How Joseph and Nancy Keithley Built an Art Collection that Became a Historic Gift to CMA

As a young married couple, Joseph and Nancy Keithley knew they shared a deep appreciation for art. Fittingly, they had met at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, in 1974, when a mutual friend invited them to a small party the matchmaker hoped would spark a romantic union between two other friends. “After about 45 minutes, the two […]

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Photo Poets: Paul Markowicz

Photo Poets is a quarterly street photography feature curated by Aja Joi Grant. The featured photographer in Winter 2023 is Paul Markowicz. Paul Markowicz has had his photography on display in The Robert Thürmer People’s Art Show at The Galleries at Cleveland State University, Cleveland Print Room, doubting thomas Gallery, Rant! Gallery, Lakewood Art Studios and in the Cleveland Photo […]

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Winter 2023-2024 Events

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 be found elsewhere in the pages of CAN Journal. Due to the COVID-19 crisis, and the change of seasons, we encourage you to check with galleries for current protocols. Some in-person […]

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Great Stuff: Crystal Miller’s Afrofuturist Visions of Feminine Beauty

Crystal Miller describes herself as an “all-or-nothing” person, and that personality plays out in the bold, extravagance of her work. Her Afro-Futurist portraits of glamorous Black women figured prominently in her BFA show at the Cleveland Institute of Art, and landed her a show at Summit Artspace earlier this year. In September, she opens her first solo show in a […]

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Emanuel Wallace Pivots

Equally at home taking grip-and-grins for Scene and gripping images of Black life in Cleveland, the photographer has earned praise and gallery shows. Photographer Emanuel Wallace began taking pictures as a young child, brought up spending lots of time alone and feeling bored. He used disposable cameras to capture small still life scenes he’d create in his home. Sometimes these […]

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CARTA Members Enjoy Fun Collecting Options to Support Cleveland Artists and CIA

The Cleveland Art Association – better known as CARTA – offers members an entirely engaging and enjoyable way to experience and collect Cleveland artists’ works. The process is simple: Each year, members eye the pieces in the continually evolving collection and decide on the ones they would like to inspect further, knowing that they will pull a number and obtain […]

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Photo Poets: Mansa L. Bey

Photo Poets is a street photography feature curated by Aja Joi Grant. The Fall 2023 Photo Poet is Mansa L. Bey. Mansa L Bey is a Moorish-American poet and mixed media folk artist from Cleveland. Centering the experience and expressions of identity and indigeneity, Bey’s passion for the oral tradition of griot-style spoken word and visual poetry converge to display […]

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The Art of Tenacity: Art House’s new campus is a study in perseverence and collaboration

Under a century-old sweetgum tree on Cleveland’s West Side, newly-planted clumps of ornamental grasses sway in the wind. Birds swoop between bushes ringing two bioswales that dip away from each other, creating a natural land bridge. This swath of green interrupts the march of apartment buildings, schools, and old homes near the intersection of Denison Avenue and Pearl Road in […]

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Art in the Plastocene Era: Everlasting Plastics at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale

A swirling, circular tangle of twisting black lines, Simon Anton’s Orologio (Plastic Time) (Fig. 1) looms above the heads of visitors to the U.S. Pavilion in the Giardini of the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale.  Comprised of bits of black and white salvaged plastic waste fused to a metal armature, Anton’s sculpture is on view as part of the exhibition Everlasting […]

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