The Cleveland Arts Prize

Visual Arts

In the field of visual arts, the Arts Prize has discovered a treasure house of homegrown and locally nurtured talent that has won praise and well-deserved attention in the larger world of art. They have come from a Siberian labor camp and a small village in Romania, from suburban Cleveland Heights and the back streets of Cleveland’s less affluent neighborhoods. Their work ranges from the classic command of oil paints to the riotous play of fancy that captures the energy of contemporary life . . . from the ageless crafts of ceramics and enamels, with their magical transmutation of everyday things into objects of wonder, to the mysteries of weaving textiles that are more than cloth. . .from exquisitely imagined jewelry to the chastening visions of the camera’s eye.

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