Category: Blog

Cleveland Arts Prize winner Greg Peckham will emphasize art while leading  Conservancy for CVNP

In recognition of his several decades of promoting access to public art in Cleveland and Northeast Ohio, Greg Peckham was selected by the Cleveland Arts Prize to receive this year’s Robert P. Bergman Prize. “Greg exemplifies the values celebrated by the Bergman Prize,” says artist, friend and mentee, Mark Reigelman II (CAP 2018). “His thoughtful leadership, generosity of spirit, and […]

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CAN Celebrates the Cleveland debut of Everlasting Plastics with a recycling project

Few art events in Cleveland have provoked a level of energetic discussion comparable with what accompanied Everlasting Plastics, the exhibition commissioned by SPACES for US Pavilion at the 2023 Venice  Biennale Architettura.  It was an unprecedented accomplishment for any Ohio organization to win the international honor—especially one with a budget tiny by comparison to typical Venice Biennale commissioning organizations. Curated […]

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Broadening the Conversation: CAN announces new writing fellowship program for college and graduate students

CAN Journal exists in part to bring more people into the conversation about art of Northeast Ohio. To advance that cause, Collective Arts Network, the nonprofit publisher of CAN Journal, its blog and weekly e-newsletter, announces Broadening the Conversation—a collaboration with Northeast Ohio university art and art history faculty, including from Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland State University, to […]

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Between Earth and Sky: Fall Exhibitions at Kenyon’s Gund

Tucked into the campus of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, the art venue known as The Gund has steadily grown into a site where the appeal of the exhibitions extends beyond its small campus. The gallery’s five current exhibitions, on view through December 14, may appear disparate at first glance. Yet the more time one spends within them, the more […]

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Transformative Arts Fund: Ariel Verguez and the Storer Avenue Phoenix Project

“Long-term transformative change has to start locally,” Ariel Vergez says. He’s the lead artist for the Storer Avenue Phoenix Project, a Transformative Art Fund awardee working in the Clark-Fulton neighborhood. The project was awarded $393,700. After a series of workshops and studio sessions, the project takes flight from 11 am to 6 pm Saturday, September 6, in The Art Garden […]

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Mark Howard Wins Cleveland Arts Prize for Lifetime Achievement: Subtracting and Adding and Subtracting and Adding

Winner of the 2025 Cleveland Arts Prize for Lifetime Achievement is painter and sculptor Mark Howard. Howard’s work is held in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, and is visible in public art around the city. He has exhibited internationally and was included in the Biennale Internazionale dell’ Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy, 2001. He’s currently represented by HEDGE […]

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Impart 216: Representation, Repair, Engagement, and Rebranding with Murals in Mount Pleasant, via the Transformative Art Fund

“When I moved to Cleveland in 1979 or ’80, the mural program was just an anti-graffiti program, so it wasn’t nearly the murals that they have now,” says Impart 216 lead artist Robin Robinson. She had frequently visited Cleveland as a child of Philadelphia because she had family here. “It was just people painting over the graffiti, making that community […]

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What Glows: Erjon Hajnaj at BAYarts

We’re late to this party, but an exhibit recently closed at BAYarts–Erjon Hajnaj: My Light & Shadow—makes us wonder how many highly skilled artists are out there, operating below the radar, actively practicing their craft, either working toward their first shows or just rarely showing their work. Hajnaj was born in Fier, Albania—one of the Balkan countries, directly across the […]

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Not to Be Missed: Rose Iron Works at Cleveland Museum of Art

One of the most dazzling and best-curated exhibitions on view in Northeast Ohio in many years is the exhibition on the Cleveland firm Rose Iron Works currently in view in the Focus Gallery, just off the main entrance of the Cleveland Museum of Art.  Organized by the museum’s curator of decorative arts, Ada de Wit, it’s visually outstanding, and also […]

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