Collective Arts Network – CAN Journal

There is always something missing when an artist portrays a place visited during vacation or sabbatical. And there is  often something spectacularly present when an artist’s work responds to the cultural and visual landscapes with which  they identify. The best of these works have a way of becoming insistent in the culture, forever shaping how everyone  understands that landscape. This fall, three exhibits at William Busta Gallery present the artists […]

The Wyoming Artist Expedition brings together 6 artists from Wyoming, Ohio, and Oregon to see Wyoming’s rarely visited Wilderness Study Areas and Citizen Proposed Wilderness Areas, to better understand and document the energy  boom, and to use art to communicate Wyoming’s special places at the center of oil and gas drilling. Artists will meet with scientists, meet with oil and gas industry experts, and camp and hike in some […]

These words all have different nuances of meaning, but a common thread or generalization is that they describe a change in the state of a thing or idea that is no longer apt or useful into a more current, appropriate one. This theme is definitely playing out during the first part of 2013 at Waterloo Arts. No, that is not a typo. After a suggestion from a volunteer […]

Procession: Song for the Underground Railroad installation by Johnny Coleman through Decemb er 21, 2012 2013 W2S SERI ES (WIND OW TO SCULPTURE EMERGING ARTISTS ) Justin Braun : New Work | Jimmy Kuehnle : New Work | Jason Nein: Temporary January 18–February 23, 2013 | Free Reception and Artist talks: 5:30–8pm January 18 Rondle West : New Work | […]