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

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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Sarah Kabot - covert agent?

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

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 ...

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!!!

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 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

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

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!

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!

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

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!

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

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!

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

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.

Judith Salomon and then Chroma Wars ...

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

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.

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

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.