State of the Arts 2022: Summit County’s Highlight Reel

One year ago, ArtsNow, the backbone arts organization of Summit County, convened arts professionals and communitarians at the Akron Roundtable to report on 2021’s highs—and lows. 2021 was a year most nonprofit arts organizations spent clawing to bounce back from pandemic-induced shutdowns and budget cuts. Despite these challenges, the arts and culture sector kept pressing forward. “In a time of […]

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CAN Journal: The First Ten Years

It’s the season when you begin to see stories that look back on the year that was. And 2022 marked a milestone for Collective Arts Network and CAN Journal. This year, CAN turned ten years old. But this post doesn’t stop at 2022. This timeline looks back on the last decade, plus a bit more. Regular readers know this origin […]

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A Renaissance Is Now: Documenting Everyday Black Life, Beyond the Struggle

The exhibition A Renaissance is Now opened on December 10, 2022 at Deep Roots Experience Gallery. The preview the night before the public opening gathered some of the artists, curators and special guests for a dinner and discussion about the collection of photographs and its intended impact. Deep Roots Experience Gallery owner David Ramsey called the collection of photographs an […]

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Individual Artist Grants and the Slicing of Pie

Individual Artists’ eyes—perhaps a lot of them—will be on Cuyahoga Arts and Culture during the public, grant making organization’s December 2022 Board of Directors meeting. The meeting is scheduled at 3:30 pm Wednesday, December 14 at Trinity Commons in Cleveland. (See below for a post-meeting update on the proceedings.) The agenda for the meeting includes approval of grants to four […]

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New Artist Space at the Belden

Artists forced out of the ArtCraft building by the City of Cleveland’s choice of that location for a new Police headquarters have one more option to move their studios. Stephanie Hronek and 78th Street Studios proprietor Dan Bush hosted an open house December 7 at what they are calling the Belden Building, at 1623 East 45th near Payne Avenue.   […]

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Artcraft Artists: A New Twist

The churn of artists and real estate is relentless. The latest step in this decades old dance is in the St. Clair-Superior neighborhood: On November 29, the City of Cleveland announced that the Artcraft building, a long-standing artist hive at 2530 Superior Avenue, is the top choice for a new police headquarters. The announcement describes a “gut-rehab” that will give […]

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Thinking Big, at BW Fawick Gallery

Print makers of all kinds know the joy and drama of revealing a new impression—the moment when the paper is pulled from the plate, and a fresh new image is born, seemingly all at once, in the time it takes to pass through a press. Of course there were hours, maybe days – depending on the type of print and […]

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Curated by Deadline: The 24th Robert Thürmer People’s Art Show at The Galleries at CSU

No algorithm needed here. This is radical inclusion: 406 pieces of art sharing the similarity of being submitted by their creators by the show’s deadline. People have been busy. People have been creative. This is what over 240 artists did while we sat on the couch watching Netflix. Acrylics are everywhere and hot colors predominate. There are portraits of 80s […]

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More than a Ceremony: Cleveland Arts Prize

The Cleveland Arts Prize recognized artists in its 2022 awards November 2 at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Gartner Auditorium, in what is called a “ceremony,” though that word does not seem quite right. While the purpose of the event has held steady—to recognize artists doing great work in the city—and while it is indeed a ceremony, complete with speeches […]

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