Your easy, chronological guide to what Northeast Ohio galleries and museums have coming up in the next few months. More information about many of these exhibits can be found elsewhere in the pages of CAN. Enjoy the shows! Continuing Through September 1 Justin Brennan: Paintings and Drawings; Stephen Kasner: Homecoming Preview HEDGE GALLERY Through September 9 Word. […]
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This issue of CAN marks the beginning of our sixth year. Depending on when you start counting, our fifth anniversary is either just about to happen, or came sometime during the last six months. On this occasion, we can’t help explore who we are, and why we are here. And in light of the national and international political climate, with […]
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In Cleveland’s visual art community, it would be hard to find someone who has etched a broader, deeper line than Zygote Press director Liz Maugans. By the print studio environment she created there, and by her spinoff projects and advocacy, Maugans and Zygote have built community to a degree that not many artists or other organizations could claim. That is […]
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Killing is an old story, but military drones are doing what they can to update it. Since 2004 the CIA, operating under the past two administrations, has waged what amounts to a futuristic, robotic aerial war against alleged terrorists organizing along Pakistan’s northwest border, killing thousands of people. Some died because they were targeted, others because they were too close […]
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It’s been a key point in discussion of the Cleveland art scene that a low cost of living here makes it easier to have an art career. But that low cost of living is a result of the fact that there’s just not as much money in this region as there is in other part of the country. But using […]
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“I do everything with the same conviction, whether I’m taking photographs or performing or painting or writing. I’m the same person.” – Patti Smith I doubt it’s very surprising that a musical artist would dabble in other art forms. The Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) was also a well-known painter who showed his work alongside Franz Marc, Wassily Kandinsky, and […]
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Laura Ruiz Montes is resident in Cleveland during the Spring of 2017, hosted by CAN with support from the Cleveland Foundation through the Creative Fusion program. Poet, critic, and editor of Ediciones Vigia—a publisher of artist books in Matanzas, Cuba—her role during the residency has been to write her impressions of art from the community of Latino immigrants in Cleveland. […]
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In the small rooms of a duplex house on Cleveland’s West Side George Mauersberger stores and sometimes makes his large-scale drawings, which have been a mainstay of the city’s visual art scene for the past thirty years. Whether these images in graphite, pastel, and watercolor are Realist, Hyper-Realist, Pop, or something else, they’re remarkable for a hallucinatory fidelity to the […]
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As CAN goes to press, a conservative US Congress is mulling over a budget document that includes complete elimination of a public support system that has been around longer than most of us have been alive: the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Grants those agencies provide constitute a minuscule portion of the nation’s […]
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Since the first meetings that led Cleveland galleries and nonprofit organizations to create CAN, our dialog has included talk of sustainability: How can Cleveland sustain its visual art scene? It is a common refrain that galleries and artists need more money, that art prices are higher in other cities, that Cleveland needs more collectors—especially collectors from outside the region. But […]
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