Like everyone, everywhere, we are dealing with the coronavirus on a multitude of levels: physical, psychological, and emotional. The landscape we all navigate at this time is a shifting balance of forced separation and the need for human contact. Speaking for myself, as an artist who enjoys creating in solitude, but is also accustomed to job-related social interactions, this balancing […]
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Just days into the country’s COVID-19 crisis, as Governor Mike DeWine and Dr. Amy Acton began transitioning from their respective State roles into our living rooms, Art Therapy Studio, the oldest art therapy program of its kind in the country, began its own transition: one that aimed to serve its audiences by providing Distance Art Therapy to its artists. “We […]
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The day we knew that schools would close, the first thing we started talking about was how to keep arts-learning going, and what were other ways that Art House could continue to be a resource for the community. As a result, artists and staff have begun to create video art lessons and to reconnect with students and workshop participants. We […]
Read moreEvery day, we seek to make creative connections. “Live Creative” is our motto and we aim to extend that into the community. With our staff working from home, we strive for that even more by connecting to people in their own homes. Since the Akron Art Museum decided to close its doors in March, we have explored several ways to […]
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In this installment of CAN Blog’s Art from a Distance series, painter Darius Steward talks about being at home with his family during the COVID crisis, and developing new ways to reach out to potential customers at a time when gallery exhibits are not an option. Steward’s work was featured both in FRONT International Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art […]
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In this installment of CAN’s Art from a Distance series, take an eerily silent tour of Genius Loci _toward understanding of place, at Zygote Press. The exhibit features works of Boston-native, Pittsburgh-based Tressa Jones and Arron Foster, who is currently visiting professor of printmaking at Ohio University. As the curators say in a statement, “Place carries the markings of time […]
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On the night Gail Crum, Gayle Pritchard, and Jill Milenski’s exhibit Women in Conversation opened at Lorain County Community College’s Stocker Gallery, the reception was in high gear when a fire alarm cleared out the building. It was a false alarm, or maybe a harbinger of what was to come a few weeks down the road: the exhibit was halfway through […]
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Matt Nowak and Shelley Marquardt Nowak are both front-line healthcare workers, and also art collectors. In this episode of CAN’s Art from a Distance series, Shelley talks about collecting art and what it has meant to have “real” art by Northeast Ohio artists hanging in their home during the COVID 19 pandemic. Shelley Marquardt Nowak
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Facing Backlash, Valley Art Center Refunds ABF Booth Fees The word “ecosystem” often shows up in discussions of the art economy, to describe the way different parts are connected. Never has the description held so true as during the COVID 19 crisis. Consider the case of Valley Art Center, in Chagrin Falls. Beyond that quaint little community, people know Valley Art […]
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Museums, Galleries, Studios, and Schools are all closed in the effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus. That has left artists alone in their studios, and gallery doors closed, sometimes with exhibits still hanging, unseen, on their walls. In the Art from a Distance series of posts on CAN Blog, we’re helping curators, dealers, artists and teachers share their […]
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