Collective Arts Network – CAN Journal

  I love our city. Having traveled, I’m curious as to why some residents don’t see the treasure we have in Cleveland. I’m reminded of the words my mother liked to quote: “Two men looked out from prison bars, one saw mud, the other stars”.   I’ve always been a fan of Cleveland. I frequently promote it as the subject […]

The second set of exhibitions in the Window to Sculpture 2015 Emerging Artist series enliven both galleries with sculpture and installation engaging in themes of exploration, transformation, and the passage of time. Terra Nullius (No Man’s Land) is an ongoing series by Derek Coté in response to his repeated participation in a geographic exploration of the Arctic. For his W2S […]

  The annual Screw Factory spring open studio event will be held on Friday, March 27th from 6-10 pm. Approximately thirty studios will open their doors, along with a dozen visiting artists. This is an opportunity to peak inside the studios and see where and how work is created, not just the finished product.   What makes the Screw Factory […]

  Built upon last year’s overwhelming success, Rooms to Let: Cleveland returns to Slavic Village Saturday, May 16 and Sunday, May 17, 2015.  Artists will create a temporary art exhibition using vacant homes as their medium. The event, free and open to the public, will also include a neighborhood block party with live music, hands-on art activities and local food […]

  March has come in like a lion at the Orange Art Center, and we have a number of exciting changes happening this spring including a new look, new workshops and new collaborations.   We begin the month by launching our new website and brand designed by Agnes Studio. We also kick off our new Make Art! Love Art! The […]

Since opening to the public in 2008, Morgan Art of Papermaking & Educational Foundation has been known as a place for transformation. We transformed an old industrial space into what has become the largest arts center in the United States dedicated to every facet of hand papermaking, book arts and letterpress printing—as well as cultivating the talents of professional and […]

  Pita Brooks and Kristin Rogers Living and working together in Lakewood, Pita Brooks and Kristin Rogers create artworks that are at once entrenched in material explorations, and in the expression of ideas surrounding life’s absurd incongruities. Sometimes they create collaboratively and sometimes independently. Their work as a whole is a layered dialogue about both the situational and the dispositional. […]

Bruce Farkas’s return-to-Cleveland story is not unlike many native Clevelanders’ stories. After painting signs and traveling by motorcycle in cities across the country, he returned home for a visit with his family. That was nearly 30 years ago. His return to Cleveland inspired him to start his business, Signature Sign, in 1987.   Dozens of iconic signs around Greater Cleveland […]

  Once again, in an effort to spread awareness about women in art, Lakeland Community College art gallery coordinator Mary Urbas has led an initiative to engage galleries and studios, curating a show dedicated to female art and artists, coinciding with Women’s History Month. This marks the eighth year Urbas has presented her women-focused exhibit at Lakeland. From Woman VIII: […]

The Hudson River School artists were the first Americans to attract major attention as landscape painters in the middle to late nineteenth century. Their mammoth scale works depicted the epic scope of the American wilderness that inspired a sense of awe at a time when much of the country was still being explored. Thomas Cole, Frederic Edwin Church, Thomas Moran […]