Sat 3/7 @ 5-9PM
SHED Projects, which debuted in Cleveland in 2023, describes itself as “a non-profit organization that works to practice and nurture investigative activity at the intersection of art, family life and contemporary urban habitation. It’s a highly conceptual art project, based out of a house of Cleveland’s west side, although some of its activities expand out of that space.
It’s opening its 2026 with an ongoing project called My Father’s Smile by northeast Ohio artist Kim Bissett which she’s been working on for eight years. It includes a three-week exhibition at the SHED Projects House and “a site-responsive dance performance” at the artist’s Orange Dog Studio in western Pennsylvania. The show archives the artist’s Appalachian roots and her return to her father’s land. “The material moves between observation and meditation—recording memory, inheritance, and the slow labor of making meaning through place,” they tell us. “Rather than presenting a fixed narrative, the exhibition invites viewers into a sustained relationship with ancestry, stewardship, and the ongoing work of building—both familial and architectural.”
Bissett will host a conversation, described as an “unboxing,” on Thursday, March 19 @ 6pm at SHED Projects. The show will be on view through March 26. The dance performance Eighth Turn, performed by Malena Grigoli and Celia Romanoski, at the artist’s Pennsylvania studio, takes place on April 4.
Get more information here.
shed-projects.org/2026-program