Collective Arts Network – CAN Journal

Cleveland gallery directors and new graduates of the Cleveland Institute of Art gathered September 5 at Loren Naji Studio Gallery in an unprecedented meet-and-greet session, organized by CIA alumni relations director Michael Kinsella. CIA alumnus Loren Naji (yours truly) hosted the gathering to encourage new relationships in the Cleveland art world, on the even of a CIA alumni show, which […]

Cinema 04  September 20th, 2013 – November 9th, 2013 A house is borne away by a tornado, a knight plays chess with Death, a B-52 bomber pilot rides a nuclear bomb like a bucking bronco; these captured moments have a distinctive means of imprinting themselves upon our memories, catching in our filters and germinating. An artist’s mind often acts as […]

If you haven’t yet experienced the Reading Nest in Cleveland Public Library’s Eastman Reading Garden, we suggest you drop everything and head downtown before it’s too late. The 30 foot wide, 12 foot high interactive art installation will be in the garden until mid-October. The nest is built with over 10,000 pieces ofdiscarded wood collected from local, industrial and manufacturing […]

Randall Tiedman was born in an up/down duplex, one of many similar three-story dwellings crowding a long block in Cleveland’s North Collinwood area. Purchased by his grandparents just after the turn of the century, the house faces west across a few feet of front lawn, close to the street. Tiedman produced hundreds of paintings, prints, and drawings in a back […]

  Heights Arts launches its fall season under the leadership of recently appointed executive director Rachel Bernstein. With a passion for the arts, Rachel brings her expertise as an arts administrator (and a professional cellist!) to our organization after a long tenure at the Music School Settlement. Opening Friday, September 6, Heights Arts presents a landmark exhibition, the All Ohio […]

With a fresh look and new name, HEDGE Gallery is baring its walls and inviting eight artists who have never shown at the gallery to participate in a multi media exhibition entitled EIGHTHOURSRAW. EIGHTHOURSRAW is about self-exploration and the lifelong journey of discovering and peeling back the multiple layers within us. Featured artists are Shirley Alley Campbell (paintings / drawings), […]

The Galleries at Cleveland State University are delighted to announce exciting exhibition season for the fall semester of 2013. August 30 through October 12, we celebrate the human imagination with two exhibitions that explore the relationship of personal imagery and collective memory. In the North Gallery we present Based on a True Story, paintings by the Cuban-born Cleveland-based artist Augusto […]

 The garden behind the historic Hezekiah Dunham House in Bedford, Ohio was once populated by creative and mischievous creatures, real and imagined, or perhaps evoked. There Richard Sedlon (American, 1900-1992) gathered both Pookas (elf-like figures of his own creation), and his fellow avant garde artists of the Kokoon Arts Club.   While Sedlon – painter, lithographer, sculptor, muralist, and poet […]

This Fall, the Cleveland Print Room offers a full array of exhibitions and educational opportunities to please a diverse audience. Opening September 13, nationally-acclaimed photographer and Akron native Angelo Merendino’s Observing and Reacting turns the lens on unsuspecting pedestrians in New York as they furtively (and sometimes blatantly) catch a glimpse of him and his late wife, Jennifer, who was […]