Collective Arts Network – CAN Journal

  Tim, a U.S. Marines veteran in his early 50s, was transitioning between careers when he learned how disabling chronic post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be—cognitively as well as emotionally. Smart, but emotionally fragile, Tim had battled PTSD for 23 years when, during a particularly stressful semester in his training to become a respiratory therapist, he lost his memory for […]

    For thirty years, the organization that was once known as the Cleveland Artists Foundation has been one of the leading institutions to recognize and celebrate the art and artists of Northeast Ohio. Now, ARTneo, as it is now known, is looking forward to the next thirty years and beyond. ARTneo is in the midst of a significant transition […]

  Art House held its new program Community Culture Night on November 7th with “A Conversation with John Ranally.” Ranally, a sculptor, 30 year near west resident, community artist activist, and co-owner of Studio Foundry, showed images and fielded questions about his life and work. John has done some remarkable work with neighborhood residents, most recently a large welded steel […]

  The first modern work of Latin American art entered the collection of the Allen Memorial Art Museum (AMAM) in 1936, providing the seed for a diverse group of more than 200 modern and contemporary works by artists from 12 countries. Through June 28 2015, the museum showcases this collection in Latin American and Latino Art at the Allen.   […]

October in Cleveland is time to celebrate book and paper arts with Octavofest. This year the festival hosted nearly 50 events all over Cuyahoga County, including exhibits, lectures, workshops, and panels. As is now the tradition, artists, educators, printers, binders, enthusiasts, and the curious came out in force to revel in all Northeast Ohio is doing to advance the book […]

The Artists Speak The Legacy Society of the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve proudly announces the launch of The Artists Speak: Insights and Images of Ohio Artists.   Edited by Rota Sackerlotzky and Roger Welchans, and five years in the making, this stunning 160-page book contains profiles of sixty-two Archived Artists, their thoughts and observations, detailed chronologies and several […]

SCREEN PLAYS is a new series of collage/mixed media screen prints. Text is cut from old discarded prints and everyday detritus using store-bought stencils. An open silk screen creates unpredictable painterly resist effects and also capitalizes on the possibility of getting two or more variations from a ghost-image transfer. The variations supply a vastly different tenor and emotional delivery from […]

  Where Professor Ave. meets West 10th St., a giant’s head peeks out of the sidewalk. From the flat top of its skull, a steel trunk sprouts into a canopy of spikey branches. The stalk is in two senses a “dendrite”—a tree as named in Greek, and one of the bushy appendages on a neuron which receives transmissions from other […]

  The May Show, an annual exhibition of Cleveland’s artists at the Cleveland Museum of Art, was discontinued in 1993. There were lots of reasons. Fine. There has been enough discussion. It is dead, cremated, and the ashes have been dispersed.   But for the last 20 years there has been an undercurrent sense of loss within the community of […]

The Women’s Art Club of Cleveland, with its run of nearly 94 years, lasted longer than any of the similar clubs founded at about the same time for men. Curiously, despite outlasting the likes of the Kokoon Arts Club and the Cleveland Society of Artists, WACC is the least known of these twentieth century artist clubs today. From 1912 to […]