Collective Arts Network – CAN Journal

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? — […]

  Dott von Schneider Latitudes and Longitudes September 5 – October 5 A longtime Cleveland mixed media artist, Dott von Schneider received her CEAP from the Ecole des Beaux-arts de Rouen in 1996. Her work has been exhibited internationally and featured in publications such as Kölnisch Rundshau, The Plain Dealer, Cleveland Magazine, Jane Magazine, Cleveland Scene, and Northern Ohio Live. […]

The Bonfoey Gallery is pleased to present Sidewalks, an exhibition of new paintings by acclaimed watercolorist Mary Lou Ferbert. This stunning show will be on view October 11 through November 19, 2013.  An opening reception with the artist will be held at the gallery from 5 to 8 pm Friday, October 11.  Mary Lou Ferbert was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. […]

Beck Center for the Arts is collaborating with the Hispanic Cultural Center to host the second annual Hispanic Heritage, Hispanic Art, a contemporary exhibition featuring the distinctive works of local Hispanic artists. The vibrant works in a variety of mediums will be on display September 6 through October 6 , 2013 in the Jean Bulicek Galleria at Beck Center. An […]

Letterpress printing is an obsolete, painstakingly slow, cumbersome technology. While moveable type once revolutionized the spread of the written word, offset lithography has been the dominant print technology since the middle of the twentieth century. But letterpress has become extremely popular in recent years. While Cleveland was not an early center for the letterpress revival–like the San Francisco Bay area […]

  Documentation is a dodgy businesses. You gather your sources. You arrange them in the way that makes sense to you. But you hardly take the first step down that road before you’re making choices and judgments about what to use, and what it means. That innuendo between facts and the stories people tell with them is well familiar to […]

As multi-media artist Kasumi’s feature-length film Shockwaves begins, we’re traveling underground in a dimly lit tunnel. Curving tracks flash on the dark road ahead. It’s a familiar and uncanny trope: for millennia human beings in search of self-knowledge have visited the symbolic core of existence via the windings of mysterious passages, twisting caverns that match up somehow with the pathways […]

  The other day, while strolling over from my office in Mather to Kelvin Smith Library, I noticed that where there used to be a neatly cut lawn, a massive boomerang of steel, glass and concrete had fallen from the sky. It’s the new Tinkham Veale Student Center, which had landed while my back was turned: a large, long and […]