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For more information regarding events at CIA, please contact Casey Burry,
Director of PR & Media: 216.421.7404 / cburry@cia.edu

January

30th Annual Scholastic Art Awards & Exhibition
January 10 - February 6, 2010
Free and Open to the Public

View more than 300 award-winning works of art from seventh- to twelfth-grade students from 45 local schools. Portfolio Award and Gold Key Award winners will continue to the national competition held in the spring in New York City. Past winners of the national competition include Truman Capote, Robert Redford, Andy Warhol and Sylvia Plath. Supported by the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation.

To see samples of student work, click here.

Reinberger Galleries at The Cleveland Institute of Art
11141 East Boulevard Cleveland, OH 44106
Gallery Hours

Barbara Heinrich, Contemporary Jewelry Artist’s Talk & Reception
Wednesday, January 20, 7:30pm (Reception to follow)
Free and Open to the Public

Internationally recognized designer and goldsmith Barbara Heinrich visits CIA for an exclusive and intimate discussion of her work.

Aitken Auditorium, The Cleveland Institute of Art
11141 East Boulevard Cleveland, OH 44106

Jeff & Jon Mancinetti
Lunchtime Lectures
Friday, January 22, noon
Free and Open to the Public

Come hear how brothers Jeff and Jon Mancinetti started their dream of making films from when they were kids with their parents camera to their latest success of completing the feature length film Never Escape that premiered at Cedar Lee Theatre. Jeff Mancinetti was a graduate from CIA last year and now works as a TA in the T.I.M.E. department, and his brother Jon is a graduate of the Columbus College of Art and Design. The two will explain their creative process and struggles of making films reminiscent of Hollywood but with nothing close to a Hollywood budget.

Ohio Bell Auditorium, The Cleveland Institute of Art
11141 East Boulevard Cleveland, OH 44106

Liz Kurzner
Lunchtime Lectures
Friday, January 29, noon
Free and Open to the Public

Lisa Kurzner is an independent curator, writer, and art consultant whose field is photography and modernism. Currently based in Cleveland, she has lived in Atlanta, Brussels and London. She was a regular arts writer for the Atlanta Journal Constitution, as well as national journals including Art Papers and Photograph magazines. Her curatorial projects include "Within Our Gates", a temporary public art project with Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry for ACP/Atlanta, "Forest Primeval" for MOCA Georgia, "Monique van Genderen" for ACA Gallery/SCAD, "Cameraless Photography" for Marcia Wood Gallery, "Under Different Circumstances" for the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. She held the Newhall curatorial fellowship in the Photography Department of the Museum of Modern Art where she organized exhibitions of new photography and emerging German artists.

Ohio Bell Auditorium, The Cleveland Institute of Art
11141 East Boulevard Cleveland, OH 44106

February

Oscars 2010: Cleveland Reacts
Tuesday, February 2, 7-9pm
Free and Open to the Public

Be among the "first responders" to this year’s Oscar nominations during this panel discussion happening a few hours after the nominees are announced. Moderator: John Ewing, director, CIA Cinematheque. Film Experts: Clint O-Connor, film critic, The Plain Dealer; Eric Swinderman, executive director, CINEMA Cleveland; David Huffman, marketing director, Cleveland Cinemas; Dr. Kim Neuendorf, film studies professor, Cleveland State University. Co-sponsored by CINEMA Cleveland, CIA Cinematheque and the CIA Office of Continuing Education. Attendees vote for their Oscar picks for a chance to receive a prize package.

Aitken Auditorium, The Cleveland Institute of Art
11141 East Boulevard Cleveland, OH 44106

Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books (MIMB)
February 10 – March 26, 2010
Opening Event: Wednesday, February 10, 12-2pm
   Meet professor Hui-Chu Ying, the Myers School of Art, University of Akron,
   the MIMB Curator, and view full exhibition.
Free and Open to the Public

Through March 26: Exhibit moves to various CIA locations, including the Gund lobby, JMC lobby, and Jessica R. Gund Library.

This international traveling book exhibition is a collection by 141 artists from around the world. Using unconventional materials and innovative bookmaking techniques these miniature books take many forms, including drawings, poems and prose. The collection will be on display in various locations throughout the Gund and JMC Buildings.

Reinberger Galleries at The Cleveland Institute of Art
11141 East Boulevard Cleveland, OH 44106

SIE 64 – 64th Annual Student Independent Exhibition
February 26 – April 3, 2010
Free and Open to the Public
Opening Reception: Friday, February 26, 6-9pm

See the extraordinary work of the next generation of artists and designers at the 64th Annual Student Independent Exhibition, a juried show featuring BFA students at CIA.

Reinberger Galleries at The Cleveland Institute of Art
11141 East Boulevard Cleveland, OH 44106
Gallery Hours

Shannon Stratton
Lunchtime Lectures
Friday, February 5, noon
Free and Open to the Public

Shannon Stratton is a Canadian-born cultural worker living in Chicago. She is a co-founder of threewalls, where she remains Director and Curator. Stratton curates independently and with colleagues Jeff M. Ward and Judith Leemann. Current projects include Ps & Qs (with Ward) at the Hyde Park Art Center, and Gestures of Resistance (with Leemann) at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, both in 2010. She teaches Art History and Arts Administration at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Ohio Bell Auditorium, The Cleveland Institute of Art
11141 East Boulevard Cleveland, OH 44106

Judith Salomon, Ceramics Professor – Cleveland Institute of Art
Lunchtime Lectures
Friday, February 19, noon
Free and Open to the Public

Judith Salomon, CIA Ceramics Professor, talks about her artistic journey. For more information on Salomon, visit judithsalomonceramics.com

Ohio Bell Auditorium, The Cleveland Institute of Art
11141 East Boulevard Cleveland, OH 44106

CIA Students Develop iPhone Game Launching in March
Lunchtime Lectures
Friday, February 26, noon
Free and Open to the Public

Keep your eye on the iTunes app store for ChromaWaves, an explosively colorful iPhone game developed by 13 digital arts and computer science students in a class jointly offered by CIA and Case Western Reserve University. Three producers and a creative director from video game producer Electronic Arts (EA) gave ChromaWaves high marks when they participated in the final critique of the game via videoconference in December. Read more about the game here.

Ohio Bell Auditorium, The Cleveland Institute of Art
11141 East Boulevard Cleveland, OH 44106

March

Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books (MIMB)
February 10 - March 26, 2010
Free and Open to the Public

This international traveling book exhibition is a collection by 141 artists from around the world. Using unconventional materials and innovative bookmaking techniques these miniature books take many forms, including drawings, poems and prose. The collection continues to move to various CIA locations, including the Gund lobby, JMC lobby, and Jessica R. Gund Library.

SIE 64 – 64th Annual Student Independent Exhibition
February 26 – April 3, 2010
Free and Open to the Public

SIE 64 continues at the Reinberger Galleries. See the extraordinary work of the next generation of artists and designers at the 64th Annual Student Independent Exhibition, a juried show featuring BFA students at CIA.

Reinberger Galleries at The Cleveland Institute of Art
11141 East Boulevard Cleveland, OH 44106
Gallery Hours

Joan Waltemath
Lunchtime Lectures
Friday, March 5, noon
Free and Open to the Public

An artist of international repute, Waltemath is a faculty member at Cooper Union and has numerous exhibitions to her credit, ranging from Portland’s Elizabeth Leach Gallery to Basel, Switzerland’s Galerie von Bartha, as well as showing regularly in New York.

Ohio Bell Auditorium, The Cleveland Institute of Art
11141 East Boulevard Cleveland, OH 44106

Biomimicry: Sustainable Design & Innovation
Tuesday, March 16, 5:30pm
CIA Students, Faculty & Staff: Free
E4S Members: $25
Nonmembers: $30

Have you ever looked to nature for inspiration to solve challenging problems? Join Entrepreneurs for Sustainability (E4S) to learn how biomimicry inspires innovation. CIA Industrial Design Associate Professor Doug Paige and several students will share how they are putting biomimicry to work to solve challenges in the Cuyahoga Valley. The meeting is open to the public, and there is a charge to attend. Limited parking will be available in the Gund Building parking lot. We expect a large attendance, so make sure to register here.

Aitken Auditorium, The Cleveland Institute of Art
11141 East Boulevard Cleveland, OH 44106

William Brouillard
Lunchtime Lectures
Friday, March 19, noon
Free and Open to the Public

Listen in as master ceramist William Brouillard discusses a personal practice that merges edgy imagery with superior craft. William Brouillard has been inspiring young artists at The Cleveland Institute of Art for the past 30 years. A ceramist of renown, his work is held in private and public collections around the world and is included in collections owned by the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Art. From 1975 to 1979 he was a resident Potter at the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina, which is known as an epicenter for the promotion of contemporary craftwork and cutting edge craft skills. Brouillard has shared his personal expertise through lectures and workshops throughout the United States while maintaining his own practice through his studio on Cleveland’s near west side.

Ohio Bell Auditorium, The Cleveland Institute of Art
11141 East Boulevard Cleveland, OH 44106

Cinematheque Cult Film Festival
March 19-27, 2010
Each film $8; Cinematheque members and CIA students & staff $6
Check Cinematheque film schedule

We are excited to present Cleveland’s first Cult Film Festival. Four days of new and traditional cult films will be shown, including Reefer Madness, A Boy and His Dog, and the 1977 Japanese spookfest House/Hausu. And if you plan to attend this year’s Cleveland International Film Festival downtown at Tower City Cinemas, be sure to attend a screening of Lourdes, a Cinematheque-sponsored film that quietly contemplates spiritual grace. For details and to view a Cinematheque film schedule, click here.

Aitken Auditorium, The Cleveland Institute of Art
11141 East Boulevard Cleveland, OH 44106

Spring Open House
Saturday, March 20, 8:30am-12:30pm

Encourage your favorite art student to attend the Office of Admissions' Spring Open House! If a picture is worth a thousand words, an experience is worth a million. Invite a prospective student to get an in-person picture of our curriculum, campus and culture at our Admissions Open House. Register now at cia.edu/openhouse.

The Cleveland Institute of Art
11141 East Boulevard Cleveland, OH 44106

It’ll Last Longer
CIA Spring Show: Photography
March 26-April 2, 2010
Opening Reception: March 26, 6-9pm
Free and Open to the Public

As part of the 2010 CIA Spring Show, this exhibition is on display off-campus at Here Here Gallery. Featuring the work of CIA Photography majors: JR Berry, Will Cline, Sarah Groh, Nicole Cooke, Lisa Fovozzo, Rosie Hileman, Lauren Juratovac, Alexander Lorenzen, Joseph Minek, Taylor Mikal, Daniel Naso, Sid Puri, Kira Robles, Kyle Erich Schultz, Timothy Skehan & Kathryn Weil.

Here Here Gallery
1305 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, OH 44114

PROJECT H: Design Revolution Road Show
Monday, March 29, 2010
11am-5pm: Airstream Exhibition in the Gund Parking Lot
12:15pm: Public Lecture; 1:15: Workshop, Aitken Auditorium
Free and Open to the Public

The Design Revolution Road Show is a traveling exhibition and lecture series bringing "product design that empowers" to over 30 design universities and high schools across the nation. This road show will feature a biodiesel-powered truck and Airstream trailer filled with examples of humanitarian design solutions that have been showcased in the book Design Revolution: 100 Products that Empower People.
Click here for more information.

The Cleveland Institute of Art Gund Parking Lot & Aitkin Auditorium
11141 East Boulevard Cleveland, OH 44106

April

SIE 64 – 64th Annual Student Independent Exhibition
February 26 – April 3, 2010
Free and Open to the Public

SIE 64 wraps up on April 3rd at the Reinberger Galleries. Don't miss your last chance to see the extraordinary work of the next generation of artists and designers at the 64th Annual Student Independent Exhibition, a juried show featuring BFA students at CIA.

Reinberger Galleries at The Cleveland Institute of Art
11141 East Boulevard Cleveland, OH 44106
Gallery Hours

Gary Sampson, Professor of Art History – The Cleveland Institute of Art
Lunchtime Lectures
Friday, April 2, noon
Free and Open to the Public

Currently an important member of the Institute’s Liberal Arts faculty, Dr. Sampson has taught at California State University, St. Lawrence University and Grand Valley State University. He has acted as a curator and is known for his expertise in Photographic History. He has contributed articles to such publications as Imag(in)ing Race and Place in Colonialist Photography: Transitory Propositions and Unmasking the Colonial Picturesque: Samuel Bourne’s Photographs of Barrackpore Park.

About his Lunchtime Lecture, Sampson says: "This is a work-in-progress talk. As an art, design, and photography historian, my primary research interest is in the representation of landscapes and space through photography and digital media. One of my current projects involves the modern industrial and urban environment in relationship to the emerging city of globalized systems, which grew out of my own photography and a recent interdisciplinary seminar sponsored by the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University. What concerns me especially is how utopian impulses of the early twentieth century are evident in the architecture and technological infrastructure of the contemporary urban landscape; and how such impulses are portrayed in visual culture."

Ohio Bell Auditorium, The Cleveland Institute of Art
11141 East Boulevard Cleveland, OH 44106

Sarah Kabot, Head of Drawing – Cleveland Institute of Art
Lunchtime Lectures
Friday, April 9, noon
Free and Open to the Public

Kabot has given new meaning to what it means to emerge as an artist. She has been included in gallery shows at Mixed Greens, NYC; The Drawing Center, NYC; and Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY. She has been a resident artist at Dieu Donne Papermill, NYC; and at Sculpture Space, Utica, NY. Most recently she is one of the finalists for the highly prestigious 2010 West Prize. With unique authority and through the impetus of work that is exquisite in its fragile vision, Sarah Kabot speaks to what it means to have a career beyond locale demonstrating clearly those possibilities in her own practice.

Ohio Bell Auditorium, The Cleveland Institute of Art
11141 East Boulevard Cleveland, OH 44106

Sketch Battle on Wacom Tablets
with Guest Speaker Michael DiTullo
Friday, April 9, 7-10pm
Students: $6
IDSA Members: $12
Non Members: $15

Designers, tune up your sketching skills and get ready to compete in Cleveland’s 1st Sketch Battle! This event is hosted by Northern Ohio IDSA and the Cleveland Institute of Art ID Department. Don’t miss this one-of-a-kind event! It’s sure to be a blast whether you compete or just watch. DJ Pete Butta will be spinning during and after the competition. Click here for online registration.

Ohio Bell Auditorium, The Cleveland Institute of Art
11141 East Boulevard Cleveland, OH 44106

CIA Spring Show: Visual Arts & Technologies
April 9 – May 8, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, April 23, 6-9pm
Free and Open to the Public

The Cleveland Institute of Art 2010 Spring Show is a campus-wide exhibition featuring the work of the best art and design students in the region. The CIA Annual Spring Show spans 4 locations this year. Visit the Reinberger Galleries to view the Visual Arts & Technologies Show, featuring work from talented painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture and fiber students.

Reinberger Galleries at The Cleveland Institute of Art
11141 East Boulevard Cleveland, OH 44106
Gallery Hours

Petra Soesemann, Environmental Chair – Cleveland Institute of Art
Lunchtime Lectures
Friday, April 16, noon
Free and Open to the Public

In 2009 Soesemann, the Chair of the Institute’s Foundation Environment, went on sabbatical to focus on her work while in residence at the Roswell Program. Noted for her works constructed of layered shears, evocative of mystery, she is the subject of the recently published biographic poetry collection Incident Light by H.L. Hix. She has also been the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, which took her to Peru to study Incan architecture. She has studied Mayan art and architecture in Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala with the support of travel grants. Grants and awards include support from Cornell University, the Illinois Arts Council, and the Ford Foundation. More recently her studies have taken her to Turkey to explore historic and contemporary Islamic and Turkish art.

Ohio Bell Auditorium, The Cleveland Institute of Art
11141 East Boulevard Cleveland, OH 44106

B.A.S.I.C. Workshop
Saturday, April 17, 2010 - 8:30am-4pm
Fee: $50

Participate in a day of fun and professional enrichment as K-12 educators take part in seminars and workshops designed to positively affect classroom learning.

Click here for registration information or contact Richard Maxwell, Assistant Director of Continuing Education & Community Outreach: 216.421.7460 / rmaxwell@cia.edu.

This program is made possible with the generous support of the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation.

CIA Spring Show: Design
April 19 – 21, 2010
Free and Open to the Public

The Cleveland Institute of Art 2010 Spring Show is a campus-wide exhibition featuring the work of the best art and design students in the region. The CIA Annual Spring Show spans 4 locations this year. Visit the Peter B. Lewis Building of the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University from Monday to Wednesday to see designs from the next generation of product, transportation, communications and interior designers.

Peter B. Lewis Building
11119 Bellflower Road Cleveland, Ohio 44106

A Designer’s Footprint: An Earth Day Event
Tuesday, April 20, 6pm
Reception to follow (food provided by The Greenhouse Tavern)
Tickets: $10 advance / $15 at door
Students & FGI Members: $5

Come learn from a panel of green design experts in a discussion on how the creative industry is evolving and how it impacts consumer experiences in our city and around the world. Sponsored by Fashion Group International and The Cleveland Institute of Art.

Moderator: Eduardo Milrud, Instructor, Industrial Design, Cuyahoga Community College
Panelists: Dan Cuffaro, Chair of the Design Environment, Head of Industrial Design, The Cleveland Institute of Art; Bill Doty, Doty & Miller Architects (Built the first LEED Gold freestanding architect's office in the United States); Susie Frazier Mueller, Susie Frazier Art (Environmental artist and designer of organic fine art and earth-influenced public art); Jonathan Sin-Jin Satayathum LEED AP [BD+C] Principal Designer & Sustainability Director of “The Greenhouse Tavern”, Ohio's first Certified Green Restaurant [GRA].

5-6pm: Guests are invited to a special viewing of the CIA Spring Design Show, CWRU Weatherhead School of Management, Peter B Lewis Building. Limited street parking available. Overflow parking at Cleveland Botanical Gardens.

RSVP:  Julie Leddy  216.533.8821 / julietleddy@roadrunner.com

CIA Spring Show: Craft and Material Culture
April 22 - 24, 2010
Free and Open to the Public

The Cleveland Institute of Art 2010 Spring Show is a campus-wide exhibition featuring the work of the best art and design students in the region. The CIA Annual Spring Show spans 4 locations this year. Visit CIA’s Gund building’s 2nd floor hallway, lobby and room 105B to see the exceptional work of students in the Enameling, Jewelry and Metals, Ceramics and Glass departments.

The Cleveland Institute of Art
11141 East Boulevard Cleveland, OH 44106

CIA Spring Show: Integrated Media and Foundation
April 23 - 24, 2010, 2-5pm
Reception: Friday, April 23, 6-9pm
Free and Open to the Public

The Cleveland Institute of Art 2010 Spring Show is a campus-wide exhibition featuring the work of the best art and design students in the region. The CIA Annual Spring Show spans 4 locations this year. Students from Integrated Media (including T.I.M.E. - Digital Arts, Biomedical Art, and Illustration) display innovative work at the Gund Building Ohio Bell Auditorium, Cleveland Botanical Garden, and Cleveland Museum of Natural History Corning Gallery and Auditorium. Foundation (or first year students) display a wide-range of work in the Gund Building 1st and 3rd floor classrooms and hallways.

Ohio Bell Auditorium, The Cleveland Institute of Art
11141 East Boulevard Cleveland, OH 44106

Cleveland Botanical Garden
11030 East Boulevard, Cleveland, 44106

Cleveland Museum of Natural History
1 Wade Oval Drive, Cleveland, 44106

May

BFA Thesis Show
May 3 - 8, 2010
BFA Party: Friday, May 7, 8-11pm, Gund Lobby
BFA Public Hours: Saturday, May 8, 10am-5pm (open exhibitions throughout Gund and JMC Buildings. Program and maps will be available at CIA.)
Free and Open to the Public

Join us in celebrating the 2010 BFA (Bachelor of Fine Art) thesis work by this year’s graduating class. Stroll the CIA campus to view more than 120 installations and exhibitions from the talented senior class.

The Cleveland Institute of Art
11141 East Boulevard Cleveland, OH 44106