CCCA Show to Focus on Childhood and Art
A month after the events of last September 11, Sacramento News & Review art critic Douglas Slayton recommended that families see the current show at their local art museum because “it might help in the healing process.” It’s a year after those events, and now the same show is coming to the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art.
“Almost Warm & Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art” was first organized for the Des Moines Art Center in the fall of 1999, and has been traveling since then. The show features the work of 30 artists in many media - from watercolor to balloons to dripping liquids. Like a well-crafted Bugs Bunny cartoon, the exhibit appeals on many levels, making it just the sort of multi-generational antidote to terror that Slayton felt was just what the doctor ordered.
CCCA is located at the Cleveland Playhouse, 8501 Carnegie Ave. See
the show from September 13 - November 17. Center hours are Tuesday - Sunday, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m., remaining open on Thursdays until 8 p.m. Children under12 are always free; adults are free on Fridays.