Nicole Malcolm’s solo show Please Come To My Party is among the most “meta” exhibits we’ve seen in some time. At several levels it is a show about the artist’s life: Malcolm’s work is nostalgic, exploring her personal trajectory and sentiments. The exhibit draws partly on work made while she was a student at Ohio University, and partly on work […]
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To close 2022 and begin 2023, Akron Soul Train presents its Winter SOULstice Alumni Show, beautifully and intuitively curated by Meryl Engler. The exhibition, which offers high-quality art by local artists, has something for everyone, from prints, to paintings, to textiles. It exceeded expectations on every level and is one of my favorites I’ve seen in the space. Since its […]
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Ten years is a long time, even if it feels like just a few minutes. CAN Journal turned ten years old in 2022, and so did this website—even if it feels like a start-up that’s just getting started. So at the end of the year, in that holiday intermezzo of reflection and looking back, we’re considering not only the last […]
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Media consumers everywhere know this end-of-year drill: Late December is the time when we look back, reflect, and make lists. Thanks to the internet, one of the easiest ways to do that is to report which posts of the last year were the most read. In 2022, that list validates some assumptions you might have: Recognizable names attract readers. So […]
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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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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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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 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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Amanda D. King’s exhibition, Locusts, on view December 8 through 18 at Foothill Galleries, is one that understands the reaches of art: that the purpose of expression is not limited to making something to sell; that making art can be a celebration of life; that it can be about service; that it comes with responsibility, that an exhibit can be […]
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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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