Various Small Fires borrows its name from artist Ed Ruscha’s conceptual book, Various Small Fires, self-published in 1964. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, he created a series of small photo-conceptual artist’s books which featured mundane subjects and photographs of fires with deadpan titles. The Various Small Fires exhibition is inspired by the liminal moments of the everyday that are ignited […]
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Bringing art to everyone by breaking down barriers is at the core of Zygote’s mission. The Affordable Print Fair: Collecting 101 centers that mission by creating opportunities for emerging artists to exhibit their work, and by offering new collectors an affordable way to acquire art. “This exhibition and the accompanying free, public programs will demonstrate that print collecting is not […]
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What did you do over the Summer? As the kids head back to school, either by standing up in front of the class or putting pen to paper, or clicking away at a keyboard—thousands of them will answer the question, “What did you do during Summer Vacation? CAN Journal visited London and Wales in June, and while this was technically […]
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There are songs sung by women across time and place, never written down, never performed in public. They hang, shimmering, inside a moment so particular yet so universal that their chords pluck at the longing inside us all, no matter who we are or where we find ourselves. Welcome to Mother, I Am Compelled To Leave / اماّّں میں تو […]
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A signet ring that might hold an inside joke. Tessellated mosaics comprised of stolen chips of ancient marbles. A delicate bowl with its gilt rim dappled by wear. Twenty-one artworks are presented in Beneath the Beautification: Selections from the Education of the Cleveland Museum of Art, curated by the 2023-2024 cohort of high school fellows from CMA’s Currently Under Curation […]
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The phrase “preaching to the choir” is made for moments like this: CAN Journal’s endorsement in favor of Cuyahoga County’s cigarette tax for the arts might seem completely unnecessary. Our readers are interested in art and artists, and the organizations that support them, and Collective Arts Network (CAN) has benefitted directly from the tax through general operating support for the […]
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Conjuring Images, the title of Nikki Woods’ show of mesmerizing works on canvas, panel, and paper at HEDGE Gallery (July 17 – August 31), demonstrates the range and force of this artist’s emerging mastery. Her perception of painting and drawing as personal ritual serves as a theater to a Maya-like play of formal resemblance and revelation. Hallucination gives rise […]
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July 13, CAN celebrated Cleveland artists in the newly renovated Playhouse at BAYarts, with support from Fred and Laura Bidwell, Toastmaster John C. Williams, AIA, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and all in attendance. Were you there? Photographer Emannuel Wallace captured the scenes. Peter Babula, rocking an old-school, CAN Triennial 2018 T-shirt.
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After a little more than three months of deliberation, the City of Cleveland announced winners of Transformative Art Fund grants–seven awards ranging from $312,000 to $482,000, which together at nearly $3 million represent one of the city’s largest-ever investments directly into the local arts community. Money for the grants came from the City’s allocation of American Rescue Plan funds from […]
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After decades of workmanlike progress in his career, the late Cleveland-based artist Michelangelo Lovelace had just begun to see his star rise: in 2018, Fort Gansevoort Gallery in New York presented his solo show, The Land. The Cleveland Museum of Art had acquired his painting, My Home Town. Then Lovelace was diagnosed with cancer in 2020, and passed away in […]
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