Collective Arts Network – CAN Journal

Last year, I completed a series of workshops at the Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory and Educational Foundation. I am primarily a painter and anticipated that my experimenting with paper-based art making would enrich the “dialogue” always underway between my painting and other media. Throughout my immersion there, I was being treated for cancer and felt driven to participate in […]

Some worlds aren’t real. Some are so striking and perfect, they seem as if they can’t be real. Still others are all too real to us – and not in a reality we necessarily want. This spring, the Maria Neil Art Project explores the worlds of five different artists in three exhibitions at two locations.   Lori Kella: Artificial Worlds […]

Michelangelo was a prolific artist, but with spray paint, that ceiling in Rome would have been done in a fraction of time and would have allowed Mr. Buonarroti time to paint all the ceilings and walls of Italy! Furthermore, can you imagine his technique and flow with some of those cans of compressed air and enamel?   Fortunately, today we […]

Scott McIntire [Greenport, NY] Solo Exhibition Scott McIntire’s paintings hum with an energy and vibrancy.  In many cases, the pieces do more than hum—they crackle.  The concentric circles and energy fields in his pieces add a kinetic feeling to his work, while providing a cohesive unity of space.  These elements also give evidence to his superior skills with a brush, […]

As you flip through the pages of the CAN Journal, it is easy to recognize that Cleveland is home to talented artists. What might be less evident is the commitment the City of Cleveland made 10 years ago to engage them in major capital improvement projects.   The city of Cleveland does not tout its Public Art Program, but perhaps […]

We display work by all of our primary contemporary artists, offering up a variety of media and styles: ceramics by Andrea LeBlond & Donna Webb; sculpture by Charles Herndon & Gary Spinosa; prints by Karen Kunc & Ralph Woehrman; paintings by Michael Prunty, Susan Squires & Evie Zimmer; computer graphics by Michael Nekic; Sacred Geometry paintings & prints by Charles […]

  New Terrain: Works by Susan Danko New Terrain (February 21 – March 22, 2014) is a one person exhibition of the works of Cleveland artist Susan Danko. Danko was the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Fine Arts Work residency in Provincetown, MA in the summer of 2013. She used her time there to venture back into printmaking as […]

Jim Gundlach is a designer who creates dimensional shapes out of flat materials. His new installation at The Ronald McDonald House of Cleveland is a school of colorful fish that swim in the two story atrium just inside the entrance. Gundelach designed the fish so that pieces laser-cut from paper-thin plastic sheets could be fastened together in light, three-dimensional angel […]

I first met Ian Berry, curator and director of the Tang Museum, when visiting the Miami Art Fairs in 2012. We struck up a conversation about Whiting Tennis’ work and his recent solo exhibition at the Tang.   I was stricken by Berry’s approachability, passion, and intimate knowledge of contemporary art: here was a curator to watch and learn from! […]

Spring is in swing with community-based displays, student shows and the work of nationally-acclaimed artists at The Galleries at CSU. Cleveland State University’s campus art gallery, located at 1307 Euclid Ave. in Cleveland, features four exhibitions throughout spring of 2014.   43rd Annual Student Show and Merit Exhibitions The season begins March 28 with CSU’s 43rd Annual Student Show and […]