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Charmaine Spencer Studio Gallery (Studio 3B) showcases large-scale installations, contemporary art and environmentally friendly crafts. Studio 3B represents artists, who live in the Cleveland metropolitan area. Artists’ exhibit in solo and group shows, in special exhibitions at several local venues. Studio 3B is also committed to the advancement of artist careers and environment consciousness through developmental programs and workshops. Located on the west end of the Gordon Square Arts District, in the famed 78th Street Studios. Studio 3B is a dynamic part of Cleveland’s largest arts complex. Members of the 78th Street Studios participate in "Third Friday" openings. The openings are held throughout the year, on the third Friday evening of every month. Allowing the public to meet and speak with artists, curators, crafters and other art enthusiasts in a single exciting night. Please feel welcome to visit and explore the eclectic mix of world-class galleries, studios and showrooms. Catch live music and other performance art, all while enjoying the best food and libations in the coolest spot in Cleveland. 78th Street Studios 1300 West 78th Street to 1305 West 80th Street Cleveland, Ohio 44102 78th Street Studios is one block north of Lake Avenue off Route 2. Free parking is available in lots north and south of the building. Admission is also free. Studio 3B can be rented for special events, where a studio atmosphere and art installations are desirable. Three large rectangular tables and seating for eighteen is included in the rental. The space has an in studio bathroom and buffet area with a sink and a refrigerator. A one-hour set up plus a one-hour clean up is required and events are not to extend later than midnight. Studio 3B is generally not available during the Third Friday events. Please contact Charmaine Spencer for more information.
 ARTIST STATEMENT The main influences in my work are my personal heritage, and social conditioning in contemporary culture. Exploring how an individual adapts to social, economic and environmental change is the consistent conceptual theme in my works. The works fiscal composition visual represents the struggles and growth in the reinvention of self and place. Favoring readily accessible utilitarian materials that have been made available by natural and commercial discards. This is most often the tenuous juxtaposition of rejection and familiarity. The materials are reconditioned for adaptation throw the process of assembly. The materials are disassembled, cut, torn or broken apart, and reformed, woven, bound or wedged together. Bold accumulation of driftwood, old wall lath, hair, electrical conduit, paper pulp, wood, dirt and steel create large installations that are reinvented in different environments.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY From Ann Arbor, Michigan I moved to Cleveland, Ohio to attend the Cleveland Institute of Art, where I presented my BFA exhibition in 2005. While there, I was recipient of the William McVey Award for Excellence in Sculpture and was one of two students selected to finish posthumously, the last sculpture of David E. Davis, the founder of the Sculpture Center. DEMONSTRATED SKILLS · Custom Fabrication: metals foundry, wood, and ceramic studio
· Art Instruction: applied crafts, lesson planning and classroom management
· Gallery Operations: exhibition curator, gallery installation and event marketing
· Program Development: grant writing, budgeting, and program implementation

EXPERIENCE
2003 – Present Studio Gallery Owner Director
Charmaine Spencer Studio Gallery at 78th Street Studios, Cleveland, OH
Consecutive sculpture exhibitions, artists career development workshops and
environmental programs for children and adults.

2008 – 2012 Arts and Environmental Science Instructor
Bluestone Circle LLC, Green Scouts Program, Cleveland, OH
Co-coordinator \ Instructor: Environmental arts and market gardening program
for’ ages 8 to 18.

Teaching Artist Building Bridges Murals, Inc.
Summer Mural Institute, Cleveland, OH
Arts and activism instructed: Tents of Hope an international collaborative community art and
activism project in solidarity with the people of Darfur, Sudan.

2004 – 2006 Ceramic Instructor
Euclid Adult Activity Center, Euclid, OH
Cuyahoga County Board of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities
Provided ceramic instruction for clients enrolled in the Center’s Pottery Art Program;
for 8 adult students with mental retardation and developmental disabilities.

2000 – 2004 Sculpture Fabricator
David E. Davis Studios at the Sculpture Center Cleveland, OH
Selected to finish posthumously, the last sculpture of David E. Davis, the founder of the
Sculpture Center.

Lab \ Teaching Assistant
Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
Provided technical support during Sculpture Summer Camps,

Gallery Assistant Reinberger Gallery
Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
Educational Outreach Programs and gallery operations

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Fine Arts;
Sculpture Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio 2005

SELECTED AWARDS
2010 Ingenuity Project Award, a program of Ingenuity Fest, of Arts and Technology, Inc.
2009 Creative Workforce Fellowship, Community Partnership for Arts And Culture
2008 Window to Sculpture Emerging Artist Award, a program of the Sculpture Center,

SELECTED PUBLIC PRESENTATION & EXHIBITIONS
2012 EARTH, Seeds of A New Age, Full Circle 78th Street Studio’s, Cleveland, OH
2011 Next, Cleveland Institute of Art, Public Presentation Cleveland, OH
2011 Changing Tactics, PechaKucha Night Cleveland Public Presentation The House of Blues,
Cleveland, OH
2010 Journey, Environmental Sculpture Exhibition (solo), Bioneers Cleveland, Annual Conference,
Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, OH
2010 Journey (solo), Ingenuity, the Cleveland Festival of Arts and Technology, Inc. Veterans Memorial
Bridge, Cleveland, OH
2010 From Woman III, the Gallery at Lakeland Community College, Kirtland, OH
2009 New Urban Habitat, the Gordon Square Arts District opening event Detroit Shoreway, Cleveland, OH 2008 Water, Environmental Sculpture (Workshop and Solo Exhibition) Bioneers Cleveland, Streaming
Satellite Conference, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH
2008 The Painted Village, (rally/exhibition), in solidarity of the Refugees of Darfur, Sudan. National Mall,
Washington DC Tents of Hope, action day for Exhibition, Maltz Museum, Beachwood, OH
2008 A Place To Dwell, (solo) The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH
2007 48 Hours of Making Art, BK Smith Gallery, Painesville, OH 2007 All Go Signs, Cleveland Public
Theatre, Cleveland, OH
2006 Indelible marks, Galleria Erieview, Cleveland, OH
2006 AfroFuturism, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2005 Women, Community and Culture, Sankof, Cleveland, OH
2004 X Africa, Cleveland State University Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2004 Rising/Bound, (solo) Groop Gallery, Cleveland, OH



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