For more than three decades, Jim Collver has transformed Northeast Ohio into a gallery of public symbols.
Bras. Banners. Red maple trees. Anything that makes people stop and feel something.
Collver uses such items to amplify voices that are or were muted by society’s past norms. Yet he initially struggled to explain why he’s invested so much time in channeling his polite stubbornness into convincing government officials and community leaders to back his visual initiatives, many of which he funds as the lone member of what he calls the Celtic Club. Then it occurred to him…