To be in The Big Ass Art Show–on view at Lakeland Community College, Valley Art Center, Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, and BAYarts—a piece of art had to measure at least four feet on a side. It’s a simple rule that does a lot of sorting: a lot of artists have simply never made something that large. And for […]
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The dynamic of artists re-energizing neighborhoods only to be displaced by increased rent is so familiar that it needn’t be explored here, beyond pointing out that in Cleveland, Tremont is the go-to case in point. The gentrification dynamic has played out to such a degree in Tremont that there was a time when art scene regulars were mostly writing off […]
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Collective Arts Network is thrilled to have won recognition in the Press Club of Cleveland’s state-wide, peer-reviewed All Ohio Excellence in Journalism Awards, held Friday, June 2 at the House of Blues. According to the Press Club’s rules, “Judging will be based on significance, clarity, writing, enterprise, effectiveness, originality and other criteria deemed appropriate by the judges. Judging will be […]
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Collective Arts Network 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. […]
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While we were in the early stages of choosing stories for the Summer 2023 issue of CAN Journal, the prospect of content generated by artificial intelligence was all the rage in media and social media. As an experiment, I considered illustrating the phenomenon by publishing a story generated via AI. How would artificial intelligence navigate the world of regional art, […]
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With an extensive collection of WPA prints, a long record of commissioning art installations and exhibits at the main library, as well as murals at its branches around the city, plus important collections of artist books, art catalogs, art objects, maps, and even chess sets, and with the Lockwood Thompson fund specifically supporting art programming, the Cleveland Public Library system […]
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Parade the Circle—the Cleveland Museum of Art celebration of community and creativity, with its iconic floats created by community groups and international artists, its stilt walkers, its festival village, and crowds in the tens of thousands—returns from its pandemic hiatus in 2023, for the first time since 2019. In this comeback year, the museum has named Hector Castellanos Lara as […]
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Entrevista Traducido por Damaris Puñales-Alpízar Parade the Circle – la celebración comunitaria de la creatividad que tradicionalmente organiza el Museo de Arte de Cleveland, regresa por primera vez desde 2019 –luego de una pausa causada por la pandemia-, con sus icónicas carrozas diseñadas por artistas locales e internacionales, personas en zancos, fiesta y miles de participantes. Para este regreso, el […]
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At its current point on the gentrification/revitalization arc, Hingetown might seem an unlikely place to find a new commercial art gallery, and even more so one selling works by an artist who has never before had a proper show. That’s the situation at Sixty Bowls Gallery, though, where you can find Roger von Golling’s first ever exhibition, The Appearance of […]
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What makes an event worthy of documentary film? Of course the answer can be the story-telling as much as the subject, and the substance as much as the newsworthy moment. Where We Overlap: The Motion Picture is a documentary by Cleveland-based director Wayne Smith III, which appeared on the Local Heroes shorts program at the Cleveland International Film Festival. It’s […]
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