Brews + Prose at Market Garden Brewery 4.5, 7PM

Every April Brews + Prose celebrate National Poetry Month by welcoming two native Clevelanders whose poems have won them national attention and acclaim. Join us 7PM on Tuesday, April 5, when we welcome the first Poet Laureate of the State of Ohio, Amit Majmudar, and Cleveland School of the Arts junior De'John Hardges, one of five teens selected for the 2015 National Student Poets Program.

As always, those of you who would like to eat before the event should make reservations or arrive early--we'll be setting up shop in the Ohio City Room at Market Garden Brewery. Keep in mind that Amit's books will be for sale at the event courtesy of Mac's Backs. Meanwhile, we continue to offer what we think is the best literary deal in town: buy a book and get a free beer.

Brews + Prose at Market Garden Brewery

1947 West 25th Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44113

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From the Ground Up: Surface and Dimension 4.1

The Morgan Conservatory kicks off its 2016 gallery season with their fourth annual juried exhibition! From the Ground Up: Surface and Dimension features 60 works on paper from local artists. The opening reception will take place on Friday, April 1st from 6:30–8:30PM and the work will remain on view through May 7th.

Morgan Conservatory
1754 East 47th Street 

Cleveland, OH 44103

Parking: The main entrance parking lot is located on East 47th. Special event parking is available via our East 45th entrance.

CMA MIX: Pharaoh 4.1, 5–10PM

Explore the blockbuster exhibition, "Pharaoh: King of Ancient Egypt," and uncover the stories behind ancient Egypt’s legendary rulers through stunning objects from the vast Egyptian holdings of the British Museum. Plus, enjoy a pop-up restaurant by Provenance in the atrium with Egyptian-inspired cuisine. Ticket includes admission to the exhibition. Exhibition space is limited, please arrive early to see Pharaoh: King of Ancient Egypt.

Advance ticket purchase is strongly recommended. Tickets $15; CMA members FREE

Join us on the first Friday evening of each month for an ever-changing mix of art, music, and mingling. MIX is an 18-and-over event.

MIX: Pharaoh
Friday, April 1, 2016
5–10PM
cma.org/mix

CAN Journal Drawn & Quartered article is out

The Drawn & Quartered article for CAN Journal written by Northern Ohio Illustrators Society member Karen Sandstrom is out. Hilary D. Gent, Deb Steytler, Jack Flotte, Ron Hill and I are mentioned and photos of Milan Kecman, Ashley Ribblett and Clare Kolat are featured. The event is Saturday, April 23rd and The Murray Hill Life Drawing Group are the defending champs!!

Nature’s Bin “Cash Mob”, Fri 3.18–Mon 3.21

Nature’s Bin has served the Lakewood community for four decades as a source of fresh, healthy, organic foods, long before that became trendy. It’s also served the disabilities community with a mission to give people with both physical and mental disabilities training and skills marketable job skills.

But recently the area has been flooded with stores with similar offerings, often in fancier settings, and Nature’s Bin, despite its local base, its history and its mission, has faced stiff competition.

Because of that, patron Dana Aritonovich has organized a “Cash Mob” for this weekend, through Monday, an informal shopping event organized online in which participants agree to spend at least $20 at a specific establishment. More than 800 people have already committed on her Facebook event page to show up in the next four days. The store is open Monday through Saturday @ 9AM–9PM and Sunday 9AM–7PM. At 4PM Friday, the staff will thank Aritonovich and recognize some special guests. Tell the cashier you are there for the Cash Mob event and you’ll get a coupon good for 10% off your next visit.

“I support local businesses like Nature’s Bin because they are a great example of what a company can do for its community and employees,” says Aritonovich.

AAWR Lecture: Copyright Law 3.19, 1–3PM

Artists are increasingly finding themselves navigating through the complex issue of copyrights. The internet has become a useful tool for artists to market themselves and share information with the world. As images become more easily accessible, artists must have a clear understanding of their own intellectual property rights as well as when it is legally permissible to use the images made by others freely.

Michael Vary practices Intellectual Property Law with McCarthy Lebit Crystal & Liffman, was a partner at Jones Day, and has lectured and taught intellectual property law as an adjunct professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. He will give you a better understanding of Intellectual Property laws as he discusses copyrights and trademarks and will field any questions.

This presentation is free and open to the public, but please register by "purchasing" your free tickets at http://www.artistsarchives.org/

Saturday, March 19, 2016, 1–3PM
Artists Archives of the Western Reserve
1834 East 123rd Street, Cleveland, OH 44106

Bedford Plein Air Art Fest and Classic Car Show 7.16

On July 16 the City of Bedford is sponsoring a special event, the Plein Air Art Festival and Classic Car Show—sponsored by the City of Bedford and Ohio Plein Air Society, the Rotary Club of Bedford and Old Time Auto—to be held on the Commons from 11AM to 7PM. 

You are invited to join with the artists from the Ohio Plein Air Society to gather on the Commons to paint (as you know, Plein Air means painting outdoors.) Their subject matter will be the historic buildings, monuments, gardens, or depot on the Commons. Some may even choose to go the Viaduct Park and paint the water falls. All of this will take place between 11AM to 3PM  From 3PM to 7PM there will be a live band, food vendors, beer and wine tasting, classic cars on display and the judging of the art. First, second, and third prizes ($300, $200, $100) will be awarded to the artist with the most outstanding work. In addition, there will be a “wet paint” sale. Artists will have an opportunity to sell the work they just painted or previous work that they have.

Artists will bring their own easels, paint and canvas and umbrella if needed. Each can choose their own “painting spot”. There is no registration fee in order to participate. This should be a lot of fun. People love to watch an artist at work. You do not need to be a member of the Plein Air Society. Respond to Joyce Daunch at joyarts36@gmail.com.

'Reinvention' at Artists Archives 3.10

Please join the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve for the opening of 'Reinvention' this Thursday from 5:30 – 8PM. This unique show features artists who had to reinvent themselves due to complications from an injury or aging. 

The Artists Archives of the Western Reserve is located in the Davis Sculpture Center at 1834 East 123rd Street Cleveland, OH 44106, adjacent to the Euclid Avenue entrance of Lakeview Cemetery. We hope to see you at the show.

Lake Erie Folk Fest 2.27

An afternoon of FREE workshops, demonstrations, and kids' activities including dancing, jam sessions, poetry, instrument exploration, and music documentary screenings followed by an evening concert ($10 admission), the Lake Erie Folk Fest has something for every interest and experience level,

from fan to musician. Visit lakeeriefolkfest.com for more info.

February 27, 2016
Saturday 1PM

Shore Cultural Centre

291 E. 222nd Street
Euclid, Ohio 44123
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Brite Winter Fest on West Bank Flats 2.20

BUST a move with DJ Funk Shway and Secret Soul Club at the Tri-C Presents Tri-C JazzFest Art Tent, Forest Funkadelic! It's about to get groovy at Brite16.

Join us for #Brite16 on February 20, 2016 from 3PM until 2AM on the West Bank of the Flats. We do know that... It will be cold... there might be snow... it might be a blizzard, but it doesn’t really matter. This is Cleveland, and we’re going outside to play.

78th St. Studios Third Friday Art Walk 2.19 5–9PM

Gallery +, HEDGE Gallery and the Eileen Dorsey Studios are highlights of the next Third Friday event at 78th Street Studios.

Gallery+ is pleased to present the Pop/Expressionist art explorations of Hard-Line Fe-Line by Cleveland native Laura Dumm.

Opening this Friday, HEDGE Gallery presents Threaded, featuring recent textile-based work by Libby Chaney, Rebecca Cross and Jessica Pinsky. HEDGE's walls will be filled with prints, large-scale weavings and collages, showcasing the relationship between the artists and their fabric mediums.

Eileen Dorsey has produced a new series of dynamic landscape paintings inspired by a 10-day visit to Ireland last May with her sister and mother. Welcome Home showcases Dorsey's mastery of impasto landscape painting.

78th Street Studios is the largest art and design complex in Northeast Ohio, filled with over 40 retail galleries, artist studios, design showrooms, and other creative spaces under one roof. Every third Friday the 78th Street Studio tenants open their doors to the public for a free art walk from 5–9PM.

78thstreetstudios.com
1305 W. 80th Street
Cleveland, Ohio 44102
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PechaKucha Night Cleveland at the Music Box Supper Club 2.18

The next PechaKucha Night Cleveland lineup of speakers will take place at the Music Box Supper Club Thursday, Feb. 18th. Look forward to an AWESOME night that will broaden your horizons!

Music Box Supper Club
1148 Main Ave
Cleveland, Ohio
216.242.1250

MIX: Mask @CMA 2.5, 5—9PM

Celebrate Mardi Gras and Carnival at MIX: Mask! Check out masks from around the world in the galleries with performances by students from the Cleveland Humanities Collaborative, go hands-on with a mask-themed Art Cart, and unleash your creative side when you make your own Mardi Gras-style mask. Plus, check out the special exhibitions "Silent Poetry: Masterworks of Chinese Painting" and "Imagining the Garden."

MUSIC: DJ Dongo 5:00–9:00 p.m., atrium. New Orleans jazz to Brazilian carnival rhythms.

TOURS: We Wear the Mask 6:15 & 7:45PM. Inspired by works of art from the CMA collections, students (Aaron Perine, Amber Love, and Gabrielle Sudik) share their reflections on the masks we wear in our lives. Join the tour to hear their poems, stories, and presentations. Presented in collaboration with the Cleveland Humanities Collaborative's Voices from the Village. Tours meet at the top of the east escalator.

ART ACTIVITIES: Make It! Masks! 5–9PM., atrium. The tradition of Mardi Gras masks began when revelers sought ways to hide their identities, so people from all walks of life could celebrate together. Join the festivities by making your own Mardi Gras-inspired mask.

ART CART: Masks: Around the World 5–7PM, atrium. Experience hands-on art with the Art Cart, with the chance to handle real works of art from the education art collection. Check out African, Japanese, and Native American masks.

Advance tickets $8; $10 day of event. CMA members FREE. Reservations recommended. Cash bar. Food available for purchase in the museum’s restaurant and café. Join CMA on the first Friday evening of each month for an ever-changing mix of art, music, and mingling. MIX is an 18-and-over event.

Brews + Prose at Market Garden Brewery 2.2, 7PM

Celebrate Groundhog Day with Brews + Prose Tuesday, February 2, at 7PM, when they welcome Mark Winegardner and Michael Garriga. More about the authors below. As always, if you plan to dine there, they suggest that you make a reservation or arrive early.

A native of the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, Michael Garriga comes from a long line of notable Creole outlaws and storytellers. His work has been published in The Southern Review, Esquire, Oxford American, and numerous other journals. His collection of flash fiction, The Book of Duels, was published by Milkweed Editions in 2014. He's co-editor of the online journal, FictionSoutheast.org.

Mark Winegardner’s books include the novels The Veracruz Blues, Crooked River Burning, The Godfather Returns, and The Godfather’s Revenge, the story collection That’s True of Everybody and the textbook 3x33. He is now working on a novel called Red-Blooded American Smut. A Senior Writer for The Oxford American and a frequent contributor to ESPN The Magazine, Winegardner’s work has also appeared in Details, Five Points, GQ, The New York Times Magazine, Playboy, Ploughshares, and many others. Winegardner has taught at George Washington University and John Carroll University and is currently the Burroway Chair of English & Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University.

Brews + Prose at Market Garden Brewery

1947 West 25th Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44113

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Stranger @ MOCA 1.29 – 5.8, 2016

Across this range of genres and forms, the artists in Stranger consider how we perceive, construct, and understand individual experience through the concepts of “body” and “presence.” They demonstrate the figure’s continued relevance, exploring it as a forceful, unsettled, and inescapable vessel for consciousness.

Huma Bhabha, Valérie Blass, Sascha Braunig, Antoine Catala, Ian Cheng, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Cécile B. Evans, Andro Wekua, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

'Insider Trading' @ Pretension Gallery 1.23 6PM

The fourth version of Pretension Gallery’s Insider Trading series takes place from 6PM–2AM Sat., Jan. 23rd, in Slavic Village. This year’s event will be held in a vacant storefront, converted into a pop-up art gallery for this one-night-only, special event.

This year, more than 40 artists will swap work during this one night only event. None of the works on the walls are for sale. Instead, the artists each draw a name of another artist and everyone leaves with a different piece than they came with. If an artist draws their own name, they get to “steal” any piece in the show. It’s the art community’s version of White Elephant.

The event includes a raffle for the general public, refreshments and live music from DJs Geronamo, Krash Helmut and Matt Casio and performances by Conner Joseph McCready and Nick Brilla.

It's Elemental: Earth & Air @ Valley Art Center 1.22

Valley Art Center's It's Elemental: Earth & Air
Opening Reception is Friday, January 22nd from 6–8PM.

Over 67 works were accepted from 46 artists. Come join Valley Art Center to experience the mood evoked from the artist's perceptions of earth and air. Hope to see you there!

155 Bell Street 

Chagrin Falls, OH
valleyartcenter.org

AAWR Annual Member’s Show 1.15 5:30–8PM

This Friday night is the AAWR Annual Member’s Show. FREE and open to the public,   this year’s show was juried by Anna Arnold, Gallery Director of Wasmer Gallery at Ursuline College. Forty-nine pieces were chosen from one hundred thirty one submitted by members and archived artists. 

Ms. Arnold states, “I am excited after looking at all of the work submitted to the Annual Members Show, which reflects the creative energy, extraordinary skill and ingenuity of Cleveland area artists.The overall quality of the work was high. I was most attracted to submissions that had mastery of a chosen medium, a vitality, a unique style or vision.”

Light refreshments will be served at the opening this Friday Jan. 15th from 5:30 – 8PM. The Artists Archives of the Western Reserve is located on the edge of University Circle at 1834 E. 123rd Street Cleveland, OH 44106, next to the David Davis Sculpture Center.

Pop Goes Cleveland @Third Fridays 1.15

Popeye Gallery's first exhibition of 2016 is their largest group show to date. Pop Goes Cleveland features emerging and established local artists who share a distinctly illustrative sensibility inspired early by comics and cartoons. In addition to professional comic artists and illustrators, Pop Goes Cleveland includes projected animations and large, free-standing sculptural work, as well as acrylic and oil paintings and more.

Celebrate these tremendously talented artists and their work during Third Friday festivities at 78th Street Studios, from 5 to 9PM this Friday, Jan. 15th.

The exhibition remains on view for next month’s Third Friday Closing Reception on Friday, February 19th from 5 to 9 p.m. (Live music presented by Brian Straw at 9 p.m.) Additional viewing hours are available by appointment.

Fandom216: the Art of Sports Kick-off 1.10 1-4PM

Fandom216: the Art of Sports in NEOhio is a series of art exhibits held at Zygote Press, Waterloo Arts and Hedge Gallery from January 10 through February 20. This exhibition will explore our area’s relationship to sports through art, whether it offers critique or honorific exaltation, or something in between. We hope that you will find it engaging as both makers and viewers.

The opening tailgate launch party for Fandom216 at Waterloo Arts will include food, drinks, art, polka by Malphonia, spoken word by youth poet athletes from America Scores, and a live appearence by the Cleveland Browns biggest fan, the Bone Lady! Instead of viewing a game on the big screen we will be viewing an art exhibit dedicated to Cleveland's sports past and present.