CAN Journal

Rebecca Cross, Are The Stars Out Tonight? HEDGE Gallery presents a dual exhibition featuring intersecting bodies of work that explore the power and complexity of aging via the voices of woman artists who are living their truths unapologetically and out loud. I Am An Old Woman Playlist features print media collages by Liz Maugans, while A Library of Selves features drawings, paintings, and silk tapestries by Rebecca Cross. Installed side by side, the media, personalities, and aesthetics differ.

Sankofa Black Art Expo 2026 featured artist Jerome White, at work in his studio. Jerome White, featured artist in the 2026 revival of Sankofa’s Black Art Expo September 18–20, remembers his own introduction to the Black Art Expo scene in late 1990s Baltimore: “I met Larry Poncho Brown, and he became a mentor to me,” remembers White.

The Dreamer–illustration by Jerome White for his children’s book Red Tail Dreamer, inspired by the Tuskegee Airmen–served as CAN Journal’s Fall 2026 cover art. Jerome White is featured artist in the 2026 revival of the Sankofa Black Art Expo. In this election season CAN celebrates the creativity, entrepreneurship, tenacity and love that make humanity great, and make the Cleveland art scene as vibrant as it is.

Riso prints at Empress Editions. You may have seen the term RISO or Risograph lately and thought to yourself, “what on Earth is that?” What was once a very niche form of printing has become the darling of the zine-making and small press publishing world, and is so mainstream that graphic designers can even purchase RISO-effect filters for Photoshop. Put simply, a RISO or Risograph machine is a Japanese stencil duplicator that uses ink instead of toner, usually printing a single color at a time.

Don Drumm, WM. T. Jerome Library, Bowling Green State University, mural interior, 1965. Sixty years ago, Don Drumm found himself wearing a hard hat and clambering around precariously ten stories above the Bowling Green State University (BGSU) campus.

Aviary Station, installation as part of CLEVE_island, modified electric train, wire, metal and wood sculptures, hardware, William Busta Gallery, 2014. This article is about Michael Loderstedt, the artist. It omits—perhaps unfairly—the considerable body of poetry and biographical work that he has completed in the past ten years. As an artist, his work is mostly about his present and our present.

Artist Mary K. Thomas Almost thirty years ago, Mary K. Thomas was in the fight of her life. She suffered a massive stroke followed by a ruptured brain aneurysm. It bled for two days. When she woke up three weeks later, she could no longer read or speak very well, and she had memory damage. That, in her words, left her with two things: her art ability and her faith.

Sankofa Fine Arts Plus Revives the Sankofa Black Art Expo with an exhibition and art fair in conjunction with the Cleveland Urban Film Festival September 18–20 at Kamron Photography Studio Gallery, 13200 Shaker Square, Cleveland. Fall 2026 Events Listing is 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.

Garvey Cline photo. Curator’s note: Cline’s photography takes us into the fearlessness, and determination to make communal space, building community around experimentation and exploration. These students are getting to know their city in a magical way, exploring remnants of the city’s former architecture, and documenting their perspective full of wonder and curiosity. Garvey Cline Photo. Artist Bio: My name is Garvey Cline.

LEFT: Joyce Morrow Jones, Fields of Plenty (Indigo and Cotton Series). RIGHT: Mona Kolesar, Hallelujah. As summer winds down, Artists Archives of the Western Reserve (AAWR) continues to ramp up, presenting seven individual exhibitions for the autumn months. First, and currently on display at AAWR, we feature inaugural solo exhibitions from newly archived artists Mona Kolesar and Joyce Morrow Jones, alongside work by archived artist Evelyn Ward pulled from our collection.