PLAY ME I'M YOURS CLE LAUNCH

Cedar Lee mini park

Thursday, July 18, 2013
7-8:30 pm

Heights Arts in Cleveland Heights will participate in the Play Me, I’m Yours street piano project made possible by a collaboration between the Cleveland International Piano Competition and Case Western Reserve University (CWRU).

Over 20 pianos will be placed at a variety of cultural institutions in Cleveland, the majority in the University Circle area.

Prior to being hired as executive director of Heights Arts, Rachel Bernstein heard about this project and immediately identified it as perfect for the organization, with its rich history of bringing multi-disciplinary art projects to the community.

“This project embodies Heights Arts’ mission and vision perfectly,” Bernstein said. “It unites the visual arts with the musical arts into an appealing piece of public art that invites everyone to participate. Even the story of how we got the piano (by posting a request on a neighborhood list serve and enlisting board members to move it on a rainy day) reflects the collaborative, enthusiastic and creative nature of our unique organization and community.”

 
The piano, currently being painted by artist Andrea Joki and Heights Arts staff, is named Close Encounters after Heights Arts’ popular chamber music series.

The piano will make its debut in the mini park outside of the Heights Arts Gallery on July 18 between 7 and 8:30 p.m. The Play Me, I’m Yours Cleveland kickoff party to launch this musical experience will be at 11a.m. on Thursday, July 18 at Toby’s Plaza at CWRU Uptown.

GALLERY HOURS

Heights Arts Gallery, 2175 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights, OH

Open
Mon, Tues, Wed 10-5
Thurs, Fri 10-9:30
Sat 1:30-9:30

Check the Gallery Calendar  for hours and programs.

or by appointment:  216.371.3457

LATEST POEM

from the Poet Laureate Poetweet Project
Tweet to inspire Kathleen Cerveny @#htspoetweet!

This month's theme:
 

Soon June begins the next topic for tweets - Parks and Recreation.  Tweet me your thoughts, insights, experiences about how you re-create yourself out of doors in the Heights in the early days of summer.

(More at http://heightswritesblog.blogspot.com/)

Unexpected

Pierced by the grape-shot ice

of a late May hailstorm—

fury after unsuspecting calm—

the hostas’ green and chartreuse hearts

lay open, like stigmata-ed palms. 

 

The sudden shift in temperature

should have been the clue

that all the shadowed days ahead

would open onto emptiness

as the door closed, soft, behind you.

ON VIEW

Heights Arts Gallery, 2175 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights, OH

through July 6
6-9 pm

 

Anatomica features artists who express themselves using organic forms, both human and otherwise

Stephanie Craig
Michelle Marie Murphy
Mariana Ortega

Russ Revock

Dante Rodriguez

 

 

OPENING RECEPTION

Heights Arts Gallery, 2175 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights, OH

Friday, July 12, 2013
6-9 pm

The View from Now:  New Photographs by Linda Butler, Jennie Jones, Judith McMillan

Cleveland-area artists Linda Butler, Jennie Jones, and Judith MacMillan have all been exploring the photographic medium for decades, with subjects ranging from intimate botanical studies to Cleveland architectural landmarks to China’s Yangtze River valley as it was flooded in an enormous hydroelectric project. Each artist has earned a place of honor in the arts community with her own distinctive vision and superb craft, and each has numerous works in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

The new exhibition "The View from Now: New Photographs by Linda Butler, Jennie Jones, and Judith MacMillan," opening Friday, July 12 at Heights Arts Gallery, 2175 Lee Road in Cleveland Heights, presents a unique opportunity to see brand-new work by three of Cleveland’s most venerable photographic artists. The Heights Arts show is the first to feature these three together in a show built around their current projects, which focus on Cleveland-area subjects ranging from hatchling birds on a windowsill to the grand expanse of Lake Erie. While all three have often previously worked in black-and-white, the photographs show here are all in color. The View from Now continues a commitment by Heights Arts to organize fine exhibitions of photography for the broad yet discerning audience that visits the gallery near the Cedar-Lee Theater.