Collective Arts Network – CAN Journal

“Fluxus: a loose international group of artists, poets, and musicians whose only shared impulse was to integrate life into art through the use of found events, sounds, and materials, thereby bringing about social and economic change in the art world.”—Encyclopedia Britannica A surprise gift is arriving in the mailboxes of thought leaders throughout Ohio. Engaging, visually arresting, tactile, and full […]

Summertime and Lincoln Park have gone hand-in-hand since July 4, 1880, when the park was first opened to the public. The Independence Day celebration included a barbeque and remarks by numerous local dignitaries. More than a century later, after Tremont Art Walkers braved months of 2014’s fierce winter, their patience will be rewarded as the arts in Tremont head for […]

  The Bonfoey Gallery will be exhibiting the paintings of George Kozman, Thomas McNickle, Stephen Pentak, Robert Roth, John Sargent and Kim Zarney. The exhibition, Altered Scapes, will be on view in our street and lower level galleries from May 9 to June 7, 2014.  Works in the exhibition vary as much as the artists themselves. Beginning with the landscape […]

Summer 2014 is packed with events at BAYarts,including the annual Art and Music Festival. Here’s what’s coming up in our galleries and on our stage.   June 6 – 30 A Place for Everything: Craig Mains Photography Noticing associations and messages, intended, unintended, misread. Preston Buchtel, curator. Information at craigmains.com.   June 6 – 30 Collectors Show Friends of BAYarts […]

“I can’t draw a straight line!” “A child could do better.” “I am not an artist.” As an art therapist, I hear these unfortunate phrases uttered by adults whose judgmental attitudes hold them back from deeply creative experiences. Sometimes our biggest disability is the inner critic. In the Art Therapy Studio, however, we find crafty ways of pushing past blocks, […]

Interview with new St. Clair-Superior resident Jessica Newell  ArtSpace Cleveland: Where did you live before moving here? Jessica Newell: Before moving to Cleveland, I was biking from Cleveland Heights to my teaching job at Cleveland State.   AC: Why choose a live/work space in Cleveland? JN:I decided to move to Tower Press to be closer to CSU and to be surrounded […]

  As part of Art House’s mission, we strive to make art accessible to children and adults throughout Cleveland. Art House outreach programs have been a part of several unique projects around the city, including a partnership with Literary Lots, a free, two-week, open camp in Ohio City.   The brainchild of Kauser Razvi, Literary Lots brings the power of […]

Tony Feher April 12-August 17, 2014 Spanning 25 years, the exhibit Tony Feher reveals the richness, complexity and impact of the artist’s work. In work distinguished by poetic gestures that give meaning to mundane materials, Feher emphasizes the importance of seeing familiar objects in new ways. The artist collects many of his materials—bottles and jars, plastic bags and polystyrene blocks—after […]

Works of Terry Welker May 23 – July 25, 2014 Terry Welker’s mobiles originate from his passion for architecture, poetic space and meaningful places. Welker explains that his work comes from “my memory of a shape, rather than a direct adaptation.” It is this non-literal translation of his subject that provides the simple elegance and strength in his compositions. The […]

  Now that the dust has settled on the Ohio Liquor Control raid that interrupted the opening of Undercurrents at Loren Naji Gallery in Ohio City, Naji and neighborhood officials are working to comply with the laws that came to bear. The fallout of the incident affects galleries throughout Ohio.   To review: the At 6:55 pm Friday, May 2, […]