CARTA Members Enjoy Fun Collecting Options to Support Cleveland Artists and CIA

The Cleveland Art Association – better known as CARTA – offers members an entirely engaging and enjoyable way to experience and collect Cleveland artists’ works. The process is simple: Each year, members eye the pieces in the continually evolving collection and decide on the ones they would like to inspect further, knowing that they will pull a number and obtain […]

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Photo Poets: Mansa L. Bey

Photo Poets is a street photography feature curated by Aja Joi Grant. The Fall 2023 Photo Poet is Mansa L. Bey. Mansa L Bey is a Moorish-American poet and mixed media folk artist from Cleveland. Centering the experience and expressions of identity and indigeneity, Bey’s passion for the oral tradition of griot-style spoken word and visual poetry converge to display […]

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The Art of Tenacity: Art House’s new campus is a study in perseverence and collaboration

Under a century-old sweetgum tree on Cleveland’s West Side, newly-planted clumps of ornamental grasses sway in the wind. Birds swoop between bushes ringing two bioswales that dip away from each other, creating a natural land bridge. This swath of green interrupts the march of apartment buildings, schools, and old homes near the intersection of Denison Avenue and Pearl Road in […]

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Art in the Plastocene Era: Everlasting Plastics at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale

A swirling, circular tangle of twisting black lines, Simon Anton’s Orologio (Plastic Time) (Fig. 1) looms above the heads of visitors to the U.S. Pavilion in the Giardini of the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale.  Comprised of bits of black and white salvaged plastic waste fused to a metal armature, Anton’s sculpture is on view as part of the exhibition Everlasting […]

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Honey Instead of Vinegar: Corrie Slawson’s Future dithering at SHAHEEN modern and contemporary

“You know, I really just want to grow things,” says artist Corrie Slawson, laughing, though I don’t get the sense she’s kidding. Slawson’s garden—dappled with natives, cultivars, vegetable gardens, and a flock of chickens flowing alongside Taro, the family’s adopted rescue pup from Puerto Rico—is a crush of color, kaleidoscopic tones, and layered textures, fifteen years in the making. “You […]

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RETOLD: African American Art & Folklore, and the Cochran Collection at the Akron Art Museum

“Wes, always try to see this collection as more than an investment (I know you do). I want you to understand that the gratification of being up close to the action of a planet of artists is a rare circumstance in human affairs. It is a loner’s trip. Few around you can comprehend the enormity of your undertaking. Drink constantly […]

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Fall 2023 Events

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. Due to the COVID-19 crisis, we encourage you to check with galleries for current protocols. Some in-person indoor events require proof of […]

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Meet the US Artists of the 2023 Venice Biennale Architettura

As this issue of CAN goes to press, curators Tizziana Baldenebro of SPACES and Lauren Leving of moCa Cleveland were on the verge of departure for Italy, where they would oversee the installation of Everlasting Plastics, the exhibition they have built for the US Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Biennale Architettura. Their proposal, via Cleveland-based SPACES Gallery, was chosen by […]

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The Key Ingredient: Cleveland Public Library hires first-ever Director of Art and Culture

With an extensive collection of WPA prints, a long record of commissioning art installations and exhibits at the main library, as well as murals at its branches around the city, plus important collections of artist books, art catalogs, art objects, maps, and even chess sets, and with the Lockwood Thompson fund specifically supporting art programming, the Cleveland Public Library system […]

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Nobody’s Baby: Morgan Bukovec’s are you on the menu? Series Needles Service Industry Sexism

Morgan Bukovec has been involved in the service industry on and off since she was fifteen—including working the counter at Rudy’s Quality Meats, her grandfather’s butcher shop in Willowick. But it was in the bar and restaurant biz as a server and bartender—working five days a week and sometimes pulling double-shifts—that she was put through the grinder of sexism, misogyny, […]

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