Assembly for the Arts recieved more than 400 applications for its $10,000 Creative Impact Fund grants. The organization announced winners Tuesday, September 17. The grants are made possible by the people of Cuyahoga County through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture, the public entity that administers the cigarette tax for the arts. The individual artist grants represent a tiny fraction of CAC’s […]
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In Meat On Her Bones at Waterloo Arts, photographer Rachel Feinstein explores the complexities of modern womanhood using midcentury visual references. A New York-based artist and Kent State alumnus, Feinstein extracts elements from vintage advertisements, fashion, and classic cinema. She then reinterprets them in compositions that challenge our perceptions of traditional femininity and patriarchal systems. “Growing up, I was enchanted […]
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Even if you keep flowers in your home, even if you grow them and cut them all summer long, odds are against your taking note of the kind of detail you’ll see in Ron Kretsch’s Flora, a collection of photos on view at Bryon Miller Photography Studio and Gallery in Collinwood. In a statement, Kretsch says in the work he […]
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Is it audacious to hope now? Is it possible to figure out the daily, touch the ineffable, and make visible the swirling turmoil of the world (whether that world is rooted in the past or located with GPS coordinates)? Nine contemporary artists answer these questions in Reverberations, on view through September 28, 2024 at Understory Gallery. Reverberations also features an […]
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What did you do over the Summer? As the kids head back to school, either by standing up in front of the class or putting pen to paper, or clicking away at a keyboard—thousands of them will answer the question, “What did you do during Summer Vacation? CAN Journal visited London and Wales in June, and while this was technically […]
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A signet ring that might hold an inside joke. Tessellated mosaics comprised of stolen chips of ancient marbles. A delicate bowl with its gilt rim dappled by wear. Twenty-one artworks are presented in Beneath the Beautification: Selections from the Education of the Cleveland Museum of Art, curated by the 2023-2024 cohort of high school fellows from CMA’s Currently Under Curation […]
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Conjuring Images, the title of Nikki Woods’ show of mesmerizing works on canvas, panel, and paper at HEDGE Gallery (July 17 – August 31), demonstrates the range and force of this artist’s emerging mastery. Her perception of painting and drawing as personal ritual serves as a theater to a Maya-like play of formal resemblance and revelation. Hallucination gives rise […]
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July 13, CAN celebrated Cleveland artists in the newly renovated Playhouse at BAYarts, with support from Fred and Laura Bidwell, Toastmaster John C. Williams, AIA, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and all in attendance. Were you there? Photographer Emannuel Wallace captured the scenes. Peter Babula, rocking an old-school, CAN Triennial 2018 T-shirt.
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After a little more than three months of deliberation, the City of Cleveland announced winners of Transformative Art Fund grants–seven awards ranging from $312,000 to $482,000, which together at nearly $3 million represent one of the city’s largest-ever investments directly into the local arts community. Money for the grants came from the City’s allocation of American Rescue Plan funds from […]
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After decades of workmanlike progress in his career, the late Cleveland-based artist Michelangelo Lovelace had just begun to see his star rise: in 2018, Fort Gansevoort Gallery in New York presented his solo show, The Land. The Cleveland Museum of Art had acquired his painting, My Home Town. Then Lovelace was diagnosed with cancer in 2020, and passed away in […]
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