Happenings

Here is a brief rundown of some coming entertainment options in Northeast Ohio. Make submissions for consideration via email to entertainment@news-herald.com. You must include a phone number and/or web address for publication.

Art Beck Center for the Arts:

17801 Detroit Ave., Lakewood, presents “Budding to Blossoming,” a visual arts student exhibition, through May 23. Call 216-5212540, or visit beckcenter. org.

Cleveland Museum of Art: 11150 East Blvd., presents “Stories From Storage,” through May 16; “Laura Owens: Rerun,” through May 30at Transformer Station; “Bruce Davidson: Brooklyn Gang,” through June 13; “Fashioning Identity:

Mola Textiles of Panamá,” through Oct. 3; “Rinpa,” through Oct. 3; “Interpretation of Materiality: Gold,” through Oct. 25; “Gustave Baumann: Colorful Cuts,” through May 2; “Variations: The Reuse of Models in Paintings by Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi,” through Aug. 22; “Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, 18901900,” July 1through Sept. 19; “Revealing Krishna: Journey to Cambodia’s Sacred Mountain,” Nov. 14 through Jan. 30. Call 216421-7340 or visit clevelandart.org.

Kent State University Museum: 515 Hilltop Dr. Kent, announces reopening and presents “Stitched: Regional Dress Across Europe,” which showcases common features shared by regional costume across Western and Eastern Europe, through Dec. Call 330-672-3450 or visit www.kent.edu/museum. Lake Erie College’s B.K. Smith Gallery: in Royce Hall for the Fine and Performing Arts, Gillett Street, Painesville, presents its annual spring Bachelor of Fine Arts student showcase, featuring the work of Marina Puhalj, a visual communication and graphic design BFA candidate, through May 15. Call 440-375-7050 or visit LEC.edu.

Lakeland Community College’s Gallery at Lakeland:

7700 Clocktower Drive, Kirtland, presents the 11th annual “May Show Juried Art Exhibition,” featuring virtual and in-person components at Lakeland and Stella’s Art Gallery in Willoughby, May 20through July 9(artist reception June 11 and 12). Call 440-525-7029 or visit lakelandcc.edu/gallery.

Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Cleveland:

11400 Euclid Ave., presents

“Naeem Mohaimen: Monday, Day 3753,” built around Mohaimen’s first fiction film, “Tripoli Cancelled” (2017), through June 6. Call 216-421-8671 or visit mocacleveland.org. Sculpture Center: 1834 E. 123rd St., Cleveland, presents Crossroads: “Still We Rise,” an augmented reality (AR) exhibition series that will showcase artwork from 12 artists, July 16 through Sept. 25. Call 216-2296527 or visit sculpturecenter.org.

Spaces Gallery: 2220 Superior Viaduct, Cleveland, presents “Reciprocity: Back Back Forth and Fourth,” featuring the work of Mildred Beltre, April 16 through June 4; “The Origin of Form,” featuring the work of Martha Poggioli, April 16 through June 4; “Coming Suddenly, Passing Strangely,” curated by Deputy Director Megan

Young in collaboration with Columbia College Chicago, April 16 through June 4. Call 216-621-2314 or visit spacesgallery.org.

Valley Art Center: 155 Bell St., Chagrin Falls, presents “Illustrious Alumn,” featuring the work of artists who got their start at VAC, including Judith Brandon (mixed media landscape) H. Craig Hanna (landscape and figurative, Jeremey Galante (animation.. Kate Kaman (sculpture), Judy Takacs (figurative painting) and Sam Waterson, creator of “Calvin and Hobbes,” April 2through May 12; “Whisky Painters of America,” exploring the foundations of VAC through whiskey paintings, April 2 through May 12; a “reimagined” Art by the Falls,” featuring a series of gallery exhibitions at VAC, June 4 through July 7 and July 23 through Sept. 1. Call 440-247-7507 or visit valleyartcenter.org.

Comedy

Cleveland Improv: 1148 Main Ave., Cleveland, presents Omar Terrell, May 13; Dominque, May 14 through 16; Tim Bae, May 20. Call 216-696-4677 or visit ClevelandImprov.com. Hilarities 4th Street Theatre: 2025 E. Fourth St., Cleveland, Noah Gardenswartz, June 4 through 6. Call 216-736-4242 or visit pickwickandfrolic.com.

Concerts

Apollo’s Fire, The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra: presents “Music Among the Trees: Lift Every Voice,” an outdoor concert featuring members of The Mosaic Project, May 30and 31at The Conway Pavilion at Laurel School’s Butler Campus, 7420 Fairmount Road, Russell Township. Call 216-3200012or 800-314-2535, or visit apollosfire.org.