May Exhibitions and Events Listings for the Cleveland Museum of Art
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Events
MIX: Amplify
Friday, May 2, 2025, 6:00–10:00 p.m.
Ames Family Atrium
Kick off Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month at MIX: Amplify, a dance party highlighting Cleveland’s rich AAPI cultural landscape. Tonight’s event is cohosted and curated with Zosimo Maximo and APT345 Productions, a content, event, and curation studio creating elevated experiences in entertainment, wellness, art, and activism. The evening’s entertainment includes a house-music set by DJ Andre Leone, dance performances by LingYun Rising Star Gymnastics Dance School and Stellar Acrobatic Dance Academy, a pop dance-music set by DJ PikaChieu, a fashion presentation with Fashion Talks, and a Bollywood DJ set with DJ Sobe and the Indian Student Organization at Cleveland State University. A house-music set by DJ Zosimo Maximo closes out the night. Themed food and drink items, including cocktails, beer, and wine, are available to purchase from Bon Appétit. The museum store is hosting a trunk show featuring the line PONO by Joan Goodman. Come meet the designer and see an expanded line of her jewelry.
Here is the full entertainment schedule:
6:00 p.m.: DJ Andre Leone
6:45 p.m.: LingYun Rising Star Gymnastics Dance School and Stellar Acrobatic Dance Academy
7:00 p.m.: DJ PikaChieu
7:45 p.m.: Fashion Talks Fashion Presentation with DJ Zosimo Maximo
8:15 p.m.: Bollywood with DJ Sobe presented by Fatima Sajjad and the Indian Student Organization at CSU
8:45 p.m.: DJ Zosimo Maximo
More About the Featured Performers:
LingYun Rising Star Gymnastics Dance School and Stellar Acrobatic Dance Academy were founded in 2007 and 2015, respectively, with the mission to promote Chinese culture and serve the community. They are both award-winning organizations and have participated in national and regional Taoli World Dance Competitions, KAR (Kids Artistic Revue) Dance Competition, and Rainbow Dance Competition.
Fashion Talks, founded by Aimon Ali, is elevating and diversifying fashion and creatives in Cleveland and beyond.
The Indian Student Organization (ISO) at Cleveland State University serves as a vibrant community that connects and unites Indian students far from their homeland. The organization’s mission is to celebrate the rich cultural heritage of India by organizing events and festivals that promote unity. ISO’s student dancers work to transcend barriers such as caste, religion, and language to create a sense of belonging for everyone.
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.
Trunk Show
Friday, May 2, 2025, 12:00–8:00 p.m., and Saturday, May 3, 2025, 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Museum Store
Free; No Ticket Required
The museum store is hosting a trunk show featuring the line PONO by Joan Goodman. Come meet the designer and see an expanded line of her jewelry.
CMA members receive a 25% discount on all PONO by Joan Goodman jewelry during the show.
Chamber Music in the Atrium
Wednesday, May 7, 2025, 6:00–7:00 p.m.
Ames Family Atrium
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.
Eliades Ochoa
Friday, May 9, 2025, 7:30–9:00 p.m.
Gartner Auditorium, Suzanne and Paul Westlake Performing Arts Center
Eliades Ochoa, legendary Latin Grammy–winning musician of Buena Vista Social Club and Septeto Típico Oriental fame, makes his Cleveland Museum of Art debut with his sextet.
Eliades is considered one of the most renowned Cuban soneros of all time, a notable celebrator of traditional Cuban music, and one of the best guitarists of his generation. The rugged features, the signature hat, the cowboy boots and the iconic “man in black” image, and the songs from the school of life imbued with the sort of hard-earned, country-tinged wisdom that can’t be bought—you don’t have to look or listen too hard to understand why he is often called “Cuba’s Johnny Cash.” Yet if parallels abound, his new album, Guajiro, also shows him to be a singular voice with his own unique style and sound, rooted deep in Cuban tradition but with an appeal that is as timeless as it is universal.
Eliades joined Septeto Típico Oriental in 1969 and officially entered the Casa de la Trova in 1970, where he began to perform regularly. In 1982, he became part of the Cuarteto Patria as director, arranger, vocalist, and lead guitarist. He influenced the group’s repertoire, keeping alive the tradition of Cuban folk music.
In the 1980s, Eliades participated in multiple tours with Compay Segundo and Cuarteto Patria. During this time, he recorded the first version of “Chan Chan.” Eliades’s unique style of playing the preludes on the guitar left a long-lasting impression, influencing the way other musicians performed the song.
He is one of the stars and founders of Buena Vista Social Club. With this album, he won his first Grammy for Best Tropical Latin Performance in 1997 and was nominated for an Oscar as part of the 1999 documentary film Buena Vista Social Club. In this album, Eliades performs some of the most iconic songs of Buena Vista, including “Chan Chan,” “El Cuarto de Tula,” “Candela,” and “El Carretero.”
After his time at Buena Vista, Eliades signed with Virgin Records Spain, with whom he recorded Sublime Ilusión, Tributo al Cuarteto Patria, and Un Guajiro sin Fronteras. These albums, two of which were nominated for Grammy Awards, marked a significant point in his artistic career.
In 2012, his album Un Bolero para Ti won four Latin Grammy Awards. Additionally, he was one of the most notable figures on World Circuit’s album AfroCubism, which was nominated for a Grammy in 2010 and recognized by National Geographic as one of the best albums in the world that year.
He has collaborated with a number of stars, including Enrique Bumbury, Luis Eduardo Aute, Manu Dibango, Jarabe de Palo, BLØF, Charlie Musselwhite, Moncho, Armando Manzanero, Descemer Bueno, and Pablo Milanés, among others. In 2013, he was selected to participate in a tribute to Bob Dylan.
Eliades was the first Cuban to receive the Latin Award Canada in 2018 for his music career. In the same year, a documentary called Eliades Ochoa: From Cuba to the World was released, highlighting his career in music. The documentary received several awards at major film festivals worldwide.
More recently, Eliades reissued his 2020 album Vamos a Bailar un Son and collaborated with Spanish rapper C. Tangana on the song “Muriendo de Envidia” and with Los Ángeles Azules on “Nací en un Pueblo de Latinoamérica.”
Now, with the release of Guajiro, he adds a new and revealing chapter that weaves together all the threads and strands of his storied life and career into a definitive and compelling personal testament that honors his past while ambitiously taking his music into new pastures.
Chamber Music in the Atrium with Piano Cleveland: Daniela Liebman
Tuesday, May 13, 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 on May 13 at 12:00 p.m. Enjoy a captivating solo piano performance and learn background on the works performed.
Join world-renowned Mexican pianist Daniela Liebman for a free concert in the Ames Family Atrium.
Establishing herself as an artist of eloquence, poise, and nuance, Liebman was named one of the “40 Most Creative Mexicans in the World” and “100 Most Creative and Powerful Women” by Forbes México. She has additionally been featured in GQ México and Vanity Fair. Her debut album was released to critical and popular acclaim, reaching #5 on Spotify’s “Classical New Releases,” #2 on Amazon Music’s “Fresh Classical,” and #2 on Apple Music’s “New Classical.” Since its release, Liebman’s recording of Ponce’s “Balada Mexicana” has been streamed more than 1.6 million times on Spotify alone.
Karamu House: A Turning Point
Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 7:30–8:30 p.m.
Gartner Auditorium, Suzanne and Paul Westlake Performing Arts Center
Karamu House presents A Turning Point, a stage production that includes poetry, prose, music, and movement, featuring work from Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Duke Ellington, Nina Simone, and contemporary artists, to celebrate the exhibition Karamu Artists Inc.: Printmaking, Race, and Community.
The views expressed by performers during this event are their own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
No Exit: The International Sounds of the Collective
Wednesday, May 28, 2025, 7:00–8:30 p.m.
Gartner Auditorium, Suzanne and Paul Westlake Performing Arts Center
The Cleveland Museum of Art welcomes No Exit New Music Ensemble, one of the region’s leading outlets for the commissioning and performance of contemporary avant-garde concert music, back to the museum for an encore presentation.
This evening, No Exit brings its 2024–25 season to a close with a presentation of music from the Collective—an international consortium of composers who represent some of the most individual and poetic voices in new music today. This eclectic program is premiering in Cleveland before being performed throughout Europe.
More information about the Collective can be found on the group’s website.
More information about No Exit can be found on the group’s website.
PROGRAM
Cadenza
Agata Zubel
Kiki Wearing Tasha
Mathew Rosenblum
Still Clouds (World Premiere)
Douglas Knehans
Five Haiku
Spiros Mazis
a brief comment on the current state of insanity
Amy Kaplan
Leaving for NYC
Constantine Koukias
Sareri Hovin Mernem (World Premiere)
Edward Smaldone
3 Literary Interludes (world premiere)
Timothy Beyer
New This Month
Takashi Murakami: Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow
Sunday, May 25–Sunday, September 7, 2025
The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Exhibition Hall and Gallery
Discover an incredible new exhibition of works from a Japanese artist known for his unique style that simultaneously honors the rich tradition of Japanese art and deploys the cultural energies of anime, manga, otaku, and kawaii in singular contemporary artworks. Visitors can explore how—after shared historical events and trauma—art can address crisis, healing, outrage, and escapist fantasy. In addition to works more than 30 feet wide on view, the centerpiece of the exhibition is the re-creation of the Yumedono, or Dream Hall, from Nara’s Hōryūji Temple complex in the Cleveland Museum of Art’s magnificent atrium. The museum’s deep holdings of Japanese art lead you even more profoundly into the exhibition’s themes. Originating at the Broad in Los Angeles, Takashi Murakami: Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow is presented with expanded scope at the CMA.
The artwork presented in this exhibition was made in response to three events: the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States in 1945 during World War II; the March 11, 2011, Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan, which also caused the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident; and the COVID-19 pandemic, which began in 2019. Murakami uses his art to interpret these historical events and their lasting effects. The works explore topics such as how people may change when they are experiencing trauma, how historical events may have caused outpourings of creative and religious fervor, and how art addressing contemporary obsessions as diverse as gaming, the metaverse, trading cards, street fashion trends, anime, and manga can be an entry point to engaging the past.
Art can respond to disaster. Like religion, it can work through crisis and register experiences expressed (and sometimes coded) by and through form. Like religion, art can be a mass phenomenon, a gathering around compelling ideas. It can address crisis directly, offering healing, outrage, or catharsis. It can also offer escapist fantasy. Murakami’s likening of gaming and other forms of entertainment to religion speaks of a spirit of a sort, of collective activities where societal energies are expended, developed, and ritualized.
In the wake of the pandemic, through planning an exhibition at the Kyocera Museum of Art, Murakami turned the lens of his artwork onto the city of Kyoto as both the keeper of many of Japan’s cultural traditions—including ikebana, Kabuki theater, geisha and teahouse traditions, and monumental screen painting—and a site of shifting power structures of religion and politics, both imperial and warrior. Selections of this new work join the exhibition and, newly aligned with Cleveland’s deep holdings of Japanese art, allow the exhibition to go even deeper into its original themes.
The Yumedono in Nara is believed to occupy the same location as the home of Shōtoku Taishi, who converted his father, Emperor Yōmei, into accepting Buddhism after calling for the intercession of Buddha to cure the emperor of an illness. Shōtoku plays a profound role in the history of Japan and has been the focus of powerful religious cults throughout Japanese history. The Yumedono houses the Kuse Kannon (a likeness of Shōtoku), believed to have the power to save people from suffering. Murakami’s re-creation of the Yumedono houses four paintings—Blue Dragon, Vermillion Bird, White Tiger, and Black Tortoise (all from 2024)—that directly present and mine the city of Kyoto through its many overlapping mythologies and traditions.
While it may seem counterintuitive to house four paintings addressing the founding of Kyoto in a historic building from Nara, in doing so, Murakami is creating a powerful meditation on the connection between mythology and art to political power, as well as the hybridity and pliability of Japanese cultural traditions. In moving the imperial capital of Japan to Kyoto in the eighth century, Emperor Kanmu intended to extricate his court from the clerical power structures of Nara. However, to do so, an emphasis was placed on Shōtoku’s role in the area, a necessary alignment with one of Japan’s central figures and heroes. In Kyoto, the Rokkakudō Temple—also founded by Shōtoku and said to enshrine the Nyoirin Kannon, an amulet found by Shōtoku as a child, which is also said to have healing powers—would become an important site of religious pilgrimage, and Kyoto would go on to become both a political and importantly a religious center of Japan.
In placing his Kyoto paintings in the Yumedono, rooting them in Shōtoku’s legacy of healing through the veneration of devotional objects, Murakami testifies to the nature of art and its capacity to align cultural energies, both for individuals and for Japanese society.
Starting on Friday, May 30, docents are available on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. throughout the exhibition to answer questions and provide background information on the artworks. This service is free to all visitors in the exhibition.
This exhibition is presented by Akron Children’s.
Major support is provided by the Womens Council of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Generous support is provided by Yuval Brisker and by the Gottlob family in loving memory of Milford Gottlob, MD. Additional support is provided by Mrs. Viia R. Beechler, Gries Financial Partners, Kenneth H. Kirtz and family, and Frank and Fran Porter.
Final Weeks
Jewish Ceremonial Art from the Jewish Museum, New York
Through Sunday, May 18, 2025
Various Galleries
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.
On-Site Activities
Lunchtime Lecture
Curious, Wondrous Things: Community Partnerships, Curation, and the Education Art Collection
Tuesday, May 6, 2025, 12:00–1:00 p.m.
Gartner Auditorium, Suzanne and Paul Westlake Performing Arts Center
Speaker: Sabine Kretzschmar, Manager, Education Art Collection
What happens when community members decide what is on view in the museum? The newly renovated Susan M. Kaesgen Education Gallery and Lobby is a space for experimentation and community engagement with the Education Art Collection. What you see is the result of museum educators’ partnerships with artists, scholars, students, and teachers. Learn about the educational and curatorial processes behind the scenes and explore the curious, wondrous things on view.
CMA Backstories: Shaping Our Legacy
Wednesday, May 7, 2025, 6:00–7:00 p.m.
Gartner Auditorium, Suzanne and Paul Westlake Performing Arts Center
Free; Ticket Required
The Cleveland Museum of Art has a history as rich and diverse as the artworks in its collection. From humble beginnings to becoming one of the most renowned art museums in the country, the CMA is a testament to the power of vision, dedication, and passion for art. Join Leslie Cade, director of the Ingalls Library and Museum Archives, for a journey through the fascinating backstories of the founders, curators, and masterpieces that have shaped our legacy. Continue your journey at the Ingalls Library and Museum Archives.
This program is for select members and annual giving supporters. Eligible attendees receive an invitation via email.
Materiality and Mystery in Chinese Art
Saturday, May 10, 2025, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
John C. and Sally S. Morley Family Foundation Lecture Hall
Speakers: Lukas Nickel, Professor of Art History of East Asia, University of Vienna, Austria
Dr. Jenny F. So, Former Senior Curator of Ancient Chinese Art, National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, DC
Join two scholars of ancient Chinese art as they explore themes of materiality and mystery in Chinese art.
Session 1:
Lukas Nickel, “A Mysterious Stone Block for the First Emperor’s Tomb”
Session 2:
Jenny F. So, “The Riddle of Numbers on Warring States Jades”
The Pauline and Joseph Degenfelder Distinguished Lecture in Chinese Art
Jade: China’s Enduring Obsession
Saturday, May 10, 2025, 2:00–3:00 p.m.
Gartner Auditorium, Suzanne and Paul Westlake Performing Arts Center
Speaker: Dr. Jenny F. So, Former Senior Curator of Ancient Chinese Art, National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, DC
From the mysterious jades buried throughout China more than 5000 years ago, to princes dressed in jade suits inside jade-encrusted coffins, to the Olympic medals presented in 2008, jade has been the preeminent material of choice in Chinese society. Jenny F. So explores the reasons behind this obsession.
So received her MA and PhD in art history from Harvard University before joining the Freer and Sackler Galleries at the Smithsonian Institution in 1990 as senior curator of their ancient Chinese art collections. In 2000, she left the Smithsonian for Hong Kong, to take up the position of professor of fine arts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where she also became director of that university’s Institute of Chinese Studies and Art Museum.
Journey into Joomchi
Wednesday, May 14, 2025, 6:00–7:30 p.m.
Classrooms F and G
In this hands-on family workshop, participants discover the history of joomchi, a traditional Korean technique for creating textured paper by layering and fusing sheets of mulberry paper using only water and motion. Participants explore both traditional methods and contemporary approaches developed by artist Jiyoung Chung. No experience is needed, just a willingness to get your hands wet and have fun!
Instructor Michelle Li is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in paper arts and sound whose work investigates the contemplative nature of traditional craft and its ability to preserve cultural heritage in a fast-paced world. She combines jianzhi (a Chinese tradition of cutting paper) and joomchi to draw parallels between the transformative nature of paper and the fluidity of memory.
This workshop is designed for pairs of family members to create together—every adult must attend with a child 10 years old or older. Teens 14 years old and older may register independently with a friend, sibling, or peer.
May at CMA
Daily on Tuesday to Friday, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. from Tuesday, May 6, 2025, until Friday, May 30, 2025
Free; No Ticket Required
Join us weekdays May 6–30, 2025, for May at CMA, a free, special self-guided program celebrating Cleveland’s culture and history! From 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., groups receive a booklet with prompts to guide them through the museum’s galleries, where they can join gallery educators stationed at select locations for quick, interactive conversations and hands-on activities. Touch and explore authentic arms and armor with Art Up Close in the Armor Court on select days.
- During May at CMA, guided school tours are not available.
- Lunch spaces are not available during May. School groups are welcome to eat outside at Wade Oval Park.
- No backpacks, food, or water bottles are permitted in the museum.
For more information, please email SchoolPrograms@clevelandart.org.
Asian Art History Tours
Weekly on Sunday, 12:00–1:00 p.m. from Sunday, May 4, 2025, until Sunday, May 25, 2025
Ames Family Atrium
Celebrate the artistry and heritage of Asia and the Asian American experience in this guided tour. Journey through the rich histories of China, Japan, Korea, and South Asia, exploring ancient ceramics, paintings, and sculpture. Then, see how contemporary artists and Asian American creators reimagine tradition, identity, and cultural narratives in bold new ways. From centuries-old masterpieces to modern innovations, discover the dynamic and evolving legacy of Asian art.
The museum celebrates Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May and all year round. Learn more about AAPI 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.
Play Day: Emblems
Sunday, May 11, 2025, 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
Ames Family Atrium
Free; No Ticket Required
Join us in discovery as we explore artworks and artists who share their stories, cultures, and traditions through patterns, pictures, and symbols!
Major support is provided by Akron Children’s.
Sensory-Friendly Saturday
Saturday, May 17, 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.
2025 Mandel Opera and Humanities Festival: Reconciliation
Beyond Repatriation: Reconciliation Through Cultural Cooperation with Cambodia
Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 12:00–1:00 p.m.
Free; Ticket Required
Speakers: Sonya Rhie Mace, George P. Bickford Curator of Indian and Southeast Asian Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, and Muong Chanraksmey, Chief of Education and Publication Office, Museums Department, Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts
When works of cultural heritage were removed from Cambodia during decades of colonial control, war, and national recovery, many found their way to museums around the world. To promote reconciliation by means of elevating understanding and appreciation of historical Cambodian art, the Cleveland Museum of Art has been partnering with the National Museum of Cambodia on art transfers, exhibitions, training programs, and information sharing. A senior staff member of the NMC and a curator at the CMA discuss the model relationship between their institutions and prospects for the future. The discussion also includes a performance of Cambodian-American composer Chinary Ung’s Khse Buon, played by the Cleveland Orchestra’s principal cellist Mark Kosower.
This program is presented in partnership with the Cleveland Orchestra, as part of the 2025 Mandel Opera and Humanities Festival: Reconciliation.
Material Matters Gallery Talk
Reluctant Witnesses to History
Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 6:00–7:00 p.m.
Speaker: Colleen Snyder, Conservator of Objects
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.
Objects have been described by one conservator as “reluctant witnesses” to history. While they may be tricky to uncover, there are fascinating stories hidden within the material layers of artworks. This session focuses on what conservation research and analysis can tell us about the material origins and manufacturing processes of ancient artists and how we use some of those same techniques to determine if some ancient artifacts are reproductions or forgeries.
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 Sunday, and at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. on Tuesdays. Art and Conversation Tours are offered at 10:15 a.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
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: I0t 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.
The Bubon Statue Departs: Farewell Display of Monumental Ancient Bronze
Through Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Monte and Usha Ahuja Founders Rotunda
Free; No Ticket Required
This monumental ancient bronze statue of a draped figure of a man stands at the center of the Monte and Usha Ahuja Founders Rotunda. Acquired by the CMA with best intentions in 1986, the statue was recently deaccessioned for return to Türkiye after scientific tests showed that it likely once stood atop a stone pedestal at Bubon, an archaeological site in Lycia (now southwestern Türkiye). Its temporary display in the rotunda, made possible through the generosity of the Republic of Türkiye and the District Attorney of New York County, celebrates the mutual goodwill and recent cooperative research efforts undertaken on the statue and at Bubon. This is a positive outcome to a lengthy process, an opportunity to share new knowledge about this longtime visitor favorite and bid it farewell before its reunion with other large-scale bronze statues from Bubon. Four text panels accompanying the statue explore its creation, pose, dress, and identity; the archaeological site of Bubon; recent scientific analyses and results; and legal and ethical aspects.
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, November 2, 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
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 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
Re:Sound Festival
Friday, May 16, and Saturday, May 17, 2025, 7:30–10:00 p.m.
Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project (CUSP) brings innovative music programming to Cleveland with its Re:Sound festival, copresented at Transformer Station with the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Re:Sound is CUSP’s annual “new” and experimental music festival that brings together and showcases pioneers in the arts through diverse programming, propelling innovation and elevating contemporary artistry in Northeast Ohio. The seventh Re:Sound festival presents evening concerts at Transformer Station, the Cleveland Museum of Art’s vibrant center for the visual and performing arts in Ohio City’s Hingetown neighborhood. Featured visiting artists include abstract turntablist Maria Chávez, composer and percussionist Sarah Hennies with bassist Tristan Kasten-Krause, computer-musician Keith Fullerton Whitman, and violinist and interdisciplinary artist C. Spencer Yeh. The festival celebrates the local music community by showcasing a duo performance of tape-loop musician Aaron Dilloway and poet and musician R. A. Washington as well as a multimedia performance by electronic artist Slugg.
Ticket purchase links, more information, and a detailed lineup can be found on CUSP’s website.
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
Comic Club | Club de Cómic
Saturday, May 3, 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.
Women Who Print Screenprinting Workshop | Mujeres Que Imprimen Serigrafía
Friday, May 9, 2025, 5:00–7:00 p.m.
Free; Registration Recommended | Gratis; Se iere 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.
Community Arts Center Parade Studios | Centro de Artes Comunitarias Estudios de Desfile
Weekly on Saturday and Sunday, 1:00–4:00 p.m. from Saturday, May 10, 2025 until Sunday, June 8, 2025
Free; No Registration Required | Gratis; No Se Requiere Reserva
Join us at the Community Arts Center for free workshops for participants interested in working on Parade the Circle projects with support from artist-consultant Ally Russell. Russell has been involved in Parade the Circle since she was 11 years old, and she describes her mind as having “been expanded by the endless opportunities by seeing and creating art in unexpected ways, as well as being able to cultivate a community with other talented artists.”
Ensembles are welcome to work on projects they’ve started or to create new parade entries from scratch. A limited selection of materials for these studios are provided at no cost, but we encourage participants to upcycle and bring nontraditional supplies to support their art making. These workshops are open to all ages; however, children under age 15 should be accompanied by an adult at all times. Teens are highly encouraged to participate.
Te invitamos al Centro de Artes Comunitarias para talleres gratis para los participantes interesados en trabajar en los proyectos de Parade the Circle con el apoyo de la consultora de artistas Ally Russell. Ally ha estado involucrada en Parade desde que tenía 11 años, y describe que su mente "se ha expandido por las infinitas oportunidades de ver y crear arte de maneras inesperadas, así como de poder cultivar una comunidad con otros artistas talentosos."
Los conjuntos son bienvenidos a trabajar en proyectos que han comenzado o crear nuevas entradas para el desfile desde cero. Se proporciona una selección limitada de materiales para estos estudios sin costo alguno, sin embargo, alentamos a los participantes a reciclar y traer suministros no tradicionales para apoyar su creación artística. Estudios de Desfile está abierto a todas las edades; sin embargo, los niños menores de 15 años deben estar acompañados por una persona mayor. Se recomienda encarecidamente a los adolescentes que participen.
Parade Guidelines
- Everyone must be in costume, including parents, guardians, and staff accompanying children.
- Entries and costumes must be noncommercial. No identifiable logos are allowed. No T-shirts with words, registered trademarks, logos, or cartoon characters may be worn. Uniforms representing organized teams, troops, or schools or civic organizations may not be worn.
- All entries must be handmade, and people powered. Motorized vehicles (other than wheelchairs) and live animals (other than service animals) are not permitted.
- No written words are allowed.
- Entries may not advocate for or against a particular political or religious belief.
- Be inspired by the CMA collection! However, reproducing sacred objects or images and the appropriation of symbols of other cultures is not allowed. If in doubt, CMA staff are happy to discuss this with you.
- No identifiable flags or symbols from any country, political party, or religious representation of any kind, including verbal, may be displayed.
- No distribution of leaflets or flyers is allowed during the parade or along the parade route.
- Children under 15 must be accompanied by someone over the age of 18.
- The CMA reserves the right to approve all entries and to require participants to change their entries at the CMA’s sole discretion.
Community Arts Center Open Studios | Estudios abiertos del centro de artes comunitario
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. In celebration of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Month, join us during the month of May and help us build a flower wall, inspired by the work of Takashi Murakami: Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow!
Disfrute el arte con toda la familia. Gratis para participar. Cada mes presenta una temática connectando el arte, la comunidad y la exploración. Para celebrar el Mes de los Asiático-Americanos, los Nativos Hawaianos y los Isleños del Pacífico, únase a nosotros durante el mes de mayo y ayúdenos a construir un muro de flores, inspirado en el trabajo de Takashi Murakami: ¡Pisando la cola de un arco iris!
Family FUNdays | Día de Alegria Familiar at the CAC
Monthly on the first Sunday, 1:00–4:00 p.m.
Free; No Ticket Required
Enjoy free family fun and explore art celebrating community. This monthly event features family-friendly games, movement-based activities, and art making, open to all ages and abilities! Join us in April to reduce, reuse, and be thoughtful in your artmaking! Join us in May to celebrate the Japanese tradition of Children’s Day. Learn the history and technique of colorful koinobori or carp-shaped windsocks.
Únase a nosotros para divertirse con familia cada mes, mientras exploramos el arte celebrando comunidad. Gratis para participar. Juegos para toda la familia, actividades basadas en movimientos, y creación de arte. ¡Abiertas a todos los edades y habilidades! Únase a nosotros en mayo para celebrar la tradición japonesa del Día del Niño. Aprende la historia y la técnica de los coloridos koinobori o calcetines de viento con forma de carpa.
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, Courtney and Michael Novak, 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.
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.
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, Medical Mutual of Ohio, 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, Courtney and Michael Novak, 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.
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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.