📍 Detroit Shoreway

Forgotten, Not Lost: Cleveland’s Boldest Plan Rediscovered Part I, II, III

 

Start: August 27, 2025 5:30 pm
End: October 29, 2025 7:30 pm

78th Street Studios
Address:
1300 W 78th St 1305 W 80th St
Cleveland, OH – 44102

Admission Price: $ ($0 - $25)

Cleveland’s pride isn’t a random phenomenon… it was planned over a century ago. This is not another history talk, but we will be talking about history. Rather, it’s a thoughtful conversation inside an art gallery and creative studio where past and future collide. Cleveland’s architectural marvels and cultural landmarks become lenses for something bigger: what we value, what we’ve lost, and what we’re willing to create. In 1903 Cleveland embraced the City Beautiful Movement, a sweeping plan that imagined civic beauty as a policy foundational to identity and ambition. It gave rise to a vision of grandeur, bold architecture, shared spaces, and a sense of permanence that still defines much of our pride today. But what happens when that vision is blurred or even forgotten? Guided by Greg Deegan and John Perse of Teaching Cleveland, each talk blends historical insight with artwork that reimagines the familiar in vivid surreal color and composition, provoking questions, inspiring dialogue, and challenging us to think differently about our city and ourselves. The visionaries behind Cleveland’s golden era were flawed, ambitious, and often ruthless, yet they left behind beauty and complexity that shaped generations. Together we will explore how those choices echo in our present and what it might mean to reclaim boldness without repeating their mistakes. This is the start of an engaging conversation about creative thinking, civic imagination, and the role each of us plays in shaping what comes tomorrow. The conversation begins here. Where it goes next is up to you.

 

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