Semester in Review Art Exhibition takes place next week
Yvonne Pan, A&E Editor
December 6, 2019
We are fortunate to attend school in the cultural hub of Cleveland, surrounded by institutions like the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland Botanical Gardens and iconic works like Judy’s Hand, the Start sculpture (the Ugly Statue), Spitball, the Keith Haring stat...
Before you go: CMA edition
Henry Bendon, Staff Reporter
December 6, 2019
As the semester winds down and the weather descends into the miserable grossness that is the Cleveland winter, there’s no better place to visit than the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA). For regular attendees or first-year students that haven’t quite made the trek an entire block west of campus to ...
Prismatica brings Clevelanders downtown to appreciate art
Sunayana Jampanaboyana, Staff Reporter
November 22, 2019
“Prismatica is comprised of 25 pivoting prisms, each more than six feet tall, made of panels laminated with a diachronic film that transmits and reflects every color in the visible spectrum, varying with the position of the light source and the observer. The prisms are mounted on bases containing pro...
Queer aesthetics in “costumes,” Cleveland LGBTQ+ performers and safe spaces
Adam Benjamin, Staff Reporter
November 8, 2019
In a season where LGBTQ+ youths are inundated with images of dominant groups donning queer aesthetics as costumes, the visibility of the drag community is ever more essential and magnitudinous. Local performer and Queen Anhedonia Delight organizes GlamGore, a recurring monthly drag show series that ...
“Wakey, Wakey” celebrates mortality and the simplicity of human love
Adam Benjamin, Contributing Reporter
October 25, 2019
“Wakey, Wakey” is Dobama Theatre’s Midwest premiere of playwright Will Eno’s mysterious exploration of mortality. “Wakey, Wakey” stars Jason Martin as Guy, a man whose vitality burns through his witty soliloquy and visceral morality. Martin draws the audience in with his charm, establ...
Cleveland-based book award recognizes four authors for their work
Caroline Kuntzman, Staff Reporter
October 4, 2019
On Sept. 26, members of the Cleveland community attended the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards at the KeyBank State Theatre in Playhouse Square. The award was created in 1935 by poet and philanthropist Edith Anisfield Wolf to recognize authors who “challenge racism and celebrate diversity.” The Anisfiel...
MOCA opens fall exhibits “The Sunday Paintings” and “Invisible Cities”
Matt Hooke, Executive Editor
September 20, 2019
On Friday, Sept. 13, the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA) celebrated the opening of two new exhibitions, Liu Wei’s “Invisible Cities” and Byron Kim’s “The Sunday Paintings.” Both works explored what it means to be in a place, but in wildly different ways, that made for a ...
Ethiopian Cultural Garden phase one dedication and unveiling
Sunayana Jampanaboyana, Staff Reporter
August 30, 2019
Without immigrants, there would be no Cleveland. Since the 1870s, a diverse influx of immigrants flowed into Cleveland from over 25 different nations. This inflow significantly defined and catalyzed much of Cleveland’s early development and shaped the ethnic communities that continue to exist in the c...
CIA Spring Show
Ryan Yoo, Director of Design
April 26, 2019
On April 23, the Cleveland Institute of Art opened its doors to the public for the Spring Design Show. The showcase featured student work across all 15 majors offered at CIA, from graphic design to metals and jewelry to interior design. The annual spring show has long been a part of the curr...
A tale of two talents
Julia Knight, Staff Reporter
April 26, 2019
Graduating fourth-year student Matt Thompson not only excels in pre-medicine, but he also shines on the theater stage. Thompson is a double-major in biochemistry and theater. He has been involved in performing arts since age four. Inspired by his older brother’s violin abilities, he took up the instrument h...
