The days between Christmas and New Year’s Eve are the short season of taking stock, the week before the calendar year turns. So what did CAN do this year? CAN’s First Strategic Plan You may have tuned in to the public presentation via Zoom of CAN’s first-ever Strategic Plan. Thanks to support from the Cleveland Foundation and the Gund Foundation, […]
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The thing about the internet is, you don’t have to ask what is popular. You know by the number of page views. So with page views as our yardstick, we’re going to tell you what were CAN’s Top Ten Posts of 2021. But first, a word on such things: Some of the stories that got the most views in 2021 […]
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In their Sonata No. 6 Project, curator Christopher Richards and composer Ryan Charles Ramer brought a new piece of music into the world with some fanfare. They also went looking for the power of abstraction to inspire a group of artists, and to see what a selection of artists responding to the same piece of music might express in common. […]
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Exploring lives and culture through the landscape has long been a subject for Jacob Koestler, particularly through the evidence of human impact and passing time. That manner of storytelling is at the heart of his and collaborator Michael McDermit’s new book Strange Devotion, which debuted in an exhibit at William Busta Projects on Waterloo in September. Its stories unfold in […]
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Sculptor Charmaine Spencer says she remembers the specific moment when she decided to become an artist: she was sitting under a kiddie slide as a young child, making mud pies. At that time, she thought making art meant painting. So she did that for a while, especially in high school, mostly making abstractions. One of those hangs now in her […]
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Wednesday night at its annual awards ceremony, the Cleveland Arts Prize recognized 9 artists and advocates for their contributions to the arts in Cleveland. It was a joyous occasion, even if–as out-going CAP board chair Howard Freedman noted in comments–“Cleveland Arts Prize has been called “staid.” If the word “ceremony” or anything about this sounds stodgy, though, it might be […]
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In a locally unprecedented bonanza of public art, Summer 2021 brought Cleveland three city-wide series of installations, presenting work by more than 30 artists in 48 locations. Each of them– The Sculpture Center’s Crossroads: Still We Rise, Midtown Cleveland, Inc.’s CLEVELAND WALLS!, and Graffiti Heart’s How Do I Love Thee tour by the stencil artist WRDSMTH–amounts to an important outdoor […]
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Readers of CAN Blog and CAN Journal know the Arts sector has had enormous impact on Cleveland’s economy, neighborhoods, and quality of life. And for the first time in 16 years, the city is about to have a new Mayor. In Fall of 2021, voters will first narrow a primary field from seven candidates to two, and then in November […]
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In the old Looney Tunes Road Runner cartoons, there’s a recurring idea of suspense: that some dramatic action is about to happen, often involving gravity, but sometimes due to some other form of tension retained. We know from experience that something is probably going to go wrong for the Coyote. He has balanced a gigantic boulder precariously, high up on […]
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If you live in Cleveland and drive a car, you have almost certainly seen Goodrich Kirtland Park. Driving the Shoreway just east of Dead Man’s Curve, you’ve probably craned your neck to get a better look at its terraced amphitheater, cut into the bluff on the south side of the highway. But you’ve probably never been there. That’s because the […]
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