Collective Arts Network – CAN Journal

  The Galleries at CSU are happy to present two student exhibitions in the spring of 2015. In the North Gallery is the Merit Scholar exhibition: Works by recipients of the CSU Art Department Merit Scholarships. Over $40,000 is awarded each year in scholarships that recognize exceptional talent irrespective of financial need. All students, including incoming freshmen, are eligible to […]

    Join us at the Cleveland Print Room as we plunge into our third year. Members of the Print Room have access to Cleveland’s only community darkroom, where you can develop and print your own film. Members also receive discounts on classes and workshops–from how to shoot film, to darkroom printing and processing. We also offer specialized workshops on […]

    As an artist, you never know when an opportunity will present itself. So that is why when Bobbi Reichtell, Executive Director of the Campus District emailed me last November and asked if I would be willing to be involved in the “Banner UP” project,” I said, yes.   The project involved getting artists and homeless men from the […]

  “The art market is not sexist,” British art critic Brian Sewell told The Independent. “There has never been a first-rank woman artist. Only men are capable of aesthetic greatness.” (“There’s never been a great women artist,” The Independent, July 6, 2008).   Shockingly clear in Sewell’s statement is the under-appreciation of women artists that is also evident in auction […]

  Center for Arts-Inspired Learning works with students at Case Elementary to claim their own stories     “Youth in urban cities” “Black children” “Young women”   Carla Lyndale Carter, a filmmaker and Resident Teaching Artist with Center for Arts-Inspired Learning, entered these terms into a Google image search. As photos filtered across the screen, the diverse group of sixth- […]

The Bonfoey Gallery is proud to continue its Contemporaries series highlighting the works of new and current Bonfoey artists. Contemporaries 2015 features works of Ruth Bercaw, Amanda Cook, Susan Danko, Kathleen Hammett, Tricia Lazuka, Ken Nevadomi, Marc Ross, and Jessica Summers. Work in the exhibition range from abstraction to realism. An opening reception with the artists will be held at […]

  What’s more fun than a group of illustrators meeting for an evening of drawing and a few local brews? Can’t think of much, except for seeing the fruits of this seriously creative group’s labors in one exhibition: “The Best of NOIS” will be in BAYarts Sullivan Gallery through April 3. Comprised of illustrators, fine artists, designers, students and instructors, […]

  Scott was diagnosed with hearing loss at age four and lives with severe depression, social anxiety disorder, general anxiety disorder, and obsessive compulsive disorder. An art therapist at RAP Art referred Scott to Art Therapy Studio in 1995. There, he found a welcoming, supportive studio in which students–many who were also dealing with cognitive, emotional, and/or physical challenges–shared his […]

Sinead Vilbar, Cleveland Museum of Art curator of Japanese and Korean Art, tells why she chose her live-work space in the city.   The main reason we chose to live in the 1400 building was the promise of a community of people who are also active in creative fields–and we have not been disappointed. We really enjoy our time with […]

  On February 20th, 2015 ARTneo opened Cleveland Creates, a juried exhibition of Northeast Ohio artists on the second floor of 78th Street Studios. First introduced in 2011, the exhibition reached out to members of the organization and those interested in joining ARTneo to submit up to three works of art to be considered. For the second iteration of the show, a […]