Manjello, Manjello, Manjello

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

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

Unsung Torsos - MOCA - Cleveland

One of the most remarkable performances you will ever witness:

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

Free + Open

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

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

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

Joe Kelly's Website

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

Jay Crocker's Website


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

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