Collective Arts Network – CAN Journal

      Three Cleveland nonprofit organizations are mission-driven to recognize, preserve, and collect the art of Northeast Ohio. They are not the city’s biggest institutions, but three relatively small ones, with staffs of one or two people: ARTneo, the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, and the Cleveland Arts Prize. They are completely separate organizations, but taken together, their […]

SPRING 2015 EVENTS     CONTINUING   Through March 28 They Came. They Saw. They Printed! (19 Years of Swift, Victorious Prints) Zygote Press Gallery Through April 3 Process and Materials HEDGE Gallery Through April 10 Off the Web, On the Wall 2 Society for Photographic Education   Through April 19 Cleveland Creates ARTneo   Through April 26 Christopher Pekoc: […]

  Anyone who has tried painting in watercolor at all—let alone painting complex urban landscapes crawling with dozens of figures–will appreciate the work of the late artist and Cleveland public school teacher Moses Pearl. A recent exhibit of his work at the Artists Archives of the Western revealed an artist who used watercolor, not with pallid delicacy, but with the […]

Julian Stanczak—surely Cleveland’s greatest living artist–presents a notable case of a painter who is at once famous and unknown—indeed, curiously unknown, even in his home town. He originally burst onto the national scene in 1964, when the New York art dealer Martha Jackson staged a show of his “Optical Paintings” and the artist/art critic Donald Judd shortened the phrase to […]

    Photographer, vintage photo collector, and Cleveland Print Room Executive Director Shari Wilkins has been inspired by Henry David Thoreau since someone handed her a copy of Walden when she was 12 years old. “He was a Transcendentalist who put emotion & intuition above reasoning,” Wilkins says. “Philosophically & spiritually, I connect with him. My work is my attempt […]

Cuyahoga Arts And Culture has announced that during its meeting Monday, February 9, the board voted to make a grant to the Community Partnership for the Arts and Culture, which would re-instate its individual artist grant program, the Creative Workforce Fellowships, for the year 2016. The process was suspended for the current year while the organizations re-examined funding criteria for […]