Our Spring 2026 Events Listing is 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. These listings are based on announcements from each presenting organization, at press time. Check the CAN […]
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CAN asked Paul Cox—writer, percussionist, former Dean of Creative Arts at Tri-C, lecturer/visiting assistant prof. of Music at Oberlin College and Case Western Reserve University, and even before that Associate Director of Performing Arts at the Cleveland Museum of Art—to visit and write about Steve Parker’s Fight Song, on view through April 18. –Ed. So, I crossed Detroit and walked […]
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I am excited to introduce the Chrysalis Annex Gallery, and we’re thrilled to host our first solo artist exhibition, Visions from the Main Artery – The Art of David F. Heatwole. The gallery is an expansion of Chrysalis Artist Studios, a communal artists’ studio space in the Asian Town Center, which opened in 2024. Chrysalis is grateful to Negative Space […]
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“I am doll eyes, doll mouth, doll legsI am doll arms, big veins, dog begsI want to be the girl with the most cakeI fake it so real, I am beyond fake.”– Courtney Love/Hole, 1994 Power Exchange Rate (PER) examines how one’s bodily intimacies and understanding are shaped, regulated, and contested within the structures of capital and power. Through a feminist […]
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It’s not at every exhibition that invites participation by sitting on an artist performing as a chair, but this is what visitors walked in on during opening night for Love, Sex, & The Body, an open call 18+ art show curated by Liana Gonzalez. Artist Maddie McSweeney’s performance involved impersonating a chair, their body wrapped in beige pantyhose from head […]
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It’s not the May Show, but the Cleveland Museum of Art did not beat around the bush in announcing Lake Effect—a new juried exhibition of contemporary art of Northeast Ohio, to be produced by the Museum this year at Transformer Station. In fact the Museum says directly, “Drawing inspiration from the museum’s historic May Show—an annual exhibition that for decades […]
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Walking into The Sculpture Center’s largest gallery a few weeks ago, I was startled by the clear sightline to a monumental, bare-chested Queen Victoria. She looks proudly over the exhibition space as if it were her colonial domain, full skirts belying a row of burdened, black feet. The black bodies that hold this heavy cast body upright are lined up […]
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Cleveland State University has taken a significant step toward restoring its place on the Cleveland art scene—both in providing what gallery director Kendall Christian called a “working classroom” for art students, and as a connection to the region’s art community at large: on January 7, the university’s Request for Qualifications for an architect to provide design services for a new […]
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In Cleveland, the highest recognition that an artist can receive is the Cleveland Arts Prize in Visual Arts. The Prize has been awarded for 65 years, since 1961. The Prize is awarded in other disciplines too – Music, Design, Literature, Dance – and other people are recognized for their service to the arts in our region. But it has always […]
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CAN has never done a proper annual report. We’re not starting now. But at the end of the year, it certainly makes sense to reflect a bit on what has happened in the last 12 months—what we’ve done, what we’ve cared about, what we’ve seen. It’s been a year of turning points. We’re not going to talk about the horror […]
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