It his nice when you have a clean slate before you. It is why I just refreshed my website and got it all up to date any shiny! It was a good year of starting new projects and tweaking projects that I have started. It is a year where I am going to say NO! That is my New Years resolution! I will say it nicely, and may not have any other disclaimer to follow why I won’t be able to do what others think I should be doing. You might hear from me a, “thank you for asking, but I won’t be able to”.
I will take those yes-es and direct them to time in the studio. I am hoping to get some residency applications out and curate a show for the Mid-Atlantic Print Conference (with Arnie Tunstall). Other then that, this is the plan. I had two successful shows this year at HEDGE Gallery and MariaNeil Art Project-Beautiful Mess and Life Preservers. Some of this work is still available so you can contact the galleries. Yards Projects at Worthington Yards continues to put on some excellent exhibitions and grow their collection. Please contact me if you need work for your living or work space, or your building project. Art EverySpace is also working to get off the ground and we are excited about the prospects ahead.
Finally, I am working on a project that better explores ideas of how new audiences can be introduced to our arts and cultural spaces and places here in this region. If you’re new to Cleveland, or if you already live here, you might know the artistic community's most obvious key players, but the city keeps some of its best art and culture in unexpected, out-of-the-way places. So….We are creating the Cleveland Arts Dept. Grassroots marketing and art-Zines that covers it the ins and outs of being more comfortable connecting with art, music, dance, performance and writing. What you don’t know yet is Cleveland’s art world, is a sprawling, complicated universe unto itself, that, perhaps more than anything else, makes Cleveland what it is.
You might know we have a well-established local music scene and a top-ranked theater district — the biggest players in Cleveland’s artistic and cultural communities are easy to find — but stop there, and you’ll miss out on a trove of independent galleries, music venues away from the city’s core and a fall lineup of essential theater, writing/poetry scenes and art that resists easy categorization.
Cleveland has some of its best art and culture in unexpected, out-of-the-way places and so we are making this guide to the arts so you can be equipped when you head out on your own discoveries in Cleveland.