Heights Arts Gallery, 2175 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights, OH
January 13-February 25
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 10-5
Thursday, Friday 10-9:30 pm
Saturday 1:30-9:30
Closed Sundays
or by appointment: 216-371.3457
© 2012 Heights Arts | 2175 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118 | 216.371.3457 | heightsarts@heightsarts.org
GALLERY:
SECOND LIFE
January 13-February 25, 2012
GALLERY HOURS
January 13-February 25
Heights Arts is a nonprofit community arts organization in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Founded in 2000, Heights Arts cultivates a strong, diverse, and collaborative arts community by inspiring people of all ages to engage in the arts; supporting the arts through education; providing exhibition and performance opportunities; and fostering public appreciation for the arts.
The community’s proximity to University Circle, home to cultural destinations in Cleveland which include the Cleveland Museum of Art and Severance Hall, has created a place rich with artists, performers, art educators, administrators and others who make their livelihood in the performing or visual arts.
We contribute to the region’s artistic vitality by showing regional artists at Heights Arts Gallery, facilitating public art and design projects, presenting chamber music and other concerts in intimate settings, nominating and supporting the Cleveland Heights Poet Laureate, and having classes and workshops in the arts. As a multidisciplinary arts organization, we tap into the potential of our creative residents to enrich community life.
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Your tax-deductible membership donation directly supports our efforts to enrich community life through the arts. Members receive discounted admission to events and class tuition.
Please contact us at 216.371.3457 to inquire about business sponsorship opportunities.
Membership:
Individual $50
Couple/Family $75
Patron $100
Art Angel $250+
Heights Arts is governed by a Board of Trustees who may serve 2 consecutive 3-year terms.
The current Board is comprised of:
Anna Raske, President
Partner, Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff
Lyman Millard, Vice President
Director of Development and Communications, Citizens' Academy
Willie Maddox, Treasurer
VP Compliance Manager, KeyBank
Bunny Breslin, Secretary
Writer, poet, retired public school French teacher
Greg Donley, Founding Board Member
Assistant Director / Creative Services, Cleveland Museum of Art
Jim Engelmann
Exhibition Designer, Cleveland Museum of Art
Paul Ferguson
Director of Jazz Studies, Case Western Reserve University
Sharon Grossman
Artist
David Mayo
Partner, Benesch Attorneys at Law
Ben Nichols
Senior Program Director, Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.
Jung Oh
Voice Teacher, Cleveland Institute of Music
Steve Presser, Founding Board Member
Owner, Big Fun
Alan Rapoport
Attorney at Law
Matthew Russo
Web Communications Manager
Isabel Trautwein
First Violinist, The Cleveland Orchestra
Becky Voldrich
Marketing and Communications Manager, University Circle, Inc.
Michael Weil
Art historian, photographer, adjunct faculty Cleveland Institute of Art
Staff
Peggy Spaeth, Executive Director
Andrea Joki, Program Director
Jane Flaherty, Administrative Assistant
© 2012 Heights Arts | 2175 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118 | 216.371.3457 | heightsarts@heightsarts.org
Heights Arts Gallery // 2175 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118 // 216.371.3457 // heightsarts@heightsarts.org
present significant art to the community
emphasize regional artists, with special attention to Heights artists
collaborate and foster collaboration among area artists and institutions
advance the arts and artists
stimulate wider art appreciation.
Unsolicited proposals from artists and curators that support the gallery mission are welcome.
Artists: please submit, by email or mail, digital images representative of your work, a brief artist statement, and a resumé.
Curators: please submit, by email or mail, a one-page proposal inclusive of images or other pertinent information, and a resumé.
© 2012 Heights Arts | 2175 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118 | 216.371.3457 | heightsarts@heightsarts.org
Art and design in the urban streetscape is transformative. Public art and design projects bring temporary and permanent art into places that affect people’s daily lives, including murals, streetscape furniture, signage, and community-based installations.
Heights Arts offers public art and design consultation services limited to our service area (Cleveland Heights, University Heights, South Euclid) that can involve advice, brainstorming, artist selection and/or design competitions, and oversight of a project.
Please call 216.371.3457 or e-mail to discuss your idea. For projects in the Greater Cleveland area, contact Cleveland Public Art at 216.621.5330.
© 2012 Heights Arts | 2175 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118 | 216.371.3457 | heightsarts@heightsarts.org
Heights Arts presents a series of chamber music concerts in homes and other unique intimate settings for audiences of 60-80 people. Artistic Director Isabel Trautwein, a Cleveland Orchestra violinist, brings colleagues together to select their programs. Advance reservations are a must, as the concerts always sell out.
We also present a variety of music at Heights Arts Gallery and its adjacent minipark.
Sunday, October 2, 2011
3 pm
Location: Doubletree Tudor Arms
Heights Arts’ Season Six of intimate chamber music concerts is presented by the finest local performers in the world in unique venues.
Travel through time and place from Baroque to the 21st century, from Europe to America, from Cleveland to the Heights, from fall to summer.
The recently restored Tudor Arms welcomes guests back with a concert in the stunning ballroom of this Cleveland treasure. You finally have the opportunity to see this historic hotel from the inside again, returned to its former grandeur!
Jung Oh, soprano, CIM Faculty
Peter Otto, First Associate Concertmaster, The Cleveland Orchestra
Miho Hashizume and Isabel Trautwein, violins, The Cleveland Orchestra
Daniel Pereira, cello, CIM Preparatory Department
The program includes Bach Arias, the famous Bach-Gounod Ave Maria, Vivaldi Violin Concerto Il Grosso Mogul, and Hungarian composer Gyorgy Kurtag's atmospheric Microludes for String Quartet.
THANK YOU to David H. Lavelle, CFP, Cleveland Heights branch office of Edward Jones Investments, for supporting Heights Arts concerts!
$40/Heights Arts members
$50/others
Subscription: $140 for all four concerts
Reservations can be made online, below, but for subscription and membership information call 216.371.3457 or reservations@heightsarts.org
Directions to performances will be provided when reservations are made.
Sunday, February 5, 2012
3 pm
Location: Eaton Road, Shaker Heights
SOLD OUT
Welcome world-class pianist Vivian Weilerstein back to Cleveland. Formerly at CIM and now on the faculty at New England Conservatory in Boston, Weilerstein will be reunited with Cleveland friends Mari Sato and Kirsten Docter of the Cavani Quartet and Cleveland Orchestra members Isabel Trautwein and Tanya Ell.
On the program is the rarely-heard and breath-takingly beautiful Elgar Piano Quintet and two more rarities: Beethoven's String Trio in c-minor, and the sparkly Violin Sonata by Francis Poulenc.
THANK YOU to David H. Lavelle, CFP, Cleveland Heights branch office of Edward Jones Investments, for supporting Heights Arts concerts!
Sunday, May 6, 2012
3 pm
Location: at a downtown penthouse
Last year they knocked your socks off, so we invited them back!
The Omni Quartet are some of the youngest members of The Cleveland Orchestra:
Jung-Min Amy Lee, Associate Concertmaster, and Alicia Koelz, violins
Joanna Patterson, viola
Tanya Ell, cello
with Robert Woolfrey, clarinet, The Cleveland Orchestra
The Omni will open with the vivacious music of Beethoven's Opus 18 No.2, and take you through the labyrinth of Bartok's Third String Quartet. Woolfrey joins the Omni in Brahms' monumental Clarinet Quintet.
THANK YOU to David H. Lavelle, CFP, Cleveland Heights branch office of Edward Jones Investments, for supporting Heights Arts concerts!
Reservations:
$40/Heights Arts members
$50/others
Subscription: $140 for all four concerts
Reservations and membership information:
216.371.3457
Directions to performances will be provided when reservations are made.
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
7:30 pm
Location: at the Barrie home, Herrick Mews
Meander down the Lane to Herrick Mews to hear Gershwin's Summertime and a lush and romantic Second String Quartet with Soprano by Arnold Schoenberg performed by Jung Oh and members of The Cleveland Orchestra.
Also on this program are selections from Terry Riley's Salome Dances for Peace, including the crazed Half Wolf Dances Mad in Moonlight for String Quartet....... you will dance to your car and howl for joy!
Katherine Bormann and Isabel Trautwein, violins, The Cleveland Orchestra
Eliesha Nelson, viola, The Cleveland Orchestra
Tanya Ell, cello, The Cleveland Orchestra
THANK YOU to David H. Lavelle, CFP, Cleveland Heights branch office of Edward Jones Investments, for supporting Heights Arts concerts!
Reservations:
$40/Heights Arts members
$50/others
Subscription: $140 for all four concerts
Reservations and membership information:
216.371.3457
Directions to performances will be provided when reservations are made.
© 2012 Heights Arts | 2175 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118 | 216.371.3457 | heightsarts@heightsarts.org
Heights Writes is a committee that nominates and supports the Cleveland Heights Poet Laureate. Programs vary with each Poet Laureate’s creative ideas of bringing poetry into the community’s daily life.
Publications (available at Heights Arts Gallery):
Awake at the End, 2008. Heights Writes and Bottom Dog Press. A collection of poems by the first three Cleveland Heights Poets Laureate.
Poetography, 2010. Ten poets and ten photographers collaborated in randomly-assigned pairs to create poems and photographs about some aspect of Coventry Village, Cleveland Heights.
Current Poet Laureate
Honored, but a little surprised to be named the city’s Poet Laureate, Faithwalker is energized about the possibilities of the post. “First of all, I love Cleveland Heights,” he says, “and I want to add to the creative energy already here.”
Modest about his own accomplishments and abundant creative energy, Faithwalker says “My role as a poet has been to provide access.” Committed to encouraging others to tap into their creativity and to tell their own stories, he may be best known as the co-founder, 18 years ago, with Vince Robinson, of the NIA coffeehouse, an open-mic poetry venue where all are welcome.
Faithwalker is also owner of Left Thumbprint Solutions, a social media, organizational, and arts network consulting company. “We work with companies, cities, and school systems, but lean toward projects that involve the arts, culture and community.” he says.
Citing Muhammad Ali as an early influence and a creative catalyst, Faithwalker says, “His prose excited me and got me into writing. I used to recite my own prose in the locker room and during football practice!” An English teacher, Joanne Howard, showed the young poet that writing takes practice and discipline. “I won a poetry contest in 1974 and have been writing ever since,” he says. Other favorite writers include Rita Dove, Jack Kerouac, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, and “even local cats like RA Washington, Michael Salinger.”
Faithalker’s poetry combines deep conviction, humor, and a conversational tone that gently pulls the reader in. He often celebrates the heroic in the mundane, as in his poem “Trouble in Paradise.”
Cleveland Heights is suburban bliss.
The couple across the street? A concert pianist
and her husband. Don’t know about him.
Only that he gets mad about the corporations stompin’
the little guy. He drives off most mornings
Hunter gathering schedule to keep
I presume. In the summer,
in the morning, in my sleep,
she serenades me.
…
Of his own work, Faithwalker says, “I hope also that the beauty, challenge, and even the ugliness of the human condition can be looked at through a poetic lens. I really have an appreciation for conflicting voices dancing instead of clashing.”
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Meredith Holmes served as the inaugural Cleveland Heights Poet Laureate.
In her poem "When Poetry Was," Meredith writes:
The people
shouted their dreams
and the poets built cities
with these conversations.
Everyone was housed and fed.
Meredith's poems balance compelling beauty with sober detachment. She recalls images that are at once personal and universal, often meditating about places we have all visited, like a city street, a movie theater, or a classroom. The public face of poetry is also important for Meredith. As she points out, "Poetry requires no paint, no instruments, no armature....only that people pay attention."
Enjoy some poems Meredith wrote during her tenure as Cleveland Heights Poet Laureate
Meredith tells her favorite stories of events during her tenure:
I have three favorites. First, the delight on the faces of city council members when I read “Cleveland Heights Field Notes,” at the Monday night meeting in April 2005, when I was installed as the first poet laureate of Cleveland Heights. Council was delighted with Heights Arts, of course, and with being the first city in the region to have a Poet Laureate, and with a brief respite, no doubt, from zoning variances, budgets, and complaints. But it was more than that. They seemed to be genuinely enjoying the poem – really listening and enjoying it. If you are a dead poet or a very, very famous one, people will pay attention because they have to, but the appreciation I experienced that night is rare.
When I was invited to open a teen poetry slam at Studio You, sponsored by the CHUH Library Youth Services, I figured I better memorize my poem. Fortunately the poem I’d chosen (the only one I’ve ever written that could hold its head up at a slam), “When Poetry Was in the Life,” is short. I also figured I better wear a jeans jacket to disguise the 40-year age difference between me and all the other poets. I’ll never know whether it was the delivery, the poem, or the jacket, but afterwards a young poet came up to me and said, “Your poem? It was raw!” I worked with teens at the Cleveland Heights Main Library on narrative poetry in preparation for Tellabration – National Story Telling Day – on November 20. “Worked with” here is a euphemism for I arrived with books, handouts, markers, and a large newsprint pad and tried to lure about a dozen kids away from the video games. Because Nancy Levin, the youth librarian asked them to, because they like her, and because they are good kids, they dragged themselves away from the monitor and sat down at a table where I had set out copies of “For My People” by Langston Hughes:
The night is beautiful,
So the faces of my people.
The stars are beautiful,
So the eyes of my people.
Beautiful, also, is the sun.
Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people.
The youngest of the group, a boy of about seven or eight, leaned over the poem, as if he were looking into a pool of water at his reflection, and read it aloud. When he finished, he looked up at me and said, “That’s God talking, right?”
Loren Weiss' poetry contains the wisdom of experience as well as the wide-eyed openness of innocence, two qualities that make him a fine choice for a city that values its diverse community. Loren’s poetry reflects the immediacy of experience and treats fairly the experiences of others. With his understanding of the art of poetic form and of poetry’s true community function, Loren represents Cleveland Heights admirably.
Here's a story about a memorable event from Loren's Poet Laureate service:
My "term" had started in April of 2006, the same month as I turned 80 years old. One of my assigments was to compose a poem for the Cleveland Heights Volunteers' recognition night at Cain Park, and to present it just prior to a performance of Kiss Me Kate in mid July. (A thrill in itself to be reading my stuff in front of over 800 people.)
As I waited in the wings for Mayor Kelly to introduce me, I noticed a man in a wheel chair next to me, also waiting to be called onto the stage. I recognized him as Victor Schreckengost, and so I introduced myself. (He was to be honored by mayor Kelly on behalf of Cleveland Heights, in celabration of his 100th birthday.) After I read my poems, as I passed him when I left the stage, he reached up, shook my hand and said with a smile, " Very nice, young man."
I guess anyone 80 years old is young to Victor. What a nice memory to carry with me from my term as your Poet Laureate.
Mary Weems is a seasoned poet, performer, and educator. She respects the value of poetry as a fundamental art form, and brought copious experience as a public speaker and a deep appreciation of the role of the poet in the community to her tenure as Poet Laureate. Heights Arts welcomed her strong presence and impressive credentials as Dr. Weems as the third Poet Laureate of Cleveland Heights
...one of the poems Mary Weems wrote during her tenure as Poet Laureate in 2007.
Gail Bellamy's wide-ranging interests and talents are on display in her detail-rich poems, which combine a poet's startling metaphors and associative leaps with a journalist's deadly accurate, and often very funny observations. "I love all kinds of writing," Bellamy says, "poetry, journalism, fiction, and memoir, but poetry has always been my first love."
Her sense of history is especially vivid when she imagines her own heritage, as in Papa's Violin:
Papa's strings spun Transylvanian horas
evoked oxen, pitchforks, thatched roofs
far away in incense fog
Bellamy is just as fascinated with the here and now, the hurly burly of popular culture. In If Advice Were a Vaccination, she considers what she might have missed if she'd heeded her mother's advice:
...I never would have become engaged and unengaged
to a heroin addict, owned a quarter horse, slammed
my hand in the car door or been lingering at the
anti-military ball when the first punch
was thrown.
Don't mess with Gail Bellamy; she knows the score. But in The Waxy White Berries of Fortune she lets us in on a secret:
... Mistletoe is a thin wire stretched across your path
providing the Uncle Lesters of this world
with an opportunity to kiss their nieces.
Like a good musician, Bellamy improvises; she is open to all experiences, all vocabularies. "I never know exactly what I'm going to do next", she says, "If I did, I probably wouldn't like writing so much"
As Executive Editor of Restaurant Hospitality magazine, Gail Bellamy writes about food and beverage and has interviewed chefs, mixologists, and restaurant owners all over the world. She has noticed that most people are very genial and charming when they are talking about food. "They open up and share interesting insights", Bellamy says. "And that's because they are talking about more than food. Food is something all people have in common; it's a very rich subject: There's food as metaphor, food as memory, food as history."
© 2012 Heights Arts | 2175 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118 | 216.371.3457 | heightsarts@heightsarts.org
Saturday, January 21
1pm - 2:30pm
ages 5 - 7
Color Explosion will introduce your child to the basics of painting: sketching, color mixing, warm and cool colors and how to create a fun expressive painting. Students will experiment with traditional and non-traditional painting techniques. If you are wondering what we mean by non-traditional, here’s a clue: Who said a comb is only for brushing your hair? Join the fun!
Registration deadline: January 18 at 5pm
Saturday, January 21
3pm - 5pm
ages 8 - 10
Throughout history painting has been used to tell a story. Does your child love to paint and have a story to tell? Students will learn how
artists use painting to communicate stories and then paint their own story.
Registration deadline: January 18 at 5pm
Saturday, January 28
1pm - 2:30pm
ages 5 - 7
Paper is not just for drawing. Whether it’s called Jianzhi, Kirigami or just paper cutting your child will discover how fun it is to make designs using paper and scissors. Students will learn how to use paper and scissors to create sculpture, collage and paper cut-outs that make a picture.
Registration deadline: January 25 at 5pm
Saturday, January 28
3pm - 5pm
ages 8 -10
Paper is not just for drawing. Whether it’s called Jianzhi, Kirigami or just paper cutting your child will discover how fun it is to make designs using paper and scissors. Students will learn how to use paper and scissors to create sculpture, collage and paper cut-outs that make a
picture.
Registration deadline: January 25 at 5pm
Saturday, February 11
1pm - 2:30pm
ages 5 - 7
Your face is made of many parts—a bit like a car. We will look in the mirror to find those shapes and then create our own “face factory” to
make really crazy collage faces.
Registration deadline: February 8 at 5pm
Saturday, February 11
3pm - 5pm
ages 8 - 10
We will transform everyday objects—old shoes, old toys, cups and saucers – by completely covering them with paint, glitter, beads, yarn, and found materials. If you have an item you want to transform please bring it! If you have items to share bring them too! This will be a messy time—wear your art clothes!
Registration deadline: February 8 at 5pm
Saturday, February 18
1pm - 2:30pm
ages 5 - 7
Discover the different techniques, materials, and processes used around the world to make print art. Experiment with traditional rubber stamps
and learn about Japanese woodblock printmaking using styrofoam.
Registration deadline: February 15 at 5pm
Saturday, February 18
3pm - 5pm
ages 8 -10
Ever wonder how a T-shirt design is made? Discover a traditional method and make a unique,one-of-a-kind T-shirt by designing your own stencil that you will use to silkscreen onto a T-shirt. Students will need to bring a solid, plain T-shirt to the workshop. It can be old or new!
Registration deadline: February 15 at 5pm
Saturday, February 25
1pm - 2:30pm
ages 5 - 7
First we will create mixed media wands out of twigs. Then we will create creatures out of wire and found materials. This will be a messy time—wear your art clothes!
Registration deadline: February 22 at 5pm
Saturday, February 25
3pm - 5pm
ages 8 - 10
Learn to manipulate aluminum using the embossing technique to create fantastic “bling” medallions. They can be shields, crests, animals, or
magic designs, suitable for witches, warlocks, knights, kings, queens, magicians or sorcerers!
Registration deadline: February 22 at 5pm
Saturday, March 10
1pm - 2:30pm
ages 5 - 7
In this class, youngsters will let off some creative steam making art with the messiest of art materials like pastels, paints and more. Wear
your art clothes!
Registration deadline: March 7
Saturday, March 17
3pm - 5pm
ages 5 - 7
Learn how to create a beautiful collage with felt, fabrics, and beads. We’ll be using brightly colored textiles and beads as our “paper” and
yarns and threads as our “glue.” Participants will learn various hand sewing and hand beading techniques to create a richly textured work of
art.
Registration deadline: March 14 at 5pm
Saturday, March 17
3pm - 5pm
ages 8 - 10
Learn how to create a beautiful collage with felt, fabrics, and beads. We’ll be using brightly colored textiles and beads as our “paper” and
yarns and threads as our “glue.” Participants will learn various hand sewing and hand beading techniques to create a richly textured work of
art.
Registration deadline: March 14 at 5pm
Saturday, March 24
11am - 3pm (1/2 hour lunch break)
ages 10 and up, fun for most ages!
Bring a brown bag lunch! Learn how to crochet in 3-D using the freeform crochet technique. Freeform crochet is an art form where we make up our design as we go along rather than following a pre-set pattern. We’ll be crocheting and dyeing nylon fishing line to create colorful resilient shapes which are perfect for building tabletop sculptures, wall art, or jewelry. Bring your own crochet hooks if you wish.
Registration deadline: March 21 at 5pm
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Wednesdays, January 18, 25 and February 1
7pm - 9pm
ages 16 - adult
In this 3-session class, you will learn riveting, sawing, drilling, a little wire work and mixed media techniques as you transform junk into
stunning jewelry. Bring an assortment of junk, for yourself and to share, that you find intriguing or beautiful such as small broken toys,
bottle caps, corks, printed metal cans, old broken jewelry, plastic cellophane, or paper wrappers and turn it into a wearable treasure. No previous experience necessary.
Registration deadline: January 16 at 5pm
Thursdays, January 19 and 26
7pm - 9pm
ages 16 - adult
In this 2-session clay class, students will learn basic hand-building techniques. Students will create a functional plate using clay and
texture tools; then transform it into a personal sculpture by creating and adding their favorite foods. Made of clay of course! Underglazes
will be used to add color and emphasize texture and design.
Fired plates available for pick up on February 9.
Registration deadline: January 16 at 5pm
Materials fee: $5
Thursdays, February 2 and February 9
7pm - 9pm
ages 16 - adult
Make your own stencil-printed floor mat! In this 2-session class, you will learn brush and stencil techniques in creating a colorful and patterned canvas cloth that will make a fabulous addition to your wall or floor. A perfect class to make a one-of-a-kind gift for friend or family.
Registration deadline: January 30 at 5pm
Materials fee: $5
Wednesdays, February 15, 22 and 29
7pm - 9pm
ages 16 - adult
This popular workshop has been expanded to a 3-session class (and offered twice!) to allow for a more in-depth exploration of three artist book forms. Learn how to make the elegant Coptic binding, accordion books with variegated pop-ups and traditional hard-cover books. Students taking both sessions (6 weeks total) will have the opportunity to finesse their book-making skills and develop more complex projects.
Registration deadline: February 13 at 5pm
Thursday, February 16
7pm - 9pm
ages 16 - adult
How do you decide how to frame something, both from the aesthetic and mechanical point of view? We’ll discuss framing options, and then you’ll learn what goes into assembling a framed piece: mats, hinging, glass, frame options, and suppliers. If you like, bring a specific piece to
discuss.
Registration deadline: February 13 at 5pm
Thursday, February 23
7pm - 9pm
ages 10 - adult
Lose yourself in the creative process, both in observing and making. Working from photographs, we will create dimensional portraits of people or animals out of wire. Feel free to bring your own head shot of a favorite person or pet – OR- choose from a selection provided by Catherine.
Registration deadline: February 20 at 5pm
Wednesdays, March 14, 21 and 28
7pm - 9pm
ages 16 - adult
This popular workshop has been expanded to a 3-session class (and offered twice!) to allow for a more indepth exploration of three artist book forms. Learn how to make the elegant Coptic binding, accordion books with variegated pop-ups and traditional hard-cover books.
Registration deadline: March 12 at 5pm
Thursdays, March 15 and 22
7pm - 9pm
ages 16 - adult
In this 2-session acrylic painting workshop, beginners and practicing artists alike will be guided through the process of painting a portrait from a live model.
Please bring: acrylic paints including Titanium white, Cadmium yellow medium, Cadmium red medium, Ultramarine violet, Ultramarine blue or Phthalo blue, Cobalt blue or Cerulean blue, Sap green, Burnt Umber, Burnt Sienna, Paynes gray;
Brushes in an array of sizes between 2 and 10, and a variety of shapes (round, flat, filbert)
Materials provided: 40”h x 32”w gessoed cardboard, or bring your own stretched and primed canvas.
Registration deadline: March 12 at 5pm
Model fee: $8
Saturday, March 24
11am - 3pm (1/2 hour lunch break)
ages 10 and up
Bring a brown bag lunch! Learn how to crochet in 3-D using the freeform crochet technique. Freeform crochet is an art form where we make up our design as we go along rather than following a pre-set pattern. We’ll be crocheting and dyeing nylon fishing line to create colorful resilient shapes which are perfect for building tabletop sculptures, wall art, or jewelry. Bring your own crochet hooks if you wish. A fun class for parents and kids to take together!
Registration deadline: March 21 at 5pm
Thursday, March 29
7pm - 9pm
ages 16 - adult
In this popular workshop, students will learn the basic techniques of creating glass and clay tile mosaic designs. We will be using recycled
stained glass and clay tile pieces, along with wood and glue to create our designs, and then we will finish our project using grout. If you
have your own glass cutter, bring it along.
Registration deadline: March 26 at 5pm
Materials fee: $5
Thursday, February 23
7pm - 9pm
ages 10 - adult
Lose yourself in the creative process, both in observing and making. Working from photographs, we will create dimensional portraits of people or animals out of wire. Feel free to bring your own head shot of a favorite person or pet – OR- choose from a selection provided by Catherine.
Registration deadline: February 20 at 5pm
Saturday, March 24
11am - 3pm (1/2 hour lunch break)
ages 10 and up, fun for most ages!
Bring a brown bag lunch! Learn how to crochet in 3-D using the freeform crochet technique. Freeform crochet is an art form where we make up our design as we go along rather than following a pre-set pattern. We’ll be crocheting and dyeing nylon fishing line to create colorful resilient shapes which are perfect for building tabletop sculptures, wall art, or jewelry. Bring your own crochet hooks if you wish.
Registration deadline: March 21 at 5pm
© 2012 Heights Arts | 2175 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118 | 216.371.3457 | heightsarts@heightsarts.org
Heights Arts Gallery, 2175 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights, OH
January 13-February 25
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 10-5
Thursday, Friday 10-9:30 pm
Saturday 1:30-9:30
Closed Sundays
or by appointment: 216-371.3457
© 2012 Heights Arts | 2175 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118 | 216.371.3457 | heightsarts@heightsarts.org
GALLERY:
SECOND LIFE
January 13-February 25, 2012
GALLERY HOURS
January 13-February 25
Heights Arts is a nonprofit community arts organization in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Founded in 2000, Heights Arts cultivates a strong, diverse, and collaborative arts community by inspiring people of all ages to engage in the arts; supporting the arts through education; providing exhibition and performance opportunities; and fostering public appreciation for the arts.
The community’s proximity to University Circle, home to cultural destinations in Cleveland which include the Cleveland Museum of Art and Severance Hall, has created a place rich with artists, performers, art educators, administrators and others who make their livelihood in the performing or visual arts.
We contribute to the region’s artistic vitality by showing regional artists at Heights Arts Gallery, facilitating public art and design projects, presenting chamber music and other concerts in intimate settings, nominating and supporting the Cleveland Heights Poet Laureate, and having classes and workshops in the arts. As a multidisciplinary arts organization, we tap into the potential of our creative residents to enrich community life.
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Your tax-deductible membership donation directly supports our efforts to enrich community life through the arts. Members receive discounted admission to events and class tuition.
Please contact us at 216.371.3457 to inquire about business sponsorship opportunities.
Membership:
Individual $50
Couple/Family $75
Patron $100
Art Angel $250+
Heights Arts is governed by a Board of Trustees who may serve 2 consecutive 3-year terms.
The current Board is comprised of:
Anna Raske, President
Partner, Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff
Lyman Millard, Vice President
Director of Development and Communications, Citizens' Academy
Willie Maddox, Treasurer
VP Compliance Manager, KeyBank
Bunny Breslin, Secretary
Writer, poet, retired public school French teacher
Greg Donley, Founding Board Member
Assistant Director / Creative Services, Cleveland Museum of Art
Jim Engelmann
Exhibition Designer, Cleveland Museum of Art
Paul Ferguson
Director of Jazz Studies, Case Western Reserve University
Sharon Grossman
Artist
David Mayo
Partner, Benesch Attorneys at Law
Ben Nichols
Senior Program Director, Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.
Jung Oh
Voice Teacher, Cleveland Institute of Music
Steve Presser, Founding Board Member
Owner, Big Fun
Alan Rapoport
Attorney at Law
Matthew Russo
Web Communications Manager
Isabel Trautwein
First Violinist, The Cleveland Orchestra
Becky Voldrich
Marketing and Communications Manager, University Circle, Inc.
Michael Weil
Art historian, photographer, adjunct faculty Cleveland Institute of Art
Staff
Peggy Spaeth, Executive Director
Andrea Joki, Program Director
Jane Flaherty, Administrative Assistant
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