Collective Arts Network Journal

06/09/2026

Are you a street photographer in Northeast Ohio? Do you take your camera out, prowling the city for images that reveal something about where you live? If so, this is for you: CAN Journal seeks photographers for the quarterly Photo Poets series, curated by Aja Joi Grant.

CAN Journal seeks street photographers for its print quarterly Photo Poets series. Photo Poets captures scenes of Northeast Ohio.

05/19/2026

With two TC2 digital looms available to the community, Praxis hosts the international Bridges And Connections conference.

05/15/2026

Tonight ... Third Friday at 78th Street Studios / HEDGE Gallery, Things That Ache Softly! Read the review by Sydney Ward Champion, on CAN Blog:

In Things that Ache Softly, Madison Mayle, Katy Richards and Maeve Billings bring proof of life and reminders of death to HEDGE Gallery.

05/13/2026

Summer CAN Journal launch at V&A Gallery at 78th Street Studios, Third Friday!

04/24/2026

If you missed this one, you missed an interesting moment in the evolution of From Woman: a show dedicated to emerginig artists:

Curated by Mary Urbas and Susan Snipes, Understory's chapter of the annual From Woman show creates a space for emerging artists.

04/22/2026

Tomorrow ... Thursday ... April 23 ... 6 pm at Jason Toth Studio in 78th Street Studios ... is your last chance to see screening of Cleveland artists animated by Jason Toth in a video created for the November 2025 CAN Benefit. Come to see and converse with Jason about the animation process and choices, including AI, to create amazing effects.

04/18/2026

Cleveland artist Terry Durst–who with his late, former life partner Dan Tranberg was an integral part of the artistic energy in the Tremont neighborhood from the late 80s to the early 2000s– was found dead in his home in early April 2026, discovered during a welfare check. He was 70 or 71 years old, depending on whether the birthday listed in his Facebook profile is to be believed. Durst was archived at the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve in 2021. Artist, critic, and peer of Durst, Douglas Max Utter wrote this reflection.

Terry Durst--who was part of the artistic energy that animated Cleveland's Tremont neighborhood in its formative years--died in April 2026.

04/17/2026

Next week ... Thursday, April 23 ... is the last screening and dialog session with artist Jason Toth, featuring his CAN You See Me Now video animation of Cleveland Artists. Created for the Fall 2025 CAN Benefit last November, the video animates art by scores of artists. It will be a conversation about how it all works together, the choices, the process, artificial inteligence, and whatever else crosses our path.

04/09/2026

RIP Terry Durst. This was from his 2022 show at Artists Archives of the Western Reserve:

There’s a certain rawness to our region—one forged out of our industrial past and the ensuing decades spent forming and reforming our identity from the rusty pieces left behind. It also fuels our creativity, and perhaps no artistic medium better captures this drive to repurpose and redefine than...