Category: Articles

CIA 2025 Alumni Exhibition Explores Present Moment, Seeks New Paths Forward

During uncertain and distressing times—times like these—art plays a consequential role. It reflects, shapes and contextualizes what’s happening in the world around us, giving voice to intense and sometimes overwhelming feelings. Equally significant are the ways art also can reveal different, better ways forward. However dire times like these might feel, they’re also changeable—a paradigm we’re often reminded of thanks […]

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Rose Iron Works Exhibition Explores Cleveland’s Art Deco History at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Keen on learning about local heritage as a new Clevelander, I took up an invitation from our conservators Beth Edelstein and Colleen Snyder to visit the Rose Iron Works studio in October 2023. The Cleveland Museum of Art’s (CMA) collection of decorative arts, the care of which I had assumed two months prior, includes the Muse with Violin Screen(1930) by […]

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Converging Storm Systems: The Art of Douglas Max Utter, Justin Brennan, and Clay Parker, at HEDGE

I’m talking to three different artists on three different occasions, but each of them describes their artistry as a kind of unavoidable whirlwind that overtakes them in their respective studios. They are all part of Stormy Weather, an exhibit of their new paintings hanging at HEDGE Gallery from May 14 to June 28, and pose a related question: “What makes […]

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Bonnie Dolin’s Paintings on Display at Judson Park’s Galleries

The interplay between shifting light and color sets the tone for Bonnie Dolin’s vibrant and often whimsical paintings and mixed-media pieces. Her approach involves “intuitive painting”—no prescribed plan, yet a framework inspired by structures or scenes in the natural world. “A lot of the forms I use are abstract, but they relate back to flowers or animals or buildings like […]

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Uplifting Local Latino Artists

by Max McMillen Unidos por el Arte is an initiative by Julia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center (JDBCAC) designed to uplift and support Latino artists of all disciplines and stages across Northeast Ohio. Through this program, we provide developmental opportunities, collaborative spaces, essential resources and more to help artists grow in their creative careers. One artist who found her voice […]

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Critics: Still In the Picture

Is there a crisis in art writing? Does the American Midwest need more art writing? More art criticism? And if so, why? For whom? And what roles do different types of art writing play? Curator and art historian Indra Lācis, PhD, has observed that urgency around the subject seems to come up every ten years or so. The rhythm may […]

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Nobody Knows the Glory: Karamu Artists Inc. and Cleveland’s Black Art Resurgence

Eighty years after Karamu Artists Inc.’s 1941 exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art, CMA highlights the collective’s role in shaping Cleveland’s Black arts scene and its broader cultural influence, with Karamu Artists Inc.: Printmaking, Race, and Community. The exhibition opens March 23. In 1938, the United States was enmeshed in unflinching racial segregation and widespread poverty. Black Americans, already […]

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Spring 2025 Events

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. Due to changing circumstances, events may be added, cancelled, or […]

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This Moment in US Art History: CAN Journal, Spring 2025

At press time, it’s come to this: under a new White House administration, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has revised the guidelines for its primary grant program to say funding preference will be given to patriotic art, in the form of projects that “celebrate the nation’s rich artistic heritage and creativity by honoring” its 250th birthday, in 2026. […]

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