Sat 11/21 @ 5-9PM
Cleveland’s vibrant visual arts community is enhanced by extended visits from artists from around the world — one of the goals of the Cleveland Foundation’s Creative Fusion program. That program offers two-month residencies in the spring and again in the fall to artists to work through a local arts organization. Currently, you can see the work done at Zygote Press by Iranian artist Behrang Samadzadegan (pictured) and by Chilean artist Adolfo Bimer at the Cleveland Print Room. Chilean Nicolas Grum and his wife, choreographer Isabel Torres, collaborated with the Sculpture Center and Vietnamese Hung Nguyen Manh worked out of AsiaTown’s Negative Space Gallery.
The Cleveland Foundation and the four arts organization have joined to host a pop-up party called United Nonsense that celebrates the rich international fabric of the Cleveland art scene. Taking place on the 6th floor of the Artcraft Building, it will feature a one-night-only exhibit of work by the Creative Fusion artists as well as Cleveland artists Svenja Wichmann, Rebekah Wilhelm, Ronny Szillo, Heather Molecke, Tony Franz, Lucie Freynhagen, John W. Carlson, Ari Michael Warner and Cleveland State sculpture students.
“The exhibition stands as an opportunity to invite fellow colleagues from the local art scene with whom they had shared workspaces, art experiences, or got to know during their short three-months stay in the city,” say the organizers. “The exhibition will enhance the interaction between local and international contemporary art, in order to establish an overview on how art is been thought about among the exhibiting artists.”
There will be food, refreshments and music by DJ JP Sputnik because it’s not just an art show — it’s a party!
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