Collective Arts Network – CAN Journal

EVENTS   Continuing   Through December 20 Artists Archives of the Western Reserve Member Holiday Show Through December 29 Heights Arts 2013 Holiday Store   Through January 4 Kokoon Arts Gallery Randall Tiedman: Genius Loci   Through December 20 The Sculpture Center Made in Mourning: Contemporary Memorial and Reliquary     December December 6 120 years of Art in Cleveland […]

We hope this finds you well. We are writing you today on behalf of all the artists we know who are really making a difference in our city, in our neighborhoods, in our schools and in our studios. We want you to know a little more about the ingenuity and distinctive contributions these artists make, as neighborhood builders, town criers, […]

Often, while lecturing to a group, I’ll state my belief the what makes something a work of art is its capacity to change how the attentive, passionate viewer experiences and responds to the world for the rest of their lives. Once, I was called on this in a question: a Professor from a university asked me when this had happened, […]

Kicking off Westlake-Westshore Arts Council’s 30th year, on January 23, 2014, at 7 p.m. will be a senior from the Baldwin Wallace University Music Theatre Program in “Catch a Rising Star.” Following senior recitals, a student will be selected to produce a program reflective of studies in the BW Music Program. This performance, in the Porter Room of Westlake Porter […]

The issue of vacancy has been prominent in the North Collinwood neighborhood that hosts the Waterloo Arts District and the Waterloo Arts Gallery. Homes, storefronts and even churches have gone long stretches of time unoccupied—still reeling from the effects of a real estate bubble burst after barely inflating here to begin with. But as the gallery itself attests, vacancy also presents […]

  Moe Brooker makes his enthusiastic return to Cleveland February 21, 2014 –honored with the first solo exhibition given his paintings here in 19 years. “Cleveland remains a special place for me, and I enjoyed every moment that I spent there. The art community was really exciting when I was teaching and living there. I left 28 years ago for Philadelphia, […]

TerraVista Studio is a bustling ceramics studio located on the fourth floor of the building on 30th Street off Superior. Most of the artists are veterans of the fourteen years the studio has been in existence: Lynne Norwood Lofton, Megan Dull, Yomiko Goto, Rob Romeo and Andrea LeBlond. On entering the gallery you’ll see signs that they are in the […]

on view through December 20, 2013 Made in Mourning: Contemporary Memorial and Reliquary   on view January 16 – March 6 2014 W2S – Window to Sculpture Emerging Artist Series public opening with artists talks 5:30 – 8 pm Friday, Jan 16, 2014 Colleen Toledano: Grit Julie Schenkelberg: Present Resonance   The Sculpture Center 1834 East 123rd Street Cleveland, Ohio […]

December 21st will find almost two hundred artisans, artists, and makers converging for one day to sell their work on the second and third floors of an old building in Lakewood. In the space of that day, the Saturday population of the Lake Erie Building -which many know as the Screw Factory- will rise from the usual several-dozen to a total […]

The Orange Art Center’s Winter 2014 Fine Art and Craft classes begin the week of January 20th. Among the offerings for adults this winter are a variety of evening and daytime fine art jewelry classes, pottery classes, fused glass jewelry workshops, and batik-on-silk workshops. The fused glass workshops, taught by Jennifer Szalkowski, are always some of our most popular offerings. […]