Questions of control, the fragile reality of dreamscapes, and a longing for protection infuse Summoning the Wind, a multimedia exhibition by Qian Li at the Erie Art Museum, on view September 5, 2024 through January 2025. Two video installations and a selection of paintings, most on rice paper or silk, fill the museum’s main gallery space. Li was born in […]
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For those interested in working in the arts, the phrase “day job” often pops up in conversation. It’s the job you do that you might not love so that you can do the work in art that you do love. It pays the bills, even if it doesn’t feed the soul. For a number of years, Amber Ford was lucky […]
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The sewer district with a famous sense of humor turns to an old-school format for a fresh take on the life-giving resource we all love. We Clevelanders take a lot of guff, but we’re also tough. We’ve learned that a heaping side order of humor is in order when the chips are down or, in this case, when the unmentionables […]
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Meet a photojournalist whose documentary style depicts a full expanse of Cleveland, brimming with talent and manifested dreams, truths, and beauty, all with a balanced composition and detailed curation. Emanuel Wallace is a photographer and journalist from Cleveland, Ohio. He has been the staff photographer for Cleveland Scene magazine since 2014. In the past, he has contributed to Cleveland.com, Destination […]
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The living embodiment of gregariousness, Darl Schaaff likes to ask people who enter his private museum, “if you wanted to display what your life collected, what would that look like?” That framed quote greets visitors as they step inside The Darl Center for the Arts near the corner of East 55th Street and Broadway Avenue. Built in 1904-1906, the Classical […]
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There are songs sung by women across time and place, never written down, never performed in public. They hang, shimmering, inside a moment so particular yet so universal that their chords pluck at the longing inside us all, no matter who we are or where we find ourselves. Welcome to Mother, I Am Compelled To Leave / اماّّں میں تو […]
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The phrase “preaching to the choir” is made for moments like this: CAN Journal’s endorsement in favor of Cuyahoga County’s cigarette tax for the arts might seem completely unnecessary. Our readers are interested in art and artists, and the organizations that support them, and Collective Arts Network (CAN) has benefitted directly from the tax through general operating support for the […]
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Put something on repeat and loop it, and it takes on a shape of its own, becoming another entire entity in and of itself. It’s pattern’s older, louder cousin: one who also may travel under the name Persistence of Vision—the title of Kasumi’s first retrospective on view at Summit Artspace, July 12 through September 14. “Life is born of random […]
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Imagine a turbine always in motion; it spins quietly and eternally in the background, barely humming, gathering energy and transforming it into something else. It’s a sort of mechanical alchemy: a cool, perpetual transmogrifier that harnesses power from one source and outputs something completely different. Welcome to Allison Bogard Hall’s creative process. For the past eighteen months, Hall has immersed […]
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The last thing artist, activist, and creative director Antwoine Washington expected at the end of the fall semester of Pressing Matters—an afterschool art program at Zygote Press—was to give financial management advice to a group of eager teenagers. And yet, it is precisely this sort of real-life problem-solving that is at the core of this unusual youth program. Pressing Matters […]
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