Fri 12/12 @ 5-8PM
For 65 years, the Cleveland Arts Prize has annually cited artists in different creative disciplines, and since the late 80s, arts patrons and supporters, who have contributed to making Cleveland known as a hub of creativity. Over the years, it’s expanded its work and its profile in the community, and now it’s added another event to make wider public more aware of what it does and who it honors.
The CAP Show, taking place at the gallery of the Bostwick Design Art Initiative, focuses on one of the categories it honors: visual arts. The show, curated by CAP trustees Michael Weil (owner of the photography-focused Foothill Gallery and H. Scott Westover (curator of the Progressive Insurance collection) showcases the work of 23 past winners for visual arts in a variety of mediums. They go as far back as 1969 and include two of this year’s winners.
The artists showcased include legendary industrial designer Viktor Schreckengost (1973) who died in 2008 at the age of 101; the Cleveland Museum of Art did a major retrospective of his work in 2000; Julian Stanczak (1969), one of the key figures in the 1960s Op Art movement; sculptor David E. Davis (1980) who founded the Sculpture Center and Artists Archives of the Western Reserve; and photographer Masumi Hayashi (1994) who created wide-angle collages that offered multi-angled takes on landscapes with significant backstories. Work by two of this year’s honorees, painter/sculptor Mark Howard and architectural photographer Jennie Jones, who both documented different aspects of Cleveland’s history and culture, will also be on view.
The show opens with a free public reception on Friday December 12 @ 5-pm. It will be on view through January 31, 2026. Get more information here.