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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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 […]
Read moreMucho ha ocurrido desde que el último número de CAN salió a la calle. El cambio y la incertidumbre se han convertido en el telón de fondo de nuestros intentos de adaptar y reorientar nuestras vidas, al tiempo que recibimos una sobrecogedora cantidad de noticias contradictorias. La mayoría de nosotros en el mundo de las artes o en proyectos sin […]
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A lot has happened since the last issue of CAN hit the streets. Change and uncertainty have become the backdrop of our lives as we attempt to adapt and reorient, with conflicting bits of news swirling in an overwhelming eddy of information. Most of us in the arts or nonprofit world understand the importance of flexibility and creativity. It’s […]
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Debido a la crisis actual de COVID-19, las residencias y las actividades del programa Fusión Creativa 2020: CONTAR, han sido pospuestas. Esta ha sido una decisión desgarradora. Pero sin la certeza de poder tener eventos públicos seguros en el futuro, más las dificultades que representan para nuestros artistas internacionales invitados poder tramitar una visa en las condiciones actuales, además de […]
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Because of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, the residencies and programming of Creative Fusion 2020: CONTAR have been postponed. This has been a heartbreaking decision. But with the future safety of public gatherings in doubt, the anticipated difficulty of securing visas for international artists, and mandatory quarantine regulations for US-based artists entering Ohio from other states, it became increasingly clear that […]
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Los más recientes acontecimientos, sobre todo los relacionados con la crisis migratoria de los últimos meses en nuestro país, han provocado gran confusión respecto al Censo poblacional 2020, un esfuerzo que ocurre una vez cada década para contar a todas las personas de los Estados Unidos, no solo a los ciudadanos, sino a cualquiera que viva acá. Los fondos federales […]
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Recent events including changing immigration policies have led to significant confusion surrounding the 2020 Census, which is a once-in-a-decade effort to count all the people living in the United States—not all the citizens, but all the people living here. Both congressional representation and federal funding for a range of social programs are pegged to the number of inhabitants. And Cleveland […]
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