ON DECK

Upcoming openings and current events from around Northeast Ohio

Compiled by Amanda Koehn

Borderlight Festival

Through Aug. 5

The BorderLight Festival will host its first allfringe festival with three days of entertainment in and around Cleveland’s Playhouse Square through Aug. 5. More than 130 local and national artists will perform in theater, dance, circus, cabaret, puppetry, spoken word, stand-up comedy and more. As one of hundreds of fringe festivals worldwide, BorderLight is a platform for independent artists and companies to showcase their work and engage new audiences in a vibrant festival environment. Single tickets, bundled passes and all-access passes can be purchased at borderlightcle.org/2023-festival. In addition to ticketed events, programming includes 41 events that are free and open to the public.

Venues include Hermit Club, Cibreo Privato, Parnell’s Irish Pub, the Middough Building at Cleveland State University, US Bank Plaza and stages within Playhouse Square. borderlightcle.org

Canton Museum Of Art

“An American Journey: Watercolor Achievements from the CMA Collection” | Aug. 22 – Oct. 29

The Canton Museum of Art will showcase the brilliant colors, brushstrokes and stories within its collection of watercolor paintings this fall. “An American Journey: Watercolor Achievements from the CMA Collection” shares the museum’s acquired achievements in the critic-declared “American” painting medium, capturing the spontaneity and exciting light and color effects possible. Cleveland surpassed Boston as the country’s top city for watercolor in the 1920s, becoming popular in part because of close-knit artistic community in Ohio, according to the museum. This exhibit is comprised of works that trace the history of watercolor since the 19th century, highlighting major American and Ohio artists including Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Oscar Bluemner, Charles Burchfield, Andrew Wyeth and Edward Hopper.

Canton Museum of Art is at 1001 Market Ave. N., Canton.

CLEVELAND PRINT ROOM “SÍIHIL” | Until Sept. 16

The Cleveland Print Room – formerly located in the ArtCraft Building – has opened its first iteration of ƒ/2 (F stop two), a community-based pop-up project focused on deepening relationships with the larger community through public exhibitions, educational workshops, partnerships and experimental programs. ƒ/2 centers artists and photographers in its daily operations, creating space to engage with artists and their work at different venues throughout Cleveland. Its first exhibition for ƒ/2, “SÍIHIL,” exhibits Cleveland artist Jimena Horta. The exhibit invites the community to be privy to the experiences of people who menstruate, relating to reproductive and mental health. The title is taken from the Mayan language word meaning birth.

Cleveland Print Room’s ƒ/2 is at Hangar #2 at City Goods, 1438 W. 28th St., Cleveland. It will occupy the space through Dec. 31.

clevelandprintroom.com

Cleveland Institute Of Art

2023 Faculty Exhibition | Aug. 31 – Oct. 8

A tradition that spans more than 100 years, the Cleveland Institute of Art’s Faculty Exhibition is a celebration of art, design and their makers. This season, it provides an opportunity for the public to view new, original and innovative works by CIA’s world-renowned art and design faculty.

A public opening for this popular annual exhibition will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Aug. 31 in CIA’s Reinberger Gallery.

Reinberger Gallery is at 11610 Euclid Ave., Cleveland. cia.edu

“Bird on a Branch” by Dinara Mirtalipova. Acrylics on canvas, 48 x 48 inches. Mirtalipova is a faculty member in CIA’s Illustration Department. Photo courtesy of CIA.

Emily Davis Gallery

“Easy Prey” | Through Oct. 6

Cleveland sculptor Kimberly Chapman’s “Easy Prey” exhibition explores the exploitation of women. Her porcelain sculptures touch upon loss of reproductive freedom, domestic violence and shaming, on view at the Emily Davis Gallery at Myers School of Art at The University of Akron. The artist also shines a light on women reluctantly cast into the spotlight in both circuses and European royal courts. Tangentially, Chapman is showing “Eighty-Six Reasons for Asylum Admission” – a collection of sculptures and photography that examines how and why women were sent to mental asylums – at the university’s Institute for Human Science & Culture through Dec. 2.

An artist’s reception will take place for “Easy Prey” from 5-7 p.m. Aug. 31. Her reception for “Eighty-Six Reasons for Asylum Admission” is from 4:30-8 p.m. Oct. 4. Emily Davis Gallery at Myers School of Art at The University of Akron is at 150 E. Exchange St., Akron. uakron.edu/art/galleries/edg