Summer 2024 Community News
Established in 1960, the Cleveland Arts Prize is the nation’s oldest municipal arts award, honoring artistic excellence across diverse disciplines and career stages.
2022 Artist-in-Residence and photographer Barbara Bosworth was named the winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award in the Visual Arts, awarded to artists who have “dedicated decades to their work in Northeast Ohio, with their artistic achievements bringing both personal distinction and enhancing the region’s reputation as a whole.”
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MFA Boston, Boston, MA
May 25–December 1, 2024
In 1996 photographer and 2022 resident Barbara Bosworth began photographing a meadow in Carlisle, Massachusetts, just northwest of Boston. Returning regularly over the next 15 years, she used a large-format camera to capture images of the land at different times of day and in all seasons. Through the resulting series of photos, called The Meadow, Bosworth carries on a long-standing tradition of New England artists, poets, and naturalists who have chronicled the passage of time and traces of human presence in beautiful yet quietly unspectacular landscapes like this one.
Hollis Tagert, New York, NY
July 11–September 7, 2024
Hollis Taggart presents Asian-American Abstraction: Historic to Contemporary, a group exhibition of 47 historic and contemporary American artists whose oeuvres have been influenced by East Asian artistic traditions. Featuring the work of both Asian-American and American Abstract Expressionist artists including 2021 artist-in-residence Nishiki Sugawara-Beda, the exhibition traces how the artistic traditions of East Asia have made an indelible mark on American art history.
KuroKuroShiro The S, Sumi on wood, 40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm), 2023
Galerie Arena, 16 rue des Arènes, Arles
July 1–August 25, 2024
Fujifilm and Magnum present a new series by four photographers around the theme “Connection” featuring work by 2023 artist-in-residence Carolyn Drake, Lorenzo Meloni, Lua Ribeira, and Peter van Agtmael. In the exhibition, Drake continues her “Glorify Yourself” project to draw attention to the systems of desires and illusions that hold sway over the sociopolitical structures of her country.
"Every Woman a Model." From the project "Glorify Yourself." USA. 2024. © Carolyn Drake / Magnum Photos
