Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College · Cleveland
Oberlin College's art museum, about 40 minutes west of Cleveland, has been free and open to the public since 1917. Free street parking out front. Closed Mondays and major holidays, including MLK Day, Thanksgiving and the day after, and Christmas Eve through New Year's Day.
Cleveland Institute of Art, Peter B. Lewis Theater
Spend your lunch hour with media artist and designer Matt Kenyon, who works with custom software, electronics, machines and sometimes living organisms, as he talks about his practice ahead of his Sculpture Center show. Lunch on Fridays talks are free and open to the public.
Dittrick Museum, Allen Memorial Medical Library (Case Western Reserve University) · Cleveland
Case Western Reserve's Dittrick Museum charges no admission. See an 1875 doctor's office, an iron lung, early X-ray machines, a huge collection of diagnostic instruments and the history of contraception, on the third floor of the Allen Memorial Medical Library. Open Fridays and Saturdays (visitor parking is in the attended garage under Severance Hall); closed Nov 27–28, Dec 18–19, Dec 25–26, Jan 1–2 and Jan 8–9.
The Cleveland Institute of Art opens By Way Of, new work by the first cohort of its artist residency exchange with New York's Flux Factory. Remarks at 6pm, then a one-night-only performance by textile artist Itala Aguilera at 6:15pm. The show stays up through Feb 7, 2027.
Cleveland's small-press and independent comic convention returns to the CMA's Community Arts Center. Cartoonists, zinesters, printmakers, illustrators and small publishers show their work and talk about how they make it. Free, and no registration needed.
CIM Opera Theater performs arias and ensembles from the opera repertoire in Kulas Hall. Admission is free, but you need a seating pass. A Sunday matinee follows on Dec 6 at 3pm.
Violinist Edwin Huizinga and cellist Mike Block perform in the Cleveland Institute of Music's Global Music Ensemble concert in Kulas Hall. Free and open to the public, with no tickets or seating passes needed.
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