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CAN Celebrates the Cleveland debut of Everlasting Plastics with a recycling project

Few art events in Cleveland have provoked a level of energetic discussion comparable with what accompanied Everlasting Plastics, the exhibition commissioned by SPACES for US Pavilion at the 2023 Venice  Biennale Architettura.  It was an unprecedented accomplishment for any Ohio organization to win the international honor—especially one with a budget tiny by comparison to typical Venice Biennale commissioning organizations. Curated […]

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Every Story in the Fall 2025 Issue of CAN

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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Art Writing, and What It Might Mean in the Midwest

Art writing works like the hands of a clock: it runs late, on time, or strikes early. Art writing works within history, alongside it and incongruously too. Sometimes farsighted and other times myopic, art writing covers territory narrow and wide, academic and vernacular. Encompassing many different things, it includes today’s online reviews and medieval treatises about how to paint. Art […]

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Where Do We Go from Here?

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Through the years, this quarterly column traces a narrative of Cleveland art. It strings together major events like the COVID-19 pandemic and local galleries’ responses to the Black Lives Matter movement, Cleveland’s art triennials, art sector news and exhibits, all highlighted in our current stories. The arc of Cleveland’s art history is especially prominent as we approach Summer 2024, and […]

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CAN Journal Announces Archiving Partnerships

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Now in its second decade, Collective Arts Network is proud to announce archiving partnerships with five of Northeast Ohio’s most respected libraries and collecting institutions: The Cleveland Museum of Art Ingalls Library, Case Western Reserve University Kelvin Smith Library, Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland Institute of Art’s Jessica R. Gund Memorial Library, and Artists Archives of the Western Reserve. The project […]

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CAN Journal’s Top Ten Posts of 2022

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Media consumers everywhere know this end-of-year drill: Late December is the time when we look back, reflect, and make lists. Thanks to the internet, one of the easiest ways to do that is to report which posts of the last year were the most read. In 2022, that list validates some assumptions you might have: Recognizable names attract readers. So […]

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CAN Journal: The First Ten Years

It’s the season when you begin to see stories that look back on the year that was. And 2022 marked a milestone for Collective Arts Network and CAN Journal. This year, CAN turned ten years old. But this post doesn’t stop at 2022. This timeline looks back on the last decade, plus a bit more. Regular readers know this origin […]

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The Year 2021 : What did CAN Do This Year?

The days between Christmas and New Year’s Eve are the short season of taking stock, the week before the calendar year turns. So what did CAN do this year? CAN’s First Strategic Plan You may have tuned in to the public presentation via Zoom of CAN’s first-ever Strategic Plan. Thanks to support from the Cleveland Foundation and the Gund Foundation, […]

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