The chance meeting of Sarah Kabot and Marianne Desmarais at Cranbrook might have been a lark. What emerged was a decades-long collaboration. Marianne Desmarais answered a classified ad that Sarah Kabot had placed in the fall of their first year together at the graduate-only Cranbrook Academy of Art. It seemed like a bizarre request. “I was looking to invade someone’s […]
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Your easy, chronological guide to art events, exhibits and opportunities at Northeast Ohio galleries, studios, and museums coming in the next few months. More information about many of these exhibits can be found elsewhere in the pages of CAN Journal. For listings of Holiday Markets, visit our Holiday Market Listing on CAN Blog. Due to the COVID-19 crisis, some of […]
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In September, the Akron Art Museum’s galleries will open an expansion of The 10,000 Things, an exhibition of murals and freestanding works by Jordan Wong. The first phase—four original pieces of Wong’s art—have stood in the museum’s Bud and Susie Rogers Garden since May. These outdoor works introduced Rubber City to Wong’s distinctive style—colorful, slyly referential, bursting with the enthusiasm of […]
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A trip to Snickerfritz, the Edward E. Parker Museum of Art, is an ascension into the mind of Edward Parker himself: his passions, his politics, and his process. Nestled in the heart of what was East Cleveland’s Millionaire’s Row and surrounded by a few of his rentals—including a bed and breakfast—this may be one of Northeast Ohio’s best-kept secrets. Every […]
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Grafton Nunes has a reputation in Cleveland that goes far beyond his role as leader of the 139-year-old Cleveland Institute of Art. Anyone that knows him will tell you he’s a “nice guy.” Nunes has been a constant presence in the local art scene since his arrival in Cleveland in 2010, and has been a vocal supporter of the CAN Journal […]
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Your head tilts with curiosity when you first gaze at the strange porcelain objects. At once familiar and foreign, they evoke a set of legs, or perhaps a swaddled infant. Damaged and deformed, their vulnerability is undeniable. Then the name, Pearly Whites, gives it away. These are teeth—sort of. Clearly modeled from human teeth, but at least fifty times as […]
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The acclaimed painter and retired professor of painting at Cleveland State University, Ken Nevadomi, is the subject of two major exhibits this year: A Wild Ride—a retrospective examining his lifetime art production—was on view at Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, June 17 through August 7. An even more comprehensive look at Nevadomi’s work will be on view this fall […]
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Marie Simon’s dental office in Avon Lake overflows with art. From a lamp crafted by Dana Depew in the lobby to the collection of Martha Cliffel sculpted dog heads entertaining patients from the hallway walls, every corner, every area is appointed with art. “If there’s space on the wall, there should be art. That’s my theory,” states Simon, who obtained […]
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Artist Tricia Kaman is known for more than her portraiture studio in the Murray Hill Schoolhouse, where she hosted the Murray Hill Life Drawing Group for 24 years. She also built Kaman’s Art Shoppes with her husband Rich. At its peak four years ago, Kaman’s had 2,500 seasonal employees drawing portraits in the Kaman style, and offering other creative services, at amusement parks across […]
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Just over a year ago, CAN Blog noted that no fewer than seven Northeast Ohio art organizations in the summer of 2020 had “room at the top.” At the same time as people were in the streets calling attention to the nation’s history of racism, seven of the region’s prominent art institutions had recently seen their executive directors resign. […]
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