April Exhibitions and Event Listings for the Cleveland Museum of Art
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Member Appreciation Month
Tuesday, April 1–Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Free; No Ticket Required
Get excited as we gear up to celebrate Member Appreciation Month. For the entire month, we thank our members for their support with discounts, special events, and so much more. It is because of the generosity of our members that the CMA can continue to create transformative experiences through art, “for the benefit of all the people forever.”
We look forward to showing our gratitude for your continued support.
Events
Chamber Music in the Galleries
Wednesday, April 2, 2025, 6:00–7:00 p.m.
Donna and James Reid Gallery | Gallery 217
Free; No Ticket Required
The popular chamber music concert series continues, featuring young artists from Case Western Reserve University’s Historical Performance Practice Program. Outstanding conservatory musicians present mixed repertoire ranging from the standard to unknown gems amid the museum’s collections for a unique and intimate experience.
The Art of Tournament
Wednesday, April 2, and Friday, April 4, 2025, 1:00–2:00 p.m., and Wednesday, April 9, 2025, 6:00-7:00 p.m.
Parker Hannifin Corporation Donor Gallery | North Courtyard Lobby
Join us for a special class for CMA members on the history of tournaments, with an emphasis on tournament armor. Led by art historian Amanda Mikolic, this class includes a brief history of the museum’s beloved Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Armor Court, as well as an in-depth look at the arms and armor.
This on-site class involves walking through the museum galleries. Gallery stools and assistive listening devices are available for use in the museum. The class meets in the Parker Hannifin Corporation Donor Gallery (north courtyard lobby), located off the atrium, on the first floor of the museum. Please contact adultprograms@clevelandart.org with any questions.
YAGODY
Wednesday, April 2, 2025, 7:30–9:00 p.m.
Gartner Auditorium, Suzanne and Paul Westlake Performing Arts Center
YAGODY is undoubtedly one of the most charismatic contemporary Ukrainian folk bands that has emerged in the past decade. Founded in Lviv, Ukraine, in 2016 by Zoryana Dybovska, YAGODY (meaning “berries”) is rooted in Ukrainian and Balkan musical traditions. However, the ensemble has created its own modern and gripping sound by showcasing theatrical singers supported by musicians playing on drums, percussion, guitar, bass, and accordion. From traveling across Eastern Europe, YAGODY is influenced by a diverse world of melodies, rhythms, and themes. A YAGODY performance is ritualistic and self-described as a musical trance based on the pulse of humanity.
In 2020, YAGODY released its debut self-titled album, which features 10 songs based on Ukrainian and foreign folk music along with a music video for the song “Kalyna-Malyna.” In 2021, a music video for the single “Zelena Lishchyna” was released, followed by “Divonko” in 2022. In 2023, the band created its first original song, “Tsunamia,” which was chosen as the national selection for Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2024.
Performers
Zoryana Dybovska, vocals, singing bowl
Sofia Leshishak, vocals, djembe
Valeria Mocharska-Lyulchyk, vocals, percussion
Tatiana Voitov, vocals, bayan
Timur Gogitidze, percussion
Vadym Voitovych, bass
MIX: Strata
Friday, April 4, 2025, 6:00–10:00 p.m.
Ames Family Atrium
Celebrate Indigenous heritage at MIX: Strata, a dance party honoring Rose B. Simpson’s large-scale installation of the same name currently on display in the CMA’s atrium. Strata was inspired by Simpson’s Indigenous heritage and the landscape of her ancestral homelands of Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico. Cleveland’s own DJ Red-I opens the evening with an open format selection of hip-hop, house, and funk. Then from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m., Shub, considered to be the godfather of PowWowStep, a growing genre of electronic music, headlines the evening with a DJ set. Born Dan General, Shub is a Mohawk, Turtle clan of the Six Nations of the Grand River, located in Ontario, Canada. Food and drink items, including cocktails, beer, and wine, are available to purchase from Bon Appétit.
Because April is also CMA Member Appreciation Month, the first 500 members to check in at the membership table, located by the Ames Family Atrium bamboo across from the museum store, can redeem a pair of sound-activated glasses as part of Member Appreciation Month. Proof of membership upon redemption is required. Supplies are limited to one pair per household.
More about the artists:
DJ Red-I (Brittany Benton) has solidified herself as an integral part of Cleveland’s music scene for more than a decade. She is one half of the hip-hop duo FreshProduce and is the founder of Beat Freak, Cleveland’s monthly beats showcase. In 2018, she opened Brittany’s Record Shop, an independent record store that focuses on hip-hop, reggae, and soul. In 2019, she was nominated for “Best DJ” in Cleveland Scene’s Best of Cleveland. More information about DJ Red-I can be found on her website.
Shub won the 2022 JUNO award for Contemporary Indigenous Artist of the Year and previously won Breakthrough Group of the Year in 2014 (with A Tribe Called Red). He was also an Indigenous Music Award nominee at the 2018 Juno Awards for his PowWowStep EP, won a Much Music Video Award for Best EDM/Dance Video in 2017, and was shortlisted for the esteemed Polaris Music Prize Award in 2013. Shub’s latest album War Club (2020) was released to critical acclaim during the pandemic, featuring collaborations with other Indigenous and BIPOC artists like Snotty Nose Rez Kids, Boogát, Fawn Wood, and Phoenix Pagliacci, to name a few. More information about Shub can be found on his website.
Disclaimer: No full-face masks, heavy face paint, glitter, weapon-like props, or excessively oversized costumes are permitted. All outfits are subject to security screening. The Cleveland Museum of Art may refuse entry to any visitor whose attire does not comply with these requirements.
CIM New Music Ensemble
Sunday, April 6, 2025, 2:00–3:30 p.m.
Gartner Auditorium, Suzanne and Paul Westlake Performing Arts Center
Free; Ticket Required
The Cleveland Museum of Art presents the CIM New Music Ensemble under the direction of Dr. Keith Fitch. Claude Baker, the Cleveland Institute of Music’s Kulas Foundation Visiting Artist, is a guest composer.
Devoted to the music of our time, as well as classics of the 20th century, the CIM New Music Ensemble has hosted many of today’s leading composers, including Marcos Balter, Chen Yi, Donald Crockett, Sebastian Currier, James Mobberly, David Rakowski, Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate, Augusta Read Thomas, Steven Stucky, and Joan Tower.
Members of the group have gone on to found new music ensembles and series, including Classical Revolution Cleveland, FiveOne Experimental Orchestra, and Ars Futura. Alumni of the ensemble include the 2014 Gold Medal Laureate of the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis Jinjoo Cho.
Program
Lee Hyla, Ciao Manhattan (1990)
Claude Baker, A Voice Passes . . . (2021)
Keith Fitch, still (2022–23)
Claude Baker, Années de Pèlerinage: Italie (2016–17)
Chamber Music in the Atrium: Selections from Don Giovanni
Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 12:30–1:30 p.m.
Ames Family Atrium
Free; No Ticket Required
The museum’s collaboration with the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) continues with our popular Chamber Music in the Atrium lunchtime concert series. Grab lunch from Provenance Café and join us at the tables in the atrium.
This afternoon’s performance showcases opera singers performing famous and beloved selections from CIM’s upcoming production of Mozart's Don Giovanni, which is being presented at Playhouse Square on April 23 and 25.
The Eye of Nature: Screen Printing Through a Creative Lens
Wednesday, April 9, 2025, 6:00–7:30 p.m.
Classrooms F and G
Explore bold colors and dynamic layering in this hands-on screen-printing workshop inspired by the vibrant world of Takashi Murakami. Guided by Julie Schabel of Wave Space Studio, you can experiment with nature-inspired designs and learn essential screen-printing techniques.
The workshop includes a step-by-step overview of the image-burning process with pre-exposed screens provided. Move through different stations, experiment with color mixing, and try on layering techniques to compose your own unique prints.
Open to all skill levels, this workshop invites creativity and playful exploration in printmaking.
Marcel Khalife: Legacy
Wednesday, April 9, 2025, 7:00–8:30 p.m.
Gartner Auditorium, Suzanne and Paul Westlake Performing Arts Center
The Cleveland Museum of Art and the Arab Americans of Cleveland—Young Professionals Network host legendary Lebanese composer, singer, and oud master Marcel Khalife. He is joined by his son, virtuoso pianist Rami Khalife, and his nephew, cellist Sary Khalife, in a program that underscores his family’s incredible musical legacy.
Revered as a cultural icon in the Arab world and beyond, Marcel is deeply attached to the text of great contemporary Arab poets and is an innovator in Arab music who draws upon traditional forms and blends Western elements to create an evocative sound that has captivated audiences around the world. His extensive body of work transcends his lyrical works to encompass groundbreaking compositions, orchestral and choral works, music for dance, and concertos for a variety of traditional Arabic instruments.
In June 2005, Marcel was named UNESCO Artist for Peace for his artistic achievement and humanitarian contributions. In 2008, he helped establish the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra (QPO) and was named its music director and resident composer.
The cross-generational Khalife trio, Legacy, performs a selection of Marcel’s revered classics that endeared him to millions in the Arab world, with new arrangements alongside original compositions. Sary masterfully incorporates the Arabic quarter tone on his cello, seamlessly weaving Arabic and Western sounds, while Rami’s pianistic skills combine his classical training from the Juilliard School with a “Keith-Jarrett-like approach to jazz and improvisation” (The Daily Telegraph, Australia). More information about Marcel Khalife can be found on his website.
The Art of Beer
Friday, April 11, 2025, 6:00–7:30 p.m.
Banquet Room
Ticket Required
Back by popular demand! Due to the popularity of the Art of Beer classes last fall, we are offering the class again this spring, on Friday, April 11, 2025, at 6:00 p.m. Stay tuned for the Art of Beer: Part 2, coming this summer!
Join us for a unique adult-education class at the CMA, where we delve into the fascinating art of beer! Explore artworks from the museum’s collection that highlight the rich history of making and drinking beer, spanning from the ancient world to medieval times. Held in the museum’s banquet room, this immersive class also features a curated beer tasting of five beers paired with small bites. Led by art historian Amanda Mikolic, who is also known for her engaging presentations on the history of beer and brewing as well as guided tours of Cleveland breweries, this event promises to be both educational and delicious!
Please note, the small bites paired with the beer tasting include meat, dairy, and gluten.
With questions, please contact adultprograms@clevelandart.org.
The Chinese Musicians Association of North America
“The Sound of Blooming: A Musical Tale of Spring”
Friday, April 11, 2025, 7:30–9:00 p.m.
Gartner Auditorium, Suzanne and Paul Westlake Performing Arts Center
The Chinese Musicians Association of North America (CMA-NA) is a dynamic community and a hub for Chinese musicians living in North America to unite, cooperate, and flourish. This evening’s performance of “The Sound of Blooming: A Musical Tale of Spring” features members of the CMA-NA based in the United States and Canada and whose backgrounds span diverse regions of China. The CMA-NA ardently upholds the belief in music’s universal language, serving as a conduit for cultural collaboration. Through this, it facilitates the exchange of ideas, traditions, and innovations, transcending geographical boundaries with every note.
Concert Highlights
“Clouds and Flowers Fantasy”
A captivating dialogue between the pipa and pipe organ, this piece merges two ancient instruments from East and West into an awe-inspiring musical experience.
“Wang Lu’s New Composition” (World Premiere)
This work is a remarkable fusion of global musical traditions, specially created for this concert.
“Dunhuang”
Inspired by the treasures of the Silk Road, this piece blends Eastern and Western elements to transport the audience into the ancient mystique of Dunhuang.
“Ambush from All Sides”
An intense, immersive theatrical interpretation inspired by the decisive battle of 202 BCE between Chu and Han forces at Gaixia, this work features second-generation youth musicians from the Flying Strings Youth Ensemble “hidden” in the audience. This creates a powerful surround-sound effect and a dramatic experience.
Featured Performers
Shu, Zhan: violin (Section First Violin, The Cleveland Orchestra)
Wang, Lu: composer (Associate Professor of Music, Brown University)
Yang, Jin: pipa (Silkroad Ensemble collaborator)
Yang, Cathy: erhu (guest artist with Yo-Yo Ma)
Xia, Jing: guzheng (Adjunct Professor of Guzheng, Bard College Conservatory of Music)
Jiang, Wenchun: organ
Wang, Shuai: piano (The Cleveland Institute of Music faculty member)
More information about the Chinese Musicians Association of North America can be found on the group’s website.
Chamber Music in the Atrium with Piano Cleveland: Zhu Wang
Tuesday, April 15, 2025, 12:00–1:00 p.m.
Ames Family Atrium
Free; No Ticket Required
The Cleveland Museum of Art has partnered with Piano Cleveland to present this spring’s Chamber Music in the Atrium lunchtime concert series, which occurs on March 4, April 15, and May 13, 2025, at 12:00 p.m. Each performer presents a captivating solo piano performance and provides background on the works performed.
Join world-class pianist and 2024 Cleveland International Piano Competition semifinalist Zhu Wang as he plays a free concert in the Ames Family Atrium.
Praised by The New York Times as “especially impressive” and “a thoughtful, sensitive performer” who “balanced lyrical warmth and crisp clarity,” Zhu won first prize at the 2024 New Orleans International Piano Competition before wowing audiences with his 2024 CIPC performances. His collaborative 2021 album with Randall Goosby, Roots, is a WCLV favorite.
Since winning Young Concert Artists’ (YCA) Susan Wadsworth International Auditions in 2020, Zhu has been represented by YCA. He is currently pursuing his master of music degree at the Juilliard School, under the tutelage of Cleveland favorite Emanuel Ax.
Raul Midón
Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 7:30–9:00 p.m.
Gartner Auditorium, Suzanne and Paul Westlake Performing Arts Center
Blind singer-songwriter and guitarist Raul Midón is nothing if not prolific. His 14th and latest album, Lost & Found, is a blend of what he calls “smooth folk,” “alt-pop,” and “jazz.” He is a master at combining genres, and “his music suggests a three-way fusion of Stevie Wonder, Bobby McFerrin, and José Feliciano” (The New York Times). Midón debuted the album’s first single, the uplifting bluesy pop song “Keep On Keeping On,” on the Jennifer Hudson Show in December 2023.
Midón has worked with countless legends in the industry, including Bill Withers, Herbie Hancock, and Sting. In 2022, he paid tribute to Joni Mitchell with the National Symphony Orchestra, arranged and conducted by Vince Mendoza at the Kennedy Center alongside Lalah Hathaway, Jimmie Herrod, and Renée Fleming (PBS’s Next at the Kennedy Center). He received two Grammy nominations back-to-back in 2017 and 2018 for his albums Bad Ass and Blind and If You Really Want in the Best Jazz Vocal Album category. In 2019, he was recognized with the Distinguished Alumni Award from his alma mater, the University of Miami. In 2021, he was given the Disability Rights Ambassador of the Year award, presented to him by his colleague Jason Mraz.
More information about Midón can be found on his website.
Exploring “The Power of Music”
Friday, April 18, 2025, 5:45–6:45 p.m.
Ames Family Atrium
Free; Ticket Required
The Power of Music has long been an audience favorite at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Join us for this special gallery talk to learn the real-life story of Robin Mills, the Black man featured in the painting. American painter William Sydney Mount created vivid genre scenes of rural life on Long Island in the 1800s, often featuring laborers, people of color, and musicians. It is less commonly known that Mount’s paintings depicted real people who were part of the community and connected to the place that inspired his art. In this talk, Vivian Nicholson-Mueller, coauthor of The Art of William Sidney Mount: Long Island People of Color on Canvas and descendant of Mills, offers audiences insight into Mill’s life, her research process with coauthor Katherine Kirkpatrick, and the family lineage that connects this artwork to living descendants today. Space is limited, and a free ticket is required.
Chamber Music in the Atrium
Friday, April 18, 2025, 6:00–7:00 p.m.
Ames Family Atrium
Free; No Ticket Required
The museum’s collaboration with the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) continues with our popular Chamber Music in the Atrium concert series.
Featuring outstanding young conservatory musicians from CIM, these concerts present mixed repertoire ranging from the standards to unknown gems. Grab dinner from Provenance Café and join us at the tables in the atrium.
The Jerusalem Quartet: Complete Shostakovich Quartet Cycle
Monday, April 21; Tuesdays, April 22 and 29; and Wednesdays, April 23 and 30, 2025, 7:30–9:00 p.m.
Gartner Auditorium, Suzanne and Paul Westlake Performing Arts Center
The Cleveland Museum of Art has partnered with the Cleveland Chamber Music Society to present the esteemed chamber music ensemble the Jerusalem Quartet, performing the Complete Shostakovich Quartet Cycle. This series is composed of five concerts taking place at 7:30 p.m. between April 21 and April 30, 2025, in Gartner Auditorium. Prior to each performance, James Wilding, pianist and composer, presents a lecture at 6:30 p.m. Tickets must be purchased on the Cleveland Chamber Music Society’s website.
CMA members can receive a 15% discount at checkout by entering the code ARTMEMBER15 for any single ticket or multipass ticket. This discount does not apply to student tickets. Musart Society member discounts do not apply to this coproduction.
The Jerusalem Quartet: Since the ensemble’s founding in 1993 and subsequent 1996 debut, its four Israeli musicians have embarked on a journey of growth and maturation. This journey has resulted in a wide repertoire and stunning depth of expression, which carries on the string quartet tradition in a unique manner. The ensemble has found its core in a warm, full, human sound and an egalitarian balance between high and low voices. This approach allows the quartet to maintain a healthy relationship between individual expression and a transparent and respectful presentation of the composer’s work. It is also the drive and motivation for the continuing refinement of its interpretations of the classical repertoire as well as exploration of new epochs.
The Jerusalem Quartet is a regular and beloved guest on the world’s great concert stages. Recent appearances include a Beethoven quartet cycle at Wigmore Hall in London; a Bartók cycle at the Salzburg Festival; their third annual string quartet seminar in Crans-Montana, Switzerland; and, since 2022, a residency at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance.
More information about the Jerusalem Quartet can be found on the ensemble’s website.
Performers
Alexander Pavlovsky, violin
Sergei Bresler, violin
Ori Kam, viola
Kyril Zlotnikov, cello
Week 1
Monday, April 21, 2025
String Quartet No. 1 in C Major, op. 49
String Quartet No. 2 in A Major, op. 68
String Quartet No. 3 in F Major, op. 73
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
String Quartet No. 4 in D Major, op. 83
String Quartet No. 5 in B-flat Major, op. 92
String Quartet No. 6 in G Major, op. 101
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
String Quartet No. 7 in F-sharp Minor, op. 108
String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, op. 110
String Quartet No. 9 in E-flat Major, op. 117
Week 2
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
String Quartet No. 10 in A-flat Major, op. 118
String Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, op. 122
String Quartet No. 12 in D-flat Major, op. 133
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat Minor, op. 138
String Quartet No. 14 in F-sharp Major, op. 142
String Quartet No. 15 in E-flat Major, op. 144
Final Weeks
Rose B. Simpson: Strata
Through Sunday, April 13, 2025
Ames Family Atrium
Free; No Ticket Required
Rose B. Simpson (born 1983) has envisioned a site-specific project for the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Ames Family Atrium titled Strata. Simpson’s installation was commissioned specifically for the expansive, light-filled space. According to the artist, Strata is inspired by time spent in Cleveland, “the architecture of the museum, the possibility of the space, tumbled stones from the shores of Lake Erie,” as well as her own Indigenous heritage and the landscape of her ancestral homelands of Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico, where she was born and raised and where she lives and works.
Strata comprises two monumental figural sculptures constructed from the artist’s signature clay medium, in addition to metalwork, porous concrete, and cast bronze. The figures’ layers mimic rock eroded through geologic time and the structural materiality of man-made architecture. Intricate welded metal structures mounted to the heads of each figure, intended to cast shadows, mimic the structures of the mind in relationship to time and space.
Simpson’s identity as a Native woman has greatly impacted her work. She is from a long line of women working in the ceramic tradition of her Kha’po Owingeh (Santa Clara Pueblo) tribe dating back to the 500s CE. Her large-scale sculptures represent a bold intervention in colonial legacies of dependency, erasure, and assimilation, and balance her tribe’s inherited ceramic tradition with modern methods, materials, and processes. Her work asserts a pride of place and belonging on land where Native residents have been forcefully dispossessed of their territories and cultures.
Simpson has had solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, ICA Boston, the Wheelwright Museum, and the Nevada Art Museum, and is represented in museum collections including the Cleveland Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Princeton University Art Museum, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. She is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including a Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship and a Women’s Caucus for Art President’s Award for Art and Activism and was recently appointed by President Biden to the Institute of American Indian Arts Board of Trustees.
The CMA’s presentation of Rose B. Simpson: Strata includes a richly illustrated catalogue with contributions by Nadiah Rivera Fellah, the CMA’s associate curator of contemporary art; Anya Montiel, curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian; Karen Patterson, executive director at the Ruth Foundation; Natalie Diaz (Mojave / Akimel O’odham), Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University; and artists Rose B. Simpson and Dyani White Hawk (Sicangu Lakota).
Major support is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Womens Council of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
On-Site Activities
Lunchtime Lecture
Exploring Karamu Artists Inc.: Printmaking, Race, and Community
Tuesday, April 1, 2025, 12:00–1:00 p.m.
Free; Ticket Required
Initially founded as a settlement house in 1915, Karamu House became one of the best-known sites for Black American culture. Although noted today for its theater program, the institution housed a printmaking workshop beginning in the 1930s, where artists and community members alike—including a young Langston Hughes—could experiment with various techniques, playing on printmaking’s fundamental accessibility and democracy. In this talk, the CMA’s Curator of Prints and Drawings Britany Salsbury discusses the history of Karamu Artists Inc., a group that counted some of the most recognized Black printmakers of the Works Progress Administration era—such as Elmer W. Brown, Hughie Lee-Smith, Charles Sallée, and William E. Smith—among its members.
Elemental: Children's Saturday Studios
Saturdays, April 5, 2025, through Saturday, April 26, 2025, 10:00–11:30 a.m.
Classrooms B and C, Classrooms F and G
These open-ended studio classes allow young artists to engage with the museum’s collection while building idea generation and critical thinking skills. Each week includes an exploration of materials and creative prompts inspired by the CMA's collection. Sessions run for four weeks, with new themes explored each month.
Age groups: Five-to-seven-year-olds and eight-to-nine-year-olds.
Scholarships are available. For more information, contact familyyouthinfo@clevelandart.org or call 216-707-2469.
Islamic Art History Tours
Sundays, April 6, 2025, through April 27, 2025, 12:00–1:00 p.m.
Ames Family Atrium
Free; Ticket Required
Explore the rich traditions of Islamic art through the lenses of religion, decoration, and fashion. This tour delves into the spiritual symbolism of calligraphy and mosque architecture, the intricate patterns and luxurious materials of decorative arts, and the evolving styles of dress that reflect both cultural identity and artistic innovation. Discover how faith and aesthetics intertwine to create timeless masterpieces across the Islamic world.
Learn about Islamic artists in the museum’s collection in daily guided tours and Art and Conversation tours. To schedule private tours for adult groups of 10 or more, please contact grouptours@clevelandart.org or call 216-707-2752.
Material Matters Gallery Talk
Ivory: Luxurious, Costly, Cruel
Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 6:00–7:00 p.m.
Beth Edelstein, Senior Conservator of Objects and Head of the Objects Conservation Lab
Have you ever wondered how artworks in the CMA’s collection are cared for? Join CMA conservators and technicians for guided tours of the galleries. Investigate artists’ materials and processes and learn about how the museum preserves artworks for the future.
Ivory has long been a valued luxury material around the world. Associated with the powerful elephant, it has a beautiful luster and can be finely carved into dynamic objects. The history of ivory in art gives an insight into trade routes and relationships between Africa and Europe, but it also has a darker side. The trade in elephant ivory has caused irreparable harm to elephant populations and is now strictly controlled, affecting even the travel and loan of artworks. Learn more about this fascinating material and explore objects made of ivory and other similar media in the CMA galleries.
Gallery Talk
Exploring “The Power of Music”
Friday, April 18, 2025, 5:45–6:45 p.m.
Vivian Nicholson-Mueller, Educator, Historian, and Author
The Power of Music has long been an audience favorite at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Join us for this special gallery talk to learn the real-life story of Robin Mills, the Black man featured in the painting. American painter William Sydney Mount created vivid genre scenes of rural life on Long Island in the 1800s, often featuring laborers, people of color, and musicians. It is less commonly known that Mount’s paintings depicted real people who were part of the community and connected to the place that inspired his art. In this talk, Vivian Nicholson-Mueller, coauthor of The Art of William Sidney Mount: Long Island People of Color on Canvas and descendant of Mills, offers audiences insight into Mill’s life, her research process with coauthor Katherine Kirkpatrick, and the family lineage that connects this artwork to living descendants today. Space is limited, and a free ticket is required.
Sensory-Friendly Saturday
Saturday, April 19, 2025, 9:00–10:00 a.m.
Free; No Ticket Required
Sensory-Friendly Saturday events offer adaptations to meet diverse sensory-processing needs every third Saturday of each month from 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. Guests on the autism spectrum, people experiencing dementia, and those of all ages who have intellectual or developmental disabilities are invited to participate in a calming museum experience with less stimulation in a section of the museum’s galleries before they open to the public—reducing crowds, noise, and distractions.
Guests can explore the galleries at their own pace and share this time and space with open-minded members of the community.
Things to Know While Planning Your Visit
- All guests must pass through metal detectors at the museum entrance.
- Attendees are encouraged to bring adaptive equipment, including wheelchairs, walkers, and noise-reducing headphones and technology. The Cleveland Museum of Art also offers a limited number of wheelchairs.
- The museum store and café open at 9:00 a.m. on these Saturdays.
- Sensory-Friendly Saturday events are free. Parking in the CMA garage is $14 for nonmembers and $7 for members.
- Once participants enter, they are welcome to stay for the day. The museum opens to the public at 10:00 a.m.
Fine Print Fair 2025 Preview Party
Thursday, April 24, 2025, 5:30–8:00 p.m.
Ames Family Atrium
Celebrate the 40th Fine Print Fair, the Print Club of Cleveland’s annual benefit to support and enrich the print collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Browse and shop one of the largest displays of works on paper in the country, featuring 15 dealers from around the US. Mingle and shop with fellow print enthusiasts and dealers while enjoying appetizers and a complimentary drink. Additional beer and wine available for purchase.
Fine Print Fair 2025
Friday, April 25; Saturday, April 26; and Sunday, April 27, 2025, 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Ames Family Atrium
Free; No Ticket Required
Celebrate the 40th Fine Print Fair, the Print Club of Cleveland’s annual benefit to support and enrich the print collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Browse and shop one of the largest displays of works on paper in the country, featuring 15 dealers from around the US, free and open to the public.
Karamu Artists Inc. from the Museum Archives
Tuesdays and Fridays Through Friday, June 27, 2025, 10:00 a.m.–4:50 p.m.
The Ingalls Library and Museum Archives, Larry Sears and Sally Zlotnick Sears Reading Room
Free; No Ticket Required
The CMA has had a long-standing relationship with Karamu House and its artists. In 1941, the museum held an exhibition titled Karamu House Work of Graphic Artists that featured many of the artists in the Karamu Artists Inc. exhibition (March 23–August 17, 2025). These artists also frequently exhibited in the museum’s annual May Show. Lantern slides of several of these past works are on view in the Ingalls Library from March 1 to June 27, 2025, during library hours.
Sonic Cosmic Rope Tours
Wednesdays and Sundays Through June 25, 2025, 10:30–11:30 a.m.
Ames Family Atrium
Free; Ticket Required
Discover the rhythm and resonance of art in this docent-led tour, where music and storytelling take center stage. Beginning with the captivating Sonic Cosmic Rope in the Korea Foundation Gallery (236), we explore how sound, movement, and myth intertwine in visual form. From musical instruments depicted in ancient artworks to scenes inspired by folktales and performance traditions, this tour reveals how artists have captured the spirit of music and storytelling across cultures and time. To schedule private tours for adult groups of 10 or more, please contact grouptours@clevelandart.org or call 216-707-2752.
Daily Guided Tours
Sundays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays
Ames Family Atrium
Free; Ticket Required
Public tours are offered daily at 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m., Tuesday through Friday, and at 1:00 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. Art and Conversation Tours are offered at 11:15 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. on Tuesdays.
Wednesday Workshops
Every Other Wednesday, 6:00–7:30 p.m.
Classrooms
Discover the joy of art together! These artist-led workshops encourage caregivers and children to participate in a collaborative, intergenerational space. Each session features hands-on exploration of materials and creative prompts inspired by the CMA’s collection. Participants engage with unique materials, deepen their understanding of advanced art making techniques, and follow open-ended instructions that encourage experimentation and creative problem-solving.
This workshop is designed for pairs of family members to create together—children ages 10 to 14 must be accompanied by an adult. Teens 14 years old and older may register independently with a friend, sibling, or peer.
Date-Night Tours
Fridays, 6:15–7:15 p.m.
Ames Family Atrium
Free; Ticket Required
Explore the evolving world of romance with Dating Through the Ages, a unique tour tracing the art of courtship across centuries. From the elegance of ancient Greek vases capturing subtle flirtations to medieval carvings telling tales of chivalric love, this tour offers a glimpse into how courtship rituals have shifted over time. Experience the allure of Rococo paintings, where opulent attire and coded gestures hinted at romantic intentions, and learn the dating dynamics of Victorian England. Each piece tells a story of love and desire, offering a cultural journey through the art of attraction across civilizations and eras.
The museum also offers Daily Guided Tours and Art and Conversation Tours. To schedule private tours for adult groups of 10 or more, please contact grouptours@clevelandart.org or call 216-707-2752.
Art and Conversation Tours
Tuesdays, 10:15–10:45 a.m.
Ames Family Atrium
Free; Ticket Required
Join us for 30-minute close-looking sessions, from 10:15 to 10:45 a.m. on Tuesdays. This program offers a focused look at just a couple of artworks, versus the traditional 60-minute public tours of the museum’s collection.
Open Studio
Sundays, 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
Ames Family Atrium
Free; No Ticket Required
Open Studio days provide free, drop-in art-making sessions designed for the whole family, encouraging creativity and bonding through hands-on activities.
Continuing Exhibitions
Jewish Ceremonial Art from the Jewish Museum, New York
Through Sunday, May 18, 2025
Galleries 116, 202, 212, 214, 219, and 236
Free; No Ticket Required
The CMA, famous for the quality and breadth of its collection, partners with the Jewish Museum, New York, and displays a group of Jewish ceremonial objects from the latter’s world-renowned collection of Jewish art. The pieces are shown in six permanent collection galleries, representing the diversity of Jewish cultures throughout the world and time. Among the objects are silver Torah ornaments from Italy, France, and Georgia; a rare German festival lamp; and spice containers made in Ukraine and the United States. They convey the creativity of Jewish communities and artists from different backgrounds in which they adapted traditional forms of Judaica to changing fashions, styles, and needs, often drawing on broader cultures. Visitors can explore the artistic and cultural significance of these objects and learn about the rituals for which they were created.
Principal support is provided by Rebecca and David Heller. Major support is provided by Gail C. and Elliott L. Schlang. Additional support is provided by Michael Frank and the late Pat Snyder, Janice Hammond and Edward Hemmelgarn, Marjorie Moskovitz Kanfer and Joseph Kanfer, Margo Roth, Dr. Linda M. Sandhaus and Dr. Roland S. Philip, Dr. Daniel Sessler and Dr. Ximena Valdes-Sessler, and Herb and Jody Wainer.
Kelli Connell: Pictures for Charis
Through Sunday, May 25, 2025
Mark Schwartz and Bettina Katz Photography Galleries | Gallery 230
Free; No Ticket Required
In Pictures for Charis, American photographer Kelli Connell reconsiders the relationship between writer Charis (pronounced CARE-iss) Wilson and photographer Edward Weston through a close examination of Wilson’s prose and Weston’s iconic photographs of the Western landscape and the female nude.
Connell weaves together the stories of Wilson and Weston with that of her own relationship with her partner at the time, Betsy Odom, enriching our understanding of the couple from her contemporary queer and feminist perspective. Using Weston and Wilson publications as a guide, Connell and Odom created portrait and landscape photographs at sites where Wilson and Weston lived, made art, and spent time together.
This exhibition juxtaposes Connell’s photographs with classic figure studies and landscapes by Weston from 1934–45, one of his most productive periods and the span of his relationship with Wilson.
The monograph Kelli Connell: Pictures for Charis (2024) is copublished by Aperture and the Center for Creative Photography; it brings together Connell’s text, portraits of Odom, new landscape views, and original materials by both Wilson and Weston.
The Cleveland Museum of Art is funded in part by residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.
This exhibition was supported in part by the Ohio Arts Council, which receives support from the State of Ohio and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior
Through Sunday, June 8, 2025
Julia and Larry Pollock Focus Gallery | Gallery 010
Free; No Ticket Required
Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior premiered at the Palazzo Soranzo van Axel in Venice where it was on view April 20–October 20, 2024. Co-organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cincinnati Art Museum, Collective Behavior is a Collateral Event of the 60th International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia. This is the most comprehensive presentation of the artist’s work to date, bringing together nearly 40 pieces made over the past 35 years, including new site-specific drawings and glass works created for the exhibition.
For more than three decades, Shahzia Sikander (born 1969, Pakistan) has been animating South Asian visual histories through a contemporary perspective. Her work reimagines the past for our present moment, proposing new narratives that cross time and place. Working in a variety of mediums—paintings, drawings, prints, digital animations, mosaics, sculpture, and glass—Sikander considers Western relations with the global south and the wider Islamic world, often through the lens of gender and body politics. Her work is rooted in a lexicon of recurring motifs that makes visible marginalized subjects. At times turning the lens inward, Sikander reflects on her own experience as an immigrant and diasporic artist working in the United States.
In Venice, Collective Behavior revealed the evolution of Sikander’s practice since The Scroll, including new site-specific works that respond to the architecture and history of the Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel, the city of Venice, and its global impact on trade and artistic exchange. Rather than proceeding chronologically, this exhibition followed Sikander’s primary ideas and inquiries as they have taken form throughout her work, gaining power over time.
In Cleveland, the CMA presents Sikander’s art in relation to South Asian objects from the museum’s collection that have inspired her. This exhibition offers a narrative that the CMA is uniquely suited to share: it carries forward in time the rich histories that are encompassed in the museum’s renowned South Asian collection. Simultaneously, it situates contemporary artistic practice in relation to the global history that precedes it. The Cincinnati Art Museum concurrently offers a comprehensive presentation of the artist’s career to date.
Unfolding across continents, these three exhibitions—in Venice, Cleveland, and Cincinnati—offer multiple vantages for engaging with Sikander’s remarkable career. Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior is accompanied by a vividly illustrated catalogue featuring scholarly and poetic responses to the artist’s work.
Sikander’s artistic training began in Lahore, Pakistan, where she studied historic manuscript painting at the National College of the Arts (NCA). Following her acclaimed undergraduate thesis project, The Scroll (1989–90), she became the first woman to teach in the NCA’s prestigious miniature painting department. In 1993, Sikander moved to Providence, Rhode Island, to pursue graduate studies at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). After completing her MFA, Sikander moved to Houston, Texas, to participate in the Core Residency Program at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s Glassell School of Art from 1995 to 1997. She then moved to New York City, her primary base to date.
Major support is provided by the Malcolm E. Kenney Curatorial Research Fund. Additional support is provided by the Junaid Family Foundation and Herb and Jody Wainer.
The CMA’s role in organizing Collective Behavior in Venice was made possible with principal support by Rebecca and Irad Carmi and Lauren Rich Fine.
This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
Contemporary Calligraphy and Clay
Through Sunday, June 15, 2025
Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Japanese Art Galleries | Gallery 235A
Free; No Ticket Required
Calligraphy and ceramics are two major art forms in Japanese culture. They have historically been appreciated together, often paired in spaces called tokonoma, or simply toko, a term that can be translated as “display alcove.” For centuries, people have hung calligraphy or paintings on the wall of a toko and placed ceramics, lacquers, or metalworks on the deck to create a particular mood for an occasion. Traditional reception rooms, living rooms, guest rooms, and teahouses, places where people hold small, significant gatherings, often feature toko. While toko are less common in newer architectural structures due to various factors, including limited space and a shift away from floor culture, today’s artists continue to create with them in mind but also increasingly envision new environments for their works. This installation considers the bond of calligraphy and clay through contemporary artworks set in the modern space of the museum gallery.
Creation, Birth, and Rebirth
Through Sunday, July 27, 2025
Gallery 115
Free; No Ticket Required
The exhibition explores some of the fundamental moments in the sacred narratives of the medieval world: the creation of the universe, the birth of its gods and its humans, and visions of the end of life conceived as a new beginning. The exhibition asks a series of questions: How was the creation of the world imagined in different religions? How were the creators of that world visualized in several religious cultures? How were ideas about conception, incarnation, and birth depicted in the objects created by these cultures? How did they perceive the difference between birth and creation, and the connections between death and rebirth? What parallels were drawn between miraculous and everyday births? How did religious teachings on reincarnation and resurrection manifest in medieval material culture? What, more broadly, was the role of images in making sense of the universe?
The objects in the exhibition span from the 800s to the 1500s, drawn from several collections in the Cleveland Museum of Art, including medieval art, Chinese art, Indian and Southeast Asian art, art of the Americas, and prints and drawings, offering possibilities of forging connections across cultures and geographies.
The exhibition is a culmination of several years of collaboration between the medieval art program at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Museum of Art, made possible by the support of the Mellon Foundation.
Karamu Artists Inc.: Printmaking, Race, and Community
Through Sunday, August 17, 2025
James and Hanna Bartlett Prints and Drawings Galleries | Galleries 101A–B
Free; No Ticket Required
The graphic arts played a groundbreaking role at Cleveland’s Karamu House, one of the nation’s preeminent Black community art centers. Initially founded as a settlement house in 1915, Karamu House became one of the best-known sites for Black American culture. Although noted today for its theater program, the institution housed a printmaking workshop beginning in the 1930s, where artists and community members alike—including a young Langston Hughes—could experiment with various techniques, playing on printmaking’s fundamental accessibility and democracy. This exploration led to the foundation of Karamu Artists Inc., a group that counted some of the most recognized Black printmakers of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) era—such as Elmer W. Brown, Hughie Lee-Smith, Charles Sallée, and William E. Smith—among its members. While a landmark 1942 traveling exhibition celebrated these printmakers’ expression of collective and personal identity, this exhibition is the first to place Karamu Artists Inc. and its innovative use of the graphic arts within the broader context of American art during the 1930s and ’40s, such as the WPA and the legacy of the Harlem Renaissance.
Karamu Artists Inc. presents more than 50 prints created by the group’s members, including works from the museum’s collection as well as important loans from local and national institutions. It is accompanied by a richly illustrated catalogue, featuring essays by leading scholars of Black American art.
This exhibition is made possible with support from the M. E. and F. J. Callahan Foundation, the Malcolm E. Kenney Curatorial Research Fund, and Anne T. and Donald F. Palmer.
From the Earth Through Her Hands: African Ceramics
Through Sunday, September 21, 2025
Gallery 108A
Free; No Ticket Required
African women have worked in ceramics for millennia, yet their accomplishments are underexhibited compared to male artists who sculpted in wood. This rotation considers key western, central, and eastern African ceramics spanning the first through 20th centuries. Three themes highlight their makers’ technical and aesthetic accomplishments: inspiration and instructors; idealized portraits; and practical beauty. The intimate presentation illuminates the deeply historical practice of African women working in ceramics and considers connections between functional and display (“fine art” ceramics). It highlights the technical, training, and aesthetic links among 20th-century female African artists working in ceramics. One of the 10 works is newly acquired (a mid-20th-century bowl by renowned Nigerian ceramicist Ladi Kwali OON MBE), while others have not recently been on view or are being exhibited for the first time.
Reinstallation of Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan
Through Sunday, October 12, 2025
Gallery 243 | Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Gallery | Gallery 244
Free; No Ticket Required
The monumental sculpture of Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan returns to the permanent collection galleries for the first time since its new reconstruction was completed in 2021. To complement this major addition, 13 stone and bronze works from India, Cambodia, and Indonesia are also brought out for display.
Arts of the Maghreb: North African Textiles and Jewelry
Through Sunday, October 12, 2025
Arlene M. and Arthur S. Holden Gallery | Gallery 234
Free; No Ticket Required
This exhibition spotlights the rich artistic traditions of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia during the late 1800s and the early 1900s, through a display of elaborate textiles and fine jewelry in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. These works introduce the specialized skills of North African artists, both Amazigh (Berber) and Arab, Muslim and Jewish, and the diverse aesthetics of their multifaceted communities. The CMA’s founder J. H. Wade II began forming the collection during his personal travels across the region, and many works are on view for the very first time.
This exhibition is made possible with support from the Malcolm E. Kenney Curatorial Research Fund and Anne T. and Donald F. Palmer.
Landscapes by Arnold Chang: A Retrospective and Recent Acquisitions
Through Sunday, November 9, 2025
Clara T. Rankin Suite of Chinese Art Galleries | Gallery 240A
Free; No Ticket Required
This installation reviews the artistic career of Arnold Chang (张洪) (Zhang Hong, American, born 1954) and celebrates the museum’s recent acquisition by Chang, Secluded Valley in the Cold Mountains, a pivotal work that marks his breakthrough as an international contemporary ink artist. Showcasing 18 works by the artist, plus the CMA’s Number 5, 1950 (1950) by Jackson Pollock, the exhibition explores Chang’s formative years, which eventually culminate in free and exploratory ways that include the use of photography and color.
Native North American Textiles and Works on Paper
Through Sunday, December 14, 2025
Sarah P. and William R. Robertson Gallery | Gallery 231
Free; No Ticket Required
Newly on display from the permanent collection are two Diné (Navajo) textiles from the late 1800s, as well as a watercolor from the 1930s made by Oqwa Pi, a member of the San Ildefonso Pueblo.
Ancient Andean Textiles
Through Sunday, December 14, 2025
Jon A. Lindseth and Virginia M. Lindseth, PhD, Galleries of the Ancient Americas | Gallery 232
Ancient Andean weavers created one of the world’s most distinguished textile traditions. This new installation features examples utilizing the tapestry technique, particularly esteemed in antiquity.
Indian Painting of the 1500s: Continuities and Transformations
Through January 11, 2026
Gallery 242B
Free; No Ticket Required
When the 1500s began, the dominant style of Indian painting was flat and abstract with a limited, mainly primary color palette. By the 1520s, a new style emerged with greater narrative complexities and dramatic energy that was to be foundational for later developments. Concurrently, some artists began working in the pastel palette and with delicate motifs reinterpreted from Persian art.
Then, around 1560, with the exuberant patronage of the third Mughal emperor Akbar (born 1542, reigned 1556–1605), artists from different parts of the empire and trained in a variety of Indian styles came together in a new imperial painting workshop. The workshop was led by Persian masters brought from the imperial court in Iran. The formation of Mughal painting shaped by Akbar’s taste for drama and realism had a lasting impact on the cultural life of India. With its naturalism and vibrant compositions, the revolutionary new style was distinct from its predecessors, both Indian and Persian. The paintings in this gallery trace the dramatic changes that occurred during the 1500s alongside compositions that artists chose to retain and reinvent. Central to this story is a manuscript of the Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot), an illustrated collection of fables made for Akbar around 1560–65 now in the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Juxtaposition and Juncture in Korean Modern and Contemporary Art
Through April 1, 2026
Korea Foundation Gallery | Gallery 236
Free; No Ticket Required
The term “juxtaposition” here refers to the side-by-side placement of two or more artworks that are significantly different from one another. Featuring Korean modern and contemporary objects that the CMA has collected over the past 15 years, this thematic exhibition juxtaposes them to create an exciting juncture of connections through their visual and material contrasts.
While the selected works were created by Korean artists from diverse backgrounds and different generations, they make a poignant meeting place illustrating how objects from the past inspired contemporary artists to create new experiences and artistic expressions.
Transformer Station
1460 W 29th St, Cleveland, OH 44113
Love Is Resistance
Through Sunday, April 6, 2025
Free; No Ticket Required
Opening the CMA’s 2025 Transformer Station exhibition schedule is an exhibition showcasing the art of Cleveland Institute of Art | College of Art + Design (CIA) students, faculty, and alumni. Curated by CIA faculty and Reinberger Gallery staff, the exhibition features artists’ responses to artworks from the CMA’s collection that engage with the concept of resistance from an art historical perspective.
CMA Community Arts Center On-Site Activities
2937 West 25th Street, Cleveland, OH 44113
Free Parking in the Lot off Castle Avenue | Estacionamiento gratis en la Avenida Castle
Women Who Print Screenprinting Workshop | Mujeres Que Imprimen Serigrafía
Friday, April 4, 2025, 5:00–7:00 p.m., and Friday, May 9, 2025, 5:00–6:00 p.m.
Free; Registration Recommended | Gratis; Se Sugiere Registrarse
Join us at the Community Arts Center for a free silkscreen collage workshop to celebrate the artists in Future Ink Graphics’ (FIG) Women Who Print exhibition. Led each month by a different artist featured in the exhibition, participants make their own mixed-media silkscreen collage this month. Teaching artists include Em Tamulewicz, Cecilia Li, and Grace Wen. Meet the local artists, view the exhibition, and create a unique piece! Supplies are included. Registration is not required but is recommended with FIG.
Únase a nosotros en el Centro de Artes Comunitarias upara un taller gratuito de collage serigrafiado para celebrar a las artistas en la exposición Mujeres en Grabado de Future Ink Graphics (FIG). Dirigido cada mes por un artista diferente que aparece en la exposición, los participantes hacen su propio collage de serigrafía de medios mixtos este mes. Entre los artistas docentes se encuentran Em Tamulewicz, Cecilia Li y Grace Wen. ¡Conoce a los artistas locales, ve la exposición y crea una pieza única!
Suministros incluidos. No es necesario registrarse pero se recomienda con FIG.
Comic Club | Club de Cómic
Saturday, April 5, 2025, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Free; No Ticket Required
Be inspired and venture into the world of storytelling with artist Kobe Saunders. Work in the company of others to develop your own style and collaborate!
Explore the long history of sequential art through various genres and cultures including newspaper comic strips, American superhero comics and graphic novels, Japanese manga, and media adaptations (film and television) of these stories. Practice techniques to improve drawing and storytelling skills with a focus in character design, visual language, and panel structure.
Inspírate y aventúrate en el mundo de la narración de historias con el artista Kobe Saunders. ¡Trabaja en compañía de otros para desarrollar tu propio estilo y colaborar!
Explora la larga historia del arte secuencial a través de varios géneros y culturas, incluidas las tiras cómicas de periódicos, los cómics y novelas gráficas de superhéroes estadounidenses, el manga japonés y las adaptaciones de medios (cine y televisión) de estas historias. Practique técnicas para mejorar las habilidades de dibujo y narración con un enfoque en el diseño de personajes, el lenguaje visual y la estructura de paneles.
Yoga for All: Connecting, Mind, Body, and Community | Yoga para Todos: Conectando, Mente, Cuerpo y Comunidad
Saturday, April 5, 2025, 12:00–2:00 p.m.
Free; Ticket Required | Gratis; Es Necesario Registrarse
Come one, come all, both short and tall, for free yoga at the Community Arts Center! We invite our Cleveland-area families to come out for an afternoon of movement, fun, relaxation, and connection at the CAC! This free event is hosted by Cleveland Clinic yoga professional and Lululemon ambassador Valerie Williams, who guides you through a series of fun stretches, movements, games, and giveaways to brighten up your day! Practice yoga alongside your kids, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, or very best friends—all ages are welcome! Don’t worry if your little one might not stay quiet on their yoga mat—we encourage kids to have fun while they move, or they have the option to read or draw in our studios. Snacks and refreshments are provided for all children in attendance. Please join us after yoga for an art-making session with our amazing Community Arts Center staff.
Participants are encouraged to bring their own yoga mats. Limited mats are available.
Email commartsinfo@clevelandart.org to reserve your spot.
¡Vengan uno, vengan todos, tanto bajos como altos, para practicar yoga gratis en el Centro de Artes Comunitarias! ¡Invitamos a nuestras familias de Cleveland a salir a pasar una tarde de movimiento, diversión, relajación y conexión en el CAC! Este evento gratis es presentado por la profesional de yoga de Cleveland Clinic y embajadora de lululemon, Valerie Williams. ¡Ella te guiará a través de una serie de divertidos estiramientos, movimientos, juegos y obsequios para alegrar tu día! Practica yoga junto a tus hijos, padres, abuelos, tías, tíos o mejores amigos: ¡todas las edades son bienvenidas! No te preocupes si tu pequeño no se queda quieto en su esterilla de yoga: animamos a los niños a divertirse mientras se mueven, o tienen la opción de leer o dibujar en nuestros estudios. Habrá bocadillos para todos los niños que asistan. Únase a nosotros después del yoga para una sesión de creación artística con nuestro increíble personal de Artes Comunitarias.
Se anima a los participantes a traer sus propias colchonetas de yoga. Hay colchonetas limitadas disponibles.
Envíe un correo electrónico a commartsinfo@clevelandart.org para reservar su lugar.
Parade Info Sessions
Saturday, April 5, 2025, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m., and Sunday, April 6, 2025, 1:00–3:00 p.m.
Free; No Ticket Required
Join Parade experts at the Community Arts Center to gain understanding of Parade the Circle, one of Cleveland’s most creatively impactful events. In these info sessions you will learn all the ways you can actively participate and contribute to this year’s Parade through a guided presentation. This session is free and open to all.
Parade the Circle is an annual art parade that fills Wade Oval with lively sounds and vibrant colors, innovative costumes, giant puppets, and handmade masks created by artists, families, schools, and community groups. University Circle Inc. sponsors Circle Village on Wade Oval, which includes a parade artist meet and greet, a variety of food vendors, music on Kulas Stage, and free family activity tents from University Circle member institutions.
Cleveland artist Héctor Castellanos-Lara serves as this year’s Parade the Circle lead artist, guiding the artistic vision for the parade. Since his arrival to Ohio from Guatemala in 1990, Lara has made a tremendous impact on the Northeast Ohio arts and culture community.
Únase a los expertos del Desfile en el Centro Comunitario de Artes para comprender el Desfile del Círculo, uno de los eventos más creativos e impactantes de Cleveland. En estas sesiones informativas aprenderás todas las formas en que puedes participar activamente y contribuir al Desfile de este año a través de una presentación guiada.
Parade the Circle es un desfile anual de arte que llena Wade Oval con sonidos animados y colores vibrantes, disfraces innovadores, títeres gigantes y máscaras hechas a mano creadas por artistas, familias, escuelas y grupos comunitarios. University Circle Inc. patrocina Circle Village en Wade Oval, que incluye un desfile, Artist Meet & Greet, variedad de vendedores de comida, música en Kulas Stage y carpas de actividades familiares gratuitas de las instituciones miembros de University Circle.
El artista de Cleveland, Héctor Castellanos-Lara, será el artista principal de Parade the Circle de este año, guiando la visión artística del desfile. Desde su llegada a Ohio desde Guatemala en 1990, Héctor Castellanos Lara ha tenido un tremendo impacto en la comunidad artística y cultural del noreste de Ohio.
Family Concert: Tell Stories with the Bomba Drums
Saturday, April 12, 2025, 12:00–1:00 p.m.
Free; No Ticket Required
Join us at the CMA’s Community Arts Center for a free family-friendly performance led by Dr. Raquel M. Ortiz entitled “Tell Stories with the Bomba Drums,” where everyone is invited to drum, sing, and dance to yubá, cuembé, sicá, and leró Afro–Puerto Rican bomba beats. This bilingual concert is inspired by Dr. Ortiz’s book When Julia Danced Bomba (Arte Público Press, 2019), in which Julia has to dance a solo at a bombazo and she’s super nervous. Will she be able to listen to and feel the bomba beat?
Prior to the concert, families are encouraged to participate in the CAC’s art-making activity to create and decorate small drums that can be used during the performance.
Dr. Ortiz, an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker, is a social anthropologist, educator, storyteller, playwright, performer, poet, composer, editor, illustrator, and author of children’s books and songs. Her bilingual stories about Afro-Caribbean and Latinx culture invite children and adults to join in on adventures, featuring children as the protagonists so that they see and celebrate their creativity and valor. More information about Dr. Ortiz can be found on her website.
Children’s Day | Día del Niño
Saturday, April 26, 2025, 12:00–3:00 p.m.
Free; No Ticket Required | Gratis; No Se Requiere Reserva
Cleveland Play House’s Director of Community Development Marcela Rodriguez-Gonzalez says, “In multiple Latin American nations, Día del Niño is celebrated to remind adults that children deserve protection, education, and a healthy childhood—regardless of where in the world they were born. This is a day where all children should feel special.” She continues to share, “Children are the world’s most vulnerable population. It is important to spread awareness around issues acutely impacting children, as well as protect their rights.”
Join us at the Community Arts Center and throughout the PIVOT Center for Art, Dance, and Expression for a collaborative cultural event, bringing community partners together to provide fun art-making activities, movement, and resources for caregivers related to mental health, parenthood, and more.
Free; All Ages; All Experience Levels; Supplies Included
La Directora de Desarrollo Comunitario de Cleveland Playhouse, Marcela Rodríguez-González, dice: “En varias naciones de América Latina, el Día del Niño se celebra para recordar a los adultos que los niños merecen protección, educación y una infancia saludable, independientemente del lugar del mundo en el que hayan nacido. Este es un día en el que todos los niños deben sentirse especiales”. Continúa compartiendo: “Los niños son la población más vulnerable del mundo. Es importante crear conciencia sobre los problemas que afectan gravemente a los niños, así como proteger sus derechos”.
Únase a nosotros en eTe invitamos al Centro de Artes Comunitarias y en todo el Centro PIVOT para el Arte, la Danza y la Expresión para un evento cultural colaborativo, que reúne a los socios de la comunidad para brindar actividades divertidas de creación artística, movimiento y recursos para los cuidadores relacionados con la salud mental, la paternidad y más.
Gratis; Todos Edades; Todos los Niveles de Experiencia; Suministros Incluidos
Literary Cleveland Poetry Festival | Festival de Poesía de Literary Cleveland
Sunday, April 27, 2025, 10:00 a.m.–4:45 p.m.
Ticket Required
Northeast Ohio has been home to renowned poets, including Langston Hughes, Hart Crane, d.a. levy, Mary Oliver, Russell Atkins, and Rita Dove. Since 2022, Literary Cleveland has held a poetry festival celebrating this legacy, highlighting professional poets, showcasing the impact of poetry on the community, and helping emerging poets advance their craft and create new work.
Join us at the Community Arts Center for the closing of Literary Cleveland’s Cleveland Poetry Festival! Attend a full day of generative writing workshops and panel discussions around this year’s festival theme, “The Body Politic.” Learn more about Literary Cleveland and the organization’s efforts on its website. Registration is required.
You can purchase your tickets using Literary Cleveland’s registration form.
A limited number of scholarship spots are available for writers in Northeast Ohio.
Email info@litcleveland.org to request a scholarship.
El noreste de Ohio ha sido el hogar de poetas de renombre, como Langston Hughes, Hart Crane, D.A. Levy, Mary Oliver, Russell Atkins y Rita Dove. Desde 2022, Literary Cleveland ha celebrado un festival de poesía que celebra este legado, destacando a los poetas profesionales, mostrando el impacto de la poesía en la comunidad y ayudando a los poetas emergentes a avanzar en su oficio y crear nuevas obras.
¡Únase a nosotros en el Centro Comunitario de Artes para la clausura del Festival de Poesía de Cleveland Literary Cleveland! Asista a un día completo de talleres de escritura generativa y paneles de discusión sobre el tema del festival de este año, "El cuerpo político". Obtenga más información sobre Literary Cleveland y los esfuerzos de la organización en su sitio web. Es necesario registrarse.
Puedes comprar tus entradas utilizando el formulario de inscripción de Literary Cleveland.
Hay un número limitado de lugares de becas disponibles para escritores en el noreste de Ohio. Envíe un correo electrónico info@litcleveland.org solicitar una beca.
Open Studio | Estudio Abierto at the CAC
Saturdays and Sundays, 1:00–4:00 p.m.
Free; No Ticket Required
Enjoy free, drop-in art making. A monthly theme connects community, art, and exploration.
Disfrute el arte con toda la familia. Gratis para participar. Cada mes presenta una temática connectando el arte, la comunidad y la exploración.
The Cleveland Museum of Art is pleased to present a variety of performing arts events. The views expressed by performers during these events are their own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
The 2024–25 Performing Arts Series is sponsored by the Musart Society. This program is made possible in part by the Ernest L. and Louise M. Gartner Fund, the P. J. McMyler Musical Endowment Fund, and the Anton and Rose Zverina Music Fund.
Performances at Transformer Station are generously supported by the Cleveland Foundation.
All exhibitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art are underwritten by the CMA Fund for Exhibitions. Principal annual support is provided by Michael Frank and the late Pat Snyder, the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation, the John and Jeanette Walton Exhibition Fund, and Margaret and Loyal Wilson. Major annual support is provided by the late Dick Blum and Harriet Warm and the Frankino-Dodero Family Fund for Exhibitions Endowment. Generous annual support is provided by two anonymous donors, Gini and Randy Barbato, Gary and Katy Brahler, Cynthia and Dale Brogan, Dr. Ben and Julia Brouhard, Brenda and Marshall Brown, Gail and Bill Calfee, Dr. William A. Chilcote Jr. and Dr. Barbara S. Kaplan, Joseph and Susan Corsaro, Ron and Cheryl Davis, Richard and Dian Disantis, the Jeffery Wallace Ellis Trust in memory of Lloyd H. Ellis Jr., Leigh and Andy Fabens, Florence Kahane Goodman, Janice Hammond and Edward Hemmelgarn, Robin Heiser, the late Marta and the late Donald M. Jack Jr., the estate of Walter and Jean Kalberer, Eva and Rudolf Linnebach, the William S. Lipscomb Fund, Bill and Joyce Litzler, Lu Anne and the late Carl Morrison, Jeffrey Mostade and Eric Nilson and Varun Shetty, Sarah Nash, Tim O’Brien and Breck Platner, Dr. Nicholas and Anne Ogan, William J. and Katherine T. O’Neill, Henry Ott-Hansen, the Pickering Foundation, Christine Fae Powell, Peter and Julie Raskind, Michael and Cindy Resch, Marguerite and James Rigby, William Roj and Mary Lynn Durham, Betty T. and David M. Schneider, Elizabeth and Tim Sheeler, Saundra K. Stemen, Paula and Eugene Stevens, the Womens Council of the Cleveland Museum of Art, and Claudia Woods and David Osage.
All education programs at the Cleveland Museum of Art are underwritten by the CMA Fund for Education. Principal support is provided by Dieter and Susan M. Kaesgen. Major annual support is provided by Brenda and Marshall Brown, David and Robin Gunning, Eva and Rudolf Linnebach, Gail C. and Elliott L. Schlang, Shurtape Technologies, and the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation. Generous annual support is provided by an anonymous donor, Gini and Randy Barbato, the M. E. and F. J. Callahan Foundation, Dr. William A. Chilcote Jr. and Dr. Barbara S. Kaplan, Char and Chuck Fowler, the Giant Eagle Foundation, Robin Heiser, the late Marta and the late Donald M. Jack Jr., Bill and Joyce Litzler, the Logsdon Family Fund for Education, Sarah Nash, William J. and Katherine T. O’Neill, the Pickering Foundation, William Roj and Mary Lynn Durham, Betty T. and David M. Schneider, the Sally and Larry Sears Fund for Education Endowment, Roy Smith, Paula and Eugene Stevens, the Trilling Family Foundation, Jack and Jeanette Walton, and the Womens Council of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
The Cleveland Museum of Art is funded in part by residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.
Education programs, exhibitions, and performing arts programs are supported in part by the Ohio Arts Council, which receives support from the State of Ohio and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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About the Cleveland Museum of Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) is renowned for the quality and breadth of its collection, which includes more than 66,500 artworks and spans 6,000 years of achievement in the arts. The museum is a significant international forum for exhibitions, scholarship, and performing arts and is a leader in digital innovation. One of the leading encyclopedic art museums in the United States, the CMA is recognized for its award-winning open access program—which provides free digital access to images and information about works in the museum’s collection—and free of charge to all. The museum is located in the University Circle neighborhood with two satellite locations on Cleveland’s west side: the Community Arts Center and Transformer Station.
The museum is supported in part by residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture and made possible in part by the Ohio Arts Council (OAC), which receives support from the State of Ohio and the National Endowment for the Arts. The OAC is a state agency that funds and supports quality arts experiences to strengthen Ohio communities culturally, educationally, and economically. For more information about the museum and its holdings, programs, and events, call 888-CMA-0033 or visit cma.org.