The Cleveland Photo Fest, which launched in 2019, is returning to its original September slot for fourth iteration. (It skipped 2020, took place in the spring of 2021 and moved to December last year.) Once again, it will take place primarily at the Bostwick Design Art Initiative on Prospect Avenue near downtown.
As in previous years, the fest will feature several different exhibits, including one in which the public can participate, and a series of special events. It opens on Friday September 1 with a gallery hours from 3-9pm, an artist talk, live music, food and drink, and runs through September 30, with a closing reception on Friday September 29.
This year’s CPF will feature the Cleveland Open Photo Show, which it’s billing as the largest public photography exhibit ever held in Cleveland. Anyone can take part. All you have to do is come down to the gallery on August 26 and 27 @ 10am-5pm, with your submission, framed or unframed, any size within reason, and $10. You can bring more, you pay $10 for each photo submitted. All family-friendly photos will be displayed.
The festival will also feature an array of other exhibits, including the second annual volunteer appreciation show, featuring work by CPF volunteers; See and Be Seen by Suber Huang, Founding Curator of the American Society of Retina Specialists Retina Image Bank; Diary of a Congolese Asylum Seeker and His Family by Joan Lederer; five large-format photos titled The West…Pinhole Color Landscapes by Jon Passow; Jimena Horta’s Adentro (Inside)…Self Portraits; and a project featuring veteran jazz photographer (and CPF volunteer) Randy Norfus’s Newton T. Baker Middle School students photos of the upcoming Tri-C Jazz Festival.
For more information about the shows and updates on programming, go to clevelandphotofest.
Cleveland, OH 44115