When I hear the word waffle, I think of my mother’s favorite dish towel. Some might think of the popular TikTok trend of putting anything and everything in a waffle maker to see if it will “waffle!” Artist Stephen Tornero blended those ideas when he invited weavers across the country to see if their work could “waffle!” The first iteration […]
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This fall, Valley Art Center in Chagrin Falls, invites visitors to an inclusive art exhibition, In Touch: A Hands-On Exhibition, running from September 13 to October 23. This exhibition focuses on the tactile, presenting a multisensory experience that transcends traditional visual art. In Touch, made possible in large part by a Cuyahoga Board of Developmental Disabilities grant, will feature a […]
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How do we know the world? How do we know how we belong? There are histories that are written and sometimes we tell ourselves that is all there is to know, provided, of course, that the history satisfies. If it is close but doesn’t quite satisfy, we fuss with it. This is a type of game—writing and rewriting history to […]
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The Cleveland School is an umbrella under which many artists of this region have flourished for more than a hundred years. Certainly the two or three decades following the turn of the twentieth century marked a near zenith in production and virtuosity. Marsden Hartley, Abel Warshawsky, William Zorach, William Sommer and Charles Burchfield are already famous names from the period. […]
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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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