Just over a year ago, CAN Blog noted that no fewer than seven Northeast Ohio art organizations in the summer of 2020 had “room at the top.” At the same time as people were in the streets calling attention to the nation’s history of racism, seven of the region’s prominent art institutions had recently seen their executive directors resign. […]
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Tr. Damaris Punales Alpizar A medida que las elecciones para la alcaldía y el Congreso en Cleveland están más cerca, comienzan a aparecer más y más letreros que promueven a los aspirantes a esos puestos. Este año, además, los letreros añaden competencia visual adicional debido al trabajo de los artistas participantes en el proyecto “Una señal de estos tiempos”, patrocinado […]
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As mayoral and congressional elections approach in Cleveland, yard signs promoting the candidates have already begun to proliferate. This year, the candidates have some strong visual competition from artists chosen for MetroHealth’s Signs of the Times project, sponsored by the Cleveland Foundation through its Creative Fusion program. In styles as diverse as the community, the artists’ signs call the community […]
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Tr. Damaris Punales Alpizar Era un miércoles de julio. Ana Quiroz estaba en su segunda semana de trabajo con estudiantes de la Academia para Recién Llegados Thomas Jefferson. El salón estaba repleto con las voces de los casi 25 chicos de escuela secundaria; la mayoría de ellos hablaban en español, aunque otras lenguas podían también escucharse. Quiroz les pidió […]
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On a Wednesday in July, Anna Quiroz was in her second week with students of Thomas Jefferson Newcomers Academy. The room was filled with the chatter of about 25 middle schoolers, mostly speaking Spanish, but several other languages too. Quiroz had them working on memory atlases, collaging their own drawings with paper mache casts made on plasticine forms, and other […]
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Sometimes an otherwise inconsequential word has major impact, and that is the case in the title of photographer Daniel Levin’s new book, Violins and Hope: From the Holocaust to Symphony Hall. The title refers to a collection of violins that survived the Holocaust, and were restored to their best playable condition by the Israeli luthier Amnon Weinstein. Levin’s choice to […]
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Eileen Dorsey has been more than busy lately with mural commissions at Barrio Tacos both in Columbus and Traverse CIty Michigan, as well as locally at Flannagan’s Pub, and at Redwood Living Headquarters in Independence. Not to mention Out of the Shadows, her current exhibit at Cain Park’s Feinberg Gallery (including some collaborative works with Garrett Weider), and all kinds […]
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At the time of its conception more than five years ago, no one could have conceived the ways the Cleveland Museum of Art’s exhibit Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis would coincidentally connect to contemporary experience in 2021. Private Lives gathers paintings and prints from a group of late 19th-century artists in Paris. Members of […]
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Having opened the first Cleveland Photo Fest Photothon in October 2019, just 9 months after conceiving it, founders Herb Ascherman, Laura DelAssandro and Jim Szudy immediately began to look ahead to a second series of exhibits the following year. Plans were interrupted by the Pandemic. As anyone who plans periodic events knows now, a forced hiatus can be either a […]
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After a year’s pause for the COVID 19 pandemic, preparation for CAN Triennial 2022 has resumed. The curatorial team has announced a title for the exhibition, as well as the opening of an artist application portal, through the website, CANtriennial.org. The application portal opens June 1, 2021. Artists apply free of charge. The curatorial team—The Cleveland Museum of Art’s Currently […]
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