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Canvas Cleveland   |  August 20, 2021

Making SPACE(S)

With a new leader at the helm, SPACES continues to challenge itself

Starting a new role, in a new city leading a 43-year-old arts organization during a once-in-a-century pandemic and amid a reinvigorated societal reckoning with racism and social issues may seem daunting.

But both Tizziana Baldenebro, SPACES' 33-year-old new executive director, and the organization itself, it's an opportunity to try to do better.

To Baldenebro, that means making the arts organization more inviting to all, having hard conversations about the intersection of the international artists SPACES engages and the local Cleveland community, and understanding the many dynamics at play in creating a more equitable future.

"I think there is something very radical about post-industrial landscapes," says Baldenebro, who arrived at SPACES in August 2020 after about a year as Ford Curatorial Fellow at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. "I've written a bit... Read On