When 12:15pm - 1:30pm
Where Cleveland Institute of Art, Peter B. Lewis Theater
Artists Jimmy Kuehnle
Spend a lunch hour learning about the latest in art and design during these Friday lectures. Each lecture features a variety of artists and designers from around the world, including CIA faculty and visiting artists. This event is free and open to the public. Pizza and beverages will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.
Jimmy Kuehnle, who teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Art, has had solo shows at museums, galleries and universities in the United States and internationally. In 2014, he was selected for the national survey exhibition State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. As a Fulbright Graduate Research Fellow in Japan, 2008, he pursued his interest in public art and sculpture. In 2015 he installed a large kinetic inflatable in the atrium of MOCA Cleveland as part of the group exhibition, How to Remain Human. In 2016 Kuehnle received a Creative Workforce Fellowship, a program of the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture funded by the citizens of Cuyahoga County. His recent solo exhibition at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, New York exhibition was favorably reviewed in The New York Times, featured in New York Magazine’s “Approval Matrix” and recommended by online sites such as the New York Daily News, Artnet and Hyperallergic. Kuehnle exhibited new monumentally scaled site specific inflatables at the Akron Art Museum in an exhibit titled, Wiggle, Giggle, Jiggle. This installation was reviewed in the Plain Dealer, Akron Beacon Journal, Canvas Magazine, CAN Journal, WCPN’s the Sound of Applause and WVIZ’s Applause tv show. It remains on view until February 19, 2017.
Lunch on Fridays is generously supported by CIA's Foundation and Liberal Arts departments.
Website: http://www.jimmykuehnle.com
Cleveland Institute of Art
Peter B. Lewis Theater
11610 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44106
800.223.4700
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Cleveland Institute of Art is supported in part by the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.