Collective Arts Network – CAN Journal

  Last month ICA conservators put the finishing touches on a truly grand treatment at Oberlin’s Allen Memorial Art Museum. The ICA’s 8 month-long cleaning and conservation of the painted ceiling and clerestory walls in the King Sculpture Court, was completed on time for before the museum’s celebration of its centennial in 2017. Cass Gilbert, the architect who designed the […]

Where did we come from? It’s one of the perennial questions that we ask as children, then again as adults seeking to understand our past. Here and There, Now and Then, opening June 15 at the JCC, is a collaborative, interactive art project between Heights Arts and the Mandel Jewish Community Center which addresses this question by gathering written and […]

  This summer, the walls of HEDGE Gallery will be filled with luscious color and the intimate dialogues that are formed between paintings by Katy Richards and Nikki Woods, both graduates from The Cleveland Institute of Art. The show title, Material Girls, refers to the artists’ use of paint as a thick, gestural material and to the feminist attributes in […]

  Summertime finds the Cleveland Print Room as busy as ever, with a full slate of exciting exhibitions, compelling workshops, and no doubt a Summer surprise or two. Friday, June 12 marks the opening of our first-ever open-call, juried exhibition, The Peer Show. Judged by the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Curator of Photography, Barbara Tannenbaum, The Peer Show will present […]

  After more than a decade of research, planning, designing, and fundraising, Cleveland Institute of Art is unifying its long-divided campus, and the whole region is invited to help celebrate. “It’s an overnight success, ten years in the making,” quipped CIA President Grafton Nunes as he led a group of guests on a recent tour of the new facility on […]

With the Banner Project a great success, artists from City Artists at Work and The Artists Archive of the Western Reserve joined together with Frontlines Services, an assessment and intervention organization to create four workshops for the clients from social services in monotype, painting, card creation and keepsake box design. Although the weather on Saturday, February 21st was nippy, creativity […]

  On their first day of work as ArtWorks apprentices, new students enter a room filled with strangers, artists, and goals: learn to work with other students from across Northeast Ohio to create new art. On the last day they leave inspired to pursue bold ambitions. ArtWorks employs high school students from diverse backgrounds in paid, arts-based apprenticeships that develop […]

  Welcome to Cleveland. Come on in. Gone are the days of the forge. But don’t worry, Cleveland is alive and well. It is the time of the creative. Now is the time for the arts. We have one of the best museums in the world, the hive of artistic activity known as 78th Street Studios is garnering national attention, […]

In “Squared Up,” curator Christopher Gray explores the current Instagram movement as an art form. Using mobile phones to create stark interpretations of common snapshot images, this exhibition takes photography beyond that which hangs on the wall to a place where it can engage a community of photographers around a common theme. In The Dianne Boldman Gallery. July 10 through […]

  Carol has been creative throughout the years with watercolors, making quilts and dolls, drawing book covers and exploring various media. Now retired, she has returned to art for self-discovery and self-expression. “I attended workshops as a nurse, so I knew about art therapy” Carol says. Years later, when exploring her life’s journey, Carol returned to the Art Therapy Studio […]