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Teachers Collaborating with the Art Community – The Southside Gallery Collaboration  In the summer of 1997 area teachers from the Cleveland Public Schools, Euclid City Schools and Lorain City Schools participated in a unique professional development experience at Cleveland State University.  During a two-week intensive summer art education course the teachers who were graduate students…

Retreads, New Finds – Jeesun Park by Frank Green September 17, 1997 The Cleveland Free Times The real find in this exhibition is the basement installation by Korean-born sculptor Jeesun Park.  As her first major exhibition since moving to Cleveland from New York two years ago, this work is a revelation, marking the arrival of an important artist…

Spaces – sculptures by Terry Durst September 5-30, 1997 Joe sells hot dogs outside on the devil’s strip. The locker room is in the window, with some socks hanging on the bench, an ashtray and a Pepsi bottle, a baseball cap hanging on the locker.  Then you enter through a hall of red white and…

I remember being  in a field in Kurdistan  nothing to fear  but the Kangol dogs       with the red eyes  and the soldiers of secrets      with the dark glasses  each unreasonable and demanding in his own way  but my god  that field  in Kurdistan  made it all worthwhile.  Air heavy with ice…

Kiss Me Quick:  There had been two recurring themes in my work up to this point; smouldering images of  gay male eroticism, and English History. The iconic seeming Devil Boy had his roots in  sketches of the male models used for phone-sex lines. These tousled hair young mens seemed to fuse the aesthetic of the…

My first show at Jean’s was my first show in Cleveland. It was also the first show I had after taking a hiatus from artmaking, during which time I went back to school to study art criticism. I actually went a year and a half without having a studio. After a while, I craved making…

“Florence E. Smith, also known as Mother Dwarf Smith, is tall, stately and on the quiet side. She had a ceramics studio for many years and also did quilting and mail art before going into assemblage / collage. Widowed, she came to Cleveland from her home in Nevada in 1990 to join her son, also…