Opening Reception · By way of

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Image: RAMP inaugural cohort Itala Aguilera, Rachel Ferber, Li-Ming Hu, and Mike Meier.

The Cleveland Institute of Art’s Reinberger Gallery presents by way of , a group exhibition of new work by the inaugural cohort of the Regional Artist Mobility Program (RAMP) , a residency exchange between Flux Factory and CIA in Northeast Ohio.

By way of takes artist mobility as a form of time travel, drawing on the 1901 Moberly-Jourdain timeslip : an account by two visiting academics to Versailles, who became convinced they had wandered into the 1790s, and spent years in the archives trying to prove it. By way of takes its title from the common preposition for an indirect route—a nod to the oft absurd, circuitous path taken by makers for their art. Leaning into processes of working backwards, taking the side quest, wandering off or rerouting, each of the artists in by way of channels a practice through something that already exists: by way of a melting shoe, by way of reenactment, by way of material resistance or by way of the terminally online. The exhibition is co-organized by Meghana Karnik , Curator & Exhibitions Director at Flux Factory and Nikki Woods , Director of Exhibitions + Galleries at CIA.

By Way Of will open to the public with a reception from 6:00 – 8:00 pm on Friday, November 13 at CIA’s Reinberger Gallery. Remarks will begin at 6:00 pm and will be followed by a live one-night-only performance by Aguilera at 6:15 pm. The exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, February 7, 2027.

The Regional Artist Mobility Program is made possible with the generous support of The Kettering Family Foundation . Reinberger Gallery programming is supported in part by the residents of Cuyahoga County, through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture and its exhibitions are generously supported by CIA’s Community Partners. Travel support for the exhibition is provided by the Roulet-Hernandez Family Curator Fund at Cleveland Institute of Art.

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