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

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 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.

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

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!

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

students viewing Peter Halley at Mary Boone









the rat from the Independent Art Fair in Chelsea

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

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

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

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.

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)

2009 BFAs at CIA rocked...

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

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

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

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

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

The images are from Matthew Palmer's BFA defense.

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
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Saturday, May 9
10 am to 5 pm
+

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

Sarah Kabot and Coventry Creations

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

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

CIA Tax Week Events!

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

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

(There will be Pizza!)

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

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

http://www.sarahkabot.com/

http://www.sculpturecenter.org/

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

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

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

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

http://www.fritzhaeg.com/

http://coventrycreations.blogspot.com

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

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

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