Carl Pope
The Mind of Cleveland
Joint Fellow Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities & Cleveland Institute of Art

"Carl Pope is doing the hard work of imagining a future for the United States at one of the bleakest times in its history," says professor Nicholas Mirzoeff, who is the keynote speaker for the upcoming National Cityscapes Conference hosted by the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University, 3/27-29, a confab of international artists & scholars exploring the intersections of the urban environment, the humanities, and social change. Carl Pope himself has been in Northeast Ohio on and off since last October, hosting over a dozen public meetings with citizens young and old, black and white, and asking them the simple question, "What do you think about Cleveland?" Their answers have been collected on the site, TheMindOfCleveland.com and displayed on over 70 huge billboards and kiosks around the region thru 4/18, and printed on traditional letterpress posters, which will be on exhibit at the Cleveland Institute of Art's Reinberger Galleries, 3/27-5/3. Cool Cleveland's Thomas Mulready caught Pope in the Gallery installing his work, and they discussed how he evolved from photography and graphics into the public art realm, and how art can affect society. http://www.TheMindOfCleveland.com

 (:divend:)