CLEVELAND, OH.- The Cleveland Institute of Art's Reinberger Gallery is presenting Possibility for Repair, a group show that explores how artists consider repair as a prospect. The exhibition features work by Lyndon Barrois Jr. (Pittsburgh), Mark Thomas Gibson (Philadelphia), Sarah Kabot (Cleveland), M. Carmen Lane (Cleveland) and Jessica Pinsky (Cleveland).

Acknowledging the 2024 election as a backdrop, each artist questions dominant systems and reflects on ways of seeing and experiencing the world in order to inspire new perspectives. In a time of heightened fear and conflict, how can a creative community meet this moment with complexity and care? How can a creative community navigate difficult conversations as opportunities for meaningful change?

"Possibility for Repair represents perspectives from local and national artists," says Reinberger Gallery Director Nikki Woods. "I think it's important to both center and celebrate local creatives alongside artists from outside the region in order to continue, expand and support dialogue and scholarship across regions."

The exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, February 9, 2025.

Possibility for Repair represents several collaborations across CIA. Reinberger Gallery partnered with the College's Jane B. Nord Center for Teaching + Learning as well as the Drawing, Graphic Design, Liberal Arts and Sculpture + Expanded Media departments to develop meaningful curricular engagement.

Among those collaborative efforts is Bespoke, an exhibition of CIA student work that responds to the research and writing of Sara Hendren, CIA's 2024–25 Bickford Visiting Artist. Hendren's book, What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World (Penguin Random House), explores what it could mean to design for the possibilities of the body rather than its limits. It also inspired the title of Possibility for Repair, a phrase borrowed from Hendren’s book.

Bespoke opens concurrently with Possibility for Repair in CIA's Ann and Norman Roulet Student + Alumni Gallery. It will remain on view through Thursday, December 12. Bespoke was organized in collaboration with CIA professors Sarah Kabot, Amber Kempthorn and Sarah Paul.

The Cleveland Institute of Art is a private, nonprofit college of art and design that has been the training ground for countless students who have gone on to make important contributions to the fields of creativity and innovation since it opened in 1882 as the Western Reserve School of Design for Women. Its students have designed internationally recognized products, their artwork has been exhibited in major museums and private collections around the world, and their entertainment media has been enjoyed by audiences and game players for generations. It enrolls about 600 students nationally and internationally and has a faculty of about 100 full-time and adjunct members, all of whom are practicing artists, designers and scholars.