The Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) is exploring the role that artists play in shaping communities and other aspects of socially-engaged art in a new exhibition entitled "Community Works: Artist as Social Agent" that opens on Friday, November 7th at 5 p.m.

“It’s quite a lineup," said Bruce Checefsky, director of CIA’s Reinberger Galleries, in a press release. "By bringing in visiting artists who represent a huge variety of perspectives and backgrounds, we hope to present a comprehensive look at the range of expression that may be considered socially engaged art."

From the press release:

"The exhibition, Community Works: Artist as Social Agent, opens on Friday, Nov. 7 with public panel discussion from 5-6 pm in the Aitken Auditorium of CIA’s Gund Building, 11141 East Boulevard. Members of the public will hear from all six of the artists featured in the show: four international artists and two New York artist-activists. From several different angles, these visiting artists will address the question: what is socially engaged art. After the panel discussion, the doors to CIA’s Reinberger Galleries open with a public reception from 6-8 pm.

Reinberger is also in the Gund Building. The exhibition runs through Dec. 20.

Community Works will explore multi-layered narratives of identity, exile, and displacement through works of photography, video, installation, and other media by the following six artists:

• Maj Hasager (Denmark)
• Ch-Yu Liao (Taiwan)
• Dor Guez (Israel)
• José Carlos Teixeira (Portugal)
• Caroline Woolard (USA)
• Susan Jahoda (USA)

For more information on the conference, click here.