John Mellencamp’s career as a rock and roll musician has been familiar since he was known as Johnny Cougar, and his 1978 song “I Need A Lover” became a hit. He subsequently wrote and recorded many more beloved records full of songs set in the heartland, about regular people with names like Jack and Diane. His most recent album, Strictly […]
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Greetings My CAN Family and Friends! Can you believe that April 15 marks a year since Kings & Queens of Art moved into a new studio space both physically and spiritually???? And I am loving our new studio space at 1385 East 34th Street–still! In November 2021 we launched Artist Play Date on the first Sunday of each month, and […]
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Photocentric Gallery–the white-walled venue in North Collinwood that provided space dedicated to art grounded in or connected to photography–will close June 1. The gallery was the anchor tenant in the revitalization of Waterloo’s famous “Gold Building,” and for that reason alone its two-and-a-half year run will have lasting impact. “While we had some exciting photographic exhibitions, performances and outdoor events, […]
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Applications are open for the FRONT International Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art’s Art Futures Fellowships. These may be the most substantial fellowships offered in support of Northeast Ohio artists by an organization in the region. The Fellowships are specifically built to support emerging Northeast Ohio-based visual artists of color, which in this context is inclusive of Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and […]
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Asia Armour’s In Bloom, on view at Deep Roots Experience, does something the gallery as a whole has done since it opened several years ago: It celebrates Black and Brown heroes, and in this case specifically women. Deep Roots manifests those ideals overtly in shows like the annual SheArt, which presents works by Black and Brown women, and the show […]
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Especially for young artists, a solo exhibit often provides a window into what is going on in the artist’s life. Alex Vlasov’s I Promise to Make a Fabulous PTG Tomorrow—on view in the Massillon Museum’s Studio M Gallery—is one of those. Indeed, it is inescapably a student show, and not just because the artist describes himself in a biographical statement […]
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Perris Mackey’s figurative collage has been a steady presence on social media, and his current exhibit, The Pieces that Fit, at Patina Arts Centre in Canton shows potential for an interesting contribution to current dialog about the people we look up to as heroes, about consumer culture, and –in light of his recently stated goal to create an exhibition of […]
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During the Spring 2022 CAN Journal launch party at Future Ink Graphics (FIG) at the Pivot Center in Clark-Fulton neighborhood of Cleveland, Collective Arts Network announced partners for the 2022 CAN Triennial Exhibition Prizes. Collective Arts Network is an organization that advances the visual art sector in Northeast Ohio through collaborative projects, especially communication, via the print quarterly CAN Journal […]
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You don’t have to be around the Northeast Ohio art scene long to hear people bandy about the term Cleveland School. And in one sense, it’s a pretty easily defined group: The Cleveland School artists are those who studied or were on the faculty at the Cleveland School of Art—which of course became the Cleveland Institute of Art—in the first […]
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Books are meant to be read. Even artist books—handmade, with original prints and other art integral to their pages—don’t come to life until someone reads them. For this reason, in conjunction with the Massillon Museum’s participation in the NEA’s Big Read event, and during an exhibit of my woodcut prints and artist books at the museum’s Studio M space, […]
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