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

Visiting Artists: Jim Campbell and Jill Sigman

Tuesday, Nov. 16
CIA welcomes Visiting Artist
Jim Campbell

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


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

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



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


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

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

The State of Sculpture

Steve Litt's write up on the Conference

SculptureX website

The Sculpture Center - Cleveland

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jen Omaitz's website

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

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

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

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

Keynote speaker: Jeanne Silverthorne, noted artist and educator.

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


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

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


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


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

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

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

http://www.jimcampbell.tv/


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

Manjello, Manjello, Manjello

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.