Collective Arts Network – CAN Journal

I rolled and pinched, fashioning the amorphous lump of clay into a smug looking elephant. Like most 7-year-olds, creating an artistic masterpiece came as naturally and unselfconsciously as breathing and eating. When my new friend emerged from the kiln, she was a bit worse for the wear, but nothing a bottle of Elmer’s glue couldn’t fix. Having been raised on […]

Spirit & Matter(May 17 –September 14) presents work that embodies the primal essence of Artistic Creation, the Alchemy of Creating Art. The ethereal, creative Spirit conjures and crystallizes an artwork into the physical realm of Matter through the medium of the Artist. The exhibition focuses on several accomplished regional artists working in mixed media, painting, ceramics and stone sculpture to […]

George Schroeder Of Scenes Opening Reception: June 21, 2013 from 7-10 PM 1point618 Gallery is proud to present works of George Schroeder in Of Scenes. The exhibition brings together a series of non-objective paintings—which investigate materiality, shape, color, form and line–with a series of playful collage works on paper. Schroeder talks about the paintings and the collage pieces as, “what […]

Waterloo Arts’ latest program, Zoetic Walls is a street art project in which artists from around the world will enliven public spaces in Cleveland with new murals.   The first paintings are concentrated in the Waterloo Arts and Entertainment District, in order to create a visual impact and further define our district as an ‘art-space’. We are thrilled to be […]

Something transformational is happening on Cleveland’s Waterloo Road. Over the next year, $5.5 million will be invested to make the streetscape more vibrant and pedestrian-friendly. Investments in a new recreation center, three lakefront parks and restaurateur Alan Glazen’s plan to open multiple restaurants in 2013 make it clear that North Shore Collinwood’s moment of rebirth has officially arrived. Many neighborhood […]

The Dress Says It All July 5 – 31 Curated by Denise Stewart Sullivan Family Gallery A woman’s dress is an extension of herself: another skin. The Dress Says It All is a celebration of women artists, individually responding to the “dress” in form and words. The exhibit originated with the theme of the LBD—the Little Black Dress, that must-have […]

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 […]