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Attraction and museum in Cleveland, Ohio
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ATNSC, officially ATNSC: Center for Healing and Creative Leadership, is an artist-run retreat, residency, exhibition space in Cleveland, Ohio.[1][2] Inaugurated in 2018[3] and opening its physical space in 2020, ATNSC facilitates socially-engaged interdisciplinary programming and community events with a focus on Black and Indigenous artists.
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| Established | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Location | 11808 Cromwell Ave Cleveland, Ohio 44120 United States |
| Director | M. Carmen Lane |
| Website | www |
Name
ATNSC is named for Ataensic (“Sky Woman”), also known as Atsi’tsiaka:ion, the mother goddess and central figure in the creation story of the Haundenosaunee.
History
ATNSC was founded by M. Carmen Lane,[4] a two-spirit African-American and Haudenosaunee (Mohawk/Tuscarora) artist, writer, and facilitator.[5]
Space
ATNSC occupies a former family home on a residential street in the Buckeye-Shaker neighborhood of Cleveland.[6] Completed in 1915, the building first housed a recently-migrated Hungarian family and was part of a large Hungarian neighborhood. Following the tail end of white flight from Buckeye-Shaker, African-American families lived in the home in the 1990s and 2000s. The home’s ownership was transferred to the Cuyahoga Land Bank in the early 2010s. In 2017, working in collaboration with Neighborhood Housing Services (which later merged with the Cleveland Housing Network), Lane received a grant from the Cuyahoga Land Bank to renovate the property.[7] ATNSC opened its physical space in the home in November 2020.
ATNSC contains a full living space for artists-in-residence; a library; a focus gallery; and a studio for sound and digital projects. ATNSC’s permanent art collection is displayed throughout the building. A garden surrounding ATNSC contains only plants indigenous to northeast Ohio and the Great Lakes region.
Exhibitions
ATNSC hosts art exhibitions in the Akhsó Gallery, which prioritizes Indigenous and Black contemporary art.[8] The gallery hosts a regular schedule of group exhibitions, retrospectives, and site-specific installations. Previous exhibitions include Detention, a site-specific installation by Harlem- and Okinawa-based artist José Rodríguez, in 2021; Overlooked Intimacies, a retrospective of the artist Shaun Leonardo, in 2022; and OF TIME, a group exhibition of work by artists of Palestine, Lebanon, and their diasporas, in 2024.[9]
Residency Programs
ATNSC hosts multiple residencies that allow recipients to create new artistic work; engage with ATNSC’s art and library collections; or for organizations to deepen their leadership competencies. Past residents at ATNSC include Jennifer Elizabeth Kreisberg, Jenna Hamed, and Shaun Leonardo.[10] ATNSC also partners with the Morgan Conservatory in Cleveland to host artist residencies.[11]
Collections
ATNSC’s permanent collection includes works by prominent artists and former residents, such as Mildred Beltre, İeva Saudargaitė Daouhi, Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., John LaFord, Ronald Meaux, Michael Rakowitz, and the Reverend Albert Wagner.
ATNSC’s archival holdings include a collection of 2,300 books donated by John D. Carter, founder of Gestalt OSD, which has been catalogued and is publicly accessible; as well as a collection of Black consciousness and historical texts collected during Project Star, a 1960s collaboration between the NAACP and the Cleveland Public School District. ATNSC also houses nine crates of vinyl jazz records donated by Paul O’Neill Murphy, a Cleveland-based industrial design artist. The music has been digitized and is available online.