Collective Arts Network – CAN Journal

  March has come in like a lion at the Orange Art Center, and we have a number of exciting changes happening this spring including a new look, new workshops and new collaborations.   We begin the month by launching our new website and brand designed by Agnes Studio. We also kick off our new Make Art! Love Art! The […]

Since opening to the public in 2008, Morgan Art of Papermaking & Educational Foundation has been known as a place for transformation. We transformed an old industrial space into what has become the largest arts center in the United States dedicated to every facet of hand papermaking, book arts and letterpress printing—as well as cultivating the talents of professional and […]

  Pita Brooks and Kristin Rogers Living and working together in Lakewood, Pita Brooks and Kristin Rogers create artworks that are at once entrenched in material explorations, and in the expression of ideas surrounding life’s absurd incongruities. Sometimes they create collaboratively and sometimes independently. Their work as a whole is a layered dialogue about both the situational and the dispositional. […]

Bruce Farkas’s return-to-Cleveland story is not unlike many native Clevelanders’ stories. After painting signs and traveling by motorcycle in cities across the country, he returned home for a visit with his family. That was nearly 30 years ago. His return to Cleveland inspired him to start his business, Signature Sign, in 1987.   Dozens of iconic signs around Greater Cleveland […]

  Once again, in an effort to spread awareness about women in art, Lakeland Community College art gallery coordinator Mary Urbas has led an initiative to engage galleries and studios, curating a show dedicated to female art and artists, coinciding with Women’s History Month. This marks the eighth year Urbas has presented her women-focused exhibit at Lakeland. From Woman VIII: […]

The Hudson River School artists were the first Americans to attract major attention as landscape painters in the middle to late nineteenth century. Their mammoth scale works depicted the epic scope of the American wilderness that inspired a sense of awe at a time when much of the country was still being explored. Thomas Cole, Frederic Edwin Church, Thomas Moran […]

  Cleveland School 2015 March 20 – May 9, 2015 When it comes to innovative artists creating powerful, well-crafted works of art, Cleveland has a rich depth of history. Cleveland School artists were known for keeping pace with their national and international peers, often outshining them in the quality of their work. In the early 1900s, Cleveland artists experienced the […]

      Impermanence: One of the three essential doctrines of Buddhism. All of conditioned existence, without exception is transient, or in a constant state of flux.   Over the last year, The New York Times, Travel + Leisure, The LA Times, Fodor’s and The Wall Street Journal are just some of the national publications singing the praises of the […]

This March the Akron Harris Stanton Gallery will present new oils and three dimensional works by Cleveland artists, Mark Common and Charlotte Lees. These pieces, all inspired by the natural world, reflect two very different approaches: while Common’s paintings display a traditional, quasi photographic technique, Lee’s are more interpretive and suggestive, using traditional materials in very imaginative ways. Common’s subjects […]

Flux Metal Arts welcomes a new season of jewelry and metalworking with special guests to inspire and feed the creative spirit. New Jersey artist Liza Nechamkin returns March 27 – 29 for her three day Chasing and Repousse’ Intensive. During this workshop, students will gain a working knowledge of chasing and repousse’ through detailed demonstrations, experimentation and different assignments. This […]