TONIC: On Contact, Circulation, and Learning in Public, at Zygote Press

“There is a difference between speaking about and speaking nearby.” — Trinh T. Minh-ha“I’m interested in what happens when language fails.”– Glenn Ligon TONIC unfolds as a condition rather than a conclusion. Presented by Zygote Press, the exhibition brings together the 2025 PROOF Fellowship cohort: six Northeast Ohio artists engaging printmaking as a site of encounter, recalibration, and pressure. Print […]

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Frances Benjamin Johnson: Redefining “First Lady”

When you hear the words First Lady and White House, images of elegance and history arise. Jackie, Birdie, Eleanor, Michelle… women whose lives were shaped by marriage and the roles they assumed beside their husbands. Frances Benjamin Johnson was a different kind of “first lady”, however, who arrived at the White House on her own terms and made history as […]

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A New Chapter Opens at Summit Artspace

Summit Artspace is thrilled to reopen to the public in early March 2026 after completing an incredible transformation of its nearly 100-year-old building. The project is funded by the building owner, Summit County, with additional support from the Akron Community Foundation and the GAR Foundation. Since embarking on this exciting journey in August 2025, we have been busy revamping and […]

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Spring, 2026 Events

Our Spring 2026 Events Listing is your 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. These listings are based on announcements from each presenting organization, at press time. Check the CAN […]

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Steve Parker’s Fight Song, at SPACES

CAN asked Paul Cox—writer, percussionist, former Dean of Creative Arts at Tri-C, lecturer/visiting assistant prof. of Music at Oberlin College and Case Western Reserve University, and even before that Associate Director of Performing Arts at the Cleveland Museum of Art—to visit and write about Steve Parker’s Fight Song, on view through April 18. –Ed. So, I crossed Detroit and walked […]

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Sweet Dreams are Made of This? Gender, Power, and Mythologies in Understory’s Power Exchange Rate

“I am doll eyes, doll mouth, doll legsI am doll arms, big veins, dog begsI want to be the girl with the most cakeI fake it so real, I am beyond fake.”– Courtney Love/Hole, 1994 Power Exchange Rate (PER) examines how one’s bodily intimacies and understanding are shaped, regulated, and contested within the structures of capital and power. Through a feminist […]

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CMA Issues Call for Regional Art, and Announces a New Juried Exhibition for Northeast Ohio

It’s not the May Show, but the Cleveland Museum of Art did not beat around the bush in announcing Lake Effect—a new juried exhibition of contemporary art of Northeast Ohio, to be produced by the Museum this year at Transformer Station. In fact the Museum says directly, “Drawing inspiration from the museum’s historic May Show—an annual exhibition that for decades […]

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