Amanda D. King’s exhibition, Locusts, on view December 8 through 18 at Foothill Galleries, is one that understands the reaches of art: that the purpose of expression is not limited to making something to sell; that making art can be a celebration of life; that it can be about service; that it comes with responsibility, that an exhibit can be […]
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Artists forced out of the ArtCraft building by the City of Cleveland’s choice of that location for a new Police headquarters have one more option to move their studios. Stephanie Hronek and 78th Street Studios proprietor Dan Bush hosted an open house December 7 at what they are calling the Belden Building, at 1623 East 45th near Payne Avenue. […]
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The churn of artists and real estate is relentless. The latest step in this decades old dance is in the St. Clair-Superior neighborhood: On November 29, the City of Cleveland announced that the Artcraft building, a long-standing artist hive at 2530 Superior Avenue, is the top choice for a new police headquarters. The announcement describes a “gut-rehab” that will give […]
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Print makers of all kinds know the joy and drama of revealing a new impression—the moment when the paper is pulled from the plate, and a fresh new image is born, seemingly all at once, in the time it takes to pass through a press. Of course there were hours, maybe days – depending on the type of print and […]
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The Cleveland Arts Prize recognized artists in its 2022 awards November 2 at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Gartner Auditorium, in what is called a “ceremony,” though that word does not seem quite right. While the purpose of the event has held steady—to recognize artists doing great work in the city—and while it is indeed a ceremony, complete with speeches […]
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El Poder del Arte Latino / The Power of Latino Art opened September 23 at Future Ink Graphics gallery at the Pivot Center. The exhibition brings together a couple of generations of Cleveland artists of Latin ancestry: some well-known, some not so much. The title of the show has the power to draw viewers in via identity. The content shows […]
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Lauren Yeager has a lot of plastic in her studio. “I have basically been doing a mad sprint to gather as much material as I can before the weather breaks,” she says. “Volumetric, plastic consumer stuff. A lot of coolers. I am always finding coolers. You can’t avoid that, really.” Yeager’s race is on, because a proposal by SPACES Gallery […]
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Before the Summer of 2022, the Ashtabula Art Center was probably far from the minds of most Cleveland artists—and maybe even most artists of Northeast Ohio. But the recent announcement of winners of the inaugural Paul and Norma Tikkanen Prizes for painting may change that. There are two top prizes, $12,000 each—one for abstraction, and another for realism. There are […]
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Momentum is fragile, but with the re-convening last week of the Arts Impact Ohio state-wide conference for the for the first time since before the COVID Pandemic, the Ohio Arts Council seems to have some. The conference took up major issues of the day, including the need for major institutions to back up diversity rhetoric with action. Some history is […]
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From the initial announcement of curators, to interviewing them about their plans, to individual reviews of specific installations, CAN Journal and CAN Blog have extensively covered the 2022 FRONT Cleveland International Triennial for Contemporary Art. To make it easy to get an overview, we’ve gathered all our coverage here, with links to full posts and stories. I Think Its Absolutely […]
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