No Exit Spring 2026: Cleveland Renaissance: Art of the Cleveland School

No Exit  presents Cleveland Renaissance: Art of the Cleveland School, an exploration of one of Cleveland’s greatest artistic legacies through the lens of music and poetry. In the first half of the 20th century, Cleveland was home to an extraordinary and vibrant creative zeitgeist which included some of the most visionary, adventurous and masterful artists that this country has ever produced. No Exit celebrates the artists of the Cleveland School with brand-new musical and poetic works which will serve as companion pieces to paintings from Clarence Holbrook Carter, William Sommer, Clara Deike, Hughie Lee-Smith, August Biehle, Clarence Van Duzer and Charles Sallée. 

No Exit May 2025 Program (Click for complete PDF)

No Exit Fall 2016-5

No Exit Fall 2016-5

No Exit Fall 2016-5

No Exit Fall 2016-5

No Exit Fall 2016-5

No Exit Fall 2016-5

“What NoExit has assembled is something rarer than a themed concert program: an act of civic archaeology conducted in real time, before a live audience, with all the mess and urgency that entails”
-Paul Cox, CanJournal.org (March,2026)

 

No Exit Fall 2016-5

No Exit Fall 2016-5

No Exit Fall 2016-5

No Exit Fall 2016-5

 

 

 

Program

Figures with Birds (2026)
Chris Neiner (b.1994)

Plume (2026)
Ray McNiece (b.1960)
After The Brandywine in Winter (ca. 1923-1925) by William Sommer (b.1867 – d.1949)

Vanity (2026)
Gleb Kanasevich (b.1989)
After Shells (1937) by Clara Deike (b.1881 – d.1964)

Left Unsaid (2026)
Adonai Henderson (b.1993)
After The Confrontation (1970) by Hughie Lee-Smith (b.1915 – d.1999)

Intermission

Hi Stranger (2026)
Raja Belle Freeman (b.1998)
After Bedtime (1940) by Charles Sallée (b.1913 – d.2006)

Clarence Carter (2026)
Greg D’Alessio (b.1963)
After Jane Reed and Dora Hunt (1941) and
Eschatos no.6 (1973) by Clarence Holbrook Carter (b.1904 – d.2000)

The Japanese Bridge (2026)
Timothy Beyer (b.1970)
After The Japanese Bridge (1913) by William Sommer (b.1867 – d.1949)

Sunday Morning Apples (1927)
To William Sommer
Hart Crane (b.1899 – d.1932)

Anti-Fascist Triptych (2026)
James Praznik (b.1985)
After Anti-Fascist Triptych (1945) by Clarence Van Duzer (b.1920 – d.2009)

Review

March10, 2026

NO EXIT REDISCOVERS THE CLEVELAND SCHOOL
by Paul Cox, canjournal.org