3.24-26

3. 25

Akron Museum of Art, 1 S. High Street. Akron, 330.376.9185, www.akronartmuseum.org  “Animal As Muse.”  Through August 14^th.

Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Blvd, Cleveland, 216.421.7350, www.clevelandart.org  “The Flowering of the Botanical Print.”  Through July 3^rd.

3.10-12

3.10

Cleveland State University Art Gallery, 1307 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, 216.687.2103, www.csuohio.edu/artgallery  “Go Figure.  Empty Gestures.  And the Ornamental Impulse:  Form, Patter and Color.”  Conversation- 4 pm.  Opening-  5-8pm.  

Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, 1834 E. 123^rd St. Cleveland, 216.721.9020  “Reinvention.”  Opening 5:30-8pm

Akron Museum of Art, 1 S. High Street. Akron, 330.376.9185, www.akronartmuseum.org  Thu 3/10-Sun 8/14.  The Akron Art Museum is really getting into organizing shows around popular topics. Its exhibition Snack is currently on view, and now it’s being joined by Animals as a Muse, reflecting an even more popular subject.  Drawn from the museum’s own collection, the show will feature a variety of furry, feathered, swimming and crawling critters filtered through diverse artistic lenses, and demonstrating how animals inspire creativity. The show includes photographs, paintings, drawing and mixed media assemblages and will include hands-on, interactive elements. It will be on view through Sun 8/14.

3.10+11

Zygote Press, 1410 East 30^th St., Cleveland 216.621.2900  www.zygotepress.com  Thursday 3/10 @ 6PM.  Fri 3/11 @ 6-9PM

At its core, printmaking is the craft of disseminating fine art. And for decades, the Northeast Ohio scene was spotty at best. That is until the cooperative, fine art printmaking workshop Zygote Press started up in 1996.  Soon its organizers discovered what began as a zygote of an idea was warmly embraced by an arts community starving for a collective vision where artists were encouraged to produce fine art prints. Today, this nonprofit is an epicenter of creative expression for printmakers and artists in its E 30th St. location, as well as throughout Cleveland neighborhoods.  Zygote Press celebrates its 20^th anniversary with the “Lovin’ Spoonful” fundraiser taking place Thu 3/10 at Tastebuds Restaurant next door to its workshop, as well as with retrospective exhibition ReUNITE, which opens a day later and features artworks by Christi Birchfield, Reverend Albert Wagner, Laurence Channing and Audra Skoudas.  (Image Above)

3.11

Bay Arts, 28795 Lake Road, Bay Village  “Annual Juried Show.”  Opening 7-9pm.

   

Cleveland Print Room (in Artcraft Building), 2550 Superior Ave, Suite 102, Cleveland, 216.401.5981.  “In Search of Red and Other Stories:  From the Collection of Peter Cohen.”  

Tremont Art Walk.

3.12

Art House 3119 Denison Ave., Cleveland 216.398.8556, www.arthouseinc.org  “Art House's first annual chili cook-off.”  Opening 1-4pm.   The first 100 people will receive a bowl made by one of the artists including Chris Dodson, John Klassen, Kate McDermott, (Noc’s Own)John Miyazawa, Kabid Syed and Brinsley Tyrell. You get tastes of all 10 contenders and a bowl of your favorite. Tickets are $15 (12 & up) $5 for children. Call for tickets at:216-398-8556. All proceeds go to benefit Art House, Inc..

3.12 

Transformer Station 1460 W.29^th Street, Cleveland, www.transformerstation.org “Unfixed.”  Opening 2PM.  Unfixed, the current exhibit at the Transformer Station, celebrates every photographer’s and photo collector’s nightmare: the fading and disappearance of the photographic image. The show features works that are deliberately unstable, creating an object that changes over time, engaging ideas of the passage of time, mortality and memory. Some were made specifically for this show which runs through Sun 4/3.  Want to know more about what these images and objects are trying to convey? Dr. Kate Albers, an art professor at the University of Arizona, will give a lecture at the Transformer Station on “The Ephemeral Photograph: From Salt Prints to Snapchat.” It’s free.

3.12+18

Theresa Yondo Show Info:  Still Point Gallery and The h' ART of Chagrin.  On March 12 from 2-6 p.m. Still Point Gallery, LITTLE ITALY 2026 Murray Hill Road (The Schoolhouse Galleries) #108, will host a special event to celebrate Women's History Month and  On March 18 from 6-9 p.m. The h'ART of Chagrin, 100 North Main St.#220, will also host a special event to celebrate Woman's History Month.  Theresa will have additional work at both of these sites.  Theresa fortunately will be at NCECA (ceramic conference) but unfortunately will not be able to attend the March 18th event. 

Plan the year out at Ohio Ceramic Supply!  Here’s the upcoming workshop list!!!

Here’s the schedule for 2016:

·         April 2 (Cbus) April 3 (Kent)

o   Geno Luketic (Yellow Springs)  https://www.facebook.com/genoluketicceramics/

o   James Leslie (Akron) http://mynatureceramics.com/

·         May 20 (Cbus) May 21 (Kent)

o   Bonnie Cohen (Akron) http://bonniecohen.com/

·         July 30 (Cbus) July 31 (Kent)

o   Alex Kraft (Atlanta) http://www.alexkraftart.com/

·         October 15 (Cbus) 16 (Kent)

o   Matt Nolen (NYC) http://www.nolenstudios.com/

·         November 19 (Cbus) – Columbus only

o   Brenda Quinn http://www.brendaquinn.com/

3.4-6

3.4

Heights Art Gallery, 2175 Lee Road  Cleveland Hts., 216.371.3457 www.heightsarts.org  “At Table:  Cleveland Culinaria.”  Opening 6-9pm.  This is an exciting Event that has been in the works for months and months!  Our town KNOWS good food, thanks to the wealth of highly creative culinary artists who live in Northeast Ohio. On Friday, March 4, come see what happens when 27 visual artists partner up with some of Cleveland’s most creative culinary innovators to transform the Heights Arts gallery into five unique, themed installations that speak to the art of food through the materials we use to eat and drink.  Featuring the work of NOC’s own Lynne Lofton, Sandy miller, Eva Kwong, Lauren Herzak-Bauman, Andrea LeBlond, Bill brouillard, Susan Gallagher, Sharon Grossman and Judith Salomon! (Image Above)

The Nicholson B. White Gallery at St. Paul’s Church, 2747 Fairmount Blvd., Cleveland Heights.  “Shaping Color:  Paper and Clay.”  Opening 5-7pm.  Featuring NOC’s own Andrea LeBlond!  

Brick Ceramic + Design, 420 East 161^st. Street Cleve. www.brickceramics.com “Brick Gallery Grand Opening!”  6:45-10pm.  Join us for the grand opening of our new gallery space! The work featured is a display of all the projects BRICK has been working on as well as samples of our glazes. Coinciding with this event is the Grand Opening of Six Shooter Coffee Located in the same building as our gallery and using the cups we made in our studio! Come out at 6:45pm for the big reveal! 

Also going on this evening if you are in the neighborhood is Walk All Over Waterloo!

Maria Neil Art Project, 15813 Waterloo Rd. Cleveland, www.marianeilartproject.org, 216.481.7722  “Darius Steward-Pressure.”  Opening 5-10pm. Cleveland’s Darius Steward is just starting to catch the eye of Cleveland art lovers. He got his undergraduate degree at the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2008, then spent two years getting his MFA at the University of Delaware before coming back here. 

Bonfoey Gallery, 1710 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, 216.621.0178, www.bonfoey.com  “CAN Journal Spring Launch Party.”  Opening 5-8pm. That same night, Bonfoey will be having an opening reception for their new exhibition Gleanings, featuring works by Ron Barron. Some of us look around and bemoan the litter that despoils our streets, gutters, roadsides and parks. Artist Ron Barron looks around and sees the elements for creativity. He began colleting trash from the streets of New York in 2010 and arranging it on a scanner bed to produce his abstract compositions. He followed that up with a similar transformation of junk scooped up from Long Island and Lake Erie.

3.6

Lakeland Community College 7700 Clocktower Drive, Kirtland, OH 44094, 440.525.7029    “From Woman IX.”  Opening Sunday  3:30-5pm.  34 local and regional women artists from Northeast and Central Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania will exhibit 148 works created in a variety of media.  Featuring the work of NOC’s own Theresa Yondo!

3.2

3.2

Tri-C Gallery West, 2^nd Floor Campus Library, 11000 Pleasant Valley Road, Parma, 216.987.5322, www.tri-c.edu "Women's Work."  opening Reception 5-7pm.  Featuring the work of NOC's own Lauren Herzak-Bauman along with Mel Rea, Barbara Chira, Mindy Tousley, Anne Kibbe, and Yuko Kimura.

2.19-20

2.19

Hedge Gallery 1300 W.78^th Street, Cleveland  “Thread.”  Opening 5-9pm.  

Also Opening at 78^th Street Studios is “Mark Gaingaspero:  Large Figurative Works at Tregoning and CO. 

2.20

River Gallery,19046 Old Detroit Road, Rocky River 44116 440 331-8406, www.rivergalleryarts.com  “11^th Annual Ceramics Invitational.”  Opening Reception 3-7pm.  Featuring the work of Many NOC Members (of course!...duh!)

2.14

2.14

Sandusky Cultural Center, 2130 Hayes Avenue at Perkins Sandusky, OH 44870 419.625.1188  www.sanduskyculturalcenter.org  “Broad Spectrum.”  opening 1-4pm.  Featuring the work of NOC members Stephanie Craig and Mark Yasenchack along with Marsha Carrington, Justin Delli BOvi, Eileen Dorsey, Josh Haplea, Nina Huryn, George Kocar, Matt Kokoski, Mike Mikula, Seungbo Roh, Christine Wegland and Steve Ziebarth.

2.4 + 5

2.4

Akron Museum of Art, 1 S. High Street. Akron, 330.376.9185, www.akronartmuseum.org “Andrea Modica: Extended Moments.”   6:30 PM The Akron Art Museum’s Knight Purchase Prize was established 25 years ago to acquire a body of work by a significant photographer. In that time, it has honored a diverse range of photographers from photojournalists to cutting-edge experimentalists.  The 2015 winner was Philadelphia-based Andrea Modica , whose work revolves around high-degree-of-difficulty processes that are becoming increasing valued in the era of digital ease and profligacy. She shoots with an 8 x 10 view camera and makes her prints using the platinum palladium contact printing process, which makes creating her photos time-consuming. That increases her engagement with her subject matter, which includes landscapes, teenage best friends and rural families.  Her work is on display now at the Akron Art Museum in Andrea Modica: Extended Moments. And she’ll be at the museum to present the Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Lecture to talk about her work. It’s free and open to the public.

2.5

Waterloo Arts, 15605 Waterloo Rd., Cleveland, 216.692.9500 artscollinwood.org  “Walk all Over Waterloo.”  Including Fandom 216.

Bay Arts, 28795 Lake Road, Bay Village, OH “Destruction of Form + Timothy Joyce: Facing Forward.”  Opening 7-9PM.  Last fall, painter John Carlson and photographer and Cleveland Print Room director Shari Wilkins put together a show called Destruction of Form which showed at the Cleveland Print Room. In it, each artist used vernacular or found photos — a passion of Shari’s — as the basis for the work they created. Carlson’s paintings riffed on the photos while Wilkins used the photos as her basic material.

Studio Space Available!

Would you like to rent space in the Historic Hildebrandt Building?  If so please contact Bette Drake at betteclev@aol.com   The space is 15 x 20 feet and rent is $200.  There is kiln access.  

Upcoming NOC Events!

April 7^th at 7 pm.  2^nd NOC Potcha Kucha.  Please contact Todd at Todd@toddleech.com if you would like to present.  Event will be held at The Screw Factory.

April 24^th 2-5 pm.  Dick Lehman Workshop “Altering on the Wheel.”  The workshop will be held at AK Studios.