Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s remarkable speech during the January 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland called on the “middle powers” to collaborate for economic and military strength to counterbalance the might-makes-right attitude of superpowers, recently laid bare by the talk and behavior of US President Donald Trump. Carney acknowledged the outsized force of the US, and the historically […]
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A cornerstone of Cleveland’s art scene, SPACES–the artists’ residency center and exhibition space in Ohio City–goes into 2026 with new leadership. The organization has a rich and storied history of showing local and global artists, and a deep commitment to experimentation as a historically artist-run space. SPACES received wide recognition during the FRONT Triennial in 2018 and 2022 under the […]
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Each year, IngenuityFest creates an environment that welcomes the strange, encourages experimentation, and builds Cleveland’s creative future in real time, one immersive installation/performance/improbable idea by one. After ten years of leadership during which she brought the festival to its year-round home at 5401 Hamilton Avenue, Emily Appelbaum has moved on, accepting a position in San Francisco. Now the organization embarks […]
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With works in the permanent collections at The Cleveland Museum of Art; Carnegie Museum of Art; Corning Museum of Glass; Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA; Imagine Museum: Contemporary glass art; Smithsonian American Art Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Toledo Museum of Art; and Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art in Sapporo, Japan, Cleveland Institute of Art professor Brent Kee […]
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Ernest Hatten is a multidisciplinary photographer with professional experience in portrait, wedding and street. He has shown work at Heights Arts. Curator’s note: Hatten’s work makes fine art out of fractions of time, utilizing a soft drop focus (or shallow depth of field—shout-out to my photo students). His methods make the image feel like a page from a storybook. His […]
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From the early Shaker Heights roots of moCa Cleveland to newsense gallery in Lakewood; to the sunroom, formerly operated by SPACES curatorial associate Thea Spittle in a Cleveland Heights home; to 2602 (curated by Spittle with Deidre McPherson in another Cleveland Heights home, and other sites); to Akhsó Gallery, operated by M. Carmen Lane in the garage of a home […]
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Deidre McPherson is a dot connector and coalition builder, deeply committed to the power of collaboration within and outside of the arts sector. For over fifteen years, she has worked in arts and culture in a variety of roles—from marketing and program management to producing and curating arts events and festivals—while remaining steadfastly rooted in community outreach and advocacy. Currently, […]
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Our Spring 2026 Events Listing is your easy, chronological guide to exhibits and opportunities at Northeast Ohio galleries, studios, and museums coming in the next few months. More information about many of these exhibits can be found elsewhere in the pages of CAN Journal. These listings are based on announcements from each presenting organization, at press time. Check the CAN […]
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The idea that Ohio’s art scene looks to New York for validation has some sad truth, but sometimes Ohio brings both the spark and the fuel, and New York is just the place where they meet. Such was the case for an upcoming exhibition at moCa Cleveland, which was conceived during a conversation at Frieze—the international contemporary art fair that […]
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Despite having made more than 35 films, Robert Banks still has a couple more celluloid/cinematic mountains he wants to climb. Despite all of the compelling and entrancing images he’s put on film, whether for motion pictures or still photographs, he remains haunted by the litany of needling comments from his colleagues, fans and followers for the last thirty years: Why […]
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