Collective Arts Network – CAN Journal

Last year over coffee, Cleveland Institute of Art professor Lane Cooper succinctly summarized my babbling by saying, “Oh, so you are about real art in a real neighborhood.” As we head into spring and the street comes to life again, I found myself reflecting on our changing community and what that tag line means.   The words ‘real’ and ‘authentic’ […]

Don’t miss the W2S series of dynamic and provocative new sculpture, installations and performance by some of the very best early career sculptors of our region.   Sara Holwerda explores the structure of female identity: there is a jam-packed performance at her opening and a week of feminist events with the CIA in April. David Colagiovanni’s work investigates time and […]

Industrial evolution continues on Athens Avenue in Lakewood, Ohio as the Lake Erie Building begins its 98th year of continuous operation. The legacy began in 1917 as the building was constructed to be the automobile manufacturing plant for the Templar Motors Company. Today the building remains as a vital business center and incubator for companies and entrepreneurs on the west side of […]

A new type of canvas is coming to Cleveland!  Inspired by a similar project in Columbus, Rooms to Let: Cleveland  (RTL) will create a temporary art exhibition using vacant homes as a truly interpretational, opportune art medium.    The curators, Westleigh Harper and Michael Horton of MAKER design studio (makeroffice.com), Barbara Bachtell, Director of Broadway School of Music & the Arts […]

We love spring at the Orange Art Center (OAC). Everything comes alive. As the thaw begins our snowbirds are back to participate in our spring session of classes and workshops. And the staff and teachers’ excitement builds as we patiently await the current group of Senior Project Students to begin their month long residency in May.   The OAC allocates […]

The Northern Ohio Art Dealers Association is pleased to announce its 2014 ARTExpo, March 14th, 15th and 16th. The Expo will take place at Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Foundation’s Transformer Station, 1460 West 29th Street in Cleveland, Ohio. The Transformer Station is a cultural facility devoted to showing the Bidwells’ private photography collection and also serves as a venue […]

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, […]