Laura Ruiz Montes is resident in Cleveland during the Spring of 2017, hosted by CAN with support from the Cleveland Foundation through the Creative Fusion program. Poet, critic, and editor of Ediciones Vigia—a publisher of artist books in Matanzas, Cuba—her role during the residency has been to write her impressions of art from the community of Latino immigrants in Cleveland. […]
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Once in a while I have startled audiences at lectures with the provocative suggestion that I’ve met many artists who don’t like art. Sure, they like their own art, but they don’t seem to be that interested in art that’s done by anyone else, either now or in the past. If someone likes baseball, they read about it every day […]
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Your easy, chronological guide to what Northeast Ohio galleries and museums have coming up in the next few months. More information about many of these exhibits can be found elsewhere in the pages of CAN. Enjoy the shows! CONTINUING Through May 21 Conversations: Past and Present in Asia and America ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM Through May 21 Form […]
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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. Workaround Artists When David Jurca, associate director of Kent State University’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative, tells his students to explore “how can small scale interventions open up big opportunities,” the assistant professor of urban design might not be consciously evoking Archimedes, but it does sound a bit like the Greek mathematician’s assertion […]
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El mismo articulo aparece abajo en traduccion Espanol. Cuban Modern Dance: A Little History It would be unfair to describe the evolution of modern dance in Cuba as “behind”; a better word would simply be “different.” As Malpaso Dance Company choreographer Fernando Saéz puts it in a recent CAN Journal interview, “Isolation and exchange have forged the blend of European, African, […]
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El mismo articulo aparece abajo en traduccion Espanol. Not Reflected in the Official Media: Sandra Ramos While all artists’ work reflects their own gaze, Cuban multidisciplinary artist Sandra Ramos makes her that tangible by placing her own image, costumed in the red uniform all Cuban school children wear, at the center of the work. Ramos spent March in Cleveland working […]
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El mismo articulo aparece abajo en traduccion Espanol. Traveling Talent When Matthew Hollern visited La Havana with Creative Fusion to scout for a talented visiting artist at CIA Jewelry Department, he had some candidates in mind. The one that really impressed him was Yasniel Valdes, not only for his artistic sense and quality of craft, but also for a formal […]
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El mismo articulo aparece abajo en traduccion Espanol. Books Endure as Three-Dimensional, Mixed-Media Sculpture I often wonder about the future of books. I do not worry about the content. Humans are not going to stop letting their imaginations run wild, telling stories, recounting history or pondering philosophical and social facts. But inevitably, in time, technology will change the way we […]
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El mismo articulo aparece abajo en traduccion Espanol. The Cleveland Foundation generously gave me the opportunity to visit Havana with Kent State University’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative. The trip was an opportunity to experience a different culture and learn about arts-based projects –including the Fabrica de Arte Cubano–that could inspire public programming work I do at MOCA Cleveland. FAC (“Cuban […]
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