Collective Arts Network – CAN Journal

    As part of ICA’s continuing commitment to our community, we often act as collaborators in the preservation of our shared artistic and cultural heritage. One such project involves the preservation and conservation of a ninety year-old icon screen (iconostasis) at the historic Holy Ghost Byzantine Catholic Church in Tremont. This fall, ICA conservators worked onsite at Holy Ghost […]

  Heights Arts kicks off its annual Holiday Store on Friday, November 7 with works in all media from more than eighty regional artists. Join us for a free public reception from 7:00-9:00 p.m. and nosh on tasty bites while you get a jump on holiday shopping and support local artists. New additions for 2014 include an expanded selection of […]

  Metropolitan Hotel at the 9 is providing unique opportunities for artists.  The second floor public space is devoted to a gallery featuring the work of Northeast Ohio artists.  They have a studio space devoted to an Artist in Residence.  The Artist in Residence is designed to provide an interaction between hotel guests and visitors and the artist to engage […]

  Three new exhibitions will be opening on January 15th at The Galleries at CSU. Mind Creatures: The Amazing World of Marvin Jones features prints, paintings and 3D works from various periods of Jones’s career—from early, meticulous etchings influenced by underground comics and the Chicago Imagists of the 1960s to lithographs bearing the immediacy of primitive, “outsider” art and digital […]

  January 2015 marks the second anniversary of the opening of the Cleveland Print Room, and we are as excited as ever to continue bringing world-class photography exhibits, engaging and fun photography workshops and classes, and after-school photography programs in Cleveland’s only community-accessible photographic darkroom to the Greater Cleveland Area. Our first exhibit of the new year, Garmonbozia,features the work […]

  Elementary school may have been the last time the four men who came to my studio from Lutheran Metropolitan Ministries on Lakeside Avenue were ever asked to express themselves artistically. In August, Bobbi Reichtell of the Campus District asked me if City Artists at Work were willing to join with these men in developing designs for banners that would […]

  The conversation continues at Cleveland Institute of Art, where students, faculty and visiting artists from four continents have been exploring what it means for an artist or designer to be socially engaged.   The college is in the midst of a yearlong series titled Community Works: Artist as Social Agent. From Thanksgiving through mid-March the series includes the following […]

  Eileen Dorsey, the curator for SCAPE (at Baldwin Wallace Fawick Gallery January 20 – February 15, 2015) gathered four artists, along with herself, who are bound by their exploration of material and environs and capitalize different means to express their intentions.   Eileen Dorsey: Landscapes are my vehicle for expressing texture and color, punctuated with aggressive and expressive painting […]

  The Bonfoey Gallery is pleased to present new works by Anthony Mastromatteo, Frank Oriti, and Michael Zigmond in an exhibition titled The New Real. This stunning exhibition will be on view in our street level gallery October 24 through November 29, 2014. An opening reception with the artists will be held at the gallery Friday, October 24th, from 5-8 […]

  After much anticipation and planning, The Karen Ryel Ceramic Arts & Education Center on BAYarts’ campus will open this winter. The studio is named in memory of a ceramic artist and member of BAYarts’ close-knit ceramics community and made possible by a gift from her family. The new structure replaces the existing studio now located in the basement of […]