Author: CAN Journal Staff

CAN Celebrates the Cleveland debut of Everlasting Plastics with a recycling project

Few art events in Cleveland have provoked a level of energetic discussion comparable with what accompanied Everlasting Plastics, the exhibition commissioned by SPACES for US Pavilion at the 2023 Venice  Biennale Architettura.  It was an unprecedented accomplishment for any Ohio organization to win the international honor—especially one with a budget tiny by comparison to typical Venice Biennale commissioning organizations. Curated […]

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Every Story in the Fall 2025 Issue of CAN

You can find all the stories in the Fall issue of CAN Journal in a multitude of ways via this website, as well as in print, free, in more than 300 locations around town. Here’s one more. News & CommentaryCleveland, Marking Time and Making a Sustainable Mark: Welcome to CAN Journal Fall 2025Augusto Bordelois CAN Triennial Exhibition Prize show at […]

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Recently on CAN Blog

The printed CAN Journal—CAN’s most visible and best-known outlet—typically doesn’t publish exhibit reviews. That’s because we want them to be timely, and our quarterly schedule often means exhibitions would be closed by the time a review could appear in print. Because the state of arts journalism is a current discussion in the region (including the essay in this issue by […]

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Scenes from A CAN Full of Summer

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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. Peter Babula, rocking an old-school, CAN Triennial 2018 T-shirt.

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CAN Journal Announces Archiving Partnerships

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Now in its second decade, Collective Arts Network is proud to announce archiving partnerships with five of Northeast Ohio’s most respected libraries and collecting institutions: The Cleveland Museum of Art Ingalls Library, Case Western Reserve University Kelvin Smith Library, Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland Institute of Art’s Jessica R. Gund Memorial Library, and Artists Archives of the Western Reserve. The project […]

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Deep Roots Experience presents Christa Freehands

  Regular readers of CAN’s blog–or regular visitors to Deep Roots Experience Gallery at East 79th and Central Avenue–will recognize the bright palate of Christa Freehands. Her work has stood out for its vivid color and sometimes for its sharp social and cultural commentary, consistently in the last several years. Recently the artist collaborated with DayzWhun on a mural as […]

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Job Title: Collective Arts Network Development Manager

CAN is a mission-driven non-profit organization providing a collective voice for–and accessible, high-quality reporting and commentary on–the visual arts in Northeast Ohio. Since CAN’s first organizational meetings in 2011, CAN Journal and the website CANjournal.org have become critical pieces of Northeast Ohio arts infrastructure. We work for the success of the entire visual art sector in Northeast Ohio. CAN produces: […]

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Waterways to Waterways / Cuyahoga50 Exhibits and Events

Art and related events celebrating the Cuyahoga River, presented with support from the Creative Fusion program and Cuyahoga50. May 25–September 22 Cai Guo-Qiang: Cuyahoga River Lightning Artist Cai Guo-Qiang makes explosive and monumental drawings with gunpowder, including one of the Cuyahoga River, commissioned by the Cleveland Museum of Art. CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART June 4 Curator Talk: Clarissa von Spee […]

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Rooms to Let: CLE 2019

Rooms to Let: CLE 2019 Noon–7pm Saturday, May 18 Noon–5pm Sunday, May 19 Rooms to Let—the annual festival of art installations in Slavic Village homes slated for demolition—has become a landmark event in Cleveland. It takes a liability—houses that have outlived their use, for which there is no market—and celebrates their history through art. It turns collateral damage from the […]

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