CIFF 41 Screening 3.30 9:30PM

The Artists Archives is honored to once again support the Cleveland International Film Festival by becoming Community Partners for 2017. This year's film, chosen by the Artists Archives, is 24x36: A Movie About Movie Posters directed by Kevin Burke. The film will be played Thursday, March 30th (9:30pm) at the Cinematheque as well as Friday, April 7th (9:50pm) and Sunday, April 9th (4:45pm) at Tower City Cinemas.

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SPACES Monster Drawing Rally 4.22 6–10PM

Heights Arts' Public Conscience Event 3.30 7PM

Laura and Gary Dumm, “Old King Coal,” acrylic on canvas

“Public Conscience” a showcase of Northeast Ohio illustrators and graphic designers currently on display at Heights Arts. Because designers and illustrators’ work appears in books or other commercial materials—not galleries or museums—they can become isolated from “the art world” after getting their degrees. As curator Dave King noted in promotional materials for the exhibit, “People see the work of illustrators and graphic artists in print form but they don’t see the original work.  Because of this disconnect, [i]llustrators and graphic designers are frequently not viewed as artists.” Heights Arts wishes to promote their art as art.

“Public Conscience” is stronger as a display of designers and illustrators’ talents than it is an anthology of social criticism. This is simply because not every contributed artwork is political. Some are avowedly apolitical. This doesn’t mean these work aren’t engaging; they very often are.

“Public Conscience” runs through April 16 at Heights Arts. The gallery is located at 2175 Lee Road in Cleveland Heights. On Thursday March 30, at 7PM several artists will give talks at “Ekphrastacy.” The event will also include readings of original poems by area wordsmiths Jeffrey Bowen, Clarissa Jakobsons, Chuck Joy, and Emily Troia. For more information, please call 216-371-3457 or go to heightsarts.org.

American Fiber: Friday, March 31, 6 – 9PM

The Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory and Educational Foundation is proud to present American Fiber, their fifth annual and first national juried exhibition. After many years of hosting regional juried exhibitions, and after many years of requests, submissions from all artists living in the United States for this year's exhibition were accepted.

The show features works in sculpture, printmaking, photography and painting that are unified by their use of paper as an artistic medium. This year, 205 artworks from 110 artists living in 18 states were received with 50 artworks from 46 artists being selected.

The aim of exhibition is to showcase the versatility of paper as an artistic medium and to bring together striking and evocative work by leaders in this art form.  You're invited to help kick off the 2017 gallery season at the opening reception for American Fiber: Friday, March 31, 6 – 9PM. 

1754 E. 47th Street
Cleveland, OH 44103
Free, Secure Reception Parking: via East 45th Street 'Garden' entrance(one way running South between Payne & Commerce) 

Re-Configured Artist Reception 2.16, 5–7PM

Please join the members of the Murray Hill Life Drawing Group as they showcase pieces created in—or inspired by—their work in weekly drawing sessions. There is a variety of media and styles displayed.

Brews + Prose at Market Garden 2.7, 7PM

Tuesday, February 7, at 7PM Brews + Prose partners with the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts (NEOMFA) program to present Amy Gustine, author of the "devastating, funny, and astonishingly frank" (Karen Russell) short story collection, You Should Pity Us Instead. Joining Amy are Brandon North and Rebecca Spagnuolo, two talented and promising graduate student writers from the NEOMFA program. More about all of our authors below.

Amy Gustine is the author of the widely praised story collection You Should Pity Us Instead, which received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, Kirkus and Booklist. The New York Times Book Review called her collection an "affecting and wide-ranging debut” and the book appeared on many “best of” lists, including the San Francisco Chronicle’s “Best of 2016: 100 Recommended Books.” Her work received special mention in the Pushcart Prize anthology and she was awarded an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for 2016. Gustine is from Toledo, Ohio.

Brandon North is a poetry candidate in the NEOMFA program, through which he works for the Cleveland State Poetry Center. A native of Dayton, Ohio, he also has roots in the Cumberland Gap area, where both of his grandfathers were coal miners and even worked together for a time. His work has recently appeared in decomP and the UnLost Journal, and he is currently working on poems that leave holes for many types of people to mine.

Rebecca Spagnuolo is a fiction student at the NEOMFA.

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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Scott Pickering / Derek Hess @ Third Fridays 2.17

A Scott Pickering / Derek Hess collaboration piece featured in their collaborative show Friday, February 17th at the Derek Hess Gallery.

The Third Friday art walk at the 78th Street Studios is the largest art and design complex in Northeast Ohio, filled with over 60 retail galleries, artist studios, design showrooms, and other creative spaces all under one roof. Every third Friday of the month the 78th Street Studio tenants open their doors to the public for a free art walk from 5–9PM.

Day-Glo Show, Walk All Over Waterloo 1.6 5–10PM

Douglas Max Utter "Day-Glo Sunbather" (2016) 20" x 24"

Mark your calendars, invite your friends and family, and light up the new year with a night out at the black light opening of this year's DayGlo Show. Everyone will enjoy seeing what over 40 regional artists have done with the fascinating medium of fluorescent paint. It's the most unique gallery exhibit you will visit all year! The show opens during the Waterloo Arts District's monthly Walk All Over Waterloo so there will be plenty to do and see in the other galleries, shops and bars up and down Waterloo. DayGlo Color Corp has generously donated the paint for this exhibit.

Brews + Prose at Market Garden 1.3, 7PM

Tuesday, January 3, at 7PM Brews + Prose will feature Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist and CWRU professor Jim Sheeler and Brad Ricca, debuting his new book, Mrs. Sherlock Holmes, an account of "New York City's greatest female detective and the 1917 missing girl case that captivated a nation."

Brad Ricca is the author of Mrs. Sherlock Holmes, which won the Ohioana Book Award for Nonfiction and was named a Top 10 Book on the Arts by Booklist. His book of poetry, American Mastodon won the St. Lawrence Book Award. He is a 2014 winner of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Emerging Artist in Literature and is a SAGES Fellow at Case Western Reserve University.

Jim Sheeler is the Shirley Wormser Professor of Journalism and Media Writing at Case Western Reserve University. He won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for his story Final Salute and has won numerous other local and national writing awards. Born in Houston, Texas, Sheeler graduated with a degree in journalism from Colorado State University in 1990 and earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Colorado in 2007. His book of collected obituaries, Obit: Inspirational Stories of Everyday People Who Led Extraordinary Lives, was published in June 2007.

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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CMA MIX: 101 1.6.17 6 –10PM

MIX: 101 Fri/Jan 6, 2017, 6:00–10:00.

Join the museum as they start our new century by going back to the basics. Get an insider’s view of the galleries, see demos of artistic techniques, and dance the night away in the atrium. Check out the great pastel show, too!

$10/$15 at the door. CMA members free

Barbara Gillette Closing Reception 2.22, 6–8PM

Barbara Gillette, Approaching Storm, Pastel.

Artists Archives of the Western Reserve Archived Artist Barbara Gillette's exhibition Barbara Gillette Landscapes: Pastel Drawings is now on view at the Western Reserve Land Conservancy. Closing Reception will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 22nd, 6–8PM.

Marti Higgins' Exhibition Now Thru 1.6.17

Marti Higgins, Before the Fall, Acrylic on Canvas.

Artist's Archives Member Artist Marti Higgins' exhibition A Walk in the Woods is now on view at the Orange Village Town Hall from 8:30AM – 4:30PM Monday – Friday until January 6, 2017. 

Third Friday Holiday Art Walk 12.16

The Third Friday art walk at the 78th Street Studios is the largest art and design complex in Northeast Ohio, filled with over 60 retail galleries, artist studios, design showrooms, and other creative spaces all under one roof. Every third Friday of the month the 78th Street Studio tenants open their doors to the public for a free art walk from 5–9PM. Make sure to stop by the Eileen Dorsey Studio in Suite 105, too.

Third Friday Holiday Art Walk

Friday, December 16th
5–9PM

Cleveland Bazaar @78th St Studios 12.10–12.11

The largest Indie Craft Show in Northeast Ohio will take place this weekend at the 78th Street Studios. This event is a holiday highlight. 

Bruno Casiano Gallery presents B R U N O 12.14

Bruno Casiano Gallery presents B R U N O
Closing Reception December 16th, 2016
From 6 – 10PM

Bruno Casiano Gallery
5304 Detroit Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44102
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Visit Verne Gallery During Holidays

Dragon Pearl by Daniel Kelly

Be sure to visit the Verne Gallery in Little Italy during the holidays. And don't forget to look at their recent acquisitions at vernegallery.com/recent

Verne Gallery
2207 Murray Hill Road

Cleveland, Ohio 44106

University Circle Holiday CircleFest 12.4

Holiday CircleFest Sunday Dec. 4th. The official kick off to the holiday season in University Circle, the annual Holiday CircleFest begins at 1PM with more than a dozen of the area’s renowned museums, galleries, churches and schools opening their doors FREE OF CHARGE, and featuring live musical performances, craft making, historic displays of holiday toys, storytelling, live animals, the city’s best gingerbread house competition, and much more. Wade Oval becomes Cleveland’s “Central Park” with ice carving demonstrations, horse drawn carriage rides, and The Rink at Wade Oval (open Noon-7PM.; weather permitting). At night, the spectacle culminates with The Cleveland Museum of Art’s Winter Lantern Procession, starting at 5:30PM. Look for shuttles, trolleys and buses for free transport between Little Italy, Uptown/Euclid Avenue and Wade Oval. Details on the day’s events at universitycircle.org.

Brews + Prose at Market Garden 12.6, 7PM

Tuesday, December 6, at 7PM, Brews + Prose welcomes poet and essayist Mary Quade, whose new book, Local Extinctions, is recently out from Gold Wake Press. Joining Mary are two outstanding graduate student writers from the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts (NEOMFA) program, Ali McClain and Dan Dorman.

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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GENGHIS CON 2016 11.27, 2–7PM

GENGHIS CON 2016 is THIS Sunday, November 27th from 2–7PM at The Lake Erie Building (13000 Athens, Lakewood, Ohio 44107), admission is FREE and open to the public. The regionally focused convention is celebrating its eighth year in a row bringing together the prolific community of cartoonists, comics makers, illustrators, printmakers, authors and zinesters that call the Rust Belt (and Beyond) home. From Detroit to Pittsburgh to Columbus, Cleveland is uniquely situated at the center of a cultural DIY Punk Triangle and the perfect place to hold such an event.

What started small, as a haphazard, informal gathering of less than 40 exhibitors in 2009 on the floorspace at The Beachland Ballroom has grown to one of the most anticipated events of the year in the hangar-like event space of The Lake Erie Building with attendance nearly doubling each year since the move in 2014. Genghis Con was recognized in Cleveland Magazine’s “Best of Cleveland” issue in 2015 as Best Comic Book Convention. It truly is the convergence and celebration of the best of regional small press, independent comics and zines. This year’s show promises to be another stellar year!

Genghis Con is the best opportunity for fans of small press and independent comics, artwork, zines and literature to find those hidden gems being cultivated right here in the region. Attendees can expect to see, and visit with, long-standing Genghis Con regulars like Derf, Gary and Laura Dumm, John G and Jake Kelly, as well as Genghis Con first timers like Noah Van Sciver, whose work has been published by Fantagraphics as well as Ivan Brandon, most recently the writer of Image Comics’ Drifter.

The night before Genghis Con, the traditional Kick-Off Party at Mahall’s 20 Lanes at 13200 Madison in Lakewood. There will be art supplies provided by BLICK Art Supplies for a Drink-N-Draw in the bar, while live panel discussions with a variety of Genghis Con exhibitors happens in the show room. A performance by a gleam of music from the new comic REACH, debuting at Genghis Con will cap off the night.

The show is free, family friendly, and open to the public. Barrio taco truck will be back again this year for delicious snacks. The Lake Erie Building is at the corner of Athens and Halstead in Lakewood, just south of Madison Park.
GenghisConCleveland.com
Lake Erie Building
Lakewood, Ohio 44107

'Spirited Away’ Two-Day Event 12.4 & 12.5

In the fifteen years since its initial release, Hayao Miyazaki’s animated film “Spirited Away,” about a 10-year-old girl who enters a mysterious spirit world to free herself and her parents, has been cemented as a modern classic. Universally acclaimed upon release, it became the most successful film in Japanese history and won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. This past August, the film was voted as the fourth best film of the 21st century so far by over 177 film critics from around the world.‘

Now, in honor of its 15th anniversary, “Spirited Away” will return to over 400 theaters nationwide for a two-night event this December, courtesy of GKIDS and Fathom Events. On Sunday, December 4th, the film will screen at 12PM. dubbed in English, while on Monday, December 5th, it will screen at 7PM. with English-language subtitles. “Spirited Away” will also screen with an exclusive Studio Ghibli short film “Ghiblies: Episode 2,” a unique 25-minute short featuring several comedic vignettes and caricatures of Studio Ghibli staff as they go about their day. The film has never been released in North America and will make its theatrical premiere at this special screening event.

For more information on tickets and theater locations, visit Fathom Events.