Collective Arts Network – CAN Journal

  Moe Brooker makes his enthusiastic return to Cleveland February 21, 2014 –honored with the first solo exhibition given his paintings here in 19 years. “Cleveland remains a special place for me, and I enjoyed every moment that I spent there. The art community was really exciting when I was teaching and living there. I left 28 years ago for Philadelphia, […]

TerraVista Studio is a bustling ceramics studio located on the fourth floor of the building on 30th Street off Superior. Most of the artists are veterans of the fourteen years the studio has been in existence: Lynne Norwood Lofton, Megan Dull, Yomiko Goto, Rob Romeo and Andrea LeBlond. On entering the gallery you’ll see signs that they are in the […]

on view through December 20, 2013 Made in Mourning: Contemporary Memorial and Reliquary   on view January 16 – March 6 2014 W2S – Window to Sculpture Emerging Artist Series public opening with artists talks 5:30 – 8 pm Friday, Jan 16, 2014 Colleen Toledano: Grit Julie Schenkelberg: Present Resonance   The Sculpture Center 1834 East 123rd Street Cleveland, Ohio […]

December 21st will find almost two hundred artisans, artists, and makers converging for one day to sell their work on the second and third floors of an old building in Lakewood. In the space of that day, the Saturday population of the Lake Erie Building -which many know as the Screw Factory- will rise from the usual several-dozen to a total […]

The Orange Art Center’s Winter 2014 Fine Art and Craft classes begin the week of January 20th. Among the offerings for adults this winter are a variety of evening and daytime fine art jewelry classes, pottery classes, fused glass jewelry workshops, and batik-on-silk workshops. The fused glass workshops, taught by Jennifer Szalkowski, are always some of our most popular offerings. […]

The Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory and Educational Foundation is a Cleveland non-profit with a hand papermaking studio, bindery and letterpress studios and an art gallery that has received national and international acclaim. What you may not know, is that it also has a thriving outreach program right here in northeast Ohio. Classes that teach the arts of Eastern- and […]

In addition to running Loren Naji Studio Gallery, I’m in the midst of expansion and exploration of outer worlds, through Naji, Naji, and Tekler Gallery at 78th Street Studios, and the forthcoming “Satellite,” a Collinwood exhibition space. This holiday season, Naji, Naji &Tekler Gallery –which I share with artists Dawn Tekler and my sister Jamila–will feature Josh Usmani’s outrageous design […]

There are currently several new hotel projects in the works in downtown Cleveland. One of those, the new Westin, taking up residence on St. Clair and East 9th Street, has a refreshing and innovative approach to decorating. Denver-based Sage Hospitality, the project’s developer and operator, has a long-standing commitment to engaging local artists in all of their projects. For Cleveland, […]

The Retrospective Exhibition, Randall Tiedman: Genius Loci will be on display through January 4, 2014. It is accompanied by a catalogue written by Douglas Max Utter and illustrated with Randall’s incredible body of work, spanning four decades.   January 2014 will mark a new, salon-style approach by Kokoon Arts Gallery. Rather than presenting individual exhibitions, we will display work by […]

Heights Arts celebrates the season with its 12th annual Holiday Store, featuring the works of over seventy regional artists through December 29 – the perfect place to find the perfect gift! What began in 2002 as a small pop-up gallery in a borrowed space on Lee Road has grown into Heights Arts’ bricks and mortar gallery, showcasing year-round the amazing […]