By, For, and From WOMAN: Mary Urbas and the Origins of the annual exhibit the Gallery at Lakeland Community College

When Mary Urbas was a sixteen-year-old Cleveland Heights High School student, she went out and got a job. So did her twin brother. To her dismay, she learned her brother was getting paid more than she was—something she said hadn’t occurred to her, since at home they were treated as equals. Forty years later, Urbas is making sure women artists […]

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EVENTS Spring 2020

Your easy, chronological guide to exhibits and opportunities at Northeast Ohio galleries, studios and museums in the next few months. More information about many of these exhibits can be found elsewhere in the pages of CAN. THROUGH MARCH 14 7th National Collegiate Handmade Paper Triennial MORGAN CONSERVATORY THROUGH MARCH 15 The Distance of the Moon AKRON ART MUSEUM THROUGH MARCH […]

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Holiday Marketplace

Heights Arts Holiday Store NOVEMBER 1–DECEMBER 30 The 18th annual Heights Arts holiday shop in Cleveland Heights features small items such as mugs, journals, jewelry and T-shirts, holiday cards and ornaments, as well as fine art prints, paintings, photos and ceramics by more than 100 local artists. Many of them are contributors to the gallery’s regular exhibition schedule, but Heights Arts […]

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Dreamscapes Galore: Ingenuity Fest 2019

“Ingenuity, born as Cleveland’s Festival of Art and Technology, has certainly been through some bleak times.” . . . That’s how CAN’s Michael Gill began a review of the re-energized Festival one year ago. And here we are a year later, with another wildly successful festival under their belts (judging by the amount of people I saw posting photos on […]

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Summer 2019 Events

Summer 2019 Events Your easy, chronological guide to what Northeast Ohio galleries and museums have coming up in the next few months. More information about many of these exhibits can be found elsewhere in the pages of CAN. by Anastasia Pantsios CONTINUING EVENTS THROUGH MAY 19 Artist in Residence: Ricardo Ruiz, Richmond, Virginia ZYGOTE PRESS THROUGH MAY 24 Work by […]

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Rock and Roll Perspectives at Loftworks

Cleveland’s Loftworks Gallery had the look of a miniature Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with its recent Rock and Roll Perspectives 2 show. The exhibition featured the works of Cleveland-area concert photographers Joe Kleon and (CAN contributor) Anastasia Pantsios. Gallery walls were plastered with mostly 16×20 matted prints of rock and roll legends from Paul McCartney to Tina Turner […]

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Art At the Schoolhouse Presents William Martin Jean

The art world, like so many other worlds, is enamored of youth, always celebrating this year’s crop of “next big things.” And some of the best-known artists of the last century made their impact young, with many spending the rest of their careers coasting on their early breakthroughs. Cleveland’s William Martin Jean upends all of that. With a 60-year career […]

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Claiming Our Space and Place, at ArtiCle

As you walk around Article (Art in Cleveland) gallery on Waterloo Road looking at its latest show Claiming Our Space and Place, curated by Gallery at Lakeland director Mary Urbas, you find your perceptions shifting. Sometimes you’ll hear the individual voices of the three artists clearly, and at other times they’ll blend, as if they are one voice, a hive […]

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