Women’s History Month never felt so necessary and so right. Bonfoey opens a new show, Nevertheless She Created, featuring nine top area women artists. Local legend Karen Small hosts an online cooking demo for Refugee Response. Artist Archives offers talk about four black woment artists. And Welshly Arms singer Bri Bryant’s song “This Will Be The Day” appears on the CW’s new docuseries New American Stories.
Are we stepping out of our comfort zone? Or finally stepping back in?
For Women’s History Month, Bonfoey Gallery is opening a show called Nevertheless She Created, featuring nine noted area artists. It’s one of more than 100 venues included in a directory of galleries, studios and other venues featuring women’s art in March, created by Lakeland Gallery director Mary Urbas, whose For Woman XIV show is currently on view there. Read More
Cleveland Ballet has been growing in the five years it’s been performing, and now it’s spreading its wings outside Cleveland. A benefactor in Palm Beach, Florida, is hosting a performance/benefit for the troupe in her home March 12. And the company recently streamed a performance of excerpts from Carmen for the Puerto Rico Classical Dance Competition Gala. Read More
Many Clevelanders know the story of Balto, the lead sled dog who delivered medicine to an Alaskan outpost during a 1925 epidemic. He lived out his life in Cleveland and now his body resides at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, which has a month-long series of events honoring him. Read More
Welshly Arms singer Bri Bryant’s song “This Will Be the Day” opens CW’s new docu-series All American Stories about athletics overcoming challenges and she’s just filmed a new video incorporating footage of them. Read More
The 2021 Rock Hall inductions will take place on October 30 in Cleveland, after a year in which they were virtual only. This time even more of the public will be able to attend: they’re taking place at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. Read More
Two footwear companies, one based in Cleveland, tapped teens in a local after school arts program to create and execute the promotion campaign for a new high-ended hiking boot they’ve designed. Read More
Textile artist H. Mitsu Shimabukuro draws on her queer and biracial identities and the landscape of her native Hawaii for her show Tradewinds at Praxis Fiber Workshop’s gallery.
We know that white privilege is a real thing in this country, always has been. So too do would-be seditionists. In fact, they’re betting on this aspect of American culture to provide them with a free pass of sorts, an excusing of their anti-democratic behavior. But allowing these militia members to get off lightly will only encourage further attempts by armed white nationalists… Read More