You can find all the stories in the Fall issue of CAN Journal in a multitude of ways via this website, as well as in print, free, in more than 300 locations around town. Here’s one more. News & CommentaryCleveland, Marking Time and Making a Sustainable Mark: Welcome to CAN Journal Fall 2025Augusto Bordelois CAN Triennial Exhibition Prize show at […]
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Cleveland’s Big Triennial Era reaches the finale of its long denouement in Fall 2025. After announcements early last year that neither the FRONT nor the CAN triennials would proceed for a third iteration, both had unfinished business. CAN Triennial Exhibition Prize shows, for example, continued to roll out, one season following another, with solo exhibitions by selected artists at the […]
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The weight of the world rests uneasy. Beauty appears, accompanied now by irony, now by reckoning; nearby, wandering and wonder come alongside to sit. Massive figures strain at the confines of their borders yet look utterly at home in their surroundings. Here are Stories Worth Telling, oil paintings by Augusto Bordelois on exhibit at the Canton Museum of Art, August […]
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New Work: Amanda D. King, Charmaine Spencer, Erykah Townsend, Antwoine Washington—the upcoming exhibition of works by the FRONT Art Futures Fellows at Transformer Station—will mark the end of the FRONT Triennial, and perhaps the most significant arts fellowship program ever yet offered to artists of Northeast Ohio. Since its inception, the FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art aimed to […]
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Robin Van Lear—visionary creator of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s iconic Parade the Circle—did not stop creating when she left the Museum in early 2020. This year, as a featured event in Cleveland Public Theatre’s Pandemonium gala September 6, she presents Hallowed Owls—a performance with dancers, instrumentalists, poets and singers. It takes place in the former St. Mary’s Orthodox Church, […]
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About a decade and a half ago, Darla Davis began working on a collage inspired by her recently deceased mother, whom she calls an angel watching over her. When she ran out of pictures to include, she began decorating boxes. And she hasn’t stopped since then. Davis is a fixture in the Waterloo Arts District, the culture-cluster that runs along […]
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Sharelle Monét Thompson is a dynamic photographer and documentarian who captures subtleties and depths with equal vigor, witnessing the fullness of moments and weaving them into intricate stories. Her work speaks with the connectivity, reverence and mourning that comes with living in an ever-changing city, with ever-changing challenges. Her images featured here show the Morris Black housing projects before they […]
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Celeste Stauber knows that if the zombie apocalypse comes to a neighborhood near her, she’ll be alright. “Visual art is just about problem solving,” says Stauber. “In any job I’ve had, I’ve been the problem solver and figured out a solution creatively. Plus I can make paper and rope from plants. If I found a team of people I wouldn’t […]
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Curator and collector Teresa Vasu DeChant has been building significant art collections for several decades, primarily for the Cleveland Clinic and MetroHealth Medical Center, as well as for individual corporate clients, private collectors—and herself. “I have always enjoyed building collections,” she says. “Some of them were value-based, picking artists that sold at Sotheby’s and Christie’s that might go up in […]
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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. Due to changing circumstances, events may be added, cancelled, […]
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