The Creative Table

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  • Special Event
Monthly on the second Friday, 5:00–7:00 p.m.
Location: Community Arts Center
Free; Reservation Required | Gratis; Se Requiere Boleto

About The Event

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! In April Creative Table will feature OSU photographer Kate Shannon. 

Kate Shannon is an associate professor in the Department of Art at The Ohio State University and OSU’s 2025–26 Artist Laureate. Her work explores photography’s relationship to memory, materiality, and the digital age. Her artwork has been exhibited widely, and she has received Ohio State Mansfield’s Campus Awards for both Excellence in Scholarship and Excellence in Teaching. In 2024, she presented research on Ohio State’s Floyd and Marion Rinhart Collection of 19th-century American photographs at The Daguerreian Society’s Symposium in Houston, Texas, and is currently working a creative project that reexamines these historical images using contemporary tools. Shannon earned her BFA from the University of Kentucky and her MFA from The Ohio State University. She lives in Hilliard, Ohio, with her husband, children, and cat.

All mediums are welcomed. The event is an open-discussion forum.
Email commartsinfo@clevelandart.org to reserve your spot.

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. 

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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, 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, 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.