Tue 5/30 @ 6:30-9PM
Since the early 1960s, the Cleveland Arts Prize has been making monetary awards to people and organizations in all areas of the arts and at all stages of their careers since the early 60s.
They’re in the middle of hosting a series of six monthly events called “Art Collection Tours of CLE: A Tuesday Night Series,” both a benefit for CAP and a chance to see some of the art collections owned by local institutions and organizations which can only have a tiny fraction of their collected work on view at any given time.
Each tour is by the collection’s curator, who’ll talk about its history, its holdings and more. And each tour will feature a work by an area artist who has won the Cleveland Arts Prize, who will join the group to talk about their work. Each will also include a post-tour reception with wine and light refreshments.
This Tuesday, May 30, the tour will visit the MetroHealth Glick Center Art Collection, led by Linda Jackson, the director of Arts in Health for the MetroHealth System. She’ll talk about and show selections from a collection of more than a thousand pieces, with almost 75% by local artists or artists with a local connection including painted murals, photography, printmaking, paintings, collage, mixed-media, 3D installations and more. There’s a piece of art in every patient room.
This week it will feature not one by THREE Cleveland Arts Prize winners: McKinley Wiley, its 2019 Verge Fellow, Barbara Stanczak on behalf of her late husband Julian Stanczak, one of the giants of the 60s op-art movement, and 2012 winner Liz Maugans, printmaker & mixed media artist, Zygote Press and CAN Journal co-founder, and catalyst for too many area arts project to list.
Go here for more information and tickets.