The opening night energy at the One Year, One Outfit exhibit, now on view at Praxis Fiber Workshop, seemed especially buoyant as I stepped into the gallery space. Yes, we’re still delighting in getting together in person as the COVID-19 pandemic grinds on. Yes, it’s autumn, with all the creative energy that the cooling weather and flame-colored trees unleash. […]
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IT’S NEVER BEEN MORE IMPORTANT to support artists and buy local. Fortunately, with vaccination rates on the rise, the region’s galleries, studios and collectives are back this year, after the long pandemic pause. To help you through the holiday shopping season, here’s CAN Journal’s annual list of festive, seasonal markets. November 5-December 31 HEIGHTS ARTS HOLIDAY STORE While […]
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Note: I met people who thoroughly loved the Immersive van Gogh experience. They really got lost in the atmosphere. And really, whatever you get lost in–whether it’s nature or movies or what have you– if it makes people feel better, fantastic. I resisted telling people who I knew had tickets about my response, so as not to be a Debby […]
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Wednesday night at its annual awards ceremony, the Cleveland Arts Prize recognized 9 artists and advocates for their contributions to the arts in Cleveland. It was a joyous occasion, even if–as out-going CAP board chair Howard Freedman noted in comments–“Cleveland Arts Prize has been called “staid.” If the word “ceremony” or anything about this sounds stodgy, though, it might be […]
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The Five-Mile Crib, ironically located about three and a half miles off Lake Erie’s shore, is something on which locals can depend. Every time we open a spigot, the flowing water is in part collected at the crib. Of the four Cleveland-area water intakes, it is the only one that has a visible component. Hence, while freighters and recreational vessels […]
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As the name implies, Lauren Kalman’s solo exhibition Flourish with excerpts from Devices for Filling a Void, which is on display in the center’s Euclid Gallery, is divided into two distinct parts. In 2016, Kalman travelled to Germany for a residency at the Jakob Bengel Foundation, a jewelry factory established in 1873. There she found a multitude of the historic stamping […]
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Our impact on the world around is questioned in Akron Soul Train’s current exhibition, Woven: The Human x Nature Relationship, on view from September 8th through October 23rd, 2021. The exhibition features Ron Shelton and Nicole Condon-Shih. Both artists completed a residency program through the gallery with their use of plastic, tying the two bodies of work together. For […]
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The Moon has captivated people for centuries, as myths pertaining to the celestial body are found in every culture. It continued to capture the imagination of nations during the space race and Moon landings of last century and remains both a scientific, astrological, and artistic point of inspiration. This is the case for Tom Balbo in his exhibition, In Search […]
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Kathy Skerritt, the Cleveland painter, installation, and mixed media artist, passed away August 28, at age 64, after resisting cancer for eight years. She was my closest art friend over the last five years. The following brief impressions are necessarily personal. Kathy’s luminous personality loomed over the warp and weft of her creative soul and work. She understood: being comes […]
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For anyone interested in contemporary fine art photography, it’s well worth a trip to the Firelands Association for the Visual Arts (FAVA) in Oberlin for the biennial juried photo exhibition, selected this year by Barbara Tannenbaum, curator of photography at the Cleveland Museum of Art. On view through October 31, the show brings together works by 30 artists from […]
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