Despite having made more than 35 films, Robert Banks still has a couple more celluloid/cinematic mountains he wants to climb. Despite all of the compelling and entrancing images he’s put on film, whether for motion pictures or still photographs, he remains haunted by the litany of needling comments from his colleagues, fans and followers for the last thirty years: Why […]
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Aireonna McCall-Dubé proceeds at full throttle: as the founder and owner of three intertwined businesses—Extraordinaire Photos, EP Events, and EP Studio—she also holds a full-time day job as community manager for a Tremont real estate developer, Sustainable Community Associates. “Going into every day with open arms is fun,” says McCall-Dubé. “It keeps me excited about what I do every day.” […]
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Carmella Orban’s documentary-style digital street photography shows respect and admiration for the intricacies of strangers and their impact on environments, with many of her photos not showing explicit faces or identities. Coupled with her close compositions and tight framing, the images feel like glances you take while waiting for a friend to meet up with you. A moment in someone […]
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This listing 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 […]
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THROUGH DECEMBER 15 ART AND CRAFT HOLIDAY MIX – GIFTS TO-GO For a month, the gallery at Lorain County Community College will be filled with affordable handmade items—everything under $100!—during its Art and Craft Holiday Mix – Gifts To-Go. The event opens with a reception from 4 to 7 pm on Thursday, November 13, where you can mingle and get […]
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The exhibition New Work: Amanda D. King, Charmaine Spencer, Erykah Townsend, Antwoine Washington at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Transformer Station, is one ofthe key events in recent efforts by arts institutions, philanthropists and artists to advance contemporary art and support the careers of emerging artists in Northeast Ohio. Coming out of the FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art […]
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Two thousand years ago, a story circulated in the ancient Roman world about a moldable, yet unbreakable, material unlike anything that had come before. In the 7th century, the bishop scholar Isidore of Seville featured this tale in his Etymologies: “They claim that under Tiberius Caesar a certain craftsman devised a formula for glass so that it would be flexible […]
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You can find all the stories in the Fall issue of CAN Journal in a multitude of ways via this website, as well as in print, free, in more than 300 locations around town. Here’s one more. News & CommentaryCleveland, Marking Time and Making a Sustainable Mark: Welcome to CAN Journal Fall 2025Augusto Bordelois CAN Triennial Exhibition Prize show at […]
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Cleveland’s Big Triennial Era reaches the finale of its long denouement in Fall 2025. After announcements early last year that neither the FRONT nor the CAN triennials would proceed for a third iteration, both had unfinished business. CAN Triennial Exhibition Prize shows, for example, continued to roll out, one season following another, with solo exhibitions by selected artists at the […]
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The weight of the world rests uneasy. Beauty appears, accompanied now by irony, now by reckoning; nearby, wandering and wonder come alongside to sit. Massive figures strain at the confines of their borders yet look utterly at home in their surroundings. Here are Stories Worth Telling, oil paintings by Augusto Bordelois on exhibit at the Canton Museum of Art, August […]
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