Collective Arts Network – CAN Journal

October in Cleveland is time to celebrate book and paper arts with Octavofest. This year the festival hosted nearly 50 events all over Cuyahoga County, including exhibits, lectures, workshops, and panels. As is now the tradition, artists, educators, printers, binders, enthusiasts, and the curious came out in force to revel in all Northeast Ohio is doing to advance the book […]

The Artists Speak The Legacy Society of the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve proudly announces the launch of The Artists Speak: Insights and Images of Ohio Artists.   Edited by Rota Sackerlotzky and Roger Welchans, and five years in the making, this stunning 160-page book contains profiles of sixty-two Archived Artists, their thoughts and observations, detailed chronologies and several […]

SCREEN PLAYS is a new series of collage/mixed media screen prints. Text is cut from old discarded prints and everyday detritus using store-bought stencils. An open silk screen creates unpredictable painterly resist effects and also capitalizes on the possibility of getting two or more variations from a ghost-image transfer. The variations supply a vastly different tenor and emotional delivery from […]

  Where Professor Ave. meets West 10th St., a giant’s head peeks out of the sidewalk. From the flat top of its skull, a steel trunk sprouts into a canopy of spikey branches. The stalk is in two senses a “dendrite”—a tree as named in Greek, and one of the bushy appendages on a neuron which receives transmissions from other […]

  The May Show, an annual exhibition of Cleveland’s artists at the Cleveland Museum of Art, was discontinued in 1993. There were lots of reasons. Fine. There has been enough discussion. It is dead, cremated, and the ashes have been dispersed.   But for the last 20 years there has been an undercurrent sense of loss within the community of […]

The Women’s Art Club of Cleveland, with its run of nearly 94 years, lasted longer than any of the similar clubs founded at about the same time for men. Curiously, despite outlasting the likes of the Kokoon Arts Club and the Cleveland Society of Artists, WACC is the least known of these twentieth century artist clubs today. From 1912 to […]

Dresden, Germany and Cleveland, Ohio have been swapping artists annually for 19 years. Looking out from the top of the tower above the Grafikwerkstatt in Dresden, Germany, you can see where the Allied bombs fell toward the end of World War II. A line of boxy architecture from the 50s and 60s runs south from the Elbe river through the […]

Continuing Through November 30 Art for the New Collector Tregoning & Company   Cornerstone: 30 Years of Collection Building ARTneo at Tregoning & Company   Through November 29 Anthony Mastromatteo, Frank Oriti, Michael Zigmond: The New Real Bonfoey Gallery   Through December 5 True Story: Hadley K. Connor and Sarah Curry HEDGE Gallery   Through December 18 Machined Senses //benitez_vogl: […]

Cleveland ranks very high nationally in its support for the arts—including for individual artists. Only one or two other cities in the United States offer a similar level of support. For individual artists it comes through the Creative Work Force Fellowship Program, which since 2009 has distributed grants of $20,000 to 20 artists, writers, and performers, each year. But that […]