Y3CAN: Art & Cornhole to Celebrate @CANJournal’s 3rd Anniversary

Fri 7/25 @ 6pm

This Friday, begin your weekend at the Morgan Conservatory for CAN Journal’s Y3CAN Camp Out and Cornhole Tournament. The evening will also include a silent art auction, live music and more.

Sixteen local galleries will be competing in the tournament. The event will include mini-competitions, such as the Waterloo Cup, in which all of Waterloo’s galleries will compete for an evening of free beer at the Beachland.

“This will be a great party,” says CAN Journal editor/publisher Michael Gill. “Imagine artists and galleries competing at cornhole. I’m not saying the art community doesn’t have yard-game or other sporting skills. And I’m not saying artists aren’t competitive. On the contrary. I’m thinking competition is going to be absolutely intense.”

The cornhole boards have been designed by local artists, and will be auctioned off after the tournament. Contributing artists include Kim Baxter, John Carlson, Dana Depew, Flux Metal Arts, George Kocar, Jim Morana, Loren Naji, Angela Oster, Bob Peck, Scott Pickering, Jessica Ramage, Shari Wilkins/The Cleveland Print Room, the Rust Belt Monster Collective and more.

The “infamous” Loren Naji will be curating a silent auction of artwork (including all the aforementioned cornhole boards) by some of the area’s hardest working artists. You’ll have a chance to score a work by some of the best talent our region has to offer and support the work of CAN Journal.

CAN is in its third year as a quarterly magazine serving galleries in the region,” explains Gill. “It’s a point of pride that galleries have been able to establish their own media outlet. Our annual benefit helps us continue building this important piece of arts infrastructure. For the region to have CAN is an enormous asset. It helps build the context for art culture.”

CAN, or Collective Arts Network, is the brainchild of Gill, Liz Maugans and the folks at Zygote Press (itself a fantastic asset to our arts community). The idea was for the region’s galleries, artists and arts-based nonprofits to work together to fill a void in the region’s printed coverage of visual art by giving the organizations themselves a voice and a platform to promote their efforts.

As CAN begins its third year, it has established itself as the region’s premier arts publication. CAN provides a valuable service to both readers and its member organizations. Cleveland has a large, vibrant arts community. Unfortunately, too often exciting work goes unnoticed due to a lack of promotion and awareness.

On a personal note, this lack of promotion of exciting art events is what led me to begin writing for Cool Cleveland. Cool Cleveland’s founder Thomas Mulready and I share a common “mission” of raising awareness for the hardest working residents that aren’t getting enough attention. CAN was founded with a very similar mission. I’ll be contributing a special piece to the silent art auction created just for this event, but you’ll have to come to the Morgan Conservatory this Friday to see it.

When you support CAN, your contribution benefits a lot of Cleveland’s hardworking artists and nonprofits. Over the past years, CAN has offered priceless context and firsthand insight into the region’s most exciting artists and events. As our region’s art community continues to grow and evolve, the efforts of CAN Journal become increasingly important. Please consider stopping by the Morgan Conservatory this Friday evening for all the fun.

http://CANJournal.org

 

 

Josh Usmani is a 27 year old local artist, curator and writer. Since 2008, his work has been featured in over 50 local and regional exhibitions.

 

Cleveland, OH 44103

Cleveland, OH 44103

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