SPACES' Exhibits on View ( January 5, 2022 - January 21, 2022)

Home Soon: A Youth Art Exhibition
Co-Hosted by The Tamir Rice Foundation and SPACES.

Join us for an exhibition of art created by youth within the Cuyahoga County Detention Center alongside students of Mayfair Elementary School.

Between May-August 2021, The Tamir Rice Foundation and SPACES partnered to facilitate a city-wide art supply drive. Four collection bins, adorned by local artists with paintings that celebrate Tamir’s life, were installed throughout Greater Cleveland.

Donated supplies went toward workshops facilitated by teaching artists and members of the Cuyahoga County Jail Coalition, Josiah and James Quarles. The art featured in this exhibit was produced by youth ages 10-21 detained in the Cuyahoga County Detention Center alongside students from Mayfair Elementary School.

All remaining supplies went toward the Detention Center, a holiday art box giveaway, and future Tamir Rice Foundation art programs.

Stopgap
An exhibition of emerging arts workers. Curated by Seneca Kuchar
Nick Birnie, Morgan Rose Free, Eli Gfell, Tatiana Hornung , Tirzah Legg, Meg Lubey, Bri Robinson
“Stopgap” means a quick solution to an impending problem, plugging the hole. Art workers are often the ones managing and providing these solutions. In often understaffed and tightly scheduled spaces they become the resource, a stopgap for art communities. It’s a kind of work that is easy to overlook while difficult to separate from other parts of one’s life.

The work featured in the exhibition examines place, self, and structure. There are replications of household items, exteriors of structures that house people, abstractions of space, and altered gallery furniture. The context of the gallery alters the experience of the private and personal, and the objects and spaces from the mundane encroach on the gallery space. In a similar way, the labor of art workers bleeds into their non-work lives. This exhibition exists to celebrate and forefront the labor and experiences of art workers, which is meant to be invisible within the gallery space.