at Heights Arts, 2173 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights Master Artist/Master Printmaker Portfolio
Organized by the Experimental Printmaking Institute at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.

Opens Saturday, October 9
5 to 9 pm
HeightsArts
2173 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights
216-371-3344

Through November 7
Gallery Hours:
Wed-Sat noon to 10 pm
Sunday 1 to 5

The Master Artist/Master Printmaker Portfolio includes fifteen works in a variety of printing techniques, including etching, lithography, serigraphy, and woodcut. Eight artists worked in partnership with master printmakers, who created their own prints as well.

The Experimental Printmaking Institute (EPI) at Lafayette College provides a creative environment in which professional artists and students can create work and investigate new and experimental approaches to the print medium.

The limited edition fine art prints in the Master Artist/Master Printmaker Portfolio were printed under the leadership of Cleveland Institute of Art alumnus Curlee Raven Holton, the founding director of EPI, a Master Printmaker, and an associate professor of art at Lafayette College, where he has taught African American art history and printmaking since 1991.

Curlee Raven Holton is a printmaker, educator and lecturer who has received his B.F.A. from the Cleveland Institute of Fine Arts in Drawing and Printmaking and his M.F.A. with honors from Kent State University. Holton was been given numerous awards and grants for his artwork and research. His work has been shown at the Whitney Museum in New York, the Seventh International Biennale in Cairo, Egypt, the Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio, Bridgeport Museum of Art and Science, Gallery 494 in New York, Bolivar Gallery in Kingston, Jamaica, as well as numerous universities such as Kent State, Villanova, Penn State, and Lehigh. Holton's work is in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, the National Conference of Christians and Jews, the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, the West Virginia Governor's mansion, the Kaiser Corporation, Villanova University, Morehouse College, and the Foundation of Culture Rodolfo Morales in Oaxaca, Mexico. Since 1991 he has taught Printmaking and African American Art History at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.

Pictured: Untitled by Sam Gilliam
Relief woodcut and collage on felt
22"x15"

Deadline October 15 All art and craft media are eligible. Each ornament must be an original design and the work of the artist and must be equipped to hang. Each submission must be between 3-5 inches in any one dimension and not weigh more than 8 ounces.

For information, please contact The Office of the First Lady at 614/995-2000 or First Lady's website

First Lady Hope Taft announced her 2004 Treasures for the Tree ornament competition for artists across Ohio. The project was created by Mrs. Taft to showcase the works of current Ohio artists and craftspeople by decorating the Governor's Residence official holiday tree with a maximum of 50 juried ornaments.

"This is one of my favorite projects of the year as it highlights the tremendous artistic talent that lies within the state," said Mrs. Taft. "Every season the ornaments get more creative and more beautiful so I am really excited to see what submissions we get this year."

Five organizations have been chosen to accept the entries. They include:

Southeast-The Dairy Barn Southeast Ohio Cultural Arts Center, Athens (740) 592-4981
Southwest-Fitton Center for Creative Arts, Hamilton (513) 863-8873
Central-Ohio Designer Craftsman, Columbus (614) 486-4402
Northeast-Art House, Cleveland (216) 398- 8556
Northwest-Arts Council of Lake Erie - West (419) 531-2046

Each center will choose one overall top prize from its region and will present a $200 prize at a December reception at the Governor's Residence. The five grand prizewinners will be announced at the reception with the prize money coming from an Ohio Arts Council grant.

Lisa Fernandez
Program Coordinator
Art House Inc.
3119 Denison Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44109
(216) 398-8556
(216) 398-8335 fax
lisa@arthouseinc.org
Office Hours - M-TH and Saturday mornings

One of HeightsArts core commitments is to connect the community with its artistic residents in order to benefit both. Susan Gallagher's 2004 artistic residency with Boulevard Elementary School in Cleveland Heights is a gratifying accomplishment of that goal.

When Susie Kaeser of the Boulevard Elementary Site Team asked HeightsArts to recommend an artist to work with elementary school students for an outdoor reading garden, we were currently showcasing ceramics by Heights artist Susan Gallagher in the gallery. In conversation with Gallagher, we found out that she was an Ohio Arts Council artist-in-residence since 1998, traveling all over the state to work with different communities. Yet she had never worked with students in her own neighborhood ! We connected her with the project, and the result is a stunning example of an artist who can incorporate children's participation with an artistic product.

This is the third of three new public art projects installed in Cleveland Heights this summer !!!!! Be sure to visit Jesse Rhinehart's mural on the Heights Center Building at Cedar and Fairmount, and you'll notice six more fences have been installed on Coventry Road by Brinsley Tyrrell.