Fri 11/11 @ 5:30-8pm
Twenty years ago a group of significant local artists got together to answer the question, “What happens to work after we’re gone?” Founder David E. Davis, who had founded its next-door neighbor the Sculpture Center seven years earlier, brought together a group of eight northeast Ohio artists to create the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, which opened in 1999.
Davis died in 2002 at the age of 82; two of the original eight have also passed — Phyllis Sloane in 2009 at the age of 87 and Randall Tiedman (whose work is pictured) in 2012 at 63. But their work is preserved for successive generations.
Davis’, Sloane’s and Tiedman’s work, along with that of the other founders — Shirley Campbell Aley, David A. Haberman, William Martin Jean, Robert Jergens, Patricia Zinmeister Parker, and Phyllis Seltzer — will be on view at the 20th Anniversary Founder’s Exhibition opening at the Artists Archives with a reception Fri 11/11 @ 5:30-8pm and running through Sat 1/14/17.
The show will be accompanied by the premier of a series of short oral histories documentaries about 11 of the artists whose work is in the archives, taking place at the Archives on Sat 11/19 @ 1-3pm.