MAY 2016 • VOL 2 • ISSUE #5 • THEDEVILSTRIP.COM 6 What’s the big idea, Square Scullery? 24 FEATURE STORY: The Corner Pocket 30 Easy speak with Chef Ernest Cornelius FREE 40 Years of Restless Invention WELCOME BACK, MR. MOTHERSBAUGH — ARTIST, MUSICIAN, AKRONITE AKRON ART MUSEUM • One South High • Akron, OH 44308 • 330-376-9186 • akronartmuseum.org Akron Art Museum | Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia EVENTS Artist Talk Mark Mothersbaugh and curator Adam Lerner Saturday, May 28 at 2pm Akron-Summit County Public Library 60 S. High St., Akron 44326 Tickets: $10 for Akron Art Museum Members, on sale May 2, and MOCA Members, on sale May 9; $20 for general admission, on sale May 16. To purchase, visit AkronArtMuseum.org/eventregistration Myopia: Free Opening Party Saturday, May 28 from 3–7pm Akron Art Museum Energy Dome Planter Workshop with Amy Mothersbaugh Thursday, June 2 at 6:30pm Gear up for the museum’s soon-to-be-open garden with artist and Studio 2091 gallery owner Amy Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia Mothersbaugh by transforming a terracotta fl ower pot into an energy dome and placing a plant inside. For tickets, visit AkronArtMuseum.org/ eventregistration May 29 – August 28, 2016 The Yoga of DEVO & Mark Mothersbaugh a shared exhibition presented by Thursday, June 2 from 6:30-8:30pm Grab your red energy dome hat and your yoga AKRON ART MUSEUM & MOCA CLEVELAND mat and join us for an evening of yoga and meditation with Maria Santoferraro. For tickets, visit AkronArtMuseum.org/eventregistration Myopia is the fi rst retrospective of the work of Mark Mothersbaugh, spanning the Mothersbaugh-Inspired Sun Catcher with Amy Mothersbaugh beginning of his career in the early 1970s through the present. Born in Akron, OH, and Thursday, June 23 at 6:30pm What shines with beauty and glows with more co-founder of the New Wave band DEVO, Mothersbaugh has been making art for natural Akron energy than a red glass DEVO more than forty years—since before the band’s inception in the early 1970s. This body dome inspired suncatcher? Learn basic soldering techniques as you create a sun catcher with of work presents a unique combination of cultural criticism and personal expression a decidedly Akron fl avor. For tickets, visit AkronArtMuseum.org/eventregistration through drawings, fi lms, paintings, sculpture and music. But more than that, his work provides a missing link in the history of contemporary art and culture. At once an artist, Art Talk: The Beginning Was the End Thursday, June 30 at 7pm musician, and tinkerer, he o ers a key to understanding the current state of art, with Jade Dellinger and David Gi els, authors of the defi nitive band biography Are We Not Men? its hybridity, subjectivity and fl uid boundaries. Mothersbaugh’s work reveals his unique We Are Devo! talk about the many worlds of artistic voice and also asserts his role in the intersecting legacies that have formed Mark Mothersbaugh. contemporary culture. Zine Workshop with Amy Mothersbaugh Thursday, July 7 at 6:30pm Join the zine craze and learn about Mark Myopia at the Akron Art Museum turns its attention on Mothersbaugh’s visual art Mothersbaugh’s early adventures in zine making. Participants are encouraged to bring images and practice, including installations of recent sculpture, prints, rugs, and a collection of scraps to personalize your zine, but materials will also be provided. For tickets, visit 30,000 postcard-sized drawings the artist has created and utilized for inspiration and AkronArtMuseum.org/eventregistration exploration throughout his career. The Akron Art Museum is partnering with MOCA Everything Is Awesome: Cleveland to jointly present Mothersbaugh’s work in simultaneous exhibitions across Mark Mothersbaugh Painting Party Thursday, July 14 at 6:30pm Northeast Ohio. By visiting the exhibition in both venues, audiences will get a wide- Join smARTStudio to paint a portrait of Mark ranging perspective of Mothersbaugh’s prolifi c output of artwork, music, ideas, restless Mothersbaugh on canvas. Learn the process of photo transferring onto canvas and painting invention, and distinctive sense of humor. FUNdamentals. For tickets, visit AkronArtMuseum.org/eventregistration Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Its presentation at the Akron Art Museum is generously sponsored by The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, John P. Murphy Foundation, Audio- Technica and EarthQuaker Devices. Special thanks go to the Department of Print Media & Photography at Kent State University and TKM. Media sponsorship is provided by Western Reserve Public Media and 91.3 The Summit. AKRON ART MUSEUM • One South High • Akron, OH 44308 • 330-376-9186 • akronartmuseum.org table of contents The Devil Strip 12 E. Exchange Street 24 2nd Floor 24 FEATURE: Akron, Ohio 44308 The Corner Pocket: Publisher: Chris “has all the best words” Horne When a neighborhood Email: [email protected] Cell phone: 330-555-NEVER-ANSWERS is a neighborhood Alesa “doesn’t sleep” Upholzer unto itself Art Director: Managing Editor: M. 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Copyright: The entire contents of The Devil Strip are copyright 2016 by Random Family, LLC. Reproduction in whole or in part without according to the latest Akron AAUP survey. But whether he should stay or go isn’t really the question written permission of the publisher is prohibited. Publisher does not assume bugging me these days. any liability for unsolicited manuscripts, materials, or other content. Any submission must include a stamped, self-addressed envelope. All editorial, advertising, and business correspondence should be mailed to the address listed above. Instead, I’m worried that the anti-Scarborough sentiment has gone so far that everyone will think everything is awesome at UA if he’s ousted. There were, as he’s rightly pointed, serious issues when he arrived. There are, I think, more now — some worse than before. So the really big question, which needs to be addressed regardless of who is in office, is “What will it take