SPACES

🌈 HAPPY PRIDE DAY! 🌈

If you're downtown and looking to experience some art today, stop by SPACES! We're open from 12:00–5:00 PM and admission is always free.

Explore our current exhibitions, on view through June 27:
✨ ọmọlolú Refilwe Bàbátúndé: meditations on be(IN) thr(u)
✨ Pattered

We'd love to welcome you into the gallery and celebrate Pride Day with creativity, conversation, and community.

Image credits: Grace K McConnell

Join us tomorrow, 6/4 from 7:00-8:00 PM (Doors Open at 6:00 PM) for SOUND:MEDS, a program organized by LaToya Kent in collaboration with Lindsay Stevens, Theresa May, olula negre, and Ismail Douglas. SOUND:MEDS is an environment of creation through light art and live music that flows into silent meditation. Feel free to bring what makes the floor comfortable to lay or sit on. As space is shared, a community blossoms. Doors open at 6:00 PM, so come early to view our current exhibitions, and settle in for this experimental experience in humanness. Register with link in bio (https://www.spacescle.org/events/2026/06/04/soundmeds)

1) LaToya is a multi-discipline healing artist who believes that loving kindness will shift our world.

2) Lindsay Stefans is an award-winning artist and lighting designer whose work spans architectural lighting, sculptural light art, and immersive installation.

3) Theresa May is a multidisciplinary artist working under the moniker Dizygotic Energy. Through the practice of liquid light art, she uses water and dyes to create visual imagery.

4) A grandchild of twin migrations from the American South and Puerto Rico, olula negre, is a creative musician (cello/voice/banjo) and visual artist from Cleveland, Ohio whose work is rooted in their Black American and Latine heritage, queerness and their interests in speculative fiction/storytelling, folklore and folk music, labor movements, and cosmic workings.

5) Ismail Douglas is a retired educator, accomplished multi-instrumentalist, and practitioner of Capoeira (African Brazilian art form), and Tai Chi. Throughout his thirty-five-year career, he has successfully facilitated workshops at numerous community events, mind/body seminars, youth/adult wellness events, and multiple school districts.

6) Artwork by Uri Iru

THE SATELLITE FUND VIRTUAL INFO SESSION

Want to learn what makes a strong Satellite Fund proposal? Curious about how the application process works?

Join SPACES Wednesday, June 17 from 6:00 - 7:00 PM for a virtual information session about the Satellite Fund, made possible through the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Regional Regranting Program.

During this session, SPACES staff will walk through the application process, eligibility requirements, key deadlines, and tips for developing a competitive proposal. Participants will also have the opportunity to ask questions and receive guidance directly from the team administering the program.

Whether you're applying for the first time or returning with a new project idea, this session will help you navigate the process and strengthen your submission.

Registration is required. Registered participants will receive a Zoom link by email on June 16 prior to the session. www.spacescle.org/events

Image: Megan Young, 2024 Awardee, The Carry Root Project

SPACES welcomes Grace Chin as one of five jurors for The Satellite Fund 2026!

Grace Chin is executive director of The Sculpture Center, a Cleveland-based institution dedicated exclusively to contemporary sculpture. She is known for her commitment to supporting artists at pivotal moments in their careers.

📣 The Satellite Fund is open to submissions through July 15, 2026 at 11:59 PM EST!

Read more about The Satellite Fund at www.thesatellitefund.org | link in bio 🔗

In partnership with Sistah Sinema Cleveland, SPACES presents a special screening of A Litany for Survival: The Life & Work of Audre Lorde in conjunction with meditations on be(IN) thr(u), the immersive exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist ọmọlolú Refilwe Bàbátúndé currently on view at SPACES.

In meditations on be(IN) thr(u), Bàbátúndé transforms the Oracle Gallery into a constellation of sonic and visual works rooted in familial archives, Black sound traditions, healing practices, and self-emancipation. Through layered audio, video, printed matter, and a monument to Zora Neale Hurston, the exhibition invites visitors into spaces of deep reflection, attunement, and care.

The screening expands these conversations through the life and legacy of Audre Lorde—the award-winning Black le***an poet, mother, teacher, and activist whose work bridged the Civil Rights movement, feminist organizing, and LGBTQ+ liberation struggles. Following the film, guests are invited to participate in an open mic celebrating Lorde’s enduring influence through poetry, music, storytelling, and performance.

This program also resonates with Bàbátúndé’s recent residency workshop at SPACES, inspired by Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name and the Black feminist breathing practices of Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Through deep listening, collective voicings, mantra creation, and sound-making, the workshop explored breath, sound, and the body as spaces of transformation, healing, and becoming — themes that continue throughout both the exhibition and this collaborative community gathering with Sistah Sinema Cleveland.

Learn more online here: www.spacescle.org/events

SPACES is hiring a part-time summer Guest Experience & Gallery Host!

Looking for a summer job that’s creative, social, and not painfully corporate? Join our small but dynamic team and spend your summer surrounded by contemporary art, exhibitions, artists, and community programs.

We’re looking for someone friendly, organized, and people-oriented to welcome visitors, answer phones/emails, sell merch, support events, and help keep the gallery running smoothly.

Perfect for students, teachers, artists, creatives, or anyone looking for a temporary summer position with personality.

DETAILS:
• $15/hour
• June 1 – August 15
• Wednesday–Saturday | 11:30 AM–5:30 PM

Customer service experience and basic computer skills required. Passion for art and creative communities is a plus.

Come work somewhere interesting this summer.

Apply online: www.spacescle.org/about/jobs

Steve Parker’s FIGHT SONG activations are now online.

If you missed the exhibition at SPACES—or want to revisit it—watch performances and activations by RA Washington , Ben Wretch, Marcia Custer , Uno Lady , and Kisha Nicole Foster responding to themes of healing, meditation, sound, and community within Parker’s participatory installation.

The playlist also includes documentation of Steve Parker’s opening night activation on February 12.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBKU-8NBpBYJqbo4TXm2WG2H-FkEGiLCR&si=fLgIAaMmHwY8hxt2

Meet our new summer intern, Bella Smith, joining SPACES through the The Cleveland Foundation Summer Internship Program.

Bella is a lifelong Lakewood resident and a 2026 graduate of Cleveland State University, where she studied Studio Art and Art History. This fall, she will continue her studies in sculpture and ceramics at the Cleveland Institute of Art’s post-baccalaureate program, exploring themes of women’s experiences and domesticity through her work.

Bella plans to pursue an MFA in 2027 with the goal of teaching art at the university level. This summer, she’ll be supporting research and planning for SPACES’ upcoming 50th anniversary exhibition series.