Collective Arts Network Journal

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.

08/18/2026

After being taken offline for edits while CAN's editor was out of the country, Henry Adams' review of the Cleveland Museum of Art's Lake Effect: Artists from Cleveland Now is back online. Check it out--and the ensuing dialog, too--on CAN Blog:

The Cleveland Museum of Art's regionally focused, juried show Lake Effect: Artists from Cleveland Now attempts to fill a void.

07/08/2026

Late breaking Walkabout Tremont opening at Doubting Thomas, featuring works of Shawn C. Mishak, Joan Deveney, Allison Polgar, Robert Banks, Haley Litzinger, John Saile, Greta Ramey, Khrystyna Bodnaruk, Bob Walls, Shaun Doyle, Debra Silver, Eric A. Wahl, and Alison Hennie:

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.

07/02/2026

Zygote Press, Inc. is actually doing a Fireside Chat! Probably without a fire, I'm guessing, but: Doors at 6 pm Thursday, July 2, with a 7 pm chat *by the fireplace* with PROOF Fellows Arfil Pajarillaga, Briana Robinson, Erykah Townsend, Jazzee Rozier, Kalia Horner, and Monique Donesia, along with PROOF alum Anastasia Malone.

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.