak as Foundation’s Visiting Artist. Nina is a wonderful artist and we were lucky to get her. If you didn’t get to go her talk you should definitely check out her website - http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/

Katchadourian is diverse in her approaches to making working work using installation, photography, video and sound. She has shown internationally including such prestigious venues as PS1/MoMa, Artists Space, and the Palais de Tokyo. In 2006 the Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs presented a 10-year survey of her work and published a monograph titled “All Forms of Attraction.” She is currently represented by Sara Meltzer gallery in New York and Catharine Clark gallery in San Francisco.

On February 20, 2009 Charles Tucker (www.charlestuckerart.com and http://theaestheticcompass.blogspot.com/) and Saul Ostrow took the stage in CIA’s Aitken Auditorium to present “The Rehetorical Model and the Aesthetic Compass: Systems of Research.” This talk was a presentation of their collaborative work begun spring 2008 during their joint residency at the Banff Centre located in Alberta Canada. Well attended, the talk made clear the depth of their own researches. While still in progress, what they have produced are conceptual devices that allow for systems of analysis helping to locate the position a given work is attempting to advance. In other words the device attempts to clarify points of articulation (things one can talk about) in relation to a work and to test the validity of what is said about that work. These systems seek to reconcile qualitative and quantative information.

Ostrow and Tucker will be returning to Banff this spring as organizers of the Analgous Fields residency.

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Watch this space and become friends through facebook with Vac Lane and Lane Cooper for other updates.

Thanks to -- Anna Cottos; Tom Hamilton and Marc Tomko as well as speakers for their assistance with the Lunch on Fridays Lecture Series...

March 4, 6, 19th and 20th -- CIA Events!

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*** These events are open to the public.

Hella Hybrid Series
TIME- Digital Arts
Brett Kashmere
Wednesday, March 4
7:00 PM
Aitken Auditorium - CIA Gund - 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland

Brett Kashmere is a Pittsburgh- based filmmaker, curator, and casual cultural historian. His work combines traditional research methods with hybrid interfaces, handmade equipment, and materialist aesthetics. Through intricate experimental documentaries and unadorned camera movies, Kashmere explores the intersection of history and (counter-) memory, geographies of identity, and the politics of representation. His films, videos, scholarship, and curated programs have been presented at festivals, conferences and venues internationally and used in university curricula. The film scholar Thomas Waugh writes that Kashmere’s essay-film Valery’s Ankle “may well give momentum (and integrity) to the discourses of sports, masculinity, and nationalism in Canadian cinemas.” Kashmere currently teaches in the Cinema Studies Program at Oberlin College in Ohio and is the founding editor of INCITE! Journal of Experimental Media & Radical Aesthetics.

http://www.brettkashmere.com

http://www.incite-online.net

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Lunch on Fridays and Key Foundation Diversity Visiting Artist:
Jason Pierce
Friday, March 6
12:15 pm
Ohio Bell Auditorium - CIA Gund Building - 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland

A 2005 graduate from The Cleveland Institute of Art's TIME program, Jason
Pierce has worked as an Art Director with Wunderman Team Detroit since 2006.
Jason works in Brand Development and assists in envisioning advertising names
for some of the biggest firms in the country.

Sponsored by the Foundation and Liberal Arts Environments, Lunch on Fridays is free and open to the public. Pizza is served for the audience. Venues unless otherwise noted are located in CIA’s Gund building at 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106.

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Bickford Visiting Artist Program in conjunction with Cinematheque
Screening of Strange Culture
A film by native Clevelander Lynn Hershman Leeson – the subject of the film is a visiting artist Steve Kurtz (speaking on Friday at 2 pm)
Thursday, March 19
5 pm
Aitken Auditorium

This showing of the film will be free for all CIA and Case community members and $5.00 to the general public. The viewing time has been set at 4 pm to allow time for those who wish to attend the Cleveland Film Festival. All proceeds benefit Cinematheque.

CIA Gund Building, 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH

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** Outside the Institute and also on March 19 opening reception for “The Way We Live Now” at the Cleveland Foundation’s Hanna Building, 1422 Euclid Ave, Suite 1300, featuring students from the Institute – 5 to 7 pm.
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Bickford Visiting Artist
Steve Kurtz
Friday, March 20
2:15 pm (Talk starts at 2:30 pm)
Aitken Auditorium

Kurtz is the subject of Leeson’s documentary Strange Culture.
Steve Kurtz is a noted artist and founding member of the participatory theater group Critical Art Ensemble. He currently teaches at the University of Buffalo, The State University of New York, and is a former professor with Carnegie Mellon. Kurtz came to national and international attention when, in 2004, on reporting the death of his wife, Hope Kurtz, he was subsequently arrested on suspicion of bioterrorism. Strange Culture tells the bizarre tale of how an artist, in possession of recognizably benign bacteria used in museum and gallery exhibits, became the target of a criminal investigation driven by the U.S. Patriot Act.

CIA Gund Building, 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH

let's talk -- events at the Cleveland Institute of Art

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There's a lot going on at the Cleveland Institute of Art for the remainder of the Spring semester. Not the least of which is the talk by Saul Ostrow and Charles Tucker concerning their Banff research -- That's Friday, Feb. 20 in case you haven't marked your calendar.

Other events...

Glass Department Visiting Artist
Ross Richmond
Wednesday, Feb. 11
7 pm
Kulas Auditorium
Ross resides in Seattle, Washington. He creates blown and sculpted glass art objects.
Ross has been working with glass for the past 16 years. He graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1994 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Glass, and a minor in Metals. He has studied and worked at both the Penland School of Crafts and the Pilchuck Glass School. In 1997 Ross began working as an apprentice to William Morris, becoming a member of his team in 1999. Ross' pieces are typically narrative, working mainly with figurative elements and symbolic objects. His work currently shows at a number of galleries around the country, and he teaches in the U.S. and Canada.
CIA JMC Building, 11610 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106
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Lunch on Fridays:
Brent Kee Young
Friday, February 13
12:15 PM
Ohio Bell Auditorium
Bio: Brent has conducted workshops all over the U.S. and Japan as well. His work has most recently been seen in the The Niijima Contemporary Glass Art Museum in Tokyo, the Telfair Museum in Savannah, The Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of Art among many other notable places.
Education: M.F.A., State University of New York, College of Ceramics at Alfred University; B.A., Ceramic Art/Glass concentration from San Jose State University
CIA Gund Building 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106
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Drawing Under the Radar
Closing Reception
Friday, February 13
6-10 PM
The Student Coffeehouse Gallery
CIA JMC Building, 11610 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106

Sponsored by Prizm and Cuyahoga Arts and Culture
S.I.E. 63
Student Independent Exhibition
Opening Reception
Friday, February 13
6- 9 PM
The Reinberger Galleries
CIA Gund Building, 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH
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TIME - Digital Arts Presents
hella hybrid lecture series
Julie Perini
Film-maker, photographer, installation and video artist. See flyer for further details.
Monday, Feb. 16, 3:30 pm
Kulas Auditorium, JMD-The Factory
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Lunch on Fridays:
Saul Ostrow and Charles Tucker
“The Rhetorical Model and the Aesthetic Compass: as Systems of Research”
Friday, Feb. 20
12:15 pm
Ohio Bell Auditorium
Extending from their collaborative work, this talk will introduce concepts which Ostrow and Tucker began developing in their Banff residency Spring 2009 and which they have continued to work on since that date.
Spring 2008 will see the pair back in Banff as invited organizers of the “Analogous Fields” residency which will seek to explore the overlaps between art and science. (See below for further information or visit the Banff website: http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=84
Saul Ostrow is a noted critique and author. In addition to serving as the Institute’s E-chair
Sponsored by the Foundation and Liberal Arts Environments, Lunch on Fridays is free and open to the public. Pizza is served for the audience. Venues unless otherwise noted are located in CIA’s Gund building at 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106.
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Lunch on Fridays:
Chadd Lacy – Noted Local Glass Artist
Friday, February, 27
12:15 pm
Ohio Bell Auditorium
Chadd Lacy received his BFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, Pa and is currently the technical assistant in the glass department at CIA. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, and was recently included in the exhibition “Young Glass” at the Glasmuseet, in Ebeltoft, Denmark. He was awarded a research grant to study abroad with various artists in the Dutch glass industry, in both technical glass equipment building shops, and glass studios, and continues t o exhibit his work in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Locally Chadd’s work can be found at the Thomas R. Riley gallery in Beachwood.

Sponsored by the Foundation and Liberal Arts Environments, Lunch on Fridays is free and open to the public. Pizza is served for the audience. Venues unless otherwise noted are located in CIA’s Gund building at 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106.
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Dinner on Friday:
Nina Katchadourian
Foundation’s Visiting Artist
Friday, Feb. 27
5 pm
Ohio Bell Auditorium
Nina Katchadourian was born in Stanford, California and grew up spending every summer on a small island in the Finnish archipelago, where she still spends part of each year. Her work exists in a wide variety of media including photography, sculpture, video and sound. Her work has been exhibited domestically and internationally at places such as PS1/MoMA, the Serpentine Gallery, New Langton Arts, Artists Space, SculptureCenter, and the Palais de Tokyo. In January 2006 the Turku Art Museum in Turku, Finland featured a solo show of works made in Finland, and in June 2006 the Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs exhibited a 10-year survey of her work and published an accompanying monograph entitled "All Forms of Attraction." The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego presented a solo show of recent video installation works in July 2008. Katchadourian is represented by Sara Meltzer gallery in New York and Catharine Clark gallery in San Francisco.
Sponsored by the Foundation Environment, This event is free and open to the public. Pizza is served for the audience. Venues unless otherwise noted are located in CIA’s Gund building at 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106.
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Hella Hybrid Series
TIME- Digital Arts
Brett Kashmere
Wednesday, March 4
7:00 PM
Kulas Auditorium
Brett Kashmere is a Pittsburgh- based filmmaker, curator, and casual cultural historian. His work combines traditional research methods with hybrid interfaces, handmade equipment, and materialist aesthetics. Through intricate experimental documentaries and unadorned camera movies, Kashmere explores the intersection of history and (counter-) memory, geographies of identity, and the politics of representation. His films, videos, scholarship, and curated programs have been presented at festivals, conferences and venues internationally and used in university curricula. The film scholar Thomas Waugh writes that Kashmere’s essay-film Valery’s Ankle “may well give momentum (and integrity) to the discourses of sports, masculinity, and nationalism in Canadian cinemas.” Kashmere currently teaches in the Cinema Studies Program at Oberlin College in Ohio and is the founding editor of INCITE! Journal of Experimental Media & Radical Aesthetics.
http://www.brettkashmere.com
http://www.incite-online.net
CIA JMC Building, 11610 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106
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Lunch on Fridays - sponsored by Key Diversity Grant Initiative:
Jason Pierce
Friday, March 6
12:15 pm
Ohio Bell Auditorium
A 2005 graduate from The Cleveland Institute of Art's TIME program, Jason
Pierce has worked as an Art Director with Wunderman Team Detroit since 2006.
Jason works in Brand Development and assists in envisioning advertising names
for some of the biggest firms in the country.

Sponsored by the Foundation and Liberal Arts Environments, Lunch on Fridays is free and open to the public. Pizza is served for the audience. Venues unless otherwise noted are located in CIA’s Gund building at 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106.
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Lunch on Fridays:
Joe Nanashe
Friday, April 10
12:15 pm
Ohio Bell Auditorium
Joe Nanashe was born and raised in Akron, Ohio. He began his studies at the University of Akron as a painter,
but soon moved on to sculpture, performance and video. The post-industrial landscape of Akron and its emphasis on
manual labor became a major influence on the repetitive task driven nature of his work.
Joe received his BFA from the University of Akron in 2003, and began attending Rutgers University that fall.
During his graduate studies, he further blended performance, video and installation into works that confront the viewer
with issues of violence, control and question the nature of perception. He received his M.F.A. in Visual Arts and the
Paul Robeson Emerging Artist Award in the spring of 2005.
His work has shown at the New York Underground Film Festival, the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, and
the Chicago Underground Film Festival. He has exhibited internationally in Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands,
Russia, Canada, and Argentina. Currently, Joe lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Sponsored by the Foundation and Liberal Arts Environments, Lunch on Fridays is free and open to the public. Pizza is served for the audience. Venues unless otherwise noted are located in CIA’s Gund building at 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106.
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Bickford Visiting Artist Event
Screening of Strange Culture
by native Clevelander
Lynn Hershman Leeson
Thursday, March 19
4 pm
Aitken Auditorium
This showing of the film will be free for all CIA and Case community members and $5.00 to the general public. The viewing time has been set at 4 pm to allow time for those who wish to attend the Cleveland Film Festival.
CIA Gund Building, 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH
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Bickford Visiting Artist
Steve Kurtz
Friday, March 20
2:15 pm (Talk starts at 2:30 pm)
Aitken Auditorium
Kurtz is the subject of Leeson’s documentary Strange Culture.
Steve Kurtz is a noted artist and founding member of the participatory theater group Critical Art Ensemble. He currently teaches at the University of Buffalo, The State University of New York, and is a former professor with Carnegie Mellon. Kurtz came to national and international attention when, in 2004, on reporting the death of his wife, Hope Kurtz, he was subsequently arrested on suspicion of bioterrorism. Strange Culture tells the bizarre tale of how an artist, in possession of recognizably benign bacteria used in museum and gallery exhibits, became the target of a criminal investigation driven by the U.S. Patriot Act.
CIA Gund Building, 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH
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Hella Hybrid Series
TIME-Digital Arts
Andrew Lynn
Wednesday, March 25
3:30 PM
Kulas Auditorium
Andrew Lynn is a media worker living in Troy, NY. He received an MFA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2002, and has been working as a community artist and educator since. Most notably, he is the creator of the Whirl-Mart not-shopping intervention, a director of the activist- bicycle documentary, Still We Ride, and the founder of the Troy Bike Rescue. Currently he teaches at Hudson Valley Community College, in addition to being a coordinator with the The Sanctuary for Independent Media. From 2004- 2007, Andrew was the Youth Education Coordinator at Manhattan Neighborhood Network- a public access television station- where he helped to initiate the Youth Video Exchange Network and facilitated numerous youth-lead productions. Andrew’s own documentary, animation, and short video work has played in festivals, bars, and basements around the world. Andrew is an advocate of open source coding, thinking, and doing.
http://breathingplanet.net
CIA JMC Building, 11610 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106
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Lunch on Fridays
Report from New Orleans: the Prospect 1 Biennial
(Panel discussion with students)
Friday, March 27
12:15 pm
Ohio Bell Auditorium
Sponsored by the Foundation and Liberal Arts Environments, Lunch on Fridays is free and open to the public. Pizza is served for the audience. Venues unless otherwise noted are located in CIA’s Gund building at 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106.
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Hella Hybrid Series
TIME-Digital Arts
Jesse Stiles
Wednesday, April 1
3:30 PM
Kulas Auditorium
Jesse Stiles (a.k.a. The Jesse Stiles 3000, a.k.a. jts3k, a.k.a. Face Removal Services) is a musician and digital artist living in upstate New York.
Stiles was born in 1978 in Boston, MA and adopted the computer as his primary compositional/performance instrument at the age of 12. By the age of 17 Stiles had begun doing computer-based performances before large crowds as well as televised audiences and national conferences.
Stiles received a B.A.from Vassar College in Cognitive Science, writing his thesis on Music Perception. Upon graduating from Vassar in 2000, Stiles was awarded a Fellowship from the Thomas J. Watson Foundation to travel around the world for one year while creating electronic music. This fellowship culminated in a “backpack record” by The Jesse Stiles 3000 (Stiles beat-oriented performance/recording project), titled “Watson Songs”.
CIA JMC Building, 11610 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106
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Hella Hybrid Series
TIME-Digital Arts
Julia Christensen
Wednesday, April 8
7:00 PM
Kulas Auditorium
Julia Christensen is an artist and writer currently based in Oberlin, Ohio, whose work treads the fine line between art and research. She is the author of Big Box Reuse, recently published by the MIT Press. This book is a product of her ongoing investigation into how communities are renovating and reusing abandoned big box buildings.
Christensen’s writing has been published in magazines such as Slate, Print, Orion, and Architect.
A solo exhibition of Christensen’s photographs and large-scale architectural installation work was on display this fall at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University (Your Town Inc., August 29- November 23, 2008, curated by Astria Sparak). She currently has a solo show of photographs at the Gallery at the Green Building in Louisville, KY (December 5- January 30). Christensen’s photographs are also on display at the Carnegie Museum of Fine Arts as a part of the show “Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes” (October 4-January 18); this exhibition will travel to the Yale School of Architecture Galleries in the spring (Feb. 16-May 18, 2009). Christensen recently completed two commissions for net art through Turbulence.org. Her new media, video and installation work has also shown at the Lincoln Center in NY, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the DUMBO Art Center in Brooklyn, among other venues. Christensen also lectures widely.
She has performed as a musician in such locations as 21 Grand and the Acme Observatory in Oakland, CA. She is also the director of the up and coming Women’s New Music Performance Ensemble, at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
Christensen holds the chair of Luce Visiting Professor of the Emerging Arts at Oberlin College and Conservatory, where she teaches in the Studio Arts and TIMARA (Technology in Music and Related Arts) Departments. She has also taught at Stanford University and the California College of the Arts, among other universities.
http://juliachristensen.com/
http://www.bigboxreuse.com
CIA JMC Building, 11610 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106
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TBD (hopefully Astria Superak)
Wednesday, April 15
3:30 PM
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Residency Opportunity
May 11, 2009 - June 19, 2009
Analogous Fields Residency at Banff Centre Alberta, Canada – Organized by Saul Ostrow and Charles Tucker
For over 70 years The Banff Centre has provided working and career opportunities in the arts. Located in the Mountains of Western Canada, its breathtaking views, committed staff and vibrant creative community has made the Banff Centre a dynamic environment in which artists are inspired to challenge assumptions that go beyond their own expectations.
This Spring Banff is offering another in its series of renowned thematic Residencies. Following on the heels of last year’s “Making Artistic Inquiry Visible,” this year’s “Analogous Fields” deals with the intersect between art and science. Organized by collaborators Charles Tucker, sculptor and artist/researcher, and noted critic and author, Saul Ostrow, the pair participated in last year’s program, Tucker and Ostrow have set for the goal for the 2009 program as the development of new knowledge and the creation of original work extending from the exploration of this convergence. This residency is specifically designed to foster collaborations and exchanges between individuals working in art and science disciplines. Artists, scientists, researchers, scholars, writers as well as collaborative teams are all encouraged to apply. The residency organizers are looking for creative thinking and innovative approaches.
04 Thematic Residency: Analogous Fields: Art and Science
Program dates: May 11, 2009 - June 19, 2009
Application deadline: February 13, 2009
For Further information view the following links:
About the Banff Centre - http://www.banffcentre.ca/about/
Further information on the Analogous Fields Residency and how to apply - http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=84
saul ostrow
http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=845&facId=3630&p=member
charles tucker
http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=845&facId=3631&p=member
www.charlestuckerart.com
Other dates, information and artis

Charles Tucker, and Saul Ostrow give a talk and then go to Banff, again, this spring...

2009-02-01T11:23:00.000-08:00

May 11, 2009 - June 19, 2009
Analogous Fields Residency at Banff Centre Alberta, Canada – Organized by Saul Ostrow and Charles Tucker
For over 70 years The Banff Centre has provided working and career opportunities in the arts. Located in the Mountains of Western Canada, its breathtaking views, committed staff and vibrant creative community has made the Banff Centre a dynamic environment in which artists are inspired to challenge assumptions that go beyond their own expectations.

This Spring Banff is offering another in its series of renowned thematic Residencies. Following on the heels of last year’s “Making Artistic Inquiry Visible,” this year’s “Analogous Fields” deals with the intersect between art and science. Organized by collaborators Charles Tucker, sculptor and artist/researcher, and noted critic and author, Saul Ostrow, the pair participated in last year’s program, Tucker and Ostrow have set for the goal for the 2009 program as the development of new knowledge and the creation of original work extending from the exploration of this convergence. This residency is specifically designed to foster collaborations and exchanges between individuals working in art and science disciplines. Artists, scientists, researchers, scholars, writers as well as collaborative teams are all encouraged to apply. The residency organizers are looking for creative thinking and innovative approaches.

04 Thematic Residency: Analogous Fields: Art and Science
Program dates: May 11, 2009 - June 19, 2009
Application deadline: February 13, 2009

For Further information view the following links:
About the Banff Centre - http://www.banffcentre.ca/about/
Further information on the Analogous Fields Residency and how to apply - http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=84

saul ostrow
http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=845&facId=3630&p=member

charles tucker
http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=845&facId=3631&p=member
www.charletuckerart.com

soundhouse stills...

2008-06-13T08:30:00.001-07:00

These are stills from the video soundhouse. See it on Youtube. Some non-video work coming soon.

video stills...

2008-06-12T18:39:00.000-07:00

These first two images are from a vide titled "breathing." The second two are from "lost." Both can be seen on Youtube -- search laney2217 -- other videos are also online there. I'm also making "stills" from the videos. In other words photographic prints of images from the videos that are works in themselves.

The images and the videos, particularly the one titled "breathing," deal with a space in-between.

what it is... my artist's statement

2008-06-12T18:30:00.000-07:00

This blog focuses on my work as an artist. I will periodically post images and links to videos. Please feel free to feedback.

lane cooper – artist statement

General statement:
I have a hard time letting go of the body. I cannot let go of text. I approach text as a Gnostic – every read reveals. Every work is a text.

My process is poetic – semiotics and constructions – demonstrated meanings through context and (juxta)position, through construct and metaphor – art is the realm of the mind – The mind is the space in which reality is called into being, a place of conceit and connection.

My work strives to provide access to this space – to open “the doors of perception” – William Blake’s doors - not Aldus Huxley’s or Jim Morrison’s. Reading the works and critical analyses of Plato, Plotinus, Chomsky, Beuys, Bochner, Baldessari and Chin have influenced my thinking. I also enjoy reading Umberto Eco, et. al.

At its worst my work is didactic. At its best it is text – open and non-linear in which the audience is co-author.

Concerns which drive my work:
Epistemology – the study of the nature of knowledge, its possible validity

Metaphysical – an umbrella arching over the physical; extremely abstract or theoretical; without material form or substance; originating not in the physical world but somewhere outside it.

Language, the foundation of text and the material of the mind: frames, calls into being, allows conception, provides meaning. It originates not in the physical world but in the realm of the mind.

Gnosticism – “salvation” comes from learning esoteric “truths” that free humanity from the material world…

In application, the (re)reading of a text, and the (re)investigation of a set of ideas.

Agnosticism – not knowing and knowing not knowing; to question.

Material vs. immaterial; commodity vs. de-commodity; real vs. perceived value.