As the Akron Art Museum continues the process of reopening, the AAM team has been working to provide the community with many opportunities for connecting with art. Our galleries are open for visitors, and we have implemented guidelines to ensure their safe enjoyment of the art on view. We’ve also kept many of our programs virtual. We want to […]
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In this time of social distance, the space inside our heads has become paramount, and often far more real than the remote, bewildering world that lies beyond our doors. While known for her innovative portraiture, Lee Heinen’s current body of work explores our interior realities during a moment of unprecedented isolation. Started in March 2020, the series began as a fortunate […]
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ARTneo’s CAN Triennial exhibition prize was awarded to Christine Mauersberger in July 2018. The opening of the exhibition was set for May 2020, but the COVID-19 lockdown temporarily paused the show. We are pleased to announce the exhibit has been rescheduled for November 20 to February 19. CAN Journal spoke to Mauersberger earlier this year when she and Evan Graham, her artist […]
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This January, the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve is pleased to announce the arrival of a new exhibition featuring Denise Buckley and Kathy Skerritt—two women who have been staples of the Cleveland arts community for over thirty years. Newly archived to AAWR’s permanent collection, both artists push the boundaries of their materials to unearth their subjects’ hidden internal realities. […]
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Scott Kraynak’s exhibit at Gallery +, The Minutiae of Humanity Shall Overcome the Beast, presents two collections of portraits, and their subjects could not be more disparate. On the one hand, the artist has painted people of Ecuador—farmers, laborers, a soccer player, a man preparing street food—whom Kraynak met on a trip to the South American nation in Winter, 2019. […]
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Artist Malcolm Brown, who with his wife Ernestine Brown operated Malcolm Brown Gallery in Shaker Heights, passed away October 1 at age 89. Through the gallery, through his teaching at Shaker Heights High School, and in all his relationships, he had a lasting impact. We asked art collectors, dealers, former students, artists, and family members to offer their reflections on […]
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Ceramic and Fiber artist Meagan Smith is the winner of the 2020 CAN Journal Prize for a Northeast Ohio artist in the Waterloo Arts Juried Show. Her work in porcelain, Isolating, is on view in the Brick Ceramics gallery. The entire show fills the galleries at Waterloo Arts, Praxis Fiber Workshop, and Brick. Smith earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts […]
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Prama Artspace has a well established affinity for the macabre. The recent exhibit of works by Cecelia Ivy Price and Linda Mayer– Ghost Opera—was great material for the season during which the sky gets more grey, the nights get longer. Both artists celebrate the mysterious in these works, and as the title implies, they have about them the feeling of […]
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Cleveland Artists on Deck A CARD game to benefit Collective Arts Network Do you know a lot of artists in Cleveland? Can you identify Cleveland artists by looking at their work? Join us for the CARD Game! Cleveland Artists On Deck challenges your knowledge of Cleveland art and artists, and supports CAN! It also gives you a way to participate […]
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In little more than the last year, Samantha Bias’s art has become ubiquitous around Cleveland, and has been seen frequently in shows elsewhere, too, thanks to her captivating practice of Photosynthesis Photography. The unusual medium uses light from the sun to print through a positive transparency onto a natural leaf. It’s a poetic embodiment of Marshall McLuhan’s well-worn phrase, “the […]
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