Collective Arts Network – CAN Journal

  The Fin Art of Ray Troll Fresh off the boat from Ketchikan, Alaska, artist Ray Troll presents a number of prints in honor of the Fine Art of Fishing. Ray’s colorful and humorous work has a global following and we are proud to expose his art to the Cleveland region. Cleveland Inspired Work Three of Cleveland’s finest artists present […]

Join in a season of art making at Heights Arts as we launch Make Your Mark for the ArtsTM, a new membership program for everyone to find the artist inside.   Created by Heights Arts, Make Your Mark (www.MakeYourMarkForTheArts.org) was founded on the belief that everyone has artistic ability. Residents of our communities participate in this public art program by […]

TRANSITION features new works by Jason Alexander Byers, including his tar series and target collages, on view through June 14, 2014. Byers studied sculpture at Kent State University, where he turned to the wildly inventive arts and music scenes. Music took him on tours across Europe and the United States as the vocalist of the well-known Cleveland band Disengage. After […]

Record attendance. Record wine-drinking. Record sales and commissions. Lila says her abstract landscapes are informed by illuminated moments of sky and water. “I collect these moments like treasures, capturing and recapitulating a sense of place.” Cleveland Makes it Big in New York City in April. Rob Hartshorn wins “Best in Show” at the 35th annual ArtExpo on Pier 92 in […]

The Harris ∙ Stanton Gallery is expanding! The gallery is very excited to announce the opening of a second location in the warehouse District of downtown Cleveland. The official opening takes place June 6th with the exhibition 100 Midwest Artists.   The gallery’s first location on West Market St in Akron has been in existence for 27 years. A feat […]

Summertime is our favorite time at FORUM, because we break out the grill for our annual installment of Bazaarbeque! Featuring more than 160 works from more than 75 area artists (Clevelanders both living here now, and who have moved around the country), we pack our walls with art and our front lawn with festivities. Hung salon style, the show features […]

In his later years, with his white beard and twinkling eyes, and picturesque wine-colored velvet jacket, the painter Richard Sedlon became a much-loved local character in Bedford, Ohio, where he lived with his wife Anne in the historic Hezeikiah Dunham House, dating from 1832, which is now the property of the Bedford Historical Society. In the back of his house […]

This summer at the Cleveland Print Room, you can become a member, develop film, make a pinhole camera, join our Social Club, take a class to learn wet plate collodion or cyanotype photo techniques, take a plastic camera or photogram workshop and show your work in our gallery. Our multipurpose photography center has something for everyone.   In its first […]

  For almost half a century, the Cleveland Arts Prize honored the city’s artists one at a time in an annual ceremony. But on May 2nd the venerable organization’s interim director Alenka Banco announced the names of no less than nine honorees for 2014. The artist/winners are spread over five disciplines, and all receive a monetary award that has grown […]

Most of us started creating art in our parents’ basement, in our bedroom, or maybe on the dining room table if there was a dining room. So actually to have a studio is within itself a dream come true–let alone to have a community of artists and their studios!   On any floor of the building that’s home to the […]