Echoes of Edo – Walk into Edo with Sabrina Zeidler and Rick Arnold

In this episode of CleveCast: Voices of the CCMA, we step inside the world of Edo—literally. Justin sits down with Sabrina Zeidler and Rick Arnold, the talented designers behind the life-sized Edo-period village constructed inside the Playhouse Theater at the McAninch Arts Center.

Part of the larger Hokusai and Ukiyo-e: The Floating World exhibition, this immersive environment transports visitors into 18th-century Japan. Sabrina and Rick share what it was like to create a theatrical-style set for a museum audience, the challenges of balancing visual impact with historical research, and the surprising overlaps—and differences—between exhibition design and stagecraft.

This episode offers a fascinating look at the creative minds who helped bring the floating world to life in three dimensions.