July 13, CAN celebrated Cleveland artists in the newly renovated Playhouse at BAYarts, with support from Fred and Laura Bidwell, Toastmaster John C. Williams, AIA, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and all in attendance. Were you there? Photographer Emannuel Wallace captured the scenes.
Volunteers Christina McCallum and Kathleen Gill checked in guestsThanks to Brown-Forman / Herradura SilverTequila and Woodford Reserve Bourbon, for cocktails honoring Cleveland Artists: The Duchess of Kessa, in honor of artist Arabella Proffer; The Notorious NWH, named for BAYarts director Nancy Walters Heaton; The Shirley Aley Campbell, sponsored by CAN board president John Farina and Adam Tully; The Victor Schreckengost, sponsored by William Lipscomb and ArtNEO; and the Assemblage, a non-alcoholic option sponsored by Assembly for the Arts CEO Jeremy Johnson.Thanks to Brown Forman also for a stellar, hard-working crew of bartenders!Artists Karen Beckwith, Lisa Schonberg, and John A. Sargent, IIIArtist Stephen CalhounArtists Ed Raffel, Artists Archives of the Western Reserve director Mindy Tousley, and Darl Center for the Arts director Darl SchaaffMembers of Mourning [A] BLKstar, before the showCan we all agree that Adam Tully is one of the best-dressed men in Cleveland?President of the Collective Arts Network board of directors, John Farina greets the crowd and introduces Toastmaster John C. Williams, AIA.Toastmaster and BAYarts Playhouse renovation architect John C. Williams, AIA invites the crowd to raise a glass to BAYarts executive director Nancy Walters Heaton.Cleveland Museum of Art curator Emily Liebert makes a toast to Cleveland artists, making special note of a CMA project with Northeast-Ohio-born artist Laura Owens and an exhibit she created in collaboration with the Museum’s Currently Under Curation program for Cleveland teens.Auction items included works donated by Cleveland collectors. Among them, Pete Dell donated works by Jen Omaitz (left and right); and BAYarts artistic director and CAN board member Karen Petkovic donated the work that fetched the highest bids of the evening, a painting by the late John W. Carlson (center).Jay Workin Jamal Collins, CAN board member Liz Maugans, and executive director Michael Gill.Mourning [A] BLKstar doing their incredible thing.Collective Arts Network board member Gina Washington, ladies and gennamen!Writer Jeff Hagan, Liz Maugans, and Marcia Egbert, all enjoying a Notorious NWH on the rocks.
Peter Babula, rocking an old-school, CAN Triennial 2018 T-shirt.
CAN Journal art director / designer JoAnn Dickey (right) is entirely responsible for making the region’s art magazine as beautiful as it perennially is. John Dreisbach, William Lipscomb, and Howard Freedman catching up.Left to right: Artist Rita Montlack; curator Jan Dreisbach; artist Karen Beckwith; and artist / CAN board member Liz Maugans.CAN Journal newsletter manager James Negrón!Jay Workin Jamal Collins with member of the CAN Journal board of directors, Mary K. Thomas.Hadley Conner with Maria Toledo.Sally Hudak and Jerry Mann,Assembly for the Arts CEO Jeremy Johnson, sponsor of the Assemblage cocktail and leader of the effort to renew public support for the arts at the ballot box in November.Cheers!A CAN Full of Summer raised more than $12,000 to support CAN Journal and its archive at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Watch for details about how you can search the CAN Journal archive not only at CANjournal.org, but also online through the Ingalls Library at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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