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A Tale of Two Love Stories: The Cleveland Museum of Art Presents Kelli Connell: Pictures for Charis

Like lovemaking, being photographed by one’s lover is an intimate, collaborative act. This is the subject matter explored by American photographer Kelli Connell in Pictures for Charis (pronounced care-iss). Over the past ten years, Connell researched and reconsidered the lives and relationship of writer Charis Wilson and photographer Edward Weston as Connell photographed her partner at the time, sculptor Betsy […]

13(4) Winter 2024/2025

d.a. levy: Subversive Printmaking in 1960s Cleveland

Bree Bodnar Leave a comment

The Cleveland poet d.a. levy (Darryl Alfred Levey, 1942-1968) was among the most prolific publishing poets of the mimeo revolution of the 1960s, which evolved into what is now called underground or outlaw poetry: small presses independent of the Academy. Of less renown yet as fascinating as his publications are levy’s prints and the methods he used to make them. […]

13(4) Winter 2024/2025

Sankofa Black Arts Expo Set to Return in November 2025

Nate Paige Leave a comment

It’s been thirteen years since Northeast Ohio lost one of its biggest and brightest art shows: Sankofa Fine Art Plus’ Black Art Expo, an annual showcase of Black art that ran from 2001 to 2011 and drew national acclaim. The festival is set to return in 2025—marking Sankofa’s 25th anniversary—to the Eastern Campus of Cuyahoga Community College. The timing couldn’t […]

13(4) Winter 2024/2025

Expect Miracles: doubting thomas endures

Michael Gill Leave a comment

Against all odds, taking no commissions, and without a website, set hours, or staff, doubting thomas art and free verse space is almost a quarter century old. No commission. No website. No set hours, and no staff to keep them. Artists on the edge of homelessness sometimes sleeping on the church pew. “Expect miracles” has become a mantra for the […]

13(4) Winter 2024/2025

The State of the Quest

Anastasia Pantsios Leave a comment

In the wake of the FRONT and CAN triennials, can a grassroots group of volunteers using an inclusive, democratic process develop a major new art event for Cleveland? Does Cleveland need yet another arts festival? That question was on the table this past February when Northeast Ohio artists Liz Maugans and Dave King called an informal meeting of creators and […]

13(4) Winter 2024/2025

Connecting to Futures: Zach Repphun, Building a Career by Design

Jeff Hagan Leave a comment

Zach Repphun’s first memory of encountering a work of art was on a field trip to Youngstown’s esteemed Butler Institute of American Art in the fourth grade. He was captivated by Madison Avenue at Speed, Peter Maier’s actual-size painting of Jeff Gordon’s #24 race car that is now part of that museum’s permanent collection. Years later, when Repphun was working […]

13(4) Winter 2024/2025

Photo Poets: Wilbur Frierson III

Curated by Aja Joi Grant Leave a comment

Wil Frierson is a Cleveland-based visual artist with over ten years experience capturing indoor and outdoor architecture in their natural element. He aims to make you feel like you’re immersed in that environment, experiencing it from a “bystander’s” point of view. Out of the way, taking it all in. As a professional photographer and videographer, Frierson focuses on the architecture […]

13(4) Winter 2024/2025

Holiday Markets: Buy art. Buy local. Shop small.

Anastasia Pantsios Leave a comment

Buy art. Buy local. Shop Small. With those principles and this handy guide, you’ve got the holidays covered. ***Through December 30HEIGHTS ARTS ANNUAL HOLIDAY STOREOpen through the end of the year, the Heights Arts Holiday Store offers fine art, crafts, books, CDs and more, made by more than 100 local creators, with new artists joining old favorites every year. The […]

13(4) Winter 2024/2025

Winter 2024-2025 Events

Anastasia Pantsios Leave a comment

This is your easy, chronological guide to exhibits and opportunities at Northeast Ohio galleries, studios, and museums coming in the next few months. More information about many of these exhibits can be found elsewhere in the pages of CAN Journal. These listings are based on announcements from each presenting organization, at press time. Check the CAN Weekly e-newsletter for the […]

13(4) Winter 2024/2025

Edward E. Parker Museum of Art, Winter 2024

Lazelle Lazelle Leave a comment

At the Edward E. Parker Museum of Art, we encourage people to explore their artistic abilities and appreciate the beauty of expression in all its forms. We think art should be accessible to everyone, and strive to provide an inclusive environment, with engaging arts programming for all ages. Here’s how we will we close out 2024, and bring in 2025. […]

13(4) Winter 2024/2025

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