March 22
4:15 pm-5:45 pm
a weekly forum at CASE

Peter B. Lewis Building, Room 201, CASE, University Circle
Free

The discussion will delve into the value of creating neighborhood-based arts districts or arts-saturated environments to help reinforce and strengthen the triple-bottom line integral to economic development.

Moderator:
Jim Harris, H/L Communications, Marketing & Communications

Presenters:
Dean Gladden, Managing Director, The Cleveland Playhouse, on what they are doing to establish the Playhouse as a performing arts center via collaborative partnerships with other arts organizations and links to Fairfax and Hough.

James Levin, CPT founder and head of Gor don Square Arts District, and his plans to create an arts district at Gordon Square.

Peggy Spaeth, director of HeightsArts, and Richard Wong, Planning Director of the City of Cleveland Heights, and how the arts are infused in city life (Cain Park, for example).

Parking: Campus Center Garage, entrance adjacent to the rear of the Severance Hall located at Euclid Ave. and East Boulevard. $1.00/per 30 minutes. Metered parking may be available on the street.

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April 1
6pm to 9pm
Artefino Art Gallery and Cafe
Tower Press Building, 1900 Superior Avenue, Cleveland

Presented by Sankofa Fine Art Plus in Collaboration with He ctor Vega

Celebrate the unique artistry of 18 diverse female artists from Greater Cleveland. Enjoy an evening of delicious food, cool beverages, and soothing sounds of saxophonist, JT Lynch. Bid on original artwork and other items during a silent auction and much more.

Admission is $5 for Sankofa members and $10 for non- members
Proceeds will support Sankofa's programming
Information: 216.791.2437

April 1
6 to 9 p.m.
Art House SEAN (Self-Employed Artists' Network) Members Show
Opening reception
through April 30

Fine Arts Association
38660 Mentor Avenue, Willoughby
Information: Lisa Fernandez 216.398.8556 or lisa@arthouseinc.org

April 6
7:30 to 9:00 pm

The Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center
Heights Medical Building at Cedar-Fairmount
2460 Fairmount Boulevard, Suite 312, Cleveland Heights

Free
Parking is available behind the building and in nearby public lots.

Why do people collect? What is their motivation? Do these activities represent other deeper issues or are they simply pleasurable activities to enjoy? Robert H. Jackson will discuss the views of a psychiatrist, a well-known writer, a scholar and his own thoughts about the byways of this unruly passion. With wide-ranging interests, Bob and his wife Donna are well-known collectors of rare books, tribal art and other art objects. They also travel extensively collecting experiences. A prolific writer, Bob lectures on literature and collecting throughout the country and gives talks with his wife on these areas.

Registration: Betsey Kamm (216) 229-5959 x 11 or betseykamm@sbcglobal.net

April 9
7-9 p.m.

Grog Shop
2785 Coventry Road, Cleveland Heights

Admission: $15 at the door or make check payable to CVSID, 2533 Euclid Heights Boulevard, Cleveland Heights, OH 44106-2709.

A fundraiser benefiting the Coventry Village Special Improvement District Street Fairs

With a special tribute to sculptor Brinsley Tyrrell

Information: Myra Orenstein 216.932.3322 or coventryroad@earthlink.net

Will Bowen

by Joseph O'Sickey Garden Still Life is donated to HeightsArts in support of the arts in community by Joseph O'Sickey and Vixseboxse Art Galleries in honor of his friendship with Helen Cullinan, whose collection is currently exhibited at HeightsArts gallery.

A chance to win Garden Still Life , valued at $6000, is available with each $50 donation to HeightsArts from March 19 until July 17, when the winner of the painting will be announced at HeightsArts benefit at Lopez. (You need not be present to win.) Contributions to HeightsArts, a nonprofit community arts organization, are tax deductible, and can be sent to: HeightsArts, 2163 Lee Road #104, Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44118

Or you may call 216.371.3344 to charge by phone

The painting is on view at HeightsArts, 2173 Lee Road (between Parnell's and the Cedar Lee Theatre) :
Sundays 1-5
Wednesdays through Saturdays noon to 10 p.m.

Joseph O'Sickey, born in Detroit in 1918, has been an artist his whole life. Like many other artists who grew up in Cleveland, as a child he attended Saturday classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cleveland Institute of Art, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1940. As an undergraduate, he studied with Henry Keller, Paul Travis, Frank Wilcox, William Eastman, Carl Gaertner, Rolf Stoll, Kenneth Bates, and Victor Schreckengost. Afterwards he served in the U.S. Army in Africa, India, and Burma. He and his artist wife, Algesa, married in 1947 and have literally colored the arts in Cleveland and beyond ever since. The O'Sickeys currently live in Kent, Ohio, where Joe taught at the university from 1964 until his retirement.

O'Sickey won the Cleveland Arts Prize in 1974, and his work is in the permanent collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Canton Art Institute, Butler Institute, Roy Lichtenstein Collection, Leonard Baskin Collection, German Seligmann Collection, and many more.

O'Sickeys oil paintings are lush, vibrantly hued landscapes and still lifes characterized by brushstrokes that make no pretense to be invisible. Rather, the colorful abstract marks cling together to create recognizable objects. O'Sickey paints endless variations of his and Algesa's garden and studio, and the same objects and vistas appear again and again in different configurations or painted in a different light, a different season, or even a different state of mind.