It’s a gloomy Third Friday in early spring, and although crowds of people pass by, only a few have ventured through the door of Brian Asquith’s studio. Inside, a lone couple stands before an image of a giant lobster. Its neon colors seem to glow against the stark white gallery walls. Over three feet tall, the turquoise body is covered […]
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If you find yourself lost or alone, in need of a quick phone call, a smart phone may be the only option. According to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), there are no functioning public pay phones in Cleveland. The only telecommunication companies that provide active services to Ohio focus on pay phones that are located within prison systems for contacting […]
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Violet Maimbourg’s resplendently colored, meticulously crafted sculptures immediately draw the viewer into an absurd, exaggerated carnival world born of her wicked sense of humor and mischievous mind. “I’ve always just liked fun art because humor is a way for art to be accessible,” Violet stated. “High art isn’t really accessible for the everyday person who doesn’t have knowledge of the […]
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On a warm April evening, twenty or so people filled the studio at Praxis Fiber Workshop, on Waterloo Road in Collinwood. Community Craft Circle began at 6 pm and by 6:01 artist-crafters were quiet, their eyes glued to their projects. There were some knitters, a person who appeared to be spinning fibers into yarn, and a man in his thirties […]
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Davon Brantley laughingly describes himself as Bruce Wayne by day, Batman by night: he is the senior admissions counselor at Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) and a full-time artist working in large self-portraits in oils and charcoal. But what underpins his persona is anything but cartoonish: “Even though it looks very bleak in our world—often comedic, like a cartoon—through art, […]
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CAN’s Summer 2026 Events Listing is 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 befound elsewhere in the pages of CAN Journal. These listings are based on announcements from each presenting organization, at press time. Check the CAN Weekly […]
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s remarkable speech during the January 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland called on the “middle powers” to collaborate for economic and military strength to counterbalance the might-makes-right attitude of superpowers, recently laid bare by the talk and behavior of US President Donald Trump. Carney acknowledged the outsized force of the US, and the historically […]
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A cornerstone of Cleveland’s art scene, SPACES–the artists’ residency center and exhibition space in Ohio City–goes into 2026 with new leadership. The organization has a rich and storied history of showing local and global artists, and a deep commitment to experimentation as a historically artist-run space. SPACES received wide recognition during the FRONT Triennial in 2018 and 2022 under the […]
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Each year, IngenuityFest creates an environment that welcomes the strange, encourages experimentation, and builds Cleveland’s creative future in real time, one immersive installation/performance/improbable idea by one. After ten years of leadership during which she brought the festival to its year-round home at 5401 Hamilton Avenue, Emily Appelbaum has moved on, accepting a position in San Francisco. Now the organization embarks […]
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With works in the permanent collections at The Cleveland Museum of Art; Carnegie Museum of Art; Corning Museum of Glass; Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA; Imagine Museum: Contemporary glass art; Smithsonian American Art Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Toledo Museum of Art; and Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art in Sapporo, Japan, Cleveland Institute of Art professor Brent Kee […]
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