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Lunch on Fridays: Mike Rader
Cleveland Institute of Art, Reinberger Gallery
- Date Friday, April 18, 2025
- Time 12:15PM - 1:30PM
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The CIA's Reinberger Gallery supports professional artists by offering high-quality exhibition opportunities. Additionally, it acts as an educational resource for CIA students, faculty, and the community, fostering artistic growth and experimentation through well-curated exhibitions, events, and lectures. Admission: Reinberger Gallery is free... more
Spend your lunch hour with mixed-media artist Mike Rader as he discusses his work and artistic practice during Lunch on Fridays from 12:15 to 1:30pm Friday, April 18 in CIA's Peter B. Lewis Theater.
Rader’s work reaches back into the hardwiring of the past to create a dialogue with the present. He is currently developing a film inspired by the personalities of the Three Stooges and how their distinct traits relate to the creative process.
The Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque will screen a series of short films by Rader starting at 6:30pm Wednesday, April 16. The program will include a post-screening Q&A. Learn more and buy tickets.
Speaker BioMike Rader
Mike Rader is a mixed-media artist working in animation, painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing—while often combining all of these elements into film. Rader's work reaches back into the hardwiring of the past to create a dialogue with the present. Previous works have used the following catalysts: Charlie Chaplin, Ultraman and Mr. Potato Head. Rader is currently developing a film inspired by the personalities of the Three Stooges and how their distinct traits relate to the creative process.
His works have won multiple awards, including the Vanguard Award for Best Experimental Film (Art of Brooklyn Film Festival), Best Art Direction (Manhattan Film Festival) and the Merit Award (Lucerne Film Festival). Rader’s works have been shown in museums and galleries internationally, including in The Carnegie Museum of Art, the Andy Warhol Museum, the Toledo Museum of Art as well as multiple solo shows in New York. Rader currently teaches at NYU, Parsons and Yale University and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Parking: Lunch on Fridays attendees may park in CIA's Lot 73 and Annex Lot, both of which surround our campus. Please note that signs posted around those lots correctly state that parking typically requires a CIA permit or visitor pass and that violators will be ticketed. However, to accommodate our valued Lunch on Fridays attendees, that policy won't be enforced during the program. Have questions? Please contact Reinberger Gallery at reinbergergallery@cia.edu or 216.421.7407.
