Collective Arts Network – CAN Journal

The placement of public sculpture often says as much as the sculpture itself–rather in the way that the position of people in family snapshots can say a lot about their degree of friendship and their respective roles.   A fascinating instance of this is the sculpture of the poet Hart Crane by the late Bill McVey (1904-1995) that stands beside […]

William Scheele’s Kokoon Arts Gallery, with its low bank of windows and curved metallic partition wall at 78th Street Studios, is a mixture of worlds. Past meets future here, in a two-level room that’s a cross between the bridge of a starship and an eighteenth century wunderkammer – with an emphasis on the “wunder.” Scheele’s stock-in-trade is really his openness […]

The nascent years of the 21st century have been shaped by subjectivity, identity politics, and social media, wherein identity is not only self-branded as subjective, but carefully crafted for public consumption. In that context it’s rare to find art that has the potential to resonate broadly. Many of Kate Gilmore’s works, however, are exceptional representations of (dare I say) “universal” […]

Grafton J. Nunes is the tenth president to serve the Cleveland Institute of Art. Nunes began his career as a filmmaker (working on Light of Day, the rock and roll story partially filmed in Cleveland, among other projects) before turning his career toward higher education. In his post at CIA, Nunes oversees the Campus Unification Project, with its $55 million […]

June 7 – 9 Pull Ask “what does work mean to you?” and it’s a good question anywhere in the world. But in Cleveland and other rust belt cities, we’ve got work on our minds in a big way. The entire population is made up of people who came to work—or their parents and grandparents did. The latest to come […]