Presented here is a tour of eight extant outdoor sculptures on the campus of Cleveland State University. The tour begins on the SE corner of Prospect and East 18th Street, then proceeds north to a work outside the Monte Ahuja College of Business, then to the Cleveland Marshall College of Law, then east along the north side of Euclid Avenue, ending at the College of Education's Julka Hall.
This is a tour of works by David E. Davis. It begins in downtown Cleveland and proceeds counter-clockwise down to Kent State University and back up the east side of greater Cleveland, ending at the Davis studio complex on University Circle, which is home to The Sculpture Center, as well.
This tour begins in Madison, at the far eastern edge of Lake County, then proceeds westward, passing through Painesville, the county seat, then Willoughby and winding up in Wickliffe, near Cuyahoga County.
The Downtown Cleveland Tour starts and ends at Public Square. To proceeds counter-clockwise from the Soldiers & Sailors monument, north and east, then across the lakefront, down into the Flats, back up to Progressive Field and back via East Ninth Street. Or of course you could go clockwise, if you wish.
A tour of public sculpture in Cleveland Heights. Beginning at the City Hall, the route proceeds counter-clockwise around to Coventry and Fairmount and then north up Lee to the main library and Cedar-Lee district. Nothing yet has been identified north or east of Severance.
Tour begins in the Larchmere District, then proceeds south along Van Aken to the Lee/Chagrin area, then north up Lee and finally out Shaker to Warrenville Center Road, at the Bertram Woods Branch Library.
A tour of the heights east of Shaker Hts. and Cleveland Hts..
A tour of public art in the Cuyaghoga River valley, "the Flats," and the bridges crossing overhead.
The Tour of Putnam Collection Sculptures around the CWRU campus, organized by and given through the Sculpture Center. The tour starts at David Davis' "Start." and curves around Juniper Road, down by the Law School, across Bellflower, towards KSL Oval, and then across Adelbert up towards Veale Athletic Center. Along the way the tour describes pieces by artists such as Keith Haring, William McVey, and Tony Smith.
War-related memorials have been a common phenomenon globally for centuries with some of the earliest forms celebrating the glory of war itself and the powerful participants. America’s modernization of war monuments can be dated to directly after the Civil War. The war created a civic need to mend the seams of a splitting nation, and the memorials functioned as a possible means to create an understanding between the two sides by emphasizing the importance of the citizen soldier, focusing on the…
Historically, African American and other minority artists have faced erasure from the field of fine arts. African-Americans have been left out of the canon of art history, and their work has been purposely ignored because of a false understanding that it has not been important enough to the progression of art. Eurocentric art history brings in a few recognized African American artists and movements such as Jacob Lawrence of the Harlem Renaissance and contemporary artist Kara Walker. However,…
Like the “Culture & Beyond: African American Sculptors Tour”, The Cleveland Latinx Sculptors Tour highlights minority sculptors important to the history of Cleveland. The artists in this tour have each created important monumental Cleveland sculptures that most Clevelanders have seen on a day to day basis. This not only makes the pieces well known but familiar and one with the city. Cleveland has grown to be an important arts city. Everyday artists and Cleveland residents are made proud…
Curatorial Statement from Kate Bonansinga The downtown core of the city of Cincinnati is defined in part by its magnificent late 19th century architecture, a result of its golden age of industry and the arts between the American Civil War and WW I. On the other hand, the campus architecture of University of Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky University is decidedly contemporary, designed by luminaries such as Frank Gehry and Bernard Tschumi. This drivable sculpture tour focuses on works of…
This tour starts with one of Cleveland’s most iconic public sculptures, Free Stamp, by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, and then spins outward through the city, to corners lesser known and to works that might not conform to traditional notions of sculpture, but that occupy public space in ways no less resonant. Unless you’re in the know, the histories of these works are often opaque; the average visitor has little access to information about who commissioned and paid for them, what…