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Reframing the Collection
With Kate Shannon
Tags For: Reframing the Collection
- Workshop
Friday, April 10, 2026, 5:00–7:00 p.m.
Location: Community Arts Center
Centro de Artes Comunitarias
Free; All Ages; No Reservation Required | Gratis; Todas Edades; Sin Cita Previa
About The Event
Led by Ohio State University’s 2025 Artist Laureate Kate Shannon, Reframing the Collection is a hands-on workshop that invites visitors to engage with early American photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s permanent collection. Using copies of these public-domain images, participants explore the invention of photography and the contexts in which these images were made, asking whose stories are represented, whose are absent, and how these choices shape our understanding of the past. Through conversation and examples of contemporary artists who reimagine historical photographs, participants consider how altering existing images can become a powerful form of connection, reclamation, and storytelling. Working with printed reproductions of the CMA’s photographs, they are encouraged to cut, paste, erase, add, and annotate, reframing the stories these images tell.
Learn more about Kate Shannon on her artist website (opens in a new tab).
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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 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, 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.
