Author: Michael Gill

Don’t miss the W2S series of dynamic and provocative new sculpture, installations and performance by some of the very best early career sculptors of our region.   Sara Holwerda explores the structure of female identity: there is a jam-packed performance at her opening and a week of feminist events with the CIA in April. David Colagiovanni’s work investigates time and […]

A new type of canvas is coming to Cleveland!  Inspired by a similar project in Columbus, Rooms to Let: Cleveland  (RTL) will create a temporary art exhibition using vacant homes as a truly interpretational, opportune art medium.    The curators, Westleigh Harper and Michael Horton of MAKER design studio (makeroffice.com), Barbara Bachtell, Director of Broadway School of Music & the Arts […]

The Northern Ohio Art Dealers Association is pleased to announce its 2014 ARTExpo, March 14th, 15th and 16th. The Expo will take place at Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Foundation’s Transformer Station, 1460 West 29th Street in Cleveland, Ohio. The Transformer Station is a cultural facility devoted to showing the Bidwells’ private photography collection and also serves as a venue […]

As you flip through the pages of the CAN Journal, it is easy to recognize that Cleveland is home to talented artists. What might be less evident is the commitment the City of Cleveland made 10 years ago to engage them in major capital improvement projects.   The city of Cleveland does not tout its Public Art Program, but perhaps […]

  New Terrain: Works by Susan Danko New Terrain (February 21 – March 22, 2014) is a one person exhibition of the works of Cleveland artist Susan Danko. Danko was the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Fine Arts Work residency in Provincetown, MA in the summer of 2013. She used her time there to venture back into printmaking as […]

Baila Litton is one of the many serious artists in this area who is committed to her work in her studio, exploring new technologies and challenging herself to refine her voice in the work that she creates.  I interviewed her in her vast, fourth-floor studio, jammed with current and past work.  She was a tenant in the Artcraft Building on […]

Phoebe Marie Nelson: The Long Ease: Post-Cancer Works April 11 – May 3, 2014 During the year of illness and literal bloodshed that led up to my diagnosis with inoperable Stage 2B Cervical Cancer, something was happening that I did not even realize: I stopped making art. It wasn’t a conscious decision. I felt terrible and uninspired, stressed and filled […]

ArtSpace Cleveland: Why Cleveland? Dan LaGuardia: I have lived in Cleveland my whole life. As I got closer to finishing school, my business partner Amanda Sinkey and I realized we were going to need a place other than our homes to work in order to conduct a successful photography business. We decided to find a studio where we could house multiple […]

  Cleveland Artists talk about how they put a price on their work State Representative Sandra Williams was taking a tour of Zygote Press, when–having looked at the machines and talked about outreach programs–she was comfortable enough to ask a very basic, honest question. “Why,” she wanted to know, “is art so expensive?” She was not standing in the presence of […]