The Archives is revealing its new look, with a Grand Reopening on Friday March1, from 5:30 – 8:30pm at the opening reception for our 2024 Annual Members Exhibition. Now in its 10th year, this show has become the museum’s most anticipated yearly event. Active members are invited to contribute one work in any medium including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, assemblage, […]
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Waterloo Arts rang in the new year with the opening of Settling/Unsettling, Daydream of Jiangnan. A solo exhibition featuring the works of Michigan-based textile artist Xia Gao, Settling/Unsettling was a multifaceted and thought-provoking exhibition that raised pertinent questions about modernization, adaptation, and the rapid socioeconomic changes taking place in China and beyond. Gao, a Chinese immigrant and professor at Michigan […]
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Vividly graphic paintings adorn the walls of Abattoir’s satellite location at the Quarter in Hingetown. The exhibition consists of hard-edged canvases by Catherine Lentini. Two related but separate series that make up the majority of the show explore Lentini’s thoughts about the passage of time, the pervasiveness of screens in our daily lives, and of war – specifically nuclear war […]
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The early February news that neither FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, nor CAN Triennial will take place in 2025 marks the end of an era. From 2016 (when FRONT began planning, and visions of CAN Triennial began to percolate) to January 2024 (when both organizations were still making plans for their third exhibitions), Cleveland had a place in […]
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It’s a precarious landscape, at once intimate and vast, that flips the uneasy switch at the back of one’s neck. It’s a magnificent wreck that somehow amplifies the joy in that moment balanced between destruction and creation. It’s the fragility of one small brick spinning out from an enormous cyclone of urban decay. As Amy Casey says about her work, […]
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At the intersection of health, wellness, and representation lies art: this winter, 21 works by Black and Brown artists living in Northeast Ohio were acquired by University Hospital’s (UH) corporate art collection. Works by Asia Armour, Bryant “Bee1ne” Anthony, Dayz Whun, Aldonte Flonnoy, Jevonte “Jae Capo” King-Woods, Pahpy/SammieDoesIt, Bobbi Reagins, Vivica Satterwhite, and Emanuel Wallace are now installed in two […]
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Richard and Alita Rogers symbolize the Yin and Yang of art collecting. Rick has pursued the art of acquiring fine objects since he was a child, starting with coins and moving into antiques and furniture as a young man. Roughly a decade after marrying Alita in 1982, he had worked hard and long at B. W. Rogers Co.–his family’s industrial […]
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Photo poets launched in November 2021, featuring the work of emerging artist Vivica Satterwhite, whose work was on the cover! Since then we have featured nine artists in print, ranging from hobbyists to professionals, with styles ranging from documentary, photojournalism and architectural-based work. Each photographer states their own definition of a photo poet, taking the title and making it their […]
Read moreYour easy, chronological guide to exhibits and opportunities at Northeast Ohio galleries, studios, and museums coming in the next few months. More information about many of these exhibits can be found elsewhere in the pages of CAN Journal. Due to the COVID-19 crisis, and the change of seasons, we encourage you to check with galleries for current protocols. Some in-person […]
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It’s that time of year again. No, not the snowy, freezing cold part—but rather the moment when I’m irresistibly drawn back to my bookshelf to revisit one of August Wilson’s hauntingly poetic plays. Wilson, who succumbed to liver cancer in 2005, is celebrated for his American Century Cycle, a monumental series of ten plays chronicling the twentieth century. These works […]
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