Collective Arts Network – CAN Journal

As you flip through the pages of the CAN Journal, it is easy to recognize that Cleveland is home to talented artists. What might be less evident is the commitment the City of Cleveland made 10 years ago to engage them in major capital improvement projects.   The city of Cleveland does not tout its Public Art Program, but perhaps […]

We display work by all of our primary contemporary artists, offering up a variety of media and styles: ceramics by Andrea LeBlond & Donna Webb; sculpture by Charles Herndon & Gary Spinosa; prints by Karen Kunc & Ralph Woehrman; paintings by Michael Prunty, Susan Squires & Evie Zimmer; computer graphics by Michael Nekic; Sacred Geometry paintings & prints by Charles […]

  New Terrain: Works by Susan Danko New Terrain (February 21 – March 22, 2014) is a one person exhibition of the works of Cleveland artist Susan Danko. Danko was the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Fine Arts Work residency in Provincetown, MA in the summer of 2013. She used her time there to venture back into printmaking as […]

Jim Gundlach is a designer who creates dimensional shapes out of flat materials. His new installation at The Ronald McDonald House of Cleveland is a school of colorful fish that swim in the two story atrium just inside the entrance. Gundelach designed the fish so that pieces laser-cut from paper-thin plastic sheets could be fastened together in light, three-dimensional angel […]

I first met Ian Berry, curator and director of the Tang Museum, when visiting the Miami Art Fairs in 2012. We struck up a conversation about Whiting Tennis’ work and his recent solo exhibition at the Tang.   I was stricken by Berry’s approachability, passion, and intimate knowledge of contemporary art: here was a curator to watch and learn from! […]

Spring is in swing with community-based displays, student shows and the work of nationally-acclaimed artists at The Galleries at CSU. Cleveland State University’s campus art gallery, located at 1307 Euclid Ave. in Cleveland, features four exhibitions throughout spring of 2014.   43rd Annual Student Show and Merit Exhibitions The season begins March 28 with CSU’s 43rd Annual Student Show and […]

We’ve got an exciting array of events for Spring, 2014 at the Cleveland Print Room. Our March exhibition, Hidden Mother: Reimagined, is an invitational showing of “hidden mother” photography featuring the work of more than a dozen Northeast Ohio women reinterpreting the Victorian-era phenomenon of child portraiture wherein concealed or camouflaged mothers would hold their infant children to ensure a […]

Baila Litton is one of the many serious artists in this area who is committed to her work in her studio, exploring new technologies and challenging herself to refine her voice in the work that she creates.  I interviewed her in her vast, fourth-floor studio, jammed with current and past work.  She was a tenant in the Artcraft Building on […]

The abuse of power is a universal theme and one captured with poignancy, irony, and humor by Iranian-born artist Nicky Nodjoumi, whose work will be on view in the Cleveland Institute of Art’s Reinberger Galleries from March 28 through May 3. The Accident: Recent Work by Nicky Nodjoumi will introduce Cleveland art lovers to this internationally acclaimed New York-based artist […]

Phoebe Marie Nelson: The Long Ease: Post-Cancer Works April 11 – May 3, 2014 During the year of illness and literal bloodshed that led up to my diagnosis with inoperable Stage 2B Cervical Cancer, something was happening that I did not even realize: I stopped making art. It wasn’t a conscious decision. I felt terrible and uninspired, stressed and filled […]