What you need: 1 cup black beans 4 tbsp pickling alum (the mordant or fixer) Citric acid or vinegar Baking soda Rubber bands and twine (for creating beautiful designs with resists) natural fiber (cotton, linen, wool, silk, etc.) Want all the materials in one place? Here is a kit with all you need! Instructions: [...]
Wild and Bloomin’: Deb Berkebile, Joyce Jentoft and Sandy Shelenberger Berkebile, Jentoft, and Shelenberger share an abundance of surface design experiments. “We are friends connected by a desire to share our creativity. Our inspiration for this joint exhibition was the quote “to bloom where you are planted.” We have used a [...]
Many public art projects are slated for this month’s 50thanniversary of the Cuyahoga River fire and the clean-water movement it spawned. But only one connects that 1969 environmental catastrophe and the current day one caused by our jeans and the dye that makes them blue. “Indigo is the color that we know because of our [...]
Saturday, June 8, 2019 1:00 PM 2:30 PM Praxis Fiber Workshop (map) DYKES & YOUNG (AUSTIN, TX/BOSTON, MA) Dykes and Young, the duo of bassist Laura Dykes (Austin, TX) and violinist Jeffrey Young (Boston, MA), makes meditative, ecstatic, acoustic music grounded in deep listening. Beginning with improvisation in spaces with special atmospheres and acoustics, they [...]
November 2 - January 20, 2018 http://canjournal.org/2018/12/conjunctions-petra-soesemann-praxis/ Petra Soesemann is Professor of Art and Chair of the Foundation Department at the Cleveland Institute of Art. She earned her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Selected grants have supported [...]
Saturday, June 30, 2018 / Noon to 7:00pm Waterloo Arts & Entertainment District (Cleveland on Waterloo Rd between E.161st St and Calcutta Ave) The 16th Annual Waterloo Arts Fest is Saturday, June 30, 2018 from 12:00pm to 7:00pm and features more than 40 local bands playing a great mix of music, local handmade [...]
Saturday, June 29th at 8pm. Location:Praxis Fiber Workshop FREE Taking its name from a group of jazz enthusiasts in 1920’s who were the likes of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, naming themselves “The Hot Club of France.” Since then, jazz bands with the words, “The Hot Club of…” followed by the name of a city, [...]
Tina and Bryan create engaging concerts of traditional American fiddle tunes and waltzes, string band rags and Celtic jigs and reels, with a sprinkling of South American gems and the occasional Classical piece thrown in for good measure. Tunes gleaned from late night jam sessions and dances with incredible old time musicians, from their [...]
Individually, Alex DePue and Miguel DeHoyos have wowed the world—from DePue performing at Carnegie Hall at the age of 14 and touring with rock guitarist Steve Vai in 2007, to DeHoyos entertaining government officials and diplomats in Mexico and performing in Romania by invitation from the Romanian government. Together, they produce an unparalleled sound—music [...]
