Where Do We Go from Here?

Through the years, this quarterly column traces a narrative of Cleveland art. It strings together major events like the COVID-19 pandemic and local galleries’ responses to the Black Lives Matter movement, Cleveland’s art triennials, art sector news and exhibits, all highlighted in our current stories. The arc of Cleveland’s art history is especially prominent as we approach Summer 2024, and […]

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Chuck Karnak’s Go Dream, on the Veterans Memorial Bridge

In many Cleveland neighborhoods that have been revitalized in the last twenty or thirty years, artists have led the charge with their own dollars and sweat equity. Consider Tremont, or Waterloo, or Gordon Square. Even in Playhouse Square, the arts were the point. In what’s probably the region’s largest single rediscovery of urban infrastructure, it has gone a different way. […]

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CAC Resolves to Send Cigarette Tax for the Arts to November Ballot

The Cuyahoga Arts and Culture board of directors answered a couple of questions that have hung over the public art funding agency for its recent history. In a unanimous roll call vote, the board approved a resolution to put a 3.5 cent per-cigarette tax before voters in November, for the first time committing to when the issue would be on […]

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Updated! Art of the Eclipse

Have you heard there is going to be a total solar eclipse April 8, and that Cleveland is in the Path of Totality? No? Well, it’s true. Skip the following paragraph if you have already heard this information forty gajillion times: The moon will begin to block the sun at 1:59 pm in Cleveland. Between 3:13 and 3:17 pm, it […]

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Ronayne’s Nominations for CAC Board

For more than a year, artists have complained that Cuyahoga Arts and Culture –the entity that administers the cigarette tax for the arts–did not meet the requirement that at least two of its members “devote a major portion of their time to practicing, performing or teaching any of the arts, or […] are professional administrators in any field of the […]

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Spring 2024: Infrastructure Repair

The early February news that neither FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, nor CAN Triennial will take place in 2025 marks the end of an era. From 2016 (when FRONT began planning, and visions of CAN Triennial began to percolate) to January 2024 (when both organizations were still making plans for their third exhibitions), Cleveland had a place in […]

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Emerging: Victor Weizer and Darci Gumins-Paulett at Judson Park

Photography is one of many things that Vic and Darci have in common. These artists share a friendship that goes back to high school. Both are passionate about nature and are inspired by the beauty of each season. Although they each took a different path to arrive at this gallery destination–exhibiting together at Judson Smart Living–they both demonstrate the ability […]

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CAN to re-focus on art news and reviews; Will not produce CAN Triennial 2025

Collective Arts Network Board of Directors and Staff voted January 23 that the organization would not proceed with plans for CAN Triennial in 2025, and would instead focus on its core strengths and original mission: to provide a platform for communication and public discussion about art and related issues in Northeast Ohio. While that decision originally came with the intent […]

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FRONT will cancel its planned 2025 edition and will permanently wind down operations.

FRONT Triennial’s announcement, in its entirety: It is with great regret that we announce the cancellation of FRONT International’s 2025 edition. The world is a very different place in 2024 than it was when our Founder, Fred Bidwell, launched this ambitious initiative in 2016. Public and private funding priorities have changed to focus on the critical needs of our communities. […]

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A Beginning: Cleveland’s Transformative Art Fund

When Rhonda Brown returned to Cleveland to serve as Chief Strategist for the Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy in the administration of Mayor Justin Bibb, it was not entirely clear what the role would mean. It was a new position. Cleveland is a city with enormous depth of arts activity in the shadow of its famous major institutions, and […]

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