Recently I visited the Spirit of 76 Museum in Wellington, Ohio. I went because on our Downtown Public Art walking tour we talk about the Spirit of 76 painting by Archibald Willard that hangs in Cleveland City Hall and I wanted to learn more. The Museum’s first floor is dedicated to the painting and Willard. […]
Moses Cleaveland We begin a look at some of the Public Square statues, past and present. We will start with the obvious choice, Moses Cleaveland, the founder of the city. Moses of course arrived here on July 22, 1796. Instead of talking about him, I’d like to focus on the statue itself. The statue was […]
The Cleveland Museum of Art is home to so many amazing collections and special exhibits. Back in late February I went to the museum to see the PROOF: Photography in the Era of the Contact Sheet. I had written a blog post a couple weeks later but then never shared it. So here it is! […]
I finally made it to the Tiffany in Bloom special exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Art this past week. It was awesome! I highly recommend checking it out and best of all, it is free! We have so many connections to Tiffany in Cleveland – the four stained glass windows in the Old Stone […]
Cora Holden was born in Alexandria, Virginia in 1895 but moved to Cleveland to attend the Cleveland School of Art (now Cleveland Institute of Art) where she earned her graduate degree in 1918. She would also teach at the school throughout her life. Locally she worked with architects Walker and Weeks. They would hire her […]
I have done several posts (March 2018 and September 2018) on the two eagles that once sat in front of the old Chamber of Commerce Building downtown. They have found their new home outside Post Office Plaza and they look fantastic! First these are not live eagles, they are two 5,000 pound pink granite statues. […]
I wanted to highlight the old Cleveland Trust Company Bank Building, which of course today is Heinen’s Grocery Store. Just last week, the lights that back-light the beautiful stained glass dome were fully replaced! It was a large undertaking but they are fixed. It is amazing what a difference it makes. The Cleveland Trust Dome […]
I have written about the statues of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton that sit in front of the Cuyahoga County Courthouse but do you know the who the other two statues that sit on the backside of the Courthouse are? They are John Marshall and Rufus Ranney. John Marshall served as the Chief Justice of […]
Public art is all around Cleveland whether its downtown or the Cultural Gardens there is no shortage of statues in Cleveland. Recently the good folks at Milano Monuments put together an article called the “25 Must See Statues of Cleveland”. It highlights everything from sports figures like Jesse Owens and Jim Brown, political figures like […]
New on Public Square – Prismatica. This is an interactive lighting exhibit where you get to play with the life size prisms. The exhibit is currently traveling the country and has landed in Public Square. It is comprised of 25, six foot tall prisms. I saw it during the day before one of our walking […]
