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Community Arts Center Open Studios | Estudios Abiertos del Centro de Artes Comunitario
Tags For: Community Arts Center Open Studios | Estudios Abiertos Del Centro De Artes Comunitario
- Workshop
Class type: Studio
Weekly on Saturday and Sunday, 1:00–4:00 p.m.
Location: Community Arts Center
Centro de Artes Comunitarias
Free; All Ages; No Reservation Required | Gratis; Todas Edades; No Se Requiere Reserva
About The Event
We invite you to the Community Arts Center for free art making, exploring world-building and the importance of daily rituals! Inspired by the work of Dexter Davis and in celebration of Black History Month, participants are invited to make their own collage and piece together portraits of loved ones. Through this collage project, guests are encouraged to reflect and create portraits or self-portraits that represent cherished family traditions and memories. This program is open to people of all ages and artistic abilities. All materials are provided and are nontoxic.
Davis is a multidisciplinary artist born in 1965 who lives and works in Cleveland. He received his BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art, and his work is found in the collections of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Progressive Corporation. He has completed residencies with Zygote Press (Cleveland) and the Experimental Printmaking Institute, Lafayette College (Easton, PA). His work has also been featured in Cleveland at the William Busta Gallery and CACP Gallery.
Davis is known for his dynamic mixed-media pieces, layering collage-based works with combined fragments and hand-carved woodblock prints. Recycling everything around him into something new, Davis gives new meaning to everyday objects. Through a series of traumatic experiences, Davis has found safety in creating art to tell his story. His appreciation of ritual as a form to heal and experiment has played a huge role in his artistic practice.
Community Arts Center | Centro de Artes Comunitarias
Explore community art making at the CAC! We are open every weekend to help families and individuals of all ages connect to art and expression.
Sponsors
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. Generous annual support is provided by the Giant Eagle Foundation.
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 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, Shurtape Technologies, and the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation. Generous annual support is provided by 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, Sarah Nash, Courtney and Michael Novak, William J. and Katherine T. O’Neill, the Pickering Foundation, 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, Paula and Eugene Stevens, the Trilling Family Foundation, Jack and Jeanette Walton, and the Womens Council of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
The Cleveland Museum of Art is funded in part by residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.
Education programs are supported in part by the Ohio Arts Council, which receives support from the State of Ohio and the National Endowment for the Arts.
