Spoken Word: Poetry Open Mic - Monthly on the first Thursday
SPOKEN WORD: POETRY OPEN MIC
Join us at RIFF'S (2418 Professor Ave) on Thursday, February 6th, from 7:00 to 9:00 pm for an inspiring evening of Spoken Word and creative expression! Hosted by Kaiser Studios, our Poetry Open Mic brings the community together to celebrate the power of words, with our regular emcee, Delia, leading the night.
Whether you’re a poet ready to share your work or simply enjoy listening, everyone is welcome! Enjoy live poetry, refreshments available for purchase at the bar, and a warm, inviting atmosphere. Please note that performance spots for the open mic are limited, so early arrival is recommended.
Suggested donation of $5 at the door.
RIFF'S at 7 PM, on February 6th
2418 Professor Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44113
*Spoken Word does not meet in January or July
Join us at RIFF'S (2418 Professor Ave) on Thursday, February 6th, from 7:00 to 9:00 pm for an inspiring evening of Spoken Word and creative expression! Hosted by Kaiser Studios, our Poetry Open Mic brings the community together to celebrate the power of words, with our regular emcee, Delia, leading the night.
Whether you’re a poet ready to share your work or simply enjoy listening, everyone is welcome! Enjoy live poetry, refreshments available for purchase at the bar, and a warm, inviting atmosphere. Please note that performance spots for the open mic are limited, so early arrival is recommended.
Suggested donation of $5 at the door.
RIFF'S at 7 PM, on February 6th
2418 Professor Ave, Cleveland, Ohio 44113
*Spoken Word does not meet in January or July
Past Programming |
Ink & Drink: June 7, 2024, from 6:30 - 8:30 PM
In partnership with Kaiser Studios.
Join us for a fun night of printmaking with exhibiting artist Meryl Engler on June 7, from 6:30 - 8:30 pm!
Join us for an enchanting journey through hidden landscapes and personal narratives of Meryl Engler. Originally from Huntington Beach, California, Meryl's prints unveil intimate moments in vibrant woodcut layers. Inspired by the interplay between environment and human connection, her work is a testament to the beauty of our surroundings.
With a background in sculpture, printmaking, and papermaking, Meryl merges mediums to push the boundaries of traditional printmaking. Delve into her latest series, "I Had Been Young, Vol. 4" where self-portraiture, avian symbolism, and quilt motifs intertwine to tell stories of transformation and protection. Experience the physicality and intimacy of woodcut prints, alongside mixed media works and relief carvings.
Kaiser Gallery is proud to announce Meryl Engler for our 2024 Solo Show Selection.
Exhibition Details: May 9 - June 22, 2024
Ink & Drink: June 7, 2024 Time: 6:30 PM **Make prints with Meryl Engler at Kaiser Gallery!
In partnership with Kaiser Studios.
Join us for a fun night of printmaking with exhibiting artist Meryl Engler on June 7, from 6:30 - 8:30 pm!
Join us for an enchanting journey through hidden landscapes and personal narratives of Meryl Engler. Originally from Huntington Beach, California, Meryl's prints unveil intimate moments in vibrant woodcut layers. Inspired by the interplay between environment and human connection, her work is a testament to the beauty of our surroundings.
With a background in sculpture, printmaking, and papermaking, Meryl merges mediums to push the boundaries of traditional printmaking. Delve into her latest series, "I Had Been Young, Vol. 4" where self-portraiture, avian symbolism, and quilt motifs intertwine to tell stories of transformation and protection. Experience the physicality and intimacy of woodcut prints, alongside mixed media works and relief carvings.
Kaiser Gallery is proud to announce Meryl Engler for our 2024 Solo Show Selection.
Exhibition Details: May 9 - June 22, 2024
Ink & Drink: June 7, 2024 Time: 6:30 PM **Make prints with Meryl Engler at Kaiser Gallery!
Artist Demonstration: Jamie M Richey
In partnership with Kaiser Studios.
Friday, July 14 at 6 PM - 9 PM
Join Kaiser Gallery on Friday, July 14 during Walkabout Tremont for a special art demonstration by exhibiting artist Jamie M. Richey!
Jamie M. Richey is a Cleveland-based fine art photographer, mixed media artist, and curator. Raised in Northeast Ohio, Jamie earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in film and photography from Elon University and returned to Cleveland to pursue freelance film, photography studio work, and commercial publishing. She later accomplished a Master of Arts degree in Art History with a photography concentration at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Upon graduating she pursued a teaching career in museum education in Savannah, GA, and Dothan, AL during which time she also curated art exhibits with an educational focus. In addition, Jamie continued to exhibit her photography while also working as a production assistant on the occasional indie film.
Firmly planted back in Ohio, Jamie remains active in the curatorial community organizing public exhibits and virtually at jamier-photography.com while steadily building her portfolio with on emphasis in mixed-media as well as black and white fine art photography in various genres including street, nature, travel, and abstract.
In partnership with Kaiser Studios.
Friday, July 14 at 6 PM - 9 PM
Join Kaiser Gallery on Friday, July 14 during Walkabout Tremont for a special art demonstration by exhibiting artist Jamie M. Richey!
Jamie M. Richey is a Cleveland-based fine art photographer, mixed media artist, and curator. Raised in Northeast Ohio, Jamie earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in film and photography from Elon University and returned to Cleveland to pursue freelance film, photography studio work, and commercial publishing. She later accomplished a Master of Arts degree in Art History with a photography concentration at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Upon graduating she pursued a teaching career in museum education in Savannah, GA, and Dothan, AL during which time she also curated art exhibits with an educational focus. In addition, Jamie continued to exhibit her photography while also working as a production assistant on the occasional indie film.
Firmly planted back in Ohio, Jamie remains active in the curatorial community organizing public exhibits and virtually at jamier-photography.com while steadily building her portfolio with on emphasis in mixed-media as well as black and white fine art photography in various genres including street, nature, travel, and abstract.
On July 30 at 6:00 pm, you're invited to an interdisciplinary talk with artist Jonah Jacobs and environmental scientist Megan Romanchok. In partnership with Kaiser Studios.
Don't miss this exciting opportunity to learn more about Jonah Jacobs' unique approach to eco-friendly art! His large-scale installations are made with sustainable materials, as he strives to create awareness about environmental issues through his work. Megan Romanchok, an environmental scientist with ERM, will be joining Jonah for this gallery talk to share her experiences within the environmental sciences and geography.
This promises to be a fascinating and enlightening event for all who attend! FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
Don't miss this exciting opportunity to learn more about Jonah Jacobs' unique approach to eco-friendly art! His large-scale installations are made with sustainable materials, as he strives to create awareness about environmental issues through his work. Megan Romanchok, an environmental scientist with ERM, will be joining Jonah for this gallery talk to share her experiences within the environmental sciences and geography.
This promises to be a fascinating and enlightening event for all who attend! FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
Future Resonance Panel Discussion
In partnership with Kaiser Studios.
Join us on ZOOM on Sunday, January 30 at 6:00 pm ESTOn Sunday, January 30 at 6:00 PM EST, Electrical and Railway Systems Engineer Cara Levy, P.E., virtually joined the exhibiting artists of Future Resonance for a Panel Discussion on ZOOM that explored the rapidly evolving relationship between art and technology. This free event is in partnership with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Women in Engineering New York, to promote interdisciplinary conversations between the arts and sciences.
Kaiser Gallery's exhibition Future Resonance explores the evolution of art and how it's become more intertwined with technology, reshaping the definition of what we consider art along the way. Future Resonance features a wide variety of artists and creators who challenge art in different directions through the implementation of technology.
Future Resonance is on view at Kaiser Gallery until February 6, 2022, and presents the artworks of Mike Bruckman, Jeremy Davis, Jeremy Newman, Thea Reid, Ethan Samaha, Dustin Steuck, and Anna Thorne.
Chad Eby
Chad Eby is a Lexington Kentucky-based multidisciplinary artist, designer and educator working with light, sound, and code to engage with the grain of digital technologies.
Eby creates work, by turns stark and whimsical, that explores humanity's fraught relationship with made objects using sound, light, and digital fabrication techniques.
His research interests revolve around the peculiar relationship between digital and physical: especially the residue-loss, surplus and corruption-that results from moving back and forth between atoms and bits, map and territory, description and thing.
Part of the faculty of University of Kentucky's School of Visual Art Studies since 2019, Chad previously served at the Herron School of Art and Design at IUPUI in Indianapolis, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan (the Royal Institute of Technology) in Stockholm, and Florida State University in Tallahassee. He was awarded the Frank C. Springer Family Faculty Innovation Award in 2017.
Chad's work has been shown at the Tekniska Museet (the Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology) in Stockholm, Sweden, Generative Art XXII in Rome, Italy, New Media Fest in Valencia, Spain, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, TAG at the University of Western Florida, the Columbia College Center for Book and Paper and various local venues across the United States. He has attended competitive residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Elsewhere, and was selected for the inaugural Space Art Summer School hosted at the Russian Museum of Cosmonautics.
Artist Statement
Parallel to the spread of the COVID-19 virus, and greatly facilitating that spread, a virulent strain of Bad Ideas also swept the globe. A surge of mis- and disinformation promulgated by a strange mix of opportunists, true believers, state actors and lulzers, and amplified by an army of COVID-19 sequestered thumb-clickers: fever dreams featuring bats, billionaires, 5G, tracking chips, and the soul-damaged vaccinated who, by succumbing to media-driven fear, lost their opportunity to "ascend." Disinformation Containment Unit D6 is an equally irrational alternative. Inspired by quack 5G and chemtrail protective devices, it is a fantastical electro-spiritual information appliance—ready for field deployment—imagined to detect and neutralize nearby disinformation. Driven by a WiFi-emitting ESP8266 chip and not-very-sophisticated cellular automata simulation, it's twin OLED displays give continuous animated feedback on its progress.
Andrew Ellis Johnson
Andrew Ellis Johnson’s work has appeared in galleries, festivals, public collaborations, conferences, and publications in the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. He has performed as co-founder of the collective PED in Buffalo, Belfast, Chongqing, Rio de Janeiro, St. John’s, and Toronto. He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA) and Carnegie Mellon University (MFA) in Pittsburgh, where he is Associate Professor of Art. Residencies and exchanges over the last decade include those at: Korean National University of the Arts, Seoul; Blue Mountain Center, New York; University of the Arts London, Camberwell; Fayoum International Art Center, Egypt; Sites of Passage in Jerusalem/Ramallah/ Pittsburgh; and Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Recent two-person exhibits include RESORT at Kendall College of Art & Design and McDonough Museum of Art and GETTING THERE at Gettysburg College and this fall at Stockton University. His most recent solo show was FOUNDER at SUNY Cortland’s Dowd Gallery.
Artist Statement
This statement and the poem below were written in July 2020. Insurrection features a man in full PPE reading while reclining comfortably on his living room couch. A cat purrs in his lap. In the safe seclusion of his own home, he is over-protected. Others, however, are not. Not George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Brionna Taylor and too many other people who were shopping, running, sleeping—simply living, while black. Their deaths are painfully singular, but their cumulative toll constitutes a persistent pandemic of racism. Another pandemic rages as people rage in the streets. The death count from Covid-19 has now climbed over 100,000 in four months. Fallow Trench In the exceptional Nation State of One, the novel plague, first declared nonexistent, then decried as sophic, was ultimately decreed ‘Democratic’. It was. Though itself invisible to the naked eye, the virus, though little, spread by aspirational spittle, magnified divisions and bonds. Manufacturers mandated. Distributors consolidated. Liberators looted. Suppliers hoarded. Senators sanctioned. the unaffordable could be bought again. Sacrificial heroes, ill-suited, staved, for another quarter, the essential economy. Perhaps. Routines were screened. Meetings multiplied and merged. Unemployment ranks swelled. Curves flattened; feeds fed. Appropriations diverted. Tweet-enlisted fascists drilled. Unmasked. Indisposed Justice meted black breath no repose. The State of Stasis is fought within, and without.
Matt Milligan
Matt Milligan (b. 1973) is an artist based in New York City working in digital and film photography. His work explores identity and its connections with home and community. Originally from Dallas, Texas, he holds a degree in musicology from the University of North Texas. Having always been attracted to how music conveys meaning, he carries that theoretical approach into his photography. Milligan's work was recently included in Scopio's "Rethinking, Questioning Urban Realities through Photography in the Age of COVID-19," in Porto, Portugal.
Artist Statement
The Things We Must Face When news of the shutdowns started to make the rounds, I was in the office—three floors of what had become an eerie and quiet building occupied, at that time, by me and, occasionally, the cleaning guy. It had been that way for a week or so. Almost everyone who had the means was leaving or preparing to leave the city, and my office was no exception. The sudden exit of those who wanted to escape and could also afford to leave was the first visible division. And it was this class separation that would, at least for me, expose the rest of what was to come as a series of interlopers—unwanted visitors that keep showing up at the doorstep of America. This all reminded me of something James Baldwin said, “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.” Despite what we frequently read in the media, there is nothing unprecedented about 2020. We are experiencing problems that have been with us for generations, problems that stem from divisions. And those divisions are rooted in money, politics, religion, race, and other things one should not talk about in polite company. But these social taboos are the very things we must talk about—and face—as Mr. Baldwin also famously said, or they will keep splitting us in two over and over again. A couple of weeks after the stay-at-home order went into effect, the half of us who remained in the city had to navigate a familiar but unknown landscape. My neighborhood was as empty and quiet as my office had been. When I went on walks or the occasional errand, I photographed the changes I saw. I also turned my camera inside (because we were inside all the time!); it was a natural response to the confinement. I began to see repeated images and symbols, sometimes subtle and sometimes overt. I realized that if I was sensitive to them, they could bolster the symbols of the past that Baldwin talked about and help me navigate what I was encountering and feeling. As Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk, said, “the true symbol does not merely point to something else. It contains in itself a structure which awakens our consciousness to a new awareness of the inner meaning of life and of reality itself.” Making these photographs was a cathartic experience for me. It brought to the surface my human “constant preoccupation with pleasure and pain... our pursuit of this happiness,” as fourteenth-century Japanese writer Yoshida Kenko said. It also—thankfully—brings Merton’s new awareness that, without his and Baldwin’s help, I would not have found. This process and these writers taught me that before I say anything about the problems I see out in the world, I must first look inside and face myself.
Nowhere Mountain
Nowhere Mountain is an art collaborative made up of St. Louis, Missouri based visual artist Mark Regester and Salt Lake City, Utah based composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, sound-artist and mad scientist Dave Madden.
Artist Statement
Nowhere Mountain is an imagined geographical landmark that lies between two specific points on a map.
It's where the magic happens.
Nowhere Mountain is pure, organic collaboration.
Nowhere Mountain is creation for creation's sake
In partnership with Kaiser Studios.
Join us on ZOOM on Sunday, January 30 at 6:00 pm ESTOn Sunday, January 30 at 6:00 PM EST, Electrical and Railway Systems Engineer Cara Levy, P.E., virtually joined the exhibiting artists of Future Resonance for a Panel Discussion on ZOOM that explored the rapidly evolving relationship between art and technology. This free event is in partnership with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Women in Engineering New York, to promote interdisciplinary conversations between the arts and sciences.
Kaiser Gallery's exhibition Future Resonance explores the evolution of art and how it's become more intertwined with technology, reshaping the definition of what we consider art along the way. Future Resonance features a wide variety of artists and creators who challenge art in different directions through the implementation of technology.
Future Resonance is on view at Kaiser Gallery until February 6, 2022, and presents the artworks of Mike Bruckman, Jeremy Davis, Jeremy Newman, Thea Reid, Ethan Samaha, Dustin Steuck, and Anna Thorne.
Chad Eby
Chad Eby is a Lexington Kentucky-based multidisciplinary artist, designer and educator working with light, sound, and code to engage with the grain of digital technologies.
Eby creates work, by turns stark and whimsical, that explores humanity's fraught relationship with made objects using sound, light, and digital fabrication techniques.
His research interests revolve around the peculiar relationship between digital and physical: especially the residue-loss, surplus and corruption-that results from moving back and forth between atoms and bits, map and territory, description and thing.
Part of the faculty of University of Kentucky's School of Visual Art Studies since 2019, Chad previously served at the Herron School of Art and Design at IUPUI in Indianapolis, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan (the Royal Institute of Technology) in Stockholm, and Florida State University in Tallahassee. He was awarded the Frank C. Springer Family Faculty Innovation Award in 2017.
Chad's work has been shown at the Tekniska Museet (the Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology) in Stockholm, Sweden, Generative Art XXII in Rome, Italy, New Media Fest in Valencia, Spain, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, TAG at the University of Western Florida, the Columbia College Center for Book and Paper and various local venues across the United States. He has attended competitive residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Elsewhere, and was selected for the inaugural Space Art Summer School hosted at the Russian Museum of Cosmonautics.
Artist Statement
Parallel to the spread of the COVID-19 virus, and greatly facilitating that spread, a virulent strain of Bad Ideas also swept the globe. A surge of mis- and disinformation promulgated by a strange mix of opportunists, true believers, state actors and lulzers, and amplified by an army of COVID-19 sequestered thumb-clickers: fever dreams featuring bats, billionaires, 5G, tracking chips, and the soul-damaged vaccinated who, by succumbing to media-driven fear, lost their opportunity to "ascend." Disinformation Containment Unit D6 is an equally irrational alternative. Inspired by quack 5G and chemtrail protective devices, it is a fantastical electro-spiritual information appliance—ready for field deployment—imagined to detect and neutralize nearby disinformation. Driven by a WiFi-emitting ESP8266 chip and not-very-sophisticated cellular automata simulation, it's twin OLED displays give continuous animated feedback on its progress.
Andrew Ellis Johnson
Andrew Ellis Johnson’s work has appeared in galleries, festivals, public collaborations, conferences, and publications in the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. He has performed as co-founder of the collective PED in Buffalo, Belfast, Chongqing, Rio de Janeiro, St. John’s, and Toronto. He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA) and Carnegie Mellon University (MFA) in Pittsburgh, where he is Associate Professor of Art. Residencies and exchanges over the last decade include those at: Korean National University of the Arts, Seoul; Blue Mountain Center, New York; University of the Arts London, Camberwell; Fayoum International Art Center, Egypt; Sites of Passage in Jerusalem/Ramallah/ Pittsburgh; and Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Recent two-person exhibits include RESORT at Kendall College of Art & Design and McDonough Museum of Art and GETTING THERE at Gettysburg College and this fall at Stockton University. His most recent solo show was FOUNDER at SUNY Cortland’s Dowd Gallery.
Artist Statement
This statement and the poem below were written in July 2020. Insurrection features a man in full PPE reading while reclining comfortably on his living room couch. A cat purrs in his lap. In the safe seclusion of his own home, he is over-protected. Others, however, are not. Not George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Brionna Taylor and too many other people who were shopping, running, sleeping—simply living, while black. Their deaths are painfully singular, but their cumulative toll constitutes a persistent pandemic of racism. Another pandemic rages as people rage in the streets. The death count from Covid-19 has now climbed over 100,000 in four months. Fallow Trench In the exceptional Nation State of One, the novel plague, first declared nonexistent, then decried as sophic, was ultimately decreed ‘Democratic’. It was. Though itself invisible to the naked eye, the virus, though little, spread by aspirational spittle, magnified divisions and bonds. Manufacturers mandated. Distributors consolidated. Liberators looted. Suppliers hoarded. Senators sanctioned. the unaffordable could be bought again. Sacrificial heroes, ill-suited, staved, for another quarter, the essential economy. Perhaps. Routines were screened. Meetings multiplied and merged. Unemployment ranks swelled. Curves flattened; feeds fed. Appropriations diverted. Tweet-enlisted fascists drilled. Unmasked. Indisposed Justice meted black breath no repose. The State of Stasis is fought within, and without.
Matt Milligan
Matt Milligan (b. 1973) is an artist based in New York City working in digital and film photography. His work explores identity and its connections with home and community. Originally from Dallas, Texas, he holds a degree in musicology from the University of North Texas. Having always been attracted to how music conveys meaning, he carries that theoretical approach into his photography. Milligan's work was recently included in Scopio's "Rethinking, Questioning Urban Realities through Photography in the Age of COVID-19," in Porto, Portugal.
Artist Statement
The Things We Must Face When news of the shutdowns started to make the rounds, I was in the office—three floors of what had become an eerie and quiet building occupied, at that time, by me and, occasionally, the cleaning guy. It had been that way for a week or so. Almost everyone who had the means was leaving or preparing to leave the city, and my office was no exception. The sudden exit of those who wanted to escape and could also afford to leave was the first visible division. And it was this class separation that would, at least for me, expose the rest of what was to come as a series of interlopers—unwanted visitors that keep showing up at the doorstep of America. This all reminded me of something James Baldwin said, “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.” Despite what we frequently read in the media, there is nothing unprecedented about 2020. We are experiencing problems that have been with us for generations, problems that stem from divisions. And those divisions are rooted in money, politics, religion, race, and other things one should not talk about in polite company. But these social taboos are the very things we must talk about—and face—as Mr. Baldwin also famously said, or they will keep splitting us in two over and over again. A couple of weeks after the stay-at-home order went into effect, the half of us who remained in the city had to navigate a familiar but unknown landscape. My neighborhood was as empty and quiet as my office had been. When I went on walks or the occasional errand, I photographed the changes I saw. I also turned my camera inside (because we were inside all the time!); it was a natural response to the confinement. I began to see repeated images and symbols, sometimes subtle and sometimes overt. I realized that if I was sensitive to them, they could bolster the symbols of the past that Baldwin talked about and help me navigate what I was encountering and feeling. As Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk, said, “the true symbol does not merely point to something else. It contains in itself a structure which awakens our consciousness to a new awareness of the inner meaning of life and of reality itself.” Making these photographs was a cathartic experience for me. It brought to the surface my human “constant preoccupation with pleasure and pain... our pursuit of this happiness,” as fourteenth-century Japanese writer Yoshida Kenko said. It also—thankfully—brings Merton’s new awareness that, without his and Baldwin’s help, I would not have found. This process and these writers taught me that before I say anything about the problems I see out in the world, I must first look inside and face myself.
Nowhere Mountain
Nowhere Mountain is an art collaborative made up of St. Louis, Missouri based visual artist Mark Regester and Salt Lake City, Utah based composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, sound-artist and mad scientist Dave Madden.
Artist Statement
Nowhere Mountain is an imagined geographical landmark that lies between two specific points on a map.
It's where the magic happens.
Nowhere Mountain is pure, organic collaboration.
Nowhere Mountain is creation for creation's sake
SUGAR (CHAPTER II): ARTIST TALK
Join us on August 5, 2021 for a virtual artist talk with Derick Whitson as we take an in-depth look into his solo exhibition Sugar (Chapter II).
Derick Whitson (b. 1991 Mansfield, Ohio) is an artist currently living and working in NYC. Working primarily in photography and video, Whitson explores the history and relationships of clowning, drag queens and black/white face to explore the social constructs of race, gender, and sexuality.
DomesticLands: Artist Talks
On Thursday, May 6, at 6:30 pm, meet the exhibiting artists of 'DomesticLands' for an insightful look into the works of Morgan Bukovec, Gary Sczerbaniewicz, and Allison M. Walters.
The home is a place that fosters our understanding of relationships. During the early years of childhood is when we develop socially and emotionally. Later in life, these early years will impact our ability to foster relationships, empathize, and how to interact with others. When revisiting memories of home, it is important to teeter on the edge of both joy and trauma as this duality defines us. There are nurturing memories that offer safety and warmth. However, for others, the home can represent pain where a moment of trauma is forever encased in time. Home can be a physical location, associated with the material, or defined within one's self. This cultivation of objects and relationships defines who we are.
Presenting works by Morgan Bukovec, Gary Sczerbaniewicz, and Allison M. Walters.
The home is a place that fosters our understanding of relationships. During the early years of childhood is when we develop socially and emotionally. Later in life, these early years will impact our ability to foster relationships, empathize, and how to interact with others. When revisiting memories of home, it is important to teeter on the edge of both joy and trauma as this duality defines us. There are nurturing memories that offer safety and warmth. However, for others, the home can represent pain where a moment of trauma is forever encased in time. Home can be a physical location, associated with the material, or defined within one's self. This cultivation of objects and relationships defines who we are.
Presenting works by Morgan Bukovec, Gary Sczerbaniewicz, and Allison M. Walters.
About the Artists
Morgan Bukovec is a mixed media artist, educator, storyteller and collector of things from Cleveland, Ohio. Having received a bachelor's degree in Fine Art and Art Education from the University of Dayton, her studio practice is interdisciplinary with a focus on themes of identity, storytelling, fleeting moments and objects across time. Recent group exhibitions include: /DIFFERENT STROKES/, Female Artist Club, Belgium, Boundaries, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, and Waterloo Arts Juried Exhibition, Waterloo Art Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio. Morgan works as a bartender at the local pub, a server at her grandpa’s butcher shop, as well as a Thoma Engagement Guide Apprentice at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland.
Gary Sczerbaniewicz was born in Upstate NY, received his BFA in Sculpture from Alfred University and his MFA in Sculpture & Installation from the University at Buffalo in 2013. Sczerbaniewicz is a 2016 NYFA fellow in Architecture/ Environmental Structures / Design from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally and has completed residencies at Yaddo (2017), the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts (2016), and Sculpture Space (2013). Sczerbaniewicz recently served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Sculpture at the University of Notre Dame. Gary is represented by Anna Kaplan Contemporary, Buffalo, NY.
Allison Walters is a person who makes art. She works in photography, painting, video, digital art, and conceptual art. Her work deals with being human and sharing complex feelings with others. She has an MFA from Stony Brook University, where she studied Studio Art from 2014–2017. She also works as a web and graphic designer at the College Art Association, a nonprofit arts organization based in New York City.
COVETED PANEL DISCUSSION
On Thursday, March 4, DRB, PhD., joined the exhibiting artists of Coveted as moderator for a panel discussion. During this panel discussion, we explored themes of love, relationships, and desires from the perspective of the other, which is not readily accessible in mainstream media. This free virtual event was in partnership with Kaiser Gallery in an effort to facilitate interdisciplinary conversations with artists about pertinent topics of our times.
Kaiser Gallery's exhibition Coveted features works that offer a range of perspectives that are not easily accessible in mainstream culture. While representations of the male gaze can be found in abundance when exploring themes of love, relationships, and desires, these artists offer another narrative.
The panel discussion featured Coveted exhibiting artists Stefani Byrd, Dani Clauson, Leiyana Gonzales, Sydney Kleinrock, Megan Lubey, Olga Nazarenko and Rebecca Poarch.
On Thursday, March 4, DRB, PhD., joined the exhibiting artists of Coveted as moderator for a panel discussion. During this panel discussion, we explored themes of love, relationships, and desires from the perspective of the other, which is not readily accessible in mainstream media. This free virtual event was in partnership with Kaiser Gallery in an effort to facilitate interdisciplinary conversations with artists about pertinent topics of our times.
Kaiser Gallery's exhibition Coveted features works that offer a range of perspectives that are not easily accessible in mainstream culture. While representations of the male gaze can be found in abundance when exploring themes of love, relationships, and desires, these artists offer another narrative.
The panel discussion featured Coveted exhibiting artists Stefani Byrd, Dani Clauson, Leiyana Gonzales, Sydney Kleinrock, Megan Lubey, Olga Nazarenko and Rebecca Poarch.
About Our Moderator: DRB
Artist, performer, writer, teacher, homesteader, yoga leader, parent, and gender-queer feminist, DRB--as they are known to students (who range in age from six to 85), is based in Cleveland, OH, USA.
DRB received their Ph.D. in History from Case Western Reserve University. Their research is centered on gender, race, sexuality, and popular culture in the post-World War II US. They are co-editor of Make Your Own History: Documenting Feminist Activism in the 21st Century (Litwin Books, 2011) and co-writer of A History of Popular Culture: More of everything, faster and brighter (Routledge, 2012).
Artist, performer, writer, teacher, homesteader, yoga leader, parent, and gender-queer feminist, DRB--as they are known to students (who range in age from six to 85), is based in Cleveland, OH, USA.
DRB received their Ph.D. in History from Case Western Reserve University. Their research is centered on gender, race, sexuality, and popular culture in the post-World War II US. They are co-editor of Make Your Own History: Documenting Feminist Activism in the 21st Century (Litwin Books, 2011) and co-writer of A History of Popular Culture: More of everything, faster and brighter (Routledge, 2012).
SWITCH Panel Discussion
On December 17, 2020, Electrical and Railway Systems Engineer Cara Levy, P.E. joined the exhibiting artists of SWITCH for a Panel Discussion that explored the rapidly evolving relationship between art and technology. This virtual event was in partnership with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Women in Engineering New York to promote interdisciplinary conversations between the arts and sciences.
Kaiser Gallery's exhibition SWITCH explores the evolution of art and how it's become more intertwined with technology, reshaping the definition of what we consider art along the way. SWITCH features a wide variety of artists and creators who challenge art in different directions through the implementation of technology.
The panel discussion featured SWITCH exhibiting artists Laura Bigger, Emily Dzieweczynski, Haumed Rahmani, and Joseph Santarpia.
Kaiser Gallery's exhibition SWITCH explores the evolution of art and how it's become more intertwined with technology, reshaping the definition of what we consider art along the way. SWITCH features a wide variety of artists and creators who challenge art in different directions through the implementation of technology.
The panel discussion featured SWITCH exhibiting artists Laura Bigger, Emily Dzieweczynski, Haumed Rahmani, and Joseph Santarpia.