Robin Van Lear—visionary creator of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s iconic Parade the Circle—did not stop creating when she left the Museum in early 2020. This year, as a featured event in Cleveland Public Theatre’s Pandemonium gala September 6, she presents Hallowed Owls—a performance with dancers, instrumentalists, poets and singers. It takes place in the former St. Mary’s Orthodox Church, […]
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About a decade and a half ago, Darla Davis began working on a collage inspired by her recently deceased mother, whom she calls an angel watching over her. When she ran out of pictures to include, she began decorating boxes. And she hasn’t stopped since then. Davis is a fixture in the Waterloo Arts District, the culture-cluster that runs along […]
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Sharelle Monét Thompson is a dynamic photographer and documentarian who captures subtleties and depths with equal vigor, witnessing the fullness of moments and weaving them into intricate stories. Her work speaks with the connectivity, reverence and mourning that comes with living in an ever-changing city, with ever-changing challenges. Her images featured here show the Morris Black housing projects before they […]
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Celeste Stauber knows that if the zombie apocalypse comes to a neighborhood near her, she’ll be alright. “Visual art is just about problem solving,” says Stauber. “In any job I’ve had, I’ve been the problem solver and figured out a solution creatively. Plus I can make paper and rope from plants. If I found a team of people I wouldn’t […]
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Curator and collector Teresa Vasu DeChant has been building significant art collections for several decades, primarily for the Cleveland Clinic and MetroHealth Medical Center, as well as for individual corporate clients, private collectors—and herself. “I have always enjoyed building collections,” she says. “Some of them were value-based, picking artists that sold at Sotheby’s and Christie’s that might go up in […]
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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. Due to changing circumstances, events may be added, cancelled, […]
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Art writing works like the hands of a clock: it runs late, on time, or strikes early. Art writing works within history, alongside it and incongruously too. Sometimes farsighted and other times myopic, art writing covers territory narrow and wide, academic and vernacular. Encompassing many different things, it includes today’s online reviews and medieval treatises about how to paint. Art […]
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When the room has emptied, when the breath lets go, when the wire pulls taut, when the light keeps shining: places without people still tell stories we can hear. Maxmillian Peralta reveals his new work—a significant departure from his earlier, court-painting-inspired portraiture—in Flat Affect, on view at the Massillon Museum’s Studio M Gallery, June 21 through August 3. Peralta received […]
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There are few times when a threadbare cliché—such as, say, thinking outside the box—seems made for a moment. When Grace Blackley and Maddie Harbert were in the early stages of their design degrees at Kent State University, they learned one of the first foundational lessons students are taught to master early on in the program: to draw a square. The […]
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The printed CAN Journal—CAN’s most visible and best-known outlet—typically doesn’t publish exhibit reviews. That’s because we want them to be timely, and our quarterly schedule often means exhibitions would be closed by the time a review could appear in print. Because the state of arts journalism is a current discussion in the region (including the essay in this issue by […]
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