September Exhibitions and Event Listings for the Cleveland Museum of Art
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Events
MIX: Island Vibes
Friday, September 4, 2026, 6:00–10:00 p.m.
Ames Family Atrium
MIX is a 21+ event. Photo ID is required for all MIX attendees.
Experience positive vibrations at MIX: Island Vibes, an evening celebrating 50+ years of reggae and reggae-adjacent music. In 1976, Jamaican roots music was placed firmly into the international spotlight with some of the genre’s most legendary records released, including Bob Marley and the Wailers’
Rastaman Vibration and Bunny Wailer’s Blackheart Man. This evening’s entertainment begins with a duo set featuring Cleveland’s own beloved reggae superstar, Carlos Jones. Then DJ Maxafari spins a mix of Jamaican styles, including reggae, dancehall, dub, ska, and more. Themed food and drink items, including cocktails, beer, and wine, are available to purchase from Bon Appétit.
Attendees are encouraged to visit the newly redesigned ArtLens gallery.
Here is the full entertainment schedule:
6:00 p.m.: DJ Maxafari
6:20 p.m.: Carlos Jones
7:20 p.m.: DJ Maxafari
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.
Joel Link, Nathaniel Silberschlag, and Dawoon Chung
Wednesday, September 9, 2026, 7:30–9:00 p.m.
Gartner Auditorium, Suzanne and Paul Westlake Performing Arts Center
Ticket Required (opens in a new tab)
The Cleveland Museum of Art has partnered with the Cleveland Chamber Music Society to present violinist Joel Link, hornist Nathaniel Silberschlag, and pianist Dawoon Chung. A preconcert talk with Eric Charnofsky begins at 6:30 p.m. Tickets must be purchased on the Cleveland Chamber Music Society’s website. (opens in a new tab) CMA members can receive a 15% discount at checkout by entering the code ARTMEMBER15 for any single ticket or subscription ticket. This discount does not apply to student tickets. Musart Society member discounts do not apply to this coproduction. In addition, this concert is being video recorded and made available to view at no charge a few days following the performance. If you are unable to attend the performance or would like to have the opportunity to view the recording, please use the sign-up page on the Cleveland Chamber Music Society’s website.
Joel Link and Nathaniel Silberschlag hold prominent roles in the Cleveland Orchestra while maintaining active careers as chamber musicians and soloists. Appointed concertmaster in July 2025, Link is also first violinist of the Dover Quartet and serves on the faculties of the Curtis Institute of Music and Northwestern University. He plays a rare violin—a Pietro Guarneri of Mantua dating from about 1710. Silberschlag joined the Cleveland Orchestra as principal horn in 2019. A member of a family that includes 16 professional musicians across several generations, he made his international debut in Italy at age nine.
Dawoon Chung graduated from Indiana University with bachelor’s and master’s degrees as a dean’s scholarship recipient. She completed her doctorate at the University of Southern California under the tutelage of Jeffrey Kahane. Chung enjoys an international career across several continents and has appeared as a soloist with ensembles, including the Indiana University Orchestra and South Korea’s Gwangju Philharmonic Orchestra. Through her work with Project: Music Heals Us, she actively engages the community by presenting interactive classical music performances that encourage, educate, and heal elderly, disabled, rehabilitating, incarcerated, and homeless populations.
Program
Fauré: Sonata for Piano and Violin in A Major, op. 13
Glière: Four Romances for Horn and Piano, op. 35, nos. 6, 7, 10, 11
Brahms: Trio for Piano, Violin, and Horn in E-flat Major, op. 40
“If anything, Silberschlag seemed inspired by the spotlight, moved to reveal for his new audience a seamless, golden tone. All of these are assets bound to serve him well.”
—The Plain Dealer
“During the performance all eyes and ears were mesmerized by [Chung’s] tone coming from the stage.”
—Boonville Daily News
BlueWater Chamber Orchestra: “Flute and Strings”
Friday, September 11, 2026, 6:00–7:00 p.m.
Donna and James Reid Gallery 217 Italian Baroque
Free; No Ticket Required
Flutists Sean Gabriel and Linda White, violinist Jessica Schmidt, and cellist Julie Myers King collaborate in a program of music written for the ethereal blend of flute and strings. All are members of Northeast Ohio’s BlueWater Chamber Orchestra. The musicians are performing compositions by Alessandro Scarlatti, J. C. Bach, Reinhold Glière, Maurice Ravel, Joseph Haydn, and Charles Koechlin.
Song Recital Project: Fictional Lieder
Tuesday, September 15, 2026, 12:00–1:00 p.m.
Ames Family Atrium
Free; No Ticket Required
Join us for a lunchtime concert as Song Recital Project presents a new program, Fictional Lieder, featuring baritone Jason Fuh and pianist Betty Meyers.
Fictional Lieder explores the rich world of storytelling in the songs and ballades of Franz Schubert (1797–1828) and Robert Schumann (1810–1856). Inspired by Romantic poetry and folklore, these works bring fictional characters and dramatic narratives vividly to life: supernatural spirits emerge from the shadows, tragic lovers confront despair, and wandering heroes grapple with fate and memory.
In these lieder, voice and piano act as equal partners in storytelling. The piano evokes landscapes, storms, galloping horses, and psychological tension, while the singer inhabits multiple characters and shifting perspectives. Through this intimate fusion of poetry and music, Schubert and Schumann transformed the art song into a powerful dramatic medium.
This program highlights the composers’ fascination with imagination, emotion, and the blurred boundary between reality and fantasy, inviting listeners into the haunting and deeply human worlds at the heart of German Romanticism.
Cleveland Silent Film Festival
The Cleveland Silent Film Festival and Colloquium, a celebration of the expressive power of early cinema, returns to Gartner Auditorium for four days of silent film screenings accompanied by live music.
Guests have the option to purchase tickets to individual screenings or to buy a festival pass, which allows purchasers to attend all screenings at the Cleveland Museum of Art at a discounted fee. In addition, the festival pass includes admission to the screening of East and West on September 15 at 7:30 p.m. at the Cinematheque at Cleveland Institute of Art and The General on September 17 at 7:30 p.m. at the Cleveland Grays Armory Museum.
Please note that the festival pass is not a physical badge. When a festival pass is purchased, a ticket to each screening is emailed. Festival pass holders must bring their festival pass email receipt to the Cinematheque box office to receive their ticket for the East and West screening. Festival pass holders must bring their emailed festival pass receipt to the Cleveland Grays Armory Museum to receive their ticket for The General screening.
A festival pass costs $120 for nonmembers and $100 for members.
More information about the Cleveland Silent Film Festival can be found on the organization’s website (opens in a new tab).
3 Bad Men (1926)
Wednesday, September 16, 2026, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
Gartner Auditorium, Suzanne and Paul Westlake Performing Arts Center
The Western and American film came of age together, joining forces in the work of Tom Mix, William S. Hart, and Gilbert M. “Broncho Billy” Anderson. No director defined the genre more fully than John Ford, who made many Westerns before the advent of sound. 3 Bad Men (1926) is among Ford’s best: The story follows three outlaws who inadvertently rescue a young woman (played by Olive Borden) and become her unlikely protectors after her father is killed. George O’Brien costars as a young settler drawn into their struggle against a corrupt sheriff. Ford established conventions of the Western even as he upended them, setting them against a fundamentally alien landscape. Cleveland’s star pianist Jackie Warren (whose early career included accompanying melodramas in Colorado) performs an original improvised score alongside the screening.
An introduction provided by noted John Ford expert Grafton Nunes begins at 6:30 p.m.
More information about the Cleveland Silent Film Festival can be found on the organization’s website (opens in a new tab).
The Johnstown Flood (1926)
Friday, September 18, 2026, 7:30–9:00 p.m.
Gartner Auditorium, Suzanne and Paul Westlake Performing Arts Center
In 1889, the South Fork Dam above Johnstown, Pennsylvania, failed, killing 2,209 people in the deadliest flash flood in American history. Nearly 37 years later, director Irving Cummings dramatized the event in The Johnstown Flood. George O’Brien stars as Tom O’Day, a civil engineer concerned with the dam’s instability and the vulnerability of the workers living in the valley below. Costars Janet Gaynor and Florence Gilbert, representing opposite sides of the social divide, are the two women who love him. The Johnstown Flood is noted for its innovative special effects in depicting the film’s disastrous events.
Historian Robert A. Harris notes that “the importance of The Johnstown Flood to film history is difficult to overstate.” This screening includes a guest appearance by noted silent film musician Rodney Sauer, who leads a quintet in a score created expressly for the film.
A Page of Madness (1926)
Saturday, September 19, 2026, 2:30–4:00 p.m.
Gartner Auditorium, Suzanne and Paul Westlake Performing Arts Center
Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa in collaboration with artists of Japan’s experimental “School of New Perceptions” (Shinkankakuha), A Page of Madness draws on German Expressionism, Noh theater, and melodrama. Rapid montage, superimposition, and distorted imagery immerse the viewer in the troubled inner world of its characters. Set in a psychiatric hospital, the film follows a woman who has lost her mental bearings. Her guilt-ridden husband, now unknown to her, works at the hospital as a janitor. Long believed lost, the film resurfaced in Kinugasa’s warehouse in 1971. Although roughly a third of the original version remains missing, its beauty and disturbing psychological force are undiminished.
A 2018 BBC preview of the film described it as “a balletic musing on our subconscious nightmares.” The CSFF screening features an original score by James Praznik performed by a quintet drawn from No Exit New Music Ensemble.
Beau Geste (1926)
Sunday, September 20, 2026, 2:30–4:00 p.m.
Location: Gartner Auditorium
Suzanne and Paul Westlake Performing Arts Center
After reading P. C. Wren’s novel Beau Geste, Irish American film director Herbert Brenon hurried to Jesse L. Lasky’s office at Paramount Pictures to pitch a film adaptation. Lasky gave Brenon free rein and resources to create a film that matches the novel’s epic scope. The story centers on the bond among three English brothers (played by Ronald Colman, Neil Hamilton, and Ralph Forbes) whose lives are disrupted by the disappearance of a precious family heirloom, leading them to the French Foreign Legion and the battlefields of North Africa. The film’s exteriors were shot on location in California’s Imperial Sand Dunes, its vast white sands standing in for the Sahara. Silent film music specialist Rodney Sauer leads a quintet in a newly compiled score created for the film, combining period music with live performance to heighten its romance, suspense, and grandeur.
Monsieur Periné
Wednesday, September 23, 2026, 7:30–9:00 p.m.
Gartner Auditorium, Suzanne and Paul Westlake Performing Arts Center
Monsieur Periné, one of Colombia’s most influential bands, makes its Cleveland debut performing at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Monsieur Periné is a musical laboratory led by Catalina García and Santiago Prieto Sarabia, both born and raised in Colombia. Their unique and eclectic approach blends genres such as pop, jazz, and swing with Latin American sounds like guaracha, salsa, cumbia, and bolero, constantly exploring new ways to speak about the world, love, and freedom.
The project was born in 2007 and quickly established itself as one of the most innovative groups in the region. The band’s debut album, Hecho a Mano (2012), paved the way for international recognition—a status solidified by Caja de Música (2015), for which Monsieur Periné won the Latin Grammy for Best New Artist. Since then, the group has received multiple nominations at both the Latin Grammy Awards (including Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Pop Song) and the US Grammy Awards in the Best Latin Rock, Urban, or Alternative Album category (2016 and 2019).
In 2018, the band released Encanto Tropical, which featured the hit single “Bailar Contigo”—garnering over 150 million streams across all platforms and more than 65 million views on YouTube. During the pandemic, in 2021, the group achieved unprecedented global recognition when its song “Nuestra Canción” went viral, reaching #1 on both the TikTok US Chart and the Spotify Global Viral Chart and accumulating over 2 billion views and more than 2 million video uses worldwide.
Monsieur Periné’s fourth album, Bolero Apocalíptico (2023), further cemented its artistic reputation, earning the Latin Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album. A year later, the group was featured in some of the most notable Latin music releases, with tracks such as “Hora Loca” alongside Rawayana and “Catalina” with Cimafunk and Fux Beat—the latter of which was nominated for Record of the Year at the 25th annual Latin Grammy Awards.
In 2025, the group kicked off the year with a sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall in New York and performances at major international festivals, such as the Montreux Jazz Festival (Miami), Tecate Pa’l Norte (Mexico), and the Montreal International Jazz Festival. Throughout its career, Monsieur Periné has toured the globe with its live band, performing at numerous festivals, including Rock in Rio, Lollapalooza (Chicago and Chile), Austin City Limits, Bonnaroo, Fusion Festival Berlin, Estéreo Picnic (Bogotá), and Cosquín Rock (Argentina), among many others.
Now, nearly two decades after its inception, Monsieur Periné begins a new chapter with its recent album, Instrucciones para Ser Feliz—a project that reaffirms the group’s capacity to evolve and reinvent itself within the realm of contemporary Latin music.
Cornelius & Karre: Violin and Percussion Duo in Concert
Wednesday, September 30, 2026, 6:00–7:00 p.m.
Ames Family Atrium
Free; No Ticket Required
Join percussionist Ross Karre and violinist Emily Cornelius, performing in their duo, Cornelius & Karre, for an evening of music for violin and percussion. The concert features works selected to highlight the unique acoustic qualities of the CMA’s Ames Family Atrium. The works include gongs, bells, and other vibrating objects to resonate throughout the space.
Cornelius & Karre unite the soaring lyricism of the violin and the dynamic versatility of percussion to create performances that are adventurous, visceral, and unforgettable. Breaking free from traditional orchestral roles—where the violin leads from the front and percussion anchors from the back—the duo crafts programs that are intimate, electrifying, and filled with curiosity. Cornelius and Karre began collaborating as students at Oberlin Conservatory; today, they bring two decades of experience and an ever-growing repertoire to audiences of all ages.
Program
Maria Grenfell: “Reel” from Ceol na Fidhle
Cara Haxo: belongings
Kevin Day: The Mind Is like Water
Salina Fisher: Komorebi
Arvo Pärt: Fratres
Violinist Emily Cornelius is a dynamic and versatile performer, equally at home as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral leader. She has appeared as a featured soloist with the Richmond Symphony, the Canton Symphony Orchestra, BlueWater Chamber Orchestra, the Breckenridge Music Festival Orchestra, and more. Frequently sought after as a concertmaster, Emily has led ensembles, including the Erie Philharmonic, the Canton Symphony Orchestra, BlueWater Chamber Orchestra, the Cleveland Pops Orchestra, and the Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra.
Currently, Emily performs with the Canton Symphony Orchestra, BlueWater Chamber Orchestra, the Cleveland Pops Orchestra, and the Lancaster Festival Orchestra. She also serves as concertmaster of the Heights Chamber Orchestra and is a core member of the Cleveland Chamber Collective.
Percussionist Ross Karre is a performer, filmmaker, and producer whose career spans innovative chamber music, major international festivals, and higher education. He is associate professor of percussion at Oberlin Conservatory and a member of the International Contemporary Ensemble, where he also served as artistic director from 2016 to 2022.
Ross has appeared with ensembles, including red fish blue fish, Third Coast Percussion, and Yarn/Wire, and has performed at leading festivals worldwide, such as the Mostly Mozart Festival (New York), the Ojai Music Festival (California), the Holland Festival (Netherlands), Lucerne Festival (Switzerland), Taiwan International Percussion Convention (Taiwan), Big Ears (Tennessee), and Mona Foma (Tasmania).
Relic: The Blood of the Rose
Wednesday, September 30, 2026, 7:30–9:00 p.m.
Gartner Auditorium, Suzanne and Paul Westlake Performing Arts Center
Experience the tragic love story of Venus and Adonis, brought to life through a seamless curation of Baroque music from across Europe and Latin America.
Lauded as “stylish and innovative” (New York Classical Review), Relic is a period-instrument chamber orchestra that connects with audiences through intimate, imaginative, and dramatic representations of early music. Currently in its third season, Relic has quickly built a reputation for its cutting-edge performances of both well-loved and lesser-known masterworks of the Baroque era. Relic’s innovative programming, which uses narrative “chapters” to unite a variety of repertoires into a breathtaking concert experience, has captured the hearts of new and seasoned concertgoers alike.
Relic’s recent presenters include Chamber Music Detroit, the Academy of Early Music, the Indianapolis Early Music Festival, Gotham Early Music Scene, Kalamazoo College, Musicivic, and the Bullock Series at Western Michigan University.
For its performance at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Relic presents its program The Blood of the Rose. In 1701 Peru, Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco’s La Púrpura de la Rosa (The Blood of the Rose) became the first opera ever performed in the Americas. The libretto, written by a renowned Spanish poet, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, recounts the tragic love story of Venus and Adonis.
Relic’s newly curated program celebrates the rich tradition of Baroque music in 1700s Peru through an instrumental adaptation of the Venus and Adonis story. In five musical “chapters,” punctuated by spoken excerpts from Calderón’s lush libretto, this dramatic program depicts Venus and Adonis’s blossoming romance, Mars’s vicious attempts to destroy their love, and the couple’s ultimately tragic demise.
The Blood of the Rose is a seamless curation of Baroque music from across Europe and Latin America, with a focus on Spanish and Latin American music and on works inspired by Venus and Adonis. In addition to Torrejón y Velasco, featured composers include Roque Jacinto de Chavarría, Juan de Araujo, George Frideric Handel, John Blow, Alessandro Scarlatti, and others.
More information about Relic can be found on the ensemble’s website (opens in a new tab).
Performers
Aniela Eddy, Kako Boga, Laura Lutzke, Rebecca Nelson, and Toma Iliev, violin
Graham Cohen, viola
Cullen O’Neil, cello
Sue Yelanjian, bass
Robert Warner, harpsichord and organ
Daniel Swenberg, theorbo and guitar
Georgeanne Banker, bassoon and recorder
New This Month
Art of Pahari India
Sunday, August 30, 2026–Sunday, February 21, 2027
242B Indian Painting
Free; No Ticket Required
In the far north of India, the Himalayan mountain ranges rise abruptly from the Punjab plains to form the setting for an alpine region known as Pahari, defined by a shared language (Pahari) and script (Takri). From the 1600s to 1800s, the Hindu nobility of the Pahari kingdoms commissioned paintings for their royal collections. Known as “Pahari paintings,” they were made by painters who were born into hereditary artist communities located in villages throughout the region.
Members of the region’s ruling elite classes commissioned and collected Pahari paintings and often gifted and re-gifted them to one another. The popularity of musical and poetical themes invoking heroines and their love affairs speaks to the Pahari elite’s appreciation for visual, literary, and performing arts. Paintings depicting sacred subjects, such as scenes from the life of the Hindu god Krishna, reveal their piety.
Many Pahari artists worked for multiple royal patrons, often in kingdoms other than where their family workshops were located. Before completing a painting, which involved time-consuming preparations of expensive pigments, artists created multiple preparatory sketches and careful underdrawings. Most Pahari painters appear to have been men, while women worked in textile media, such as the distinctive double-sided embroideries known as rumal.
By the mid-1800s, dramatic Pahari landscapes became favorite subjects for photographers. Photographic albums of distant places in the British Empire appealed to colonial collectors who thrilled at seeing breathtaking vistas. Some Pahari rulers also began to commission photographic portraits instead of paintings, signaling a shift to a new era.
Roots of Divinity: Christ’s Family Tree in Northern European Medieval Art
Sunday, September 6, 2026–Sunday, August 8, 2027
115 Manuscripts and Textiles
Free; No Ticket Required
This installation examines medieval fascination with Christ’s family lineage and its visual expression through depictions of biblical figures such as Jesse, David, and the motif of the Tree of Jesse.
Genealogical imagery was significant in many parts of medieval society, especially among the noble classes, who would commission visually elaborate consanguinity charts that tracked a family’s lineage from a single shared ancestor. These charts demonstrated the prestige of their bloodlines and helped noble people manage marital relationships. Christ’s ancestry gained significant cultural traction and popularity as a visual subject during the 1100s. The motivation to depict Christ’s bloodline as a tree originated in a passage from the Book of Isaiah in the Old Testament of the Bible, which foretold that a pivotal ruler would emerge from the “root of Jesse.” This passage refers to Jesse’s son, King David, from whom Christ himself descended. Consequently, medieval artists and patrons utilized imagery of Jesse, his royal descendants, and the family’s broader genealogical framework to show Christ’s position as the Messiah, or savior. Tree of Jesse imagery from Northern Europe illustrates the many ways medieval people understood and visualized Christ's genealogy. This installation delves into how Christ’s ancestry captured the medieval imagination, examining the beginnings of what became the modern practice of showing genealogy in the shape of a tree.
The objects in this installation are drawn from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. They range from the 1000s to the 1500s and come from Germany, France, the Netherlands, and England.
The Gift: Emma Amos with Friends
Sunday, September 13, 2026–Sunday, January 24, 2027
Mark Schwartz and Bettina Katz Photography Galleries | 230 Photography
Free; No Ticket Required
Emma Amos (American, 1937–2020) was a groundbreaking artist who worked in paint, print, and textiles to celebrate the lives of women, particularly women of color. The Gift: Emma Amos with Friends centers on Amos’s monumental portrait series The Gift (1990–94), recently acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art. This suite of 48 watercolor portraits, painted from life, depicts women artists, writers, and curators in Amos’s intergenerational community. Ranging from renowned figures—Elizabeth Catlett, Anna Deavere Smith, bell hooks, Lucy Lippard, Howardena Pindell, Faith Ringgold, Lorna Simpson, and Kay WalkingStick—to lesser-known individuals, the evocative paintings are united in a vast grid whose scale projects the force of its subjects. “The Gift is not possible to negate,” Amos stated. “Those women are too powerful to ignore.” Made as a birthday present for her daughter India, The Gift animates the importance of creative community as a source of strength, support, and inspiration, which Amos learned from her mother.
Marking the first time The Gift has been displayed in nearly 20 years, The Gift: Emma Amos with Friends reveals the context for this work’s production and its legacies. Alongside The Gift, earlier portraits by Amos in the CMA’s collection as well as the artist’s own notebooks, manuscripts, and film footage documenting The Gift’s production highlight how kinship—biological and elected—was an enduring motivation for her art. This exhibition also features selected works by Amos to further contextualize The Gift within the artist’s decades-long practice.
The Gift: Emma Amos with Friends is accompanied by a richly illustrated catalogue inspired by a book proposal that Amos drafted but never realized during her lifetime. This catalogue includes essays by Rhea L. Combs, Carmen Hermo, Emily Liebert, and Gabriella Shypula, as well as a reprinted interview of Amos by bell hooks. The intersection of portraiture and community is explored through a roundtable discussion with contemporary artists Jordan Casteel, Aliza Nisenbaum, and Amy Sherald, moderated by Rhea L. Combs. The catalogue also features never-before-published archives, as well as biographies for each of The Gift’s 48 sitters. In tandem, the CMA is expanding the exhibition’s reach through a complementary digital resource rooted in The Gift.
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.
Spectacular Freedom: Andrew Wyeth and the Modern American Watercolor
Sunday, September 20, 2026–Monday, January 18, 2027
The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Gallery | Special Exhibition Gallery
This exhibition is the first to offer an in-depth exploration of American artist Andrew Wyeth’s watercolors—described by one critic as having a “spectacular freedom”—examining his relationship to the medium throughout the early decades of his career. Beginning in the 1930s, Wyeth built a monumental reputation for his use of watercolor, depicting the people and places that surrounded him in rural Pennsylvania and Maine in expressive and evocative compositions. His practice varied widely over the years that followed, resulting in innovative works, both sketches and finished sheets. These works ranged from vivid, painterly landscapes to precisely rendered interior scenes and preparatory studies for the tempera paintings he produced alongside his watercolors.
Wyeth began to experiment with watercolor at a time when interest in it exploded throughout the United States, leading to its promotion as a medium distinctively suited to depicting American experiences. This new climate for making and exhibiting watercolors not only encouraged Wyeth’s practice but also informed the fundamental questions engaged by his work about what it meant to be American and modern at that time.
Spectacular Freedom: Andrew Wyeth and the Modern American Watercolor presents nearly 75 works from the artist’s estate—most of which have never been on view. Featuring watercolors and a selection of the artist’s paintings, the exhibition highlights a major aspect of Wyeth’s life and art. A richly illustrated accompanying publication includes essays by historians of American art and works on paper.
Spectacular Freedom: Andrew Wyeth and the Modern American Watercolor is organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art in collaboration with the Brandywine Museum of Art.
Presented by the Wyeth Foundation for American Art. Generous support is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support is provided by an anonymous donor, the Seven Five Fund, and Karen A. Walburn.
Andrew Wyeth Tours
Daily, 10:30–11:30 a.m. from Tuesday, September 29, 2026, until Friday, January 8, 2027
Ames Family Atrium
Join us for a docent-guided tour of Spectacular Freedom: Andrew Wyeth and the Modern American Watercolor, an exhibition that presents nearly 75 works from the artist’s estate—most of which have never been on view. Featuring watercolors and a selection of the artist’s paintings, Spectacular Freedom highlights a major aspect of Wyeth’s life and art.
This exhibition is the first to offer an in-depth exploration of American artist Andrew Wyeth’s watercolors—described by one critic as having a “spectacular freedom”—examining his relationship to the medium throughout the early decades of his career. Beginning in the 1930s, Wyeth built a monumental reputation for his use of watercolor, depicting the people and places that surrounded him in rural Pennsylvania and Maine in expressive and evocative compositions.
To schedule private tours for adult groups of 10 or more, please contact grouptours@clevelandart.org or call 216-707-2752.
There are no tours on the following dates: November 24–29; December 24, 26, 27, 31; and January 2, 3
On-Site Activities
Copper, Steel, and Ink: The Art of Engraving in the Renaissance
Tuesday, September 1, 2026, 12:00–1:00 p.m.
Gartner Auditorium, Suzanne and Paul Westlake Performing Arts Center
Free; Ticket Required
Developed around 1460, engraving transformed the way images circulated across Europe. Using little more than a steel burin, a copperplate, ink, paper, and a press, early printmakers created works of extraordinary precision, beauty, and expressive power. Join Emily J. Peters, curator of prints and drawings, as she explores how the first engravers mastered this demanding medium, producing some of the most refined images of the Renaissance while advancing a new technology that enabled pictures to be reproduced, shared, and collected on an unprecedented scale.
The Art of Beer: Part 3
Wednesdays, September 2, 23, and Friday, September 25, 2026, 6:00–8:00 p.m.
Banquet Room
The Art of Beer is a 21+ event. Please note, the small bites paired with the beer tasting may include meat, dairy, and gluten.
Join us for the third installment of a unique adult-education class at the CMA in partnership with Market Garden Breweries. We delve into the fascinating art of beer by exploring artworks from the museum’s collection that highlight the rich history of making and drinking beer in Cleveland. Held in the museum’s banquet room, this immersive class also features a curated tasting of five Market Garden beers paired with small Oktoberfest-themed bites prepared by the museum’s catering team at Provenance. Led by art historian Amanda Mikolic and Andy Tveekrem, master brewer and cofounder of Market Garden Breweries, this event promises to be both educational and delicious!
For questions, please contact adultprograms@clevelandart.org.
Children’s Saturday Studios: Faces and Places
Weekly on Saturday, 10:00–11:30 a.m. from Saturday, September 5, 2026, until Saturday, September 26, 2026
Museum Classrooms B and C
Every face has a story, and every place holds a memory. Explore portraits and landscapes from around the world before creating artwork that celebrates the people and places you love most.
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 galleries, materials, and creative prompts inspired by the CMA’s collection.
Age groups: Five to seven years old and eight to ten years old
Scholarships are available. For more information, contact familyyouthinfo@clevelandart.org or call 216-707-2469.
Senior Studio
Tuesday, September 8, 2026, 2:00–3:30 p.m.
Classroom F
Calling all seniors! Looking for an opportunity to learn some new art skills or build on those you have? Come to the CMA for Senior Studio, an art class just for those over 55. Explore the fundamentals of different media with instruction from professional artist Rebekah Wilhelm. All skill levels are welcome, beginner to expert. Materials are provided.
Play Day: Legends and Legacies
Sunday, September 13, 2026, 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
Ames Family Atrium
Free; No Ticket Required
Play Days at the CMA are free opportunities for families to be creative and curious and connect through art together. Events include music, storybook readings, games, and art making for the whole family. Each event has a theme that relates to an exhibition, artist, or artwork in the CMA’s collection.
Who’s in your story? From ancient myths to treasured family traditions, discover how stories connect us to the people who help shape our lives. Explore myths, legends, folktales, and fables while celebrating the many forms of family, friendship, and community through art, literacy, and imagination.
Discovering the Renaissance Engraver’s Language of Image Making
Wednesday, September 16, 2026, 6:00–7:00 p.m.
James and Hanna Bartlett Prints and Drawings Galleries | 101A–B Prints and Drawings
Ames Family Atrium
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.
Join paper conservator Moyna Stanton to look closely at Renaissance engravers’ materials, especially their cutting tools and cutting techniques, to better understand how specific marks and visual effects were achieved.
Sensory-Friendly Saturdays
Saturday, September 19, 2026, 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, relax in the designated “calming corner,” 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.
This program is made possible with support from the Cuyahoga County Board of Developmental Disabilities.
Art Up Close
Art from Central and South America
Tuesday, September 22, 2026, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Ames Family Atrium
Free; No Ticket Required
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by exploring select artworks from Central and South America.
Curator Tour: Renaissance Engraving
Wednesday, September 23, 2026, 10:30–11:30 a.m. and 6:00–7:00 p.m.
James and Hanna Bartlett Prints and Drawings Galleries | 101A–B Prints and Drawings
Ames Family Atrium
Join us for an expert-led tour of the print exhibition The Renaissance Engraver at Work. Exhibition curator Emily J. Peters discusses how the first engravers mastered the demanding medium of engraving, producing some of the most refined images of the Renaissance while advancing a new technology that enabled pictures to be reproduced, shared, and collected on an unprecedented scale.
Meet at the Museum
Friday, September 25, 2026, 6:00–8:00 p.m.
Ames Family Atrium
Ticket Required
New to Cleveland and looking to meet people? Or simply looking for something fun to do on a Friday night? Come to the CMA for an evening of art, activities, and connection. Enjoy a drink at the welcome cocktail hour and meet new people while exploring the permanent collection with guided activities.
Each ticket includes a voucher for one beer, cocktail, or glass of wine.
Check back soon for a schedule of events!
Open Studio
Weekly on Sunday, 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. from Sunday, September 6, 2026, until Sunday, May 30, 2027
North Court Lobby, Parker Hannifin Corporation Donor Gallery
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.
September 2026: Legends and Legacies
Who’s in your story? From ancient myths to treasured family traditions, discover how stories connect us to the people who help shape our lives. Explore myths, legends, folktales, and fables while celebrating the many forms of family, friendship, and community through art, literacy, and imagination.
Guided Tours
Tours meet at the information desk in the Ames Family Atrium.
Art in the Afternoon Tours
Wednesday, September 2, 2026, 1:00–2:00 p.m.
Ames Family Atrium
Free; Ticket Required
On the first Wednesday of each month at 1:00 p.m., specially trained docents lead a gallery tour designed for individuals experiencing memory loss and their caregivers. The Cleveland Museum of Art offers these thoughtfully structured tours to uplift the spirit, engage the mind, and create a relaxed, enjoyable social experience. Docents are trained to be responsive to the interests and abilities of all participants, encouraging conversation, shared memories, and meaningful engagement with art.
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.
Art for Every Body Tours
Saturday, September 19, 2026, 9:15–10:15 a.m.
Ames Family Atrium
Free; Ticket Required
In addition to the CMA’s Sensory-Friendly Saturdays, the museum is also offering Art for Every Body tours on the third Saturday of each month at 9:15 a.m. Join a guided museum tour designed for comfort, ease, and connection. One wing of the museum opens early to provide a quiet, spacious setting before public hours. Two docents lead the tour, offering support with navigation, moving at a slower pace, and ensuring everyone can see, hear, and engage comfortably. This guided experience creates a relaxed, stress-free way to enjoy art, ask questions, and spend time looking together in an environment where everyone is welcome.
To schedule private tours for adult groups of 10 or more, please contact grouptours@clevelandart.org or call 216-707-2752.
Daily Guided Tours
Tuesday through Sunday
Ames Family Atrium
Free; Ticket Required
Public tours are offered Tuesday through Sunday at 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m., with additional tours 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.
Date Night Tours
Fridays, 6:15–7:15 p.m.
Ames Family Atrium
Free; Ticket Required
Step into the museum for a night out that’s a little different. Join a docent for a tour of intimate works and bold showstoppers, paired with stories of love, longing, power, and desire. Perfect for couples, friends, or a first date, this tour is made for close looking, easy conversation, and discovering how art has captured human drama for centuries.
To schedule private tours for adult groups of 10 or more, please contact grouptours@clevelandart.org or call 216-707-2752.
Rosh Hashanah Tours
Friday, September 11, 2:00–3:00 p.m.
Saturday, September 12, 2:00–3:00 p.m.
Sunday, September 13, 2:00–3:00 p.m.
Ames Family Atrium
Free; Ticket Required
Join us for docent-guided tours that highlight Jewish ceremonial art, artwork by Jewish artists, and other artwork related to Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year). Rosh Hashanah, literally meaning “Head of the Year” in Hebrew, is the Jewish New Year. Spanning the first two days of the Hebrew month of Tishrei, it commemorates the creation of the world and marks the start of the High Holidays, a 10-day period of introspection and repentance.
To schedule private tours for adult groups of 10 or more, please contact grouptours@clevelandart.org or call 216-707-2752.
Somos Más: Hispanic Art History Tours
Saturdays, September 5–26, 3:00–4:00 p.m.
Ames Family Atrium
Free; Ticket Required
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with docent-led tours highlighting the rich cultures, histories, and vibrant creativity of artists of Latin descent. Explore powerful stories and stunning works that showcase diverse traditions and contemporary voices shaping the art world today.
The museum celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month in September and all year round. Learn about artists of Latin descent 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.
Regency Era Art History Tours
Sundays, September 6 – 27, 3:00–4:00 p.m.
Ames Family Atrium
Free; Ticket Required
Perfect for fans of Pride and Prejudice and Bridgerton, these docent-led tours explore the art and life of the Regency time period (Britain, 1811–20). Celebrate the time of Jane Austen, Georgette Hyer, Sir Walter Scott, Mary Shelley, John Keats, Lord Byron, and many more heroes of British Romanticism. Europe from 1795 to 1820 was dominated by the Napoleonic Wars, the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte, and the postwar Congress of Vienna (1815), which redrew the map to restore monarchical power. This era, particularly in Britain, saw major social, artistic, and fashion shifts, moving toward industrialization, neoclassicism, and early Romanticism.
To schedule private tours for adult groups of 10 or more, please contact grouptours@clevelandart.org or call 216-707-2752.
Continuing Exhibitions
The Renaissance Engraver at Work
Through Sunday, November 1, 2026
James and Hanna Bartlett Prints and Drawings Galleries | Galleries 101A–B
Free; No Ticket Required
Many of us hold an engraving in our hand every day in the form of US currency. In Renaissance Europe, engraving was a new technology. Long the domain of goldsmiths, engraved lines appeared as prints on paper—possibly to record metalwork designs—in the mid-1400s. The potential of printed engravings quickly became clear: They provided the opportunity to reproduce artworks in other media with unprecedented refinement and to disseminate artistic compositions far and wide.
Engraving’s materials are unforgiving. Made with just a burin (a steel chisel), a copperplate, ink, paper, and a press, engraved designs are limited to a visual vocabulary of crossed and parallel lines, dots, and grooves. Engravings made between approximately 1470 and 1650 reveal how early practitioners grappled with universal pictorial problems—such as tone, texture, and volume—through linear means. The Renaissance Engraver at Work follows the rapid spread of engraving, marked by key innovations, from the Rhine region to Florence, Nuremberg, Venice, Antwerp, Rome, and Paris.
The Cleveland Museum of Art holds some of the world’s rarest and most important early engravings, including the only known first state of Antonio del Pollaiuolo’s Battle of the Nudes and unique impressions by the Master of the Nuremberg Passion and the Master of the E-Series Tarocchi. Drawn entirely from the CMA’s collection, The Renaissance Engraver at Work explores the innovations and adaptations as well as the beauty and astounding optical effects that shaped the early history of engraving.
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.
American Printed Silks, 1927–1947
Through Sunday, November 8, 2026
Arlene M. and Arthur S. Holden Gallery | Gallery 234
Free; No Ticket Required
Between the late 1920s and late 1940s, the US was a leader in printed silks used in fashionable attire and interiors. This exhibition showcases printed silks in the CMA’s collection from four American companies—Stehli Silks Corporation, H. R. Mallinson and Company, Silks Beau Monde, and Onondaga Silk Company.
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.
The Plum Scenery Studio: Wu Hufan and His Circle in Modern Shanghai
Through Sunday, November 8, 2026
Clara T. Rankin Suite of Chinese Art Galleries | Gallery 240A
Free; No Ticket Required
Wu Hufan (Chinese, 1894–1968) was one of the most influential and important collectors and artists of modern Shanghai. Many paintings in the CMA’s collection bear his collector seals or inscriptions express his art expertise. This installation presents about 20 artworks from the museum and private collections, including five recent gifts to the CMA, all of which illustrate the exchanges and relationships Wu Hufan entertained with his students, painters, and poets of the time.
Silver, Gold, and Gems: A Spotlight on Jewelry Across Africa
Through Sunday, December 6, 2026
Gallery 108C
Free; No Ticket Required
For the first time, view a permanent display of gold and silver jewelry from across the African continent on view in the collection galleries of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Admire a selection of glittering ornaments from the Akan states of West Africa, shimmering gemstones from the Maghreb region, hair accessories from ancient Egypt in Northern Africa, and the bold silver of five recently gifted Ethiopian necklaces from East Africa. Spanning thousands of years, these works testify to the depth of African creativity, the skill of jewelers on the continent, and the eternal human desire for adornment.
“Bunjin” in Japanese Art
Through Sunday, December 6, 2026
Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Japanese Art Galleries | Gallery 235A
Free; No Ticket Required
This installation explores how some Japanese artists of the 1700s and 1800s interpreted what it meant to embrace a lifestyle centered on a shared appreciation of learning and literature. Bunjin is the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese word wenren (文人), literally “person of letters.” Often translated into English as “literati,” wenren originally referred to Chinese scholars of the Northern Song dynasty (960–1127) who held government positions and fostered social groups in which they could exchange their own paintings and poems. Over time, knowledge of this tradition—professional scholars creating amateur artworks inspired by values shared with friends—found its way to both Japan and Korea. In Japan, the most widespread engagement with the idea of the scholar-artist took place during the Edo period (1615–1868).
Native North American Textiles
Through Sunday, December 13, 2026
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. Both are rugs woven for the non-Native collectors’ market, modeled on the Diné shoulder blanket.
Ancient Andean Textiles
Through Sunday, December 13, 2026
Jon A. Lindseth and Virginia M. Lindseth, PhD, Galleries of the Ancient Americas | Gallery 232
Free; No Ticket Required
Between about 3000 BCE and the early 1500s CE, ancient Andean weavers created one of the world’s most distinguished textile traditions in both artistic and technical terms. Within this time span, the most complex and well-preserved group of early textiles to survive was made by the Paracas people of Peru’s south coast.
Sky Hopinka’s Visions of an Island
Through Sunday, January 10, 2027
224B Video
Free; No Ticket Required
Visions of an Island is part of Sky Hopinka’s broader exploration of the ways that memory, the spoken word, and the environment form multilayered Indigenous identities. Here, he focuses on the Unangax̂, an Indigenous people who live on the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands off the west coast of Alaska. Filming on Saint Paul, one of the Pribilof Islands, Hopinka intertwines three elements: an Unangax̂ elder describing the island, students learning the Unangam Tunuu language, and scenes of a dreamlike setting. As the camera pans across rocky cliffs, rough waters, and weathered houses, we hear reflections from the Unangax̂ elder and discussion from students on incongruities between language and landscape. Through techniques of collage and superimposition, images of land, sea, and humans blur and merge.
Hidden Insights: Looking at the Backs of Portrait Miniatures
Through Sunday, February 14, 2027
Ellen and Bruce Mavec Gallery | Gallery 203B
Free; No Ticket Required
Portrait miniatures were portable luxury objects treasured by their owners both for the cherished portrait and the precious materials from which they were crafted. Frequently, patrons would spend substantially more than the cost of the portrait to have it placed in a gold or silver case outfitted with pearls, enamel, diamonds, colored glass, or elaborate hair work. Thirteen miniatures spanning 230 years represent a variety of approaches to ornamenting the back of a portrait and suggest the wealth of information that can be hidden from view.
Children’s Armor from the Imperial Habsburg Armory in Vienna
Through Sunday, June 4, 2028
Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Armor Court | Gallery 210A
Free; No Ticket Required
Four historically significant suits of armor from the Imperial Habsburg Armory in Vienna, Austria, are being displayed in the armor court for the next three years. The selection focuses on children’s armor and weapons to illustrate how a military education played an important role in training boys to become a knight. A few objects from the CMA’s own collection of children’s armor are being shown alongside these magnificent loans.
Principal support is provided by the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation.
New Acquisition: Giambologna’s Fata Morgana
Through Sunday, September 1, 2030
Gallery 117B
Free; No Ticket Required
The Cleveland Museum of Art has acquired Fata Morgana, one of the greatest works by Giambologna (Italian, 1529–1608), the preeminent sculptor of his generation, and the last known marble sculpture by his hand in a private collection. This rare and internationally renowned figure is being shown in a gallery evoking the Tuscan grotto in which it was originally placed.
Transformer Station
1460 W 29th Street, Cleveland, OH 44113
Lake Effect: Artists from Cleveland Now
Through Sunday, December 6, 2026
Free; No Ticket Required
In celebration of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s 110th anniversary, Lake Effect: Artists from Cleveland Now brings into focus the extraordinary depth and vitality of artistic production across Northeast Ohio. Earlier this year, the CMA invited artists from the greater Cleveland area to submit their art for a group exhibition. The artworks on view here were selected by a panel of jurors. Recalling the May Show—the museum’s annual exhibition that for decades celebrated regional artists—Lake Effect once again highlights the rich artistic history of the region and the museum’s long role as a destination and inspiration in the community.
The response to this call was itself a testament to that history and its ongoing vitality: We received 1,700 submissions from 950 artists, reflecting a region alive with artistic excellence and vision. From this remarkable pool, 66 artworks were selected, forming an exhibition that honors the breadth of creative voices shaping Cleveland today.
As the Cleveland Museum of Art looks toward its next century, Lake Effect honors the artists and audiences who have shaped its past while imagining a vision for the future. The selected artworks, diverse in medium and perspective, collectively map a contemporary landscape shaped by local histories, global currents, and the unique cultural ecology of Northeast Ohio.
Participating Artists:
Marty Ackley, Keegan Adams, Elisa Albrecht, Leslye Discont Arian, Karen D. Beckwith, Eli Betchik, Melissa Bollen, Davon Brantley, Leigh Brooklyn, Timothy Callaghan, Yiyun Chen, David Kendrick Chittock, Kristen Cliffel, Donna Coleman, Doriyan Coleman, Gianna Commito, Ajha Dean-Phillips, Billy Delfs, Avery Duff, Meryl Engler, Charles Gray, Toby Griffiths, Ilynn Guldman, Melissa Harris, Bettyann Helms, Heather Higham, Matthew Holland, R Kauff, Teresa Kiplinger, Phil Kline, Stanka Kordic, Shufeng Kuang, Maria Laureno, Jennifer Leach, Jordan Lee, Janice Lessman-Moss, Hannah Levengood, Amy Lewandowski, Yu Liu, Nicole Maye Luga, Mike Meier, Anthony Mitri, Nicolette Moyer, Paul O’Keeffe, Jenniffer Omaitz, Frank Oriti, Kristina Paabus, Maxmillian Peralta, Allison Polgar, Darice Polo, Maiya Ponsky, Shawn Powell, Bellamy Printz, Ty Rex, Katy Richards, Eric Rippert, Michael Boyd Roman, Brian Sarama, Glen Schreck, Kelle Schwab, Jacob Smith, Heather N. Stout, Judy Takács, Zack White, Chi Wong, and Nikki Woods.
For more information, visit https://lakeeffect-artists-fromclevelandnow.artcall.org (opens in a new tab).
For questions, please contact cleartistsnow@clevelandart.org.
This exhibition is organized by 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.
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.
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
Chalk Party | Fiesta de Tiza
Sunday, September 6, 2026, 1:00–4:00 p.m.
Free; All Ages; Drop In; No Reservation Required | Gratis; Todas Edades; Sin Cita Previa; No Es Necesario Registrarse
Join us at the Community Arts Center for an all-ages chalking event! Help us adorn the CAC with your drawings and imagination! Make your own stencil and explore chalking techniques inside and outside. CMA’s mobile art van Studio Go will be installing an interactive Butterfly trail, a three-dimensional drawing space that is wheelchair accessible and great for those with limited mobility or looking for a new perspective. Engage with Yves Santana as he creates his own chalk drawing live during the event. Everyone can participate at Chalk Party! Bring your skills to the Community Arts Center and help us transform the space into a colorful canvas!
Born in Oakland, California, and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Santana is a multimedia portrait artist whose work explores identity, resilience, and the emotional experiences that shape who we become. Working primarily in charcoal, acrylic, and airbrush, he creates expressive portraiture that blends realism with stylized exaggeration, using bold contrasts and striking features to evoke both strength and vulnerability. Read more about Santana on his artist website (opens in a new tab).
¡Únete a nosotros en el Centro de Artes Comunitarios para un evento de tiza para todas las edades! ¡Ayúdanos a adornar el CAC con tus dibujos e imaginación! Haz tu propia plantilla y explora técnicas de tiza, tanto dentro como fuera. La furgoneta móvil de arte Studio Go de CMA instalará un sendero interactivo Butterfly, un espacio de dibujo tridimensional accesible para sillas de rodas y ideal para quienes tienen movilidad reducida o buscan una nueva perspectiva. Participa con Yves Santana mientras crea su propio dibujo con tiza en directo durante el evento. ¡Todos pueden participar en la Fiesta de la Tiza! ¡Lleva tus habilidades al Centro de Artes Comunitarias y ayúdanos a transformar el espacio en un lienzo colorido!
Nacido en Oakland, California, y Criado en Cleveland, Ohio, Santana es un artista de Trabajando principalmente en carbón, acrílico y aerógrafo, crea retratos expresivos que combinan realismo con exageración estilizada, utilizando contrastes audaces y rasgos llamativos para evocar tanto fuerza como vulnerabilidad. Lee más sobre Santana en su web de artista.
Yoga for All: Connecting Mind, Body, and Community | Yoga para Todos: Conectando Mente, Cuerpo y Comunidad
First Saturday of the month, 11:00–11:45 a.m.
Free; Reservation 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 every first Saturday 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 (opens in a new tab) to reserve your spot.
¡Vengan uno, vengan todos, tanto bajos como altos, para practicar yoga gratis en el Centro Comunitario de Artes! ¡Invitamos a nuestras familias del área de Cleveland cada primer sábado a salir a pasar una tarde de movimiento, diversión, relajación y conexión en el CAC! Este evento gratuito es presentado por la profesional de yoga de Cleveland Clinic y embajadora de Lululemon, Valerie Williams, quien lo guía a través de una serie de divertidos estiramientos, movimientos, juegos y obsequios para alegrar su 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 callado 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. Se proporcionan refrigerios y refrigerios para todos los niños que asisten. Únase a nosotros después del yoga para una sesión de creación artística con nuestro increíble personal del Centro 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.
Comic Club
First Saturday of the month, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Free; All Ages; No Reservation | Gratis; Todas Edades; No Es Necesario Registrarse
Be inspired and venture into the world of storytelling with artist Kobe Saunders (opens in a new tab). 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 (opens in a new tab). ¡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.
Community Arts Center September Open Studios | Estudios Abiertos del Centro de Artes Comunitario
Weekly on Saturdays and Sundays, 1:00–4:00 p.m.
Free; No ticket Required
Tranquil Diorama
Inspired by the exhibition The Plum Scenery Studio: Wu Hufan and His Circle in Modern Shanghai, guests are invited to create a miniature landscape inspired by the peaceful scenes depicted by Wu Hufan and his circle. Their work celebrates the beauty and tranquility of nature through carefully observed and imagined landscapes. Using 3-D objects and materials, design your own serene nature scene and capture the sense of calm that defines their artistic vision.
Inspirados por la exposición El Estudio de Escenografía de Ciruelas: Wu Hufan y su círculo en la Shanghái moderna, los visitantes serán invitados a crear un paisaje en miniatura inspirado en las escenas pacíficas representadas por Wu Hufan y su círculo. Su obra celebraba la belleza y tranquilidad de la naturaleza a través de paisajes cuidadosamente observados e imaginados. Utilizando objetos y materiales 3-D, diseña tu propia escena natural serena y captura la sensación de calma que define su vision artística.
The Creative Table
Second Friday of the month, 5:00–7:00 p.m.
Community Arts Center | Centro de Artes Comunitarias
Free; No Ticket Required | Gratis; No Se Requiere Boleto
Join us on the second Friday of each month for a laid-back evening of conversation and creativity. Whether you’re a painter, poet, photographer, or just curious, come hang out and share what you’ve been working on!
All mediums are welcome. The event is an open-discussion forum.
Únase a nosotros el segundo viernes de cada mes para una noche relajada de conversación y creatividad. Ya sea que sea pintor, poeta, fotógrafo o simplemente curioso, venga a pasar el rato, y comparta en qué ha estado trabajando.
Todos los medios son bienvenidos. El evento tiene un formato de discusión abierta.
Presented by Bank of America. Additional support is provided by Shurtape Technologies.
The 2026–27 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.
The views expressed by performers during this event are their own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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, Cynthia and Dale Brogan, Dr. Ben and Julia Brouhard, Brenda and Marshall Brown, Gail and Bill Calfee, the Leigh H. Carter family, Dr. William A. Chilcote Jr. and Dr. Barbara S. Kaplan, Mary and Jim Conway, 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, Martha H. and Steven M. Hale, Janice Hammond and Edward Hemmelgarn, Linda Harper, Robin Heiser, the late Marta and the late Donald M. Jack Jr., the estate of Walter and Jean Kalberer, Robert M. Kaye, Jane and Doug Kern, the late Mrs. Nancy M. Lavelle, Eva and Rudolf Linnebach, William S. Lipscomb, Bill and Joyce Litzler, the Roy Minoff Family Fund, Lu Anne and the late Carl Morrison, Mrs. Peta and the late Dr. Roland Moskowitz, Jeffrey Mostade and Eric Nilson and Varun Shetty, Sarah Nash, Courtney and Michael Novak, Mark and Paula Nylander, Tim O’Brien and Breck Platner, Dr. Nicholas and Anne Ogan, William J. and Katherine T. O’Neill, Henry Ott-Hansen, Frank and Fran Porter, Christine Fae Powell, Peter and Julie Raskind, Michael and Cindy Resch, Marguerite and James Rigby, in memory of Dee Schafer, 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 the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation, Dieter and Susan M. Kaesgen, and Gail C. and Elliott L. Schlang. Major annual support is provided by Brenda and Marshall Brown, Mrs. Martine Kowal, Eva and Rudolf Linnebach, Medical Mutual of Ohio, the Edwin D. Northrup II Fund, the Reinberger Foundation, 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, Linda Harper, the late Marta and the late Donald M. Jack Jr., Susan LaPine, Bill and Joyce Litzler, the Logsdon Family Fund for Education, Lu Anne and the late Carl Morrison, Sarah Nash, Courtney and Michael Novak, William J. and Katherine T. O’Neill, William Roj and Mary Lynn Durham, Suzanne Cushwa Rusnak and Jeff Rusnak, Ellen and Lowell Satre, in memory of Dee Schafer, Betty T. and David M. Schneider, the Sally and Larry Sears Fund for Education Endowment, Roy Smith, Saundra K. Stemen, Paula and Eugene Stevens, the Trilling Family Foundation, Jack and Jeanette Walton, and the Womens Council of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
All activities of the Eric T. and Jane Baker Nord Family Conservation Suite are underwritten by the CMA Fund for Conservation. Principal annual support is provided by an anonymous donor and the Parker Hannifin Corporation. Major annual support is provided by Cathy Lincoln, Eva and Rudolf Linnebach, the Dawn M. Neff Endowed Fund for Conservation, and Dr. Isobel Rutherford. Generous annual support is provided by an anonymous donor, Gini and Randy Barbato, Brenda and Marshall Brown, Dr. William A. Chilcote Jr. and Dr. Barbara S. Kaplan, Linda Harper, the late Marta and the late Donald M. Jack Jr., Dr. and Mrs. John T. Lai, Albert Leonetti and Ruth Anna Carlson, June and Simon K. C. Li, William and Joyce Litzler, Sarah Nash, Courtney and Michael Novak, William J. and Katherine T. O’Neill, Michael Prunty and the late M. Lee Maxwell, William Roj and Mary Lynn Durham, Anya and John Rudd, in memory of Dee Schafer, Betty T. and David M. Schneider, the Seven Five Fund, Paula and Eugene Stevens, Jack and Jeanette Walton, and the Womens Council of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
All digital innovation and technology initiatives at the Cleveland Museum of Art are underwritten by the CMA Fund for Digital Innovation. Principal support is provided by the Bishop Parker Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Tim Elek Jr., Walt and Kathy Fortney, Mr. William N. Hanson in loving memory of Susan H. Hanson, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the late Mrs. Nancy M. Lavelle, John and Leanne Sauerland, and the Trilling Family Foundation.
The Community Arts Center was made possible with principal support from Chuck and Char Fowler and the Eric and Jane Nord Family Fund. Major annual support for the Community Arts Center is provided by the Edwin D. Northrup II Fund and the Reinberger Foundation. Generous annual support is provided by the Giant Eagle Foundation.
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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 68,000 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 innovations. One of the foremost 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 is 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.