Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Museum
1100 Rock and Roll Blvd
Cleveland, Ohio 44114
216.781.ROCK
www.rockhall.com

Special rates are available to Cleveland State University students. Show a valid CSU Student ID at our Box Office to receive our College Student Discount of $5 off a regular Adult Admission.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Museum Featured Exhibits

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2010 Inductees Open March 15, 2010 - March 14, 2011 This exhibit honors the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's newest inductees: ABBA, Genesis, Jimmy Cliff, the Hollies and the Stooges as its 2010 artist inductees. Also being inducted this year as individual recipients of the Ahmet Ertegun Award will be David Geffen and songwriters Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry, Jesse Stone, Mort Shuman and Otis Blackwell. This exhibit will include stage outfits, instruments, handwritten lyrics, photographs and much more.

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Girls on Film: 40 Years of Women in Rock The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum will unveil its latest exhibit, Girls on Film: 40 Years of Women in Rock, on Monday, February 14, in the Rock Hall’s Patty, Jay and Kizzie Baker Gallery. The exhibit, featuring images by photographer Anastasia Pantsios, offers a snapshot into the world of some of the most influential women in rock and roll over the last four decades.

 

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Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland
8501 Carnegie Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44106
216.421.8671
www.mocacleveland.org

Teresita Fernández : Blind Landscape
On view January 28th, 2011 through May 8th, 2011

Curated by David Louis Norr, Chief Curator and organized by USF Contemporary Art Museum, Institute for Research in Art, Tampa. Project assistance provided by Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Arts Council.

Coordinated at MOCA Cleveland by Margo Ann Crutchfield, Senior Curator

Marjorie Talalay and Peter B. Lewis Galleries

Teresita Fernández is internationally known for immersive installations and evocative large-scale sculptures that address space, light, and perception. Made with polished stainless steel, glass, and other materials including plastic and graphite, Fernández's abstract sculptures incorporate reflection, light, and shadow in poetic, sometimes luminous formations that suggest natural phenomena. This survey presents a spectrum of the artist's most recent and ambitious projects created between 2005 and 2010. Featured among the exhibition's ten works is the artist's latest graphite and steel sculpture, Drawn Waters (Borrowdale) (2009); and Epic (2009), a monumental graphite wall installation. Resembling an immense, cascading branch, Vertigo (sotto en su) (2007) includes eight layers of precision-cut, highly polished metal woven into an intricate, reflective arboreal pattern that suspends from the ceiling high above the viewer. Fernández's work vacillates between object and optical phenomena, often doubling as screens, mirrors, and lenses, while exploring the relationship between nature and perception.

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Javier Téllez : Letter on the Blind, for the Use of Those Who See
On view January 28th, 2011 through May 8th, 2011

Organized by MOCA Cleveland; Coordinated by Megan Lykins Reich, Director of Education and Associate Curator

William D. Ginn Gallery

Commissioned by Creative Time and Galerie Peter Kilchmann for the 2008 Whitney Biennial, Javier Téllez's stirring film, Letter on the Blind, for the Use of Those Who See (2007) documents six blind people as they touch and respond to a live elephant. Based loosely on an Indian fable, the film balances footage of these interactions with verbal commentary by each subject about his or her blindness. The rawness of the environment - an empty swimming pool in Brooklyn's McCarren Park - sharpens the rich poignancy of the individual's distinct, often profound physical and emotional response to the elephant. A compelling portrayal of non-visual perception through a visual medium, the work probes the value of sight in the interpretation of reality.

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Lorri Ott : passive voices
On view January 28th, 2011 through May 8th, 2011

Organized by MOCA Cleveland; Curated by Megan Lykins Reich, Director of Education and Associate Curator

William D. Ginn Gallery

In her new body of small-scale assemblages, artist Lorri Ott transforms synthetic and natural materials into poignant, evocative subjects. Through a process that is both calculated and spontaneous, Ott combines glossy colored resin with mundane found objects like rags, asphalt, and cardboard to create subtle but potent contrasts in form, technique, and medium. In rehabilitating banal objects to new life, Ott gives each work a unique yet ambiguous voice that supplants her own. She privileges the objects as subject. In this role, some works seem to cough and murmur while others growl and moan. Individually, each work is both empowered and alienated by its distinct viewpoint. As a community of hauntingly allusive artworks, they produce a raw but hypnotic drone about the depths of human experience.

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Cleveland Botanical Garden
11030 East Boulevard
Cleveland,Ohio 44106
216.721.1600
www.cbgarden.org

** Admission is free with your CSU Student ID.  

Orchid Mania Orchid Mania is Cleveland Botanical Garden's annual ode to nature's most fascinating plant. Now in its 8th year, this beautiful show is an eagerly awaited milestone on Cleveland's cultural calendar. In 2011, Orchid Mania meets purple passion! This year's theme, "Purple Reign," conjures – with a nod and a wink – a predominant orchid color among the queen of all flowers. You'll see hundreds of exotic, blooming orchids in a playful setting that is, by turns, French, funky and fabulous! Intoxicatingly fragrant orchids of all colors (besides purple!), shapes, sizes and patterns will be on display throughout the Garden, including the Eleanor Armstrong Smith Glasshouse.

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The Cleveland Museum of Natural History
1 Wade Oval Drive
University Circle
Cleveland OH 44106-1767
800.317.9155
www.cmnh.org

 ** Admission is free with your CSU Student ID. 

 

Currently On Exhibit

Extreme Mammals: The Biggest, Smallest and Most Amazing Mammals of All Time November 6, 2010 through April 17, 2011 Location: Kahn Hall A mammal so small that it could stand on the tip of a pencil eraser? An armadillo with horns? A whale – with legs? Extreme Mammals: The Biggest, Smallest and Most Amazing Mammals of All Time brings to light these extraordinary extinct mammals and dozens more, many so unfamiliar to us that we have no common names for them.

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Western Reserve Historical Society
10825 East Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44106
(216) 721-5722
www.wrhs.org

 ** Admission is free with your CSU Student ID. 

Do You Know Your Lincoln? This new exhibit draws on the Western Reserve Historical Society’s unusually rich Lincoln collections to test the museum visitor’s knowledge of the history of America’s 16th President. It places the election of Lincoln in the larger context of the outbreak and public perception of the Civil War, and connects the President to the City of Cleveland. Included in the exhibit are images of Lincoln never before seen at the Historical Society. Of special note are a full-length 19th-century Henry Church portrait (see inside), an engraving of Lincoln on the balcony of Cleveland’s Weddell House Hotel in 1861, and a newly discovered photograph of Lincoln’s casket on display in Public Square in 1865.

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Under the Covers Quilts from the Collection Vintage 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century quilts from the significant Western Reserve Historical Society collection are on display for the first time in nearly 20 years. The new exhibition, "Under the Covers," is open now through October 2010 in the Chisholm Halle Costume Wing of the Society’s University Circle Complex. Highlights of the 30 quilts on display include an 18th-century pieced quilt made from dressmaking remnants and worn garments, and a 19th-century presentation quilt made by the Daughters of the American Revolution and presented to President and Mrs. William McKinley. A third significant piece is a Centennial/Bicentennial quilt that was 100 years in the making.