For the next few weeks, three artists-in-residence will be working with local professional artists and students through the Cleveland Classical Guitar Society (CCGS) and Comite Mexicano de Cleveland: Anastasia Guzman Sonaranda, from Mexico; Hermelindo Ruiz, from Puerto Rico; and Thomas Flippin, from the continental USA. These artists are guitarists and composers who have adapted to the new circumstances and will […]
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La crisis de COVID ha propiciado que el arte público al aire libre tenga un papel más relevante. Es visible para todos, todo el tiempo, sin obligar a los espectadores a aglomerarse en multitudes en las galerías y a respirar un aire encerrado. Además, ofrece una alternativa única para unir a una comunidad,al proporcionar una experiencia común incluso cuando las […]
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The COVID crisis has created a world in which outdoor public art has an important role. It’s visible to everyone, all the time, without subjecting viewers to gallery crowds or indoor air. It has a unique way of bringing a community together, providing common experience even when people are isolated. That’s what has happened with several of the Creative Fusion […]
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Las organizaciones de arte y cultura de todo el país han tenido que echar mano a la creatividad para poder continuar su trabajo en tiempos de pandemia. En este sentido, el Centro Cultural para las Artes Julia de Burgos, de Cleveland, no es diferente. Ubicado en el oeste de la ciudad, la misión del centro es preservar y promover la […]
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Arts and culture organizations throughout the nation have had to get creative about how to continue their work through a pandemic, and Cleveland’s own Julia De Burgos Cultural Arts Center is no different. Located on Cleveland’s Near West side, Julia De Burgos’ mission is to transform lives by preserving, educating and promoting Latino heritage through the teaching and practice of […]
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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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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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