Scenes from CAN’s benefit, Buy Art / Buy Ohio

Some of the most tenacious and generous and art-savvy people in the region found their way to The Hall at St. James in Lakewood for CAN Journal’s benefit, Buy Art / Buy Ohio November 8. Thanks to generous support from Walk Your Plans, the organization had a gorgeous venue with a projection system we were able to use to bathe […]

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Broadening the Conversation: CAN announces new writing fellowship program for college and graduate students

CAN Journal exists in part to bring more people into the conversation about art of Northeast Ohio. To advance that cause, Collective Arts Network, the nonprofit publisher of CAN Journal, its blog and weekly e-newsletter, announces Broadening the Conversation—a collaboration with Northeast Ohio university art and art history faculty, including from Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland State University, to […]

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CAN’s Ten Most-Read Stories of 2023

CAN Journal learns something at the end of every year—something about hot topics and what makes people read, and also something about the challenges inherent to building top ten lists. Year after year, we see that people want to read about injustice and controversy. And 2023 was no different, with posts about the disappearance of a large piece of public […]

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Inspiring Your City, and Keeping a Soul Busy

The multi-mural, multi-media venture known as Inspire Your City continues to grow and evolve with Mr. Soul’s ambitions. First reported in CAN Journal in Spring 2023, when the first of five murals was completed at Uniek Kreations, 12814 Buckeye Road, the project will eventually result in five murals and a documentary, and its themes are spinning into other current projects. […]

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