Brandon Cartellone - Rally for Justice

Why should you care about Justice for Brandon Cartellone?

Who was Brandon Cartellone?
Brandon was a beautiful young man. He was only 21 years old and deeply immersed in pursuing his dreams of becoming a designer. He had a girlfriend. He had friends and a family who loved him deeply. He was a cut-up. He was known for his kindness, his generosity, his willingness to support others. He lived in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland and was part of the energy that makes that neighborhood so vital. He was like many young people in his sense that he was invincible. He threw his arms wide and embraced life. His promise and the joy he brought to living ended brutally on July 26, 2011.

Brandon was killed by a criminal, without conscious or remorse. We tend to think that things like this can’t, don’t happen to good people – that somehow “me” or “my children, my family, the people I love” won’t be involved in anything that would put them in danger. The fact is that criminals, like the person who killed Brandon, are not concerned about who they kill. They don’t stop to think about the innocent lives they cut short or the families they tear apart. If you need proof of this just consider the career of Whitey Bulger.

Brandon deserves justice. So does our community.

Please let the authorities know that you care about crime in our community, that you demand that they protect the public. Demand justice for Brandon and for Cleveland.

How can you help?

Email your city council person

Email your congressman


Email your local news outlets –

Word of mouth – Tell people about Brandon’s story.

Like the Facebook Page dedicated to Brandon’s memory

Come to the rally bring a friend.
Ask your friend to bring a friend.

Don’t let Brandon be forgotten – talk about what happened to him and let people know what they can do to help.

Let’s build a system that can help protect our community.

Anyone with information about the crime is asked to contact the Cleveland police homicide unit at 216-623-5464.

Donate to the Brandon Cartellone Scholarship Fund at the Cleveland Institute of Art

Read the news account

Lots to do, lots to do … Cleveland Buzzes …

This past week – Thursday, November 29th and 30th – the Hybread show ran at SPACES’ Hotbox. A really remarkable flex space the Hotbox has become a lab for performances and exhibitions that don’t fit neatly into any conventional space. The artists in the Hybread Show – members from Kristen Baumliér’s Hybrid Media course – staged a two-night event that focused on video and digital prints. The show was great … nice, refreshing and beautifully laid out. Impressive -- Some of the artists involved: Andy Hunt, Bridget McGuire, Ryan Samples, Christy Watterson, Jenna Mahoney, Hannah Davis, Angela Daley, Matt Queitsch, Matt Rowe, Jessica Howard, Ben Weathers,Matt Evans plus (I'm making mistakes on the list -- I'll correct as soon as I can).

Another Fantastic event that was on November 29th was at Euclid Tavern - Me, Jessica Sikon and Shimmer Sister Performed -- Organized by Dan Tranberg, the evening was a great occasion to listen to some awesome music and hang with wonderful people.

Kyle and Alex as "Shimmer Sister" started the evening with Jessica Sikon following second and the event was closed by headliner "Me, my self and Matthew Childers". Shimmer Sister provided some ethereal rock 'n roll sounds while Ms. Sikon built on her growing reputation as a signer/songwriter of the first order. Me kicked it out with a sound and look that deserves their frequent comparisons to young Elvis.

The event was free and word on the street is that Mr. Tranberg will be organizing other such events for the Tavern -- so pay attention if you missed this don't next time.

The Euclid Tavern @ 11625 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH --

On Thursday, December 6, 2012 – there’s two nice events to check out – try to make them both.

At the Grog Shop, 2785 Euclid Heights Blvd., Cleveland Hts. – there will be the Brandon Cartellone Memorial Scholarship Fundraiser. Starting at 7:30 pm – a nice way to remember Brandon and celebrate his life.

Description from the Facebook page: Join Brandon's friends and family as they have a gathering to celebrate his life and help raise funds to create a permanent memorial Scholarship at the Cleveland Institute of Art in his memory.

There will be a silent auction featuring some of Brandon's works, a 50/50 raffle, baskets, T-shirts, and music will be provided by Jimmy Jack, Svelton, Right of Indiana, How About No and Ohio Sky.

Cover fee: $10 or $5 with student ID, proceeds to go to the Scholarship Fund.
Doors open at 730, and live music starts at 730!

As you consider your own charitable giving but are unable to attend this event, please consider a tax-deductible gift.

Donations for Brandon's fund can be sent at any time. Please make checks to: Mike Kinsella, Director of Giving & Alumni Relations, 11141 East Blvd. Cleveland Ohio, 44106

Facebook Event Page

And then there’s the Arts Collinwood Mixer also on the 6th – 5 pm to 9 pm

The Board of Trustees, Gallery Committee, and Friends of Arts Collinwood invite you to join us for a Holiday Mixer in celebration of the season. Complimentary appetizers, live music, good company and merriment abound at this hoppin’ holiday happenin’!

The new Callaloo Café, opening in 2013, will serve festive libations and a preview taste of its scrumptious Caribbean cuisine. Don’t miss your chance to check out this hot spot coming soon to Waterloo Road.

See what’s ahead in the Gallery!

This is your opportunity to preview the 2013 roster of Gallery exhibits. Artists and curators will be onsite to mingle with guests and discuss their upcoming shows.

Get a sneak peek at the Holiday Art Sale by renewing your membership or becoming a new member of Arts Collinwood! The price is right, starting at just $10. Be the first to do your holiday shopping in this unique, handcrafted gifts shop extraordinaire.

Chat with Alan Glazen of Project Light Switch and find out what the buzz is all about.

Come share in the excitement of the Waterloo Arts and Entertainment District as we celebrate the accomplishments of 2012 and look forward to 2013.

And then on December 7, 2012 – BLUNDERBUSS – 6 pm to 9 pm
At CIA’s JMC – 2nd floor 201 – 11610 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH

Hey … watch these spaces:

Forum Artspace

Cool Cleveland

and I would like to recommend you get the CoolCleveland ap … check out CoolCleveland.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brent Green at Lunch on Tuesday and then Cinematheque!

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.

the fall and an amazing line up beginning Aug 13

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

“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)

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

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
+
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

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.

images of april at CIA

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!