Collective Arts Network – CAN Journal

It is easy for a relative newcomer like me to see that something exciting is happening in Cleveland today. Call it “rust belt chic” or a resurgent Cleveland, this city is reconceiving and rebuilding its sense of self, and re-establishing its reputation as a great place to live and work. To many, it seems like an overnight success. But like […]

Is there a science to collecting prints or do you just jump in blindfolded? People who collect prints spend a great of time looking, listening and reading about prints and printmakers. In fact, that is one of the missions of the Print Club of Cleveland at the Cleveland Museum of Art, to offer members many opportunities to learn about the […]

Begin the evening at 5:30 PM in the Atrium of the CMA with a welcome reception, sampling the tempting delights of Provenance at the Cleveland Museum of Art. At 7:00 PM, take your reserved seat in Gartner Auditorium for the Annual Awards Event. This is your chance to see the 2013 winners as well as some of their art. The […]

In 23 years as a curator, Jean Brandt has continually emphasized community-building over any rigid aesthetic criteria. Starting with her contemporaries in the Tremont scene, one can find a series of concentric circles that shows how Brandt envisions “community” in the broadest sense. Her inclusiveness extends to artists who maintain connections to Cleveland even though they presently work elsewhere. Our […]

By the time this article is printed, National Preservation Week (April 21-27) will have already passed. But in the spirit of its sentiment, we at Zygote want to share some exciting news about our 17-year archive. In 1996, the Co-Founders of Zygote Press (Liz Maugans, Bellamy Printz, Joe Sroka and Kelly Novak) wanted to provide affordable facilities for artist-printmakers. Originally […]

This summer at the Cleveland Print Room, you can become a member, develop film, make a pinhole camera, take a plastic camera workshop and show your results in our gallery, join our Social Club, attend a yoga class, or take a class to learn wet plate collodion or cyanotype photo techniques. The Print Room is a multipurpose photography center with […]

“When I am doing art, nothing exists but the work in front to me. I am barely aware of the other people in the room. There is no pain there, and no worries. Only the art.” Margot’s world changed several years ago when she suffered a stroke at age 57. “I became depressed,” she said. “I continued substitute teaching because […]

Two diametrically opposed artistic points of view are showcased in a joint exhibition of paintings in the Cleveland Plain Dealer gallery June 24 through August 24. The artists are Gerald Kramer and Ruth B. Bercaw. Kramer was attracted to abstraction when he commenced his artistic career and shortly found himself working in a totally non-objective mode. His aim was to […]

Ross Chapin’s Pocket Neighborhoods: Creating Small Scale Community in a Large Scale World (Hardcover, 224 pp., Taunton Press, 2011, $30 signed) “introduces an antidote to faceless, place-less sprawl: clustered groups of neighboring houses or apartments gathered around a shared open space — a garden courtyard, a pedestrian street, a series of joined backyards, or a reclaimed alley. They can be […]