“I was born and raised in Cleveland but I became a man in Atlanta,” says Kevin Harp, the artist known as Mr. Soul. He graduated from John Marshall High School on Cleveland’s West Side in 1992, enrolled at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, and soon after graduation moved to Atlanta to create graphics for the music industry. He got involved […]
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Logan Fribley, a seventeen-year-old high school student from South Euclid, was signing up last summer for the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Currently Under Curation (CUC) program, when he recognized the subject matter he and other students would work with this year. It had something in common with a book he has had at home since he was a child: The […]
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As artists of all kinds navigated the pandemic, online communities became a thing—not only as a way to conduct business, but to keep in touch with collaborators, and even to bring art to the public. Online performances by orchestras, for example, became emblematic of the era: a matrix of individual frames on a computer screen, one musician in each frame […]
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Arts funding in Cuyahoga County could get a significant boost by the end of 2023. Just before Christmas, 2022, The Ohio legislature passed a bill that includes permission for Cuyahoga County to put before its voters a revision of the cigarette tax that supports the arts. Governor Mike Dewine signed the bill January 2. Jeremy Johnson, director of the advocacy […]
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Nicole Malcolm’s solo show Please Come To My Party is among the most “meta” exhibits we’ve seen in some time. At several levels it is a show about the artist’s life: Malcolm’s work is nostalgic, exploring her personal trajectory and sentiments. The exhibit draws partly on work made while she was a student at Ohio University, and partly on work […]
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Ten years is a long time, even if it feels like just a few minutes. CAN Journal turned ten years old in 2022, and so did this website—even if it feels like a start-up that’s just getting started. So at the end of the year, in that holiday intermezzo of reflection and looking back, we’re considering not only the last […]
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Media consumers everywhere know this end-of-year drill: Late December is the time when we look back, reflect, and make lists. Thanks to the internet, one of the easiest ways to do that is to report which posts of the last year were the most read. In 2022, that list validates some assumptions you might have: Recognizable names attract readers. So […]
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It’s the season when you begin to see stories that look back on the year that was. And 2022 marked a milestone for Collective Arts Network and CAN Journal. This year, CAN turned ten years old. But this post doesn’t stop at 2022. This timeline looks back on the last decade, plus a bit more. Regular readers know this origin […]
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Individual Artists’ eyes—perhaps a lot of them—will be on Cuyahoga Arts and Culture during the public, grant making organization’s December 2022 Board of Directors meeting. The meeting is scheduled at 3:30 pm Wednesday, December 14 at Trinity Commons in Cleveland. (See below for a post-meeting update on the proceedings.) The agenda for the meeting includes approval of grants to four […]
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