Collective Arts Network – CAN Journal

  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 […]

As spring winds down and summer begins, the Artists Archives wraps up a busy spring schedule of exhibitions and programming. Thanks to our patrons and the artists of Cleveland, we had record breaking attendance for both the historic Pearls of Cleveland Exhibition and consciousness raising Majority Rising. We held three programs in our Collecting Art Series, starting with Dr. Marianne […]

  Deeply dependent on careful planning and choreography, Barbara Probst’s Exposure #106: N.Y.C., Broome & Crosby Streets, 04.17.13, 2:29 p.m. records a distinct moment, blurring the boundary between a staged intervention and documentary proof. The multi-panel photographic installation captures a specific time and place from 12 perspectives using synchronized cameras. Probst sets up her equipment and parts of the scenes […]

  Brandon Juhasz: IRL It seems as if there is a great deal of fluidity in what is considered ‘real life’. At one time, this was easy to determine, but now, especially with the Internet, real life takes on very different meaning depending on how you view the situation. The prevalence of the online world has also caused photography to […]