Collective Arts Network – CAN Journal

The Reinberger Galleries at the Cleveland Institute of Art is proud to present the work of four internationally known  artists during CIA’s spring exhibitions, beginning March 29.   This series of exhibitions highlights the use of everyday materials found in typical industrial supply or big box home  improvement stores, along with found, recycled film and sound constructions from a variety of previously produced  sources. The work will challenge how you […]

The Cleveland Arts Prize recently announced the launch of MasterWorks, an annual program to highlight the work of a  Cleveland Arts Prize Winner. This year, we commissioned a work by celebrated artist Amy Casey. She created this  beautiful limited edition etching titled “Town Assembly” just for us. It is available for purchase exclusively through the  Cleveland Arts Prize.   Ms. Casey won the Cleveland Arts Prize for Emerging […]

Kari Solomon April 12–May 10, 2013 Solomon curates an exhibit of interactive installations demonstrating the unique results of collaboration between art  and technology. The show also reflects the collaboration of artists, designers, and computer programmers to create  unique experiences with the community wherein the works are displayed. The desired result is to engage viewers through sight, sound, and touch to interact with the exhibit and its live installations, both at […]

The Plain Dealer will feature artists Bonnie Dolin and William Gould in their first floor Lobby/Gallery with an exhibit,  titled Artists View of the Western Reserve. The exhibit, which runs from January 21 to March 30, represents their  interpretations of landscapes and cityscapes in Northeast Ohio. Artist Bonnie Dolin feels that although we are in an age of new technology, she still uses traditional materials with roots  in […]

The Plain Dealer will feature artists Bonnie Dolin and William Gould in their first floor Lobby/Gallery with an exhibit,  titled Artists View of the Western Reserve. The exhibit, which runs from January 21 to March 30, represents their  interpretations of landscapes and cityscapes in Northeast Ohio.   Artist Bonnie Dolin feels that although we are in an age of new technology, she still uses traditional materials with roots […]

“I look so forward to coming to Art Therapy Studio. I love creating here. Art completes me. Thank you, Art Therapy Studio.”   Marc Ranallo is a 30-plus-year survivor of a traumatic brain injury. He was struck by a car when he was just 11 years old  and spent the next three months in a coma, followed by nine months of rehabilitation at MetroHealth Medical Center. He  had […]

Im agine a place where artists can live and work in converted warehouses or factories in a great neighborhood. In 2001,  the Cleveland City Council enacted the Live-Work Overlay District Zoning Ordinance to encourage development of artist  spaces and to establish an artist studio district. Councilman Joe Cimperman spearheaded the creation of  the LWO  District Zoning Ordinance, with input from ArtSpace-Cleveland and support from the Community Partnership for Arts and […]

If you have not yet seen the new Galleries at Cleveland State University, you are missing out! Located in the historic  Cowell & Hubbard Building at the corner of Euclid Avenue and East 13th Street, this state-ofthe- art new Gallery Space   preserves many of the graceful features of the elegant old jewelry store that used to occupy the site – this in itself is worth a trip. […]

The Orange Art Center (OAC) is not only a place for art classes. The OAC hosts three exhibitions a year: a student show, a faculty show and an invitational show. The 5th installment of Animals in Art (AIA) is our first exhibition of 2013. Collaborating this year with the Cleveland  Animal Protective League (APL), we once again are inviting artists to submit  examples of their animal-themed art […]

So, what is this Loren Naji Studio Gallery in Ohio City, and what is Loren trying to do? Affordable real estate in this sort of  rundown section of West 25th Street enabled me to realize my dream art space in this budding, urban West Side Market  neighborhood eleven years ago.   I purchased this double store-front building back in 2001 and intended for it to serve as my […]