Collective Arts Network Journal

10/02/2026

Two great photographers talk Sunday afternoon, at Boswick Design Art Initiative: Abe Frajndlich and Michael Weil. That's not Michael Weil below, just to be clear. Click to RSVP!

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10/01/2026

You can support CAN Journal and at the same time help Jessica Roach-Manko and John Coyne honor the late, great Cleveland artist and personality Terry Durst with a cocktail--The Blue Velvet Rose of Cairo! When we reach the the $500 goal, The Blue Velvet Rose of Cairo will be served at CAN's Nov. 14 benefit, and subsequently included in the forthcoming Cleveland Artist Cocktail Book!

Help CAN Journal honor the late Cleveland artist Terry Durst by sponsoring Blue Velvet Rose of Cairo, an artist cocktail inspired by his singular presence,…

09/29/2026

Guggenheim-winning Cleveland-based artist Kasumi Filmska is a featured artist at Blink Cincinnati in 2026 ... and CAN is proud to partner with Cincinnati Art Week and Blink to present Re-Mixing Light, a dialog between the artist and CAN editor Michael Gill at 4 pm Thursday October 8 in the Cincinnati Art Week Market. Who's going to Blink? Link in comments.

09/29/2026

Do you know about CAN Journal's Cleveland Artist Cocktail book, and Artist Cocktails served at CAN's benefits? It's a way to support local art journalism and honor a Cleveland artist who deserves recognition. Click below to help June Hund's crowd funded campaign to honor Anastasia Pantsios with the Burlesque Virgin, an alcohol-free cocktail that will be served at CAN's November 14, 2026 benefit party! Besides helping to recognize one of Cleveland's great photographers, your contribution also helps CAN Journal provide Northeast Ohio's magazine of the visual arts. Thanks to June Hund for honoring Anastasia!

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Help CAN Journal honor photographer and longtime arts journalist Anastasia Pantsios by sponsoring The Burlesque Virgin, a signature mocktail inspired by her…

09/24/2026

IngenuityFest this weekend!

What does America dream about? At IngenuityFest 2026, each featured work presents its own compelling response to this question.

08/29/2026

For almost 15 years, CAN Journal's quarterly launch parties have been held in different venues every time--this time, Fall 2026, at Larchmere Arts! Thanks to Vince Robinson for hosting, and all who shared the moment.

08/28/2026

Some readers will remember the original Sankofa Fine Art Expo, which was held annually at Tri-C East from 2001 to 2011. It drew artists from around the region and the US to show and sell their work, and hundreds of customers to buy it. Our cover artist Jerome White was there back then. ... Fifteen years later, led by Executive Director Robin Robinson and Board Chair Deidre McPherson, Sankofa brings the Expo back—this time to Shaker Square, September 18–20, in conjunction with the Greater Cleveland Urban Film Festival. The timing seems right: with venues such as Sltwtr Gallery, Deep Roots Experience, and MoCHA building community, and with Framed Gallery selling African and African American Art worldwide, in addition to historic venues like Karamu and Edward E. Parker Museum of Art, Cleveland’s Black art scene has never been more rich. And Jerome White—who was among the apprentices to Kent Twitchell when Sankofa commissioned the giant Ruby Dee mural at Karamu in 2013—is the featured artist for the Expo’s 2026 return.

Read more in the Fall 2026 CAN Journal, debuting tonight, Friday, August 28, at Larchmere Arts.

The Fall 2026 issue of CAN Journal celebrates the tenacity, love and brilliance that keep the Northeast Ohio art sector strong.

08/22/2026

Some things are just fun to look at. Check out this pop culture jamming at Sixty bowls gallery -- defaced album covers collected by Greg Wooten. There's plenty to say about them, but this show--opening tonight, Saturday, 8/22 -- just looks like fun.

08/20/2026

This is a beautiful show, made moreso, as Henry Adams observes, by didactics that give an understanding of the process that made the images. Intaglio printing is a world unto itself comprising scratches and what can seem like magic to make tiny, precise marks appear with dazzling finesse.

The Cleveland Museum of Art print collection is not very large, but it holds some of the world’s rarest and most important early engravings.

07/04/2026

Writing about Sltwtr Gallery’s exhibition 250 on the Fourth of July feels right and hopeful. This is evidence of hope and tenacious commitment to the possibility that still is the United States of America. Happy Fourth of July.

In 250, Sltwtr Gallery asks artists to envision how America would be if Black, Brown, and Indigenous people had just been allowed to be.