When you work as a first responder—especially during the current COVID-19 pandemic—you need effective ways to disengage and relieve stress when you are home. The Nowaks found the perfect asylum in their fast-growing collection of primarily local artists. “Art heals our souls,” says Shelley, an ER nurse for 27 years. She met Matt, a firefighter/paramedic since 2005, when he transported […]
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Part 2: Deal Me In Last issue, we mashed up art and commerce with three artists, asking the question, “What sells?” This issue takes the same question to four art galleries and dealers. One slight variable: COVID-19. We spoke with artists in February, before the pandemic brought our juggernaut world to a halt in March and closed all art galleries […]
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Due to the COVID-19 crisis, many art events planned for fall 2020 have been cancelled outright, or moved to virtual platforms. The listings are based on announcements by each presenting organization, at press-time. Depending on the course of the disease and trends in rates of infection, events may be added, cancelled, or postponed. Check the CAN Weekly e-newsletter for the […]
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Detroit, Michigan-based artist Gisela McDaniel has been working with her partner Tony Rave on a mural that is sure to become a landmark in Clark-Fulton. Her subject is Georgina DeJesus, co-founder with her cousin Sylvia Colon, of the Cleveland Family Center for Missing Children and Adults. DeJesus is known around the world as one of three women abducted, chained, and […]
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With support from the Cleveland Foundation’s Creative Fusion program, Cleveland artist Hector Castellanos-Lara hopes to work with artist Ana Quiroz, who lives in San Miguel de Allende and Mexico City, Mexico—assuming travel plans survive the COVID crisis. His project is to build a permanent gateway structure as part of Art House’s green campus expansion: a structure that will mark this […]
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The 2020 Census could end a month earlier: on September 30 instead of October 31, as planned when the coronavirus became a pandemic. The door-knocking efforts by census officers trying to count everyone in our country will end before the extended date stipulated in April, when the COVID-19 crisis made it clear that it would be impossible to follow the initial deadlines and […]
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Greetings my fellow artists. I want to take this great opportunity to say, “Until we meet again” to a great artist and, most of all, a great friend: Walt “Wali” Neil. I met Wali, as I called him, back in 2006 upon winning second place in a Sankofa art event. In 2006, I had finally given my Self permission to be […]
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Join the Shaker Historical Society for its first Artist of 2020 show in our Lissauer Gallery—Samantha Bias. Bias will be showing her collection of photographs entitled All That Remains. All That Remains is an exploration of human nature in the form of ephemeral objects. The emotive anatomy you see interlaced with a brittle leaf: the very essence of fragility, tenderness […]
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Since our last update on the effect of COVID-19 on our plans for Creative Fusion, we have entered into a revolutionary new period in this country. An analysis conducted by the New York Times has found that the present Black Lives Matter movement is the largest movement in United States history. Ever. The present moment of social unrest in the […]
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“Times are tough, and they’ve challenged everybody,” reflects Tom Balbo, founder and artistic director. “I started with the concept for the Morgan in 2006. This must be unlucky 13.” This summer of closures, postponements, and uncertainties has caused us to realize that often the most memorable experiences of art involve crowded spaces. Back in March, we canceled the opening reception of our […]
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