Michael Gill, Author at Collective Arts Network - CAN Journal

THE GOLD STANDARD: THE NEIGHBORHOOD RALLIES TO SAVE AN OLD BUILDING ON WATERLOO

Architecturally speaking, the so-called “Gold Building” is nothing to write home about. It’s just two storefronts at the street level, and office space along a hallway upstairs: standard stuff of the streetcar era. Hundreds of buildings like this still stand—even a century beyond their heyday—along the commercial corridors of Cleveland. But the Gold Building, on Waterloo at East 156th Street, had […]

STAYING IN THE CONVERSATION: UNDENIABLE, TELLING, FRONT-BURNER IMPORTANT

Michael Gill

Even without demographic research, it is safe to say CAN Journal has an overwhelmingly white readership. Collective Arts Network is an organization started by white people, and while our board of directors and membership of organizations are increasingly diverse, there is a lot of inertia in the region’s racial dynamic. For someone familiar with the art scene in Cleveland, that […]

Resultados del programa Fusión Creativa: El Centro Pivote para las Artes será inaugurado pronto en el vecindario de Clark-Fulton

Brittany M. Hudak

Varias organizaciones artísticas que han participado en el programa Fusión Creativa (Creative Fusion) de la Fundación Cleveland, se encuentran entre los inquilinos del edificio ahora conocido como El Centro Pivote para las Artes (The Pivot Center for Arts, Dance and Expression), en West 25th Street, entre las avenidas Seymour y Castle. La doble inversión de dinero y energía creativa que […]

Creative Fusion Outcomes: Pivot Center for the Arts Opening Soon in Clark-Fulton Neighborhood

Brittany M. Hudak

It is only a coincidence that several arts organizations that have participated in the Cleveland Foundation’s Creative Fusion program are among the tenants of the building now known as The Pivot Center for Arts, Dance and Expression—on West 25th Street, between Seymour and Castle Avenues. However, the dual investments of money and creative energy that the artist residency program represented […]

Voltear la página: El arte para la comunidad ayuda a Kubra Al Hilali a construir una nueva vida en Cleveland

Michael Gill

La artista Kubra Al Hilali se convirtió en ciudadana estadounidense en 2017. Está feliz de vivir en Parma con su familia y ve la oportunidad de participar en una residencia artística como la forma de retribuir a la comunidad que la recibió. La residencia, patrocinada por la organización de servicios sociales Building Hope in the City, como parte del programa […]

Flipping the Paper: Making art for her community helps Kubra Alhilali build a new life in Cleveland

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Artist Kubra Alhilali became a US citizen in 2017. She is happy to be living in Parma with her family, and sees an artist residency as a way to give back to the community that welcomed her. The residency is hosted by the social service organization Building Hope in the City, as part of the Cleveland Foundation’s Creative Fusion program. […]

Searing Text, Raw Material: The Morgan Conservatory National Juried Show

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The National Juried Show at the Morgan Conservatory annually impresses by showing the possibilities of paper as a material. That’s true once again in the 2021 version, curated by SPACES executive director Tizziana Baldenebro and University of Akron director of galleries Arnold Tunstall. But this year the exploration of materiality is bolstered by a strong component of text—searing text. In one […]

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Michelangelo Lovelace, 1960 – 2021

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Cleveland artist Michelangelo Lovelace had a long career of accomplishment that was further on the rise in recent years, with recognition both in Cleveland and beyond. He passed away at 7:20 am Monday, April 26, after a bout with pancreatic cancer, according to his sister, Janine Lovelace. He had been diagnosed in April, 2020. He is survived by his wife […]

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“Apply” for the Cleveland Arts Prize

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How does Cleveland recognize its artists, and how are those artists chosen for recognition? Sometimes a single, unobtrusive word can make a huge difference. Consider the Cleveland Arts Prize. This year, the organization’s application window is open March 1 – May 1. That word “application” is key. It represents what CAP trustee Scott Westover says is the most significant change […]

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Gustave Baumann at CMA: Monumental Trees, and the Reckless Disregard of Time

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It’s not just anyone who can donate of a body of work to the Cleveland Museum of Art and have it accepted, much less exhibited in a one-person career-spanning retrospective. But Ann Baumann’s 2005 gift of works by her father Gustave Baumann made the cut. Indeed, the museum followed the artist’s career since the early 20th century, lucky for us. […]

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