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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El mismo articulo aparece abajo en traduccion Espanol. Be Our Guest “You know when a new person says the same thing the student has heard before, but then the student suddenly gets it? That’s why it is good to have guest teachers.” That was one of Laura Alonso’s messages as she was packing to return to Cuba after a two-month […]
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El mismo articulo aparece abajo en traduccion Espanol. At some level, artists working together can’t help but discover that we are more alike than not. Searching for what we have in common is an inevitable part of artistic collaboration, especially when the collaborators come from places as different as Cleveland and Havana. Beyond the universally human, though, it is […]
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One of the things people say in describing the magnificence of opera is that it combines all art forms. We think of it as a musical experience, and we remember the composers, but it is also visual, theatrical, dramatic, poetic, sometimes even including dance, and no single component delivers the whole experience. Esther Teichmann’s Heavy the Sea, on view now […]
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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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The first thematically focused cohort of Creative Fusion artists came to Cleveland in the Fall of 2016. Hosted by SPACES, Transformer Station, Cleveland Public Theatre, Cleveland Print Room, Ohio City, Inc., and Ingenuity, they came from six countries to paint murals on Hingetown walls, their efforts matched and supported by six Cleveland-based artists. Visiting artists included Loreto Greve (Santiago, Chile), […]
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The subtitle of Susan Squires’ exhibit From There to Here: Encaustic Geometric Abstractions is on the one hand a perfectly accurate description of this work. It does consist of abstract shapes and patterns painted in wax. But the description is nothing like the whole story, and someone who reads that and expects pure, meaningless abstraction which just happens to be […]
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Cuba is not on the list of countries from which the current US administration has banned travel. However the relationship between the island nation and the US is dominated by our partisan politics. And there are whole lot of people with families, jobs, and other professional relationships on both sides of that border who even now are awaiting news about […]
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“As a former US diplomat, I can tell you that there is not a country in the world, rich or poor, that you can’t learn something from.” That’s Ronn Richard, president of the Cleveland Foundation, speaking of the Foundation’s Creative Fusion international artist residency program, and specifically its focus on Cuba this Spring. This week, a delegation of Cleveland nonprofit […]
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