Collective Arts Network – CAN Journal

If you haven’t yet experienced the Reading Nest in Cleveland Public Library’s Eastman Reading Garden, we suggest you drop everything and head downtown before it’s too late. The 30 foot wide, 12 foot high interactive art installation will be in the garden until mid-October. The nest is built with over 10,000 pieces ofdiscarded wood collected from local, industrial and manufacturing […]

Randall Tiedman was born in an up/down duplex, one of many similar three-story dwellings crowding a long block in Cleveland’s North Collinwood area. Purchased by his grandparents just after the turn of the century, the house faces west across a few feet of front lawn, close to the street. Tiedman produced hundreds of paintings, prints, and drawings in a back […]

  Heights Arts launches its fall season under the leadership of recently appointed executive director Rachel Bernstein. With a passion for the arts, Rachel brings her expertise as an arts administrator (and a professional cellist!) to our organization after a long tenure at the Music School Settlement. Opening Friday, September 6, Heights Arts presents a landmark exhibition, the All Ohio […]

With a fresh look and new name, HEDGE Gallery is baring its walls and inviting eight artists who have never shown at the gallery to participate in a multi media exhibition entitled EIGHTHOURSRAW. EIGHTHOURSRAW is about self-exploration and the lifelong journey of discovering and peeling back the multiple layers within us. Featured artists are Shirley Alley Campbell (paintings / drawings), […]

The Galleries at Cleveland State University are delighted to announce exciting exhibition season for the fall semester of 2013. August 30 through October 12, we celebrate the human imagination with two exhibitions that explore the relationship of personal imagery and collective memory. In the North Gallery we present Based on a True Story, paintings by the Cuban-born Cleveland-based artist Augusto […]

 The garden behind the historic Hezekiah Dunham House in Bedford, Ohio was once populated by creative and mischievous creatures, real and imagined, or perhaps evoked. There Richard Sedlon (American, 1900-1992) gathered both Pookas (elf-like figures of his own creation), and his fellow avant garde artists of the Kokoon Arts Club.   While Sedlon – painter, lithographer, sculptor, muralist, and poet […]

This Fall, the Cleveland Print Room offers a full array of exhibitions and educational opportunities to please a diverse audience. Opening September 13, nationally-acclaimed photographer and Akron native Angelo Merendino’s Observing and Reacting turns the lens on unsuspecting pedestrians in New York as they furtively (and sometimes blatantly) catch a glimpse of him and his late wife, Jennifer, who was […]

City Artists at Work and The Plain Dealer have been collaborating to offer several exhibitions throughout the year in what is now considered by many to be the Gallery at The Plain Dealer. The Sparx in the City event that takes place on Saturday, September 21, presents an opportunity for City Artists to not only open their studios, but also […]

Four separate exhibitions running concurrently at the Cleveland Institute of Art this fall offer residents a chance to become temporary art students, sampling the breadth of contemporary art.   The four shows – which run November 8 through December 14 – span the art spectrum, from Op Art paintings, to narrative-rich political illustrations, to densely textured quasi-narrative watercolors, to dream-like […]

Hannibal Lecter: And how do we begin to covet, Clarice? Do we seek out things to covet? Make an effort to answer now. Clarice Starling: No. We just… Hannibal Lecter: No. We begin by coveting what we see every day. Don’t you feel eyes moving over your body, Clarice? And don’t your eyes seek out the things you want? — […]