Site-Specific Cleveland
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
7.pm - 8ish.pm
free to the public
Special guests Don Harvey and Carl Pope
Whether addressing social, political, cultural, racial, environmental, or ecological issues, art about Cleveland is significant to our region. But, how do projects about Northeast Ohio vary between artists who live here and artists who are just visiting? In this dialogue, distinguished Cleveland-based artist, Don Harvey and artist-in-residence, Carl Pope will discuss their work, comparing and contrasting what their respective “Cleveland projects,” have revealed about our people and places.
Pope is a joint fellow of Case Western Reserve University’s Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities and The Cleveland Institute of Art for the fall of 2007; during this time he is creating a public art project to open in conjunction with the conference “Cityscapes” (March 27-30, 2008), jointly organized by CWRU’s Baker-Nord Center and the Liberal Arts Environment of the CIA. For this project, Pope is creating The Mind of Cleveland, a text-based poster and billboard work designed to externalize the collective dreams, visions, and desires of the Cleveland community. To learn more, visit Pope’s project website at www.themindofcleveland.com.
Co-founder of Cleveland Public Art and former editor of Dialogue magazine, Harvey has been an active and vital member of the Northeast Ohio art community for 36 years. In addition to his impressive exhibition resume, Harvey has received numerous grants and fellowships along with the Cleveland Arts Prize (1991). In his multi-media work, Harvey addresses the region’s urban environment physically and conceptually by integrating evocative materials like steel grids and toxic fluids with images of the city, its people, and its surrounding ecology.
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