Resident’s Select 2020 Exhibition 

Yards Projects @ Worthington Yards presents a new way of thinking about how artworks are activated in live and work places where other public and private institutions cannot. A broader community, outside the art-converted community gets direct access to some of the best contemporary art from this region that reflects the diversity, history and culture of Cleveland.

The Resident’s Select Exhibition is annual exhibition providing a different, and more everyday type of engagement, for newcomers and converts to the arts.  Unlike attending a gallery or museum exhibition,  it embeds an appreciation of contemporary art as something that can enhance the lives of those who actually live in the space where the exhibitions occur. It speaks to the connective culture by sharing the Cleveland stories and perspectives of the artists very directly to those who get to interact with the work most. . 

Yards Projects has an open, (and free) submission process each year (with an August 30th deadline) , and upon receipt of over 70 submissions, 6 residents and staffers from Worthington Yards got to select the work and participate in the curatorial and programming decisions. This provided newcomers to the art ecosystem with agency and “behind-the-scenes” knowledge in the ways in which artists think, process and exhibit their work. 

The artists selected this year are Donna Coleman, Lisa Schonberg, Eva Kwong, Samantha Bias, Jordan Mastrocola, Tricia Kaman, Lucas Patrick,   Jessie Horning, Justin Brennan, Buzz Szilagyi, Don Penn, Kate Snow