Abraham’s piece, “Having no Alternative/ Gone too Far”

Legation, a gallery
1300 West 78
th
Street
Cleveland, OH 44102
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Artist Lynda Abraham’s fascination with human behavior drives her to invent contraptions that alter human behavior, challenging the artist physically and her audiences mentally. On Friday, May 18, in legation gallery, she and three other performance-based artists will provoke Cleveland’s collective conscience.

Abraham’s piece, “Having no Alternative/ Gone too Far”, will be performed at 6:30 and 8:30pm. One part sculpture, one part performance art, the piece explores electrical indulgence and its effect on the consumer. As a literal part of the work, the artist propels her contraption, which inflates, creates sound and lights up as it devours electricity with accompanying audio spewing commentary from alternative energy nay-sayers (Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Rudolph Giuliani and others). Symbolic of America’s over-inflated sense and sensibility of “power”, Abraham’s piece highlights the dark side of our reliance on electricity. Abraham, a resident of Queens and creator of Williamsburg, Brooklyn’s Hope Street artist community, has been on the Cleveland art scene for a year. She is one of three artists past and future to participate in a residency designed and supported by local experience artist Melissa Daubert, an Ingenuity Fest board member.

Ryan McDaniel, a current Cleveland Institute of the Arts student, will be performing from 7-8:30pm. Ryan will be producing one of his “Anxiety” installations, consuming space in the gallery with a repetitive process of breathing into paper bags, referencing an escape to his own anxiety through hyperventilation. He then secures the bags to walls, ceilings and floors, creating surreal places that allude to a sense of comfort.

Ryan Charles Ramer, a member the Cleveland Composers Guild, will be performing new musical pieces, “Songs for Soprano and Toy Piano.” Ryan was awarded an Individual Excellence Grant from the Ohio Arts Council this year, and was contracted to organize two Cleveland performances. Ryan, the composer and accompanist, will be performing with Jaclyn Surso, the Soprano, in the gallery from 6:00- 6:30pm.

Anita Artzner, who will teach the Latin dance workshop at Choreographers Showcase

On the stage at the Lincoln Theatre, workshops will include Break Dance with Ike Odimgbe from 10:30 to 11:45 a.m., Ballroom with Jonathan Green from noon to 1:15 p.m., Dance Mix with Nicole Garlando from 1:45 to 3:00 p.m., and Modern with Emily Dottavio from 3:15 to 4:30 p.m.

Classroom workshops on the second floor of the Lincoln Theatre will include Kids Creative Movement with Courtney Oberlin from 10:30 to 11:45 a.m., Jazz with Kim Lawver from noon to 1:15 p.m., Latin with Anita Artzner from 1:45 to 3:00 p.m., and Hip-Hop with Desmond Beasley from 3:15 to 4:30 p.m.

Workshops are open to everyone. The fee for each adult workshops is $10 per session or four workshops for $30. The Kids Creative Movement workshop tuition is $7 per person. By joining The Ananda Center for the Arts at the $25 level, new members will be entitled to one free workshop. Free parking is available on city streets surrounding the Lincoln Theatre and in nearby city lots.

Participants can reserve spaces by downloading the registration form at TheAnandaCenter.org/choreographers-showcase. Contact Holly Herron at holly@theanandacenter.org with questions about the workshops.

The workshops will be followed at 6:00 with the performance segment of the day of dance—a juried showcase of choreography by The Ananda Center Dancers, MAX Dance Pro, Natasha Price, Desmond Beasley, The Canton Ballet, Emily Dottavio, The Raja Group, David Jon Krohn, Anita’s Adult Ballet Academy, Andrew Fulmer Dance Studios, The University of Akron, Nicole Garlando, Courtney Johnson-Benson, Ike Odimgbe, and Erin LaSala.

The day of dance will conclude with the 7:30 grand finale performance by the Versatile Dance Company, an Akron-based nonprofit troupe of dancers, male and female, who have a passion and gift for dance. Led by Artistic Director Mitchel Federan, they work to accomplish goals and achievements new to the dance world. The company’s shows feature a variety of dance genres—contemporary, jazz, tap, lyrical, hip-hop, and acrobatics. Versatile Dance Compamy shows touch peoples’ hearts, raise money for charities, and shine light on the importance of giving back to the community. Their original production, Praying For Abbey, raised $15,000.00 to help fight childhood leukemia; Speaking A Dead Language, earned $10,000 for two local battered womens shelters.

Tickets for the 6:00 Choreographers Showcase performance including the 7:30 Versatile Dance Company finale are available for purchase online or at the door for $15. Seniors (age 60 and older), Ananda Center members, and students with ID can purchase $10 tickets at the door. For a complete schedule, more information, and tickets, visit TheAnandaCenter.org/choreographers-showcase.

The Choreographers Showcase is funded in part by grants from ArtsInStark and the Stark Community Foundation.

The Ananda Center for the Arts is a visual and performing arts organization that enriches its community and nurtures the creativity of its youth. The nonprofit organization provides a venue for local artists of all genres to teach, learn, collaborate, and celebrate the arts in Massillon. For more information about The Ananda Center for the Arts, visit our website at www.TheAnandaCenter.org.

Standing Clown Figure

The exhibition will open on Saturday, May 19, 7:00 to 10:00 p.m., with a party like Museum fans have grown to expect. The free indoor/outdoor reception will include food, beverages, and music by The Bizarros. The event will be free and open to everyone; no reservations will be required.

Featuring an array of artwork, artifacts, furniture, and oddities, the exhibition will highlight some Massillon Museum visitor favorites like Oscar the skeleton as well as some lesser or never-before-seen objects, such as the 1928 permanent wave machine, Frieg’s turtle soup sign, Odd Fellows artifacts, a hippopotamus hide shield from Abyssinia, and circus costumes. The main gallery will become a stage set for presenting these objects in a theatrical manner. Visitors will navigate the space as if they were walking through a story.

“The story is that of a fictional family of present day, whose possessions and decorating style might suggest an earlier era,” explained Massillon Museum Executive Director Alexandra Nicholis Coon. “Living together in a weird but wonderful house, their personalities will shine through the artifacts on exhibit. Visitors will be led through the space as if it were a house—room by room. Each “room” will represent that of a different family member.”

The Massillon Museum collections—numbering more than 100,000—are diverse. Some of the objects in its care are without any companion or ancillary examples from which to form a focused exhibit. Others challenge the staff to find a place for them on permanent display or in traditional formats. “Whale ribs in a natural history museum with other like objects would not seem out of place in a themed gallery or exhibition,” said Coon. “In the collection of the Massillon Museum, they challenge the staff to find their interpretive value. We are proud of who and what we are: an art and history museum with a wide range of collections!”

The Odditorium exhibition will present an opportunity to view unusual objects in a unique way. The Museum is drawing on the talents of Museum staff and local artists to present these artifacts and the narrative in a way that intrigues and educates audiences, while it introduces them to the rich history of the Museum’s collecting over a period of seventy-nine years.

The exhibition is the brainchild of Dan Kane, arts and entertainment editor of the Canton Repository. In 2009, he and then Museum Curator Alexandra Nicholis co-curated the exhibition, Stark Naked Salon. A hit with more than 1,400 in attendance for the opening reception, Stark Naked set a precedent that the Massillon Museum could challenge traditional doctrines of exhibit aesthetics and interpretation while maintaining the tenants of its mission statement. The information was accessible yet engaging, and drew new faces to the Museum.

From the mind of Dan Kane, the Massillon Museum staff, and a team of partners such as Craig Joseph (Translations Gallery) and Kevin Anderson (Anderson Creative), comes The Odditorium!

The exhibition continues through August 26. It coincides with The Big Read: Western Stark County Reads the Short Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. In addition to nearly twenty events that are part of The Big Read, events that augment the exhibition will include: Addams Family Values at the Lions Lincoln Theatre at 10:00 p.m. on May 19; The Ridges concert on Friday, May 25; Bill Homan’s “Cryptozoology” Brown Bag Lunch on Tuesday, June 26; a behind-the-scenes gallery talk with the MassMu staff on June 27; a cryptozoology presentation by Jill Malusky at Massillon Public Library on August 2; the “Miniature Madness Dollhouse” Do the Mu workshop on August 4; and Jumanji at the Lions Lincoln Theatre on August 18 and 19.

The Massillon Museum is located at 121 Lincoln Way East in downtown Massillon. Free parking is available on adjacent streets, in nearby city lots, and in the city parking deck on South Erie Street. For additional information, call the Museum at 330.833.4061 or visit massillonmuseum.org. A visit to the Massillon Museum is always free.

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The Love Below

The mayhem begins this Saturday, May 19th, where THE LOVE BELOW will take part in the first-ever West Coast A389 label showcase in Pomona, California. Not only will the band perform alongside a crushing lineup of their A389 brethren including Integrity, Ringworm, Seven Sisters Of Sleep, Young And In The Way and more, but the band’s original drummer Chris Arias will rejoin the lineup for this special show for the first time in over a year.

Less than two weeks after the A389 showcase, THE LOVE BELOW kick off a twenty-five date trek across the United States including two raging shows at this year’s installment of the annual Chaos In Tejas throwdown alongside Sham 69, Saint Vitus, Absu, Ringworm, Dropdead, Nasum, Winter, The Mob, and dozens more in Austin, Texas.

Comprised of members of Carry The Casket, The Mistake, and Mother Speed, TLB haphazardly coalesce elements of ’90s icons Fall Silent, Endeavor and Left For Dead into a sound akin to more contemporary acts like Pulling Teeth, Trash Talk and Cursed, resulting in purely unhinged mayhem. Released by A389 Records in early April, THE LOVE BELOW’s debut LP Every Tongue Shall Caress belts out thirteen tracks in under twenty-four minutes. Stream the entire album via the band’s official Stereokiller profile page AT THIS LOCATION.

THE LOVE BELOW U.S. Tour And Fest Dates:
5/19/2012 The Glass House – Pomona, CA @ A389 showcase w/ Integrity, Ringworm, more [info]
5/31/2012 The Nile – Phoenix, AZ w/ Cold World, Backtrack, Dead End Path
6/01/2012 Dads Club – Las Cruces, NM
6/02/2012 Skrimbleshanx – Austin, TX @ Chaos in Tejas [info]
6/03/2012 Beerland – Austin, TX @ Chaos in Tejas [info]
6/04/2012 Dedicated Art Space – Little Rock, AR
6/05/2012 Crosstown Arts – Memphis, TN
6/06/2012 The Spot – Tupelo, MS
6/07/2012 TBA – Columbia, SC
6/08/2012 Empire – Richmond, VA
6/09/2012 Golden West – Baltimore, MD
6/10/2012 The Model Home – Philadelphia, PA
6/11/2012 Ray Cappo’s Cantina – New Brunswick, NJ
6/12/2012 Rock n’ Roll House – Middletown, CT
6/13/2012 Radio Bar – Somerville, MA
6/14/2012 The Acheron – Brooklyn, NY
6/15/2012 O’Reilly’s – Philadelphia, PA
6/16/2012 The West End – Ashtabula, OH
6/17/2012 The Albion – Chicago, IL
6/18/2012 Medusa – Minneapolis, MN
6/19/2012 The Fox Hole – St. Louis, MO
6/20/2012 Cafe Berlin – Columbia, MO
6/21/2012 The Newsroom – Kansas City, MO
6/22/2012 Blast-O-Mat – Denver, CO
6/23/2012 Dads Grand Theatre – Albuquerque, NM
6/24/2012 Wall Street – Phoenix, AZ

“…there really isn’t another band that sounds like them…This fucking album is amazing. 10/10″ – American Aftermath

“There is a nice sludgy layer beneath their sharp snotty sound. 5/5″ – Bring On Mixed Reviews

“…there is a sincere and palpable feeling of pure filth that permeates from every element of the band’s sound on this record, and it comes together to form one of the most entertaining and addictive listens from a hardcore record yet this year.” – Toxicbreed’s Funhouse

“…the Love Below’s approach to songwriting is unwavering, even if the vocals aren’t. Words spoken in a normal voice are followed by those pushed to near-distorted territory in a screeching howl quivering with emotion.” – Exclaim!

“Every song has a shaky and dirty feel like it could all fall apart at any minute. It isn’t a pretty sound and it isn’t close to coming off polished.” – Stereokiller

Longstanding grindcore powerhouse PHOBIA today brutalize the masses with another brand new track from their forthcoming LP, Remnants Of Filth, pending public release via Willowtip Records on June 5th. Unleash total hell with the relentless third track from Remnants Of Filth, the unarguably pissed “Submission Hold,” right now via DECIBEL MAGAZINE.

The band also recently disbursed the album’s second track, “Contradiction,” which is slaughtering the lands via Youtube HERE.

PHOBIA will be spreading their hostility throughout North America later this year and will appear on this year’s edition of the Scion Rock Fest, set to take place at the Ritz Theatre in Tampa, Florida alongside the likes of Down, Sleep, Merzbow, Church of Misery, All Pigs Must Die, Ides Of Gemini and more!

In conjunction with the release of Remnants Of Filth, PHOBIA will join forces with power violence insurgents Strong Intention for the The East Coast Filth Tour 2012 set to commence June 3 in Detroit and decimate 9 cities. Check tour dates below.

PHOBIA
5/19/2012 Church Hill’s Pub – Miami, FL
5/31/2012 Red 7 – Austin, Texas (Chaos In Tejas Fest)

PHOBIA – East Coast Filth Tour 2012
w/ Strong Intention
6/03/2012 Halfway House – Detroit, MI
6/04/2012 Now that’s class – Cleveland, OH
6/05/2012 Strange matter – Richmond, VA
6/06/2012 Millcreek – Philadelphia, PA
6/07/2012 El N Gee – New London, CT
6/08/2012 Sonar – Baltimore, MD
6/09/2012 Saint Vitus – Brooklyn, NY
6/10/2012 Radio – Somerville, MA
6/11/2012 Boagie’s – Albany, NY

With 22 notorious years of charged auditory mayhem under their belts, Orange County, California’s grindcore unit PHOBIA will assault humankind with their fifth full-length, Remnants of Filth. Easily one of the most enraged releases in the band’s iconic discography — citing classic releases for the genre via labels like Slap-A-Ham, Relapse, Deep Six, Deathvomit in addition to previous releases with current label home Willowtip Records — Remnants Of Filth surges with eighteen socio-political grind hymns in about as many minutes, produced and mixed by Scott Hull (Pig Destroyer, Agoraphobic Nosebleed) at Visceral Sound Studios in Bethesda, Maryland and engineered by Mike Harrison at Winter Skies Productions in San Antonio, Texas.

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The public is invited to view the artwork and enjoy refreshments at the exhibition opening on Saturday, May 19, from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. in the Fred F. Silk Community Room of the Massillon Museum. The artist’s daughter, Deb Altimus, and her family will be on hand to greet guests. The party is free and open to all; no reservations are necessary.

Cheri Mohn, a cerebral painter, used acrylic, ink, and construction techniques to create meticulous and balanced works of art.

“Cheri Mohn’s Hard Edge and Picasso show is an amalgamation of three themes: Hard Edge, a style which involves sharp lines and no shading—really evident in pieces with contrasting colors; Geometric Forms, which have been constructed from various shapes and intersecting planes; and the Picasso-inspired pieces, which are a tribute to the legendary artist,” said Altimus. “These three themes converge in her painting, ‘Modular Planes,’ in which she merged geometric shapes and planes in a Hard Edge style with various images of Picasso, whom she greatly admired.”

A graduate of Our Lady of the Elms in Akron, Mohn earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Youngstown State University. She moved in 1955 to the Youngstown area and to North Lima in 1968. She worked as an artist and art instructor in Youngstown and North Lima and operated an art store and antique shop in Columbiana. A realtor for Burgan Realty of Youngstown, she was a past president of the Columbiana Chamber of Commerce.

The artist exhibited her painting, “Space Geo,” in the Massillon Museum’s Annual Show in 1971. In 1993, she had a one-woman show at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, where she had earned a purchase award in 1970. Her Paleomorphic Series was exhibited in the Massillon Museum’s Studio M in the fall of 2010. She was was included in exhibitions in and was affiliated with galleries in Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, and New Mexico.

The opening of Mohn’s Studio M show is concurrent with the opening of The Odditorium in the main gallery. That indoor/outdoor party will include music by The Bizarros and refreshments. A new Civil War sesquicentennial display, General Samuel Beatty, will also debut during the evening.

The exhibitions may be seen during regular Museum hours, Tuesday through Saturday 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sunday 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. The Museum will be closed on July 4 to celebrate Independence Day.

The Chit Chat Coffee Shoppe and the Museum shop, OhRegionalities, are located in the lobby of the Massillon Museum.

Studio M enhances the collaboration between the Museum and the community by showcasing the artistic talents of local, regional, and national artists. The series of five-week shows will continue throughout the year, selected by jurors from proposals submitted by artists. Brochures containing guidelines and an application are available by contacting the Massillon Museum at 330-833-4061 or www.massillonmuseum.org.

The Massillon Museum is located at 121 Lincoln Way East (Ohio Route 172) in the heart of downtown Massillon. A visit to the Massillon Museum is always free.

Transit opened the sold out Wonder Years show on March 16, 2012 at Peabody’s. At the same time unbenownst to Cleveland they were shooting a video for their tune Cutting Corners. Check out a piece of future Cleveland history.

Anatoth

“Total domination of the Heavy Metal World is our main goal” says frontman Derek LaVan, “This May
19th show will get Cleveland to share our vision.”

Anatoth is a heavy metal band formed in 2009, in Cleveland, Ohio. They have been labeled Modern
Thrash and Groove Metal by fans and peers. “The message of our songs is clear, yet able to be
interpreted by the listeners” exclaims LaVan. “We are here to be shelter for those who seek classic true
metal in a changing world of aggression”. The name of the band is based on the biblical city in which
refugees could take shelter from the war of a changing world. Using the teachings of the fathers of Metal
and the tools of the current metal trend, Anatoth stands alone in a sea of clones.

Anatoth consists of Derek LaVan (Guitar/Vocals), Rosario Welles (lead Guitar/ Backing vocals), Rick
Williams (Bass), and Zach Horstman (Drums). “Together, we have put our years of training together to
make music that can reach across all genres, touching on the desires of a true Metal Head and the casual
ear of a pop lover.”–Anatoth

Gorilla Music Presents: ANATOTH
May 19th, 2012 at Peabody’s Concert Club/Pirate’s Cove
Doors at 6pm and $500 Cash Raffle at 11pm
All Ages
$10 Adv. and $12 DOS (Contact bands for Advance Ticket Sales or go to www.GORILLAMUSIC.com)

The following bands/artists will be opening for Anatoth on May 19th:

The Knickers, Monster Dolls, Katila, The Renfields, Vent, Sworn To The Grave, Morir es Vivir,
Demons Within, Paradoxos, and We Shall Prevail