This issue of CAN marks the beginning of our sixth year. Depending on when you start counting, our fifth anniversary is either just about to happen, or came sometime during the last six months. On this occasion, we can’t help explore who we are, and why we are here. And in light of the national and international political climate, with […]
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In Cleveland’s visual art community, it would be hard to find someone who has etched a broader, deeper line than Zygote Press director Liz Maugans. By the print studio environment she created there, and by her spinoff projects and advocacy, Maugans and Zygote have built community to a degree that not many artists or other organizations could claim. That is […]
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Killing is an old story, but military drones are doing what they can to update it. Since 2004 the CIA, operating under the past two administrations, has waged what amounts to a futuristic, robotic aerial war against alleged terrorists organizing along Pakistan’s northwest border, killing thousands of people. Some died because they were targeted, others because they were too close […]
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It’s been a key point in discussion of the Cleveland art scene that a low cost of living here makes it easier to have an art career. But that low cost of living is a result of the fact that there’s just not as much money in this region as there is in other part of the country. But using […]
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“I do everything with the same conviction, whether I’m taking photographs or performing or painting or writing. I’m the same person.” – Patti Smith I doubt it’s very surprising that a musical artist would dabble in other art forms. The Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) was also a well-known painter who showed his work alongside Franz Marc, Wassily Kandinsky, and […]
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Laura Ruiz Montes is resident in Cleveland during the Spring of 2017, hosted by CAN with support from the Cleveland Foundation through the Creative Fusion program. Poet, critic, and editor of Ediciones Vigia—a publisher of artist books in Matanzas, Cuba—her role during the residency has been to write her impressions of art from the community of Latino immigrants in Cleveland. […]
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Once in a while I have startled audiences at lectures with the provocative suggestion that I’ve met many artists who don’t like art. Sure, they like their own art, but they don’t seem to be that interested in art that’s done by anyone else, either now or in the past. If someone likes baseball, they read about it every day […]
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Your easy, chronological guide to what Northeast Ohio galleries and museums have coming up in the next few months. More information about many of these exhibits can be found elsewhere in the pages of CAN. Enjoy the shows! CONTINUING Through May 21 Conversations: Past and Present in Asia and America ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM Through May 21 Form […]
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El mismo articulo aparece abajo en traduccion Espanol. Be Our Guest “You know when a new person says the same thing the student has heard before, but then the student suddenly gets it? That’s why it is good to have guest teachers.” That was one of Laura Alonso’s messages as she was packing to return to Cuba after a two-month […]
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El mismo articulo aparece abajo en traduccion Espanol. Workaround Artists When David Jurca, associate director of Kent State University’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative, tells his students to explore “how can small scale interventions open up big opportunities,” the assistant professor of urban design might not be consciously evoking Archimedes, but it does sound a bit like the Greek mathematician’s assertion […]
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