Heights Arts has two exhibit locations:
- Heights Arts Gallery is located at 2173 Lee
Road, Cleveland Heights, Ohio (phone: 216-371-3457)(just south of Cedar Road a few doors
down from the Cedar Lee Theatre)
Heights Arts Gallery Hours:- Thursday through Saturday 1.30 pm to 9.30 pm
- or by appointment
- Heights Arts Studio, is located 2340 Lee Rd, in the west wing of the public library. (phone: 216-371-3344) Heights Arts Studio hours: Open during classes.
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The gallery description and exhibition information here.
Artist and curator application forms can be found here.
For useful information about parking near Heights Arts see our parking map.
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Opening reception Friday, January 16, 6:00–9:00
While it can be said that most artists live in a fantasyland, for Matt Cavotta this is a statement that can be taken literally. Matt has been working as a fantasy illustrator for 13 years. Books, magazines, role-playing games, video games, card games and collectibles that appeal to dragon-loving dreamers, would-be wizards, and escapists of all ages—this is where you will find Matt’s artwork.
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The ongoing Textile Benefit Project continues with TAA’s 2009 Members Exhibit, Textile Art Inspirations.
TAA members have had the opportunity to choose a modern or historical textile from the CMA Education Collection. These textiles, used whole or fragmented, will be incorporated into works of textile art or will provide the spark of inspiration for an entirely new piece. Some of the proceeds from the sale of the works on exhibit will benefit TAA and the CMA Education Department.February 27, 2009 – Opening Reception 6-9 p.m.
Thursday March 12 6-8pm
Saturday March 14 10am - noon
Drop Spindle demo with Cat Lee
Quilting demo with Martha Young
in the Heights Main library. FREE.Saturday March 21 10am-noon
Drop Spindle Workshop with Cat Lee
..more info and registration...Saturday March 28 9:30am-4:30pm
Abracadabra! Turn a Vest into a Handbag with Kathy Levy
..more info and registration...Sunday March 29 2-4:30pm
Fabric and Stitched Postcards with Judy Kessler Smith
..more info and registration...Saturday April 4 9:30am-12:30pm
Paint a Silk Scarf with Susan Skove
..more info and registration...
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A sale of antique prints from Vixseboxse Art Gallery to benefit Heights Arts
Prints by Nast and Homer from Harper’s Weekly, botanicals, engravings, etchings, chromolithographs, mezzotints, Appleton, Cadart, civil war, maps, and more
Heights Arts Members only preview Friday, March 6, 5-9 pm
Opening Saturday, March 7 through Saturday, April 18, 2009
Gallery Hours: Wed - Sat 1:30pm - 9:30pmEngravings, etchings, color lithographs, mezzotints, Nast and Homer wood block engravings from Harper’s Weekly, and more. Subjects include botanicals, birds, civil war, hunting, lawyers, maps, Appleton, Cadart and more.
Founded in 1922 by a Dutch painter, Cleveland's own Vixseboxse Art Gallery has been moving art into people's homes and offices for three generations. Recently they closed their gallery on Cedar Road in Cleveland Heights to become private dealers and donated hundreds of prints to Heights Arts to support our mission to imagine and inspire.
All proceeds from the sale of prints will benefit Heights Arts. We are extremely grateful to Vixseboxse Art Gallery for the opportunity to offer these prints to our community. The collection assembled over three generations provides a rare opportunity to see and buy prints not offered elsewhere, and a fascinating glimpse into times and places that chronicle political, social, and scientific history and art.
Friday, March 6, 6-9 pm Members Only Preview*
Dr. Jane Glaubinger, Cleveland Museum of Art Curator of Prints, will be on hand to answer questions about the prints. Click here for membership information.
*Members of Heights Arts or Cleveland Cinema Marquee ClubSunday, March 15, at 2 p.m. Gallery Talk
Prints: The Multiple as Original
Dr. Jane Glaubinger, Cleveland Museum of Art Curator of Prints Reservations suggested as seating is limited: 216.371.3457 or heightsarts@heightsarts.org
Free will donation at door
About the prints
The prints donated to Heights Arts by Vixseboxse Art Gallery cover a wide expanse of time, geography, subject matter and media. Today prints are valued for their artistic value. But many of them were originally mass media, such as the Winslow Homer wood engravings from Harper's Weekly, one of the first illustrated newspapers. Illustrated newspapers were a new media during the civil war, bringing the war home in much the same way as television did for the Vietnam War. And the illustrations were enabled by an advance in technology: engravings on hard wood were able to be set with metal type and printed in the 10's of thousands of copies. Artists were more often than not skilled craftsmen assigned to record something. Some, like Winslow Homer, honed their drawing skills on assignments and later evolved into artists of the more modern definition who express their personal vision through art. Artists were also sent on expeditions to document foreign flora and fauna, resulting in botanical illustrations valued today for their graceful lines and beautiful color. Engravers copied famous paintings so that people could own a copy. Today we treasure the engravings over the paintings, some of which have vanished. Some types of prints, such as mezzotints and aquatints, endeavored to look like watercolors. And some techniques were quickly supplanted by others in rapidly evolving print technology.
All proceeds from the sale of prints will benefit Heights Arts. We are extremely grateful to Vixseboxse Art Gallery for the opportunity to offer these prints to our community. The collection assembled over three generations provides a rare opportunity to see and buy prints not offered elsewhere, and a fascinating glimpse into times and places that chronicle both history and art.
About Vixseboxse Art Gallery
In 1904 at the age of 24 William Vixseboxse, a Dutch painter, came to Cleveland. Like many painters he found a job using his talents in an adjacent field, interior design. He designed murals, lamps, and other customized art for the design firm of Webber-Lind & Hall. In 1922 he opened a gallery at Euclid and East 65th Street in the Vickers Building both to satisfy his need for income and his passion for dealing in Chinese porcelain and early European drawings and paintings. In 1935 Vixseboxse took over the space of the George Gage Gallery, an important dealer of American impressionists, futher expanding his inventory and clientele at the Howe Mansion, 2258 Euclid.
William's son Bernard, born in 1906, attended Oberlin College with plans to become a musician. His education was interrupted when he returned to help the family with the gallery which became his livelihood. However, his jazz group of Oberlin musicians, Vixse's Clevelanders, performed throughout the area on weekends.
Bernard and his sister Jeannette, who graduated from Flora Stone Mather, continued the family business as their father aged. The gallery had a full-time conservator and full-time framer. Bernard married Dorothy, also an Oberlin musician, and their two daughters were brought up with a passion for art, music, and nature. Ellen Vixseboxse Kloppman, who carried the gallery into the third generation, remembers visiting the print department at the Cleveland Museum of Art where her father would cover up the label and ask her to identify the print media. Learning about art was as natural for Ellen as learning the alphabet.
Eventually, although not as a matter of course, Ellen became involved in the gallery. Her mother, a teacher, encouraged her to be a teacher or a nurse to support herself in a more stable profession than the business of art. But after working in education after college, she gravitated back to the gallery to assist her father and aunt. And in 1979 the gallery moved to the Cedar Fairmount business district in Cleveland Heights.
Ellen's husband Grant Kloppman too left his profession as a lawyer to work in the Gallery. During this time the Kloppmans expended their commitment to the American art market including early Cleveland artists. Living and working in Cleveland Heights was a perfect match for them. The gallery not only served those in the neighborhood, some of whom were third generation customers of the third generation gallery, but also worked with galleries and collectors around the world.
The Kloppmans closed the gallery storefront at the end of 2008 to become private dealers. When asked how this gallery continued for three generations in the same family, Ellen said that art was the family's passion. She remembers conversations about whether to repair the roof or buy a painting, and art usually won. Her grandfather and father taught her to look, and see. Her father Bernard believed that everyone had a right to have great art, and sold inexpensive reproductions as well as fine originals. Besides the passion for art, family members had a passion for the business of art. They expanded their inventory with changing times, worked with other galleries cooperatively, bought what they loved, were careful in pricing, and had cherished relationships with their clientele.
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Opening reception Saturday, April 18, 2-5 pm
Studio Hours:
Monday 10am-6pm
Tuesday 3-9pm
Wednesday 10am-6pm
Thursday 10am-6pm
Friday closed
Saturday 2-4pm
Sunday 1-5pmSome may find it hard to imagine that 16 years ago the public schools in arty Cleveland Heights had only one art teacher at one of eight elementary schools. But during a perennial public school budget crisis, the arts had been cut from the district budget and each elementary school became a magnet for a specialty such as language, communications, or art. Only one school, Roxboro Elementary, was the arty one with an art teacher.
Parents at a Canterbury Elementary PTA meeting decided to make art their cause, and in one year had worked through the issues that stood in the way of reinstating art at their school. And a year later, each of the elementary schools had an art teacher.
Heights Arts has been celebrating the work done in the classes of the certified art teachers in the public schools for the past 8 years with an annual exhibition of more than 300 pieces from all of the district’s schools. For the first several years the work was shown at Cleveland Heights City Hall. In 2007 the show moved to Heights Arts Studio, the former YMCA purchased and renovated by the Heights Library.
There is art by children from kindergarten through 12th grade grouped by school. Some of the work will be displayed in the Library lobby on the east side of the street, and some in Heights Arts Studio on the west side.
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Migiwa Orimo, painting
Jeanne Regan, silkscreen
Yumiko Goto, ceramic sculptureOpening reception Friday, April 24, 6-9pm
For more information about the artists and their work read the gallery catalogue.
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photography by artists who use available or staged lighting to explore light and time: Coriana Close, Christine Lebeck, Barry Underwood
For more information about the artists and their work read the gallery catalogue.
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photography by 12 Plain Dealer photojournalists:
Tracy Boulian
Gus Chan
Chuck Crow
Lisa DeJong
Marvin Fong
Joshua Gunter
Lynn Ischay
John Kuntz
Thomas Ondrey
Scott Shaw
Lonnie Timmons III
Peggy TurbettSpecial thanks to Plain Dealer Director of Photography Bill Gugliotta
For more information about the artists and their work read the gallery catalogue.
Experience night life on Lee Road, Friday, June 12 with two Heights Arts photography shows opening!
Enjoy scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Cleveland Shakespeare on the street as you walk between opening receptions. Bring your own camera to join us exploring light on the street and in the Cedar-Lee mini-park after sunset.
Sign up for Shadow Fixers at Heights Arts Studio, a 7 week photography class Tuesday evenings 6:30-8:45 pm, June 16-July 28, with Helen Liggett and Greg Donley. This workshop will focus on using photography as an expressive tool. Your project will be exhibited at Heights Arts Studio in August with a reception. Intergenerational participation is encouraged. Bring your own camera.
Registration ($110/$99 for Heights Arts members): 216.371.3457 or register@heightsarts.org or mail in the registration form.
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