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Urban Landscapes
David Buttram, paintings
David Bergholz, photographs
Opening Reception Friday, July 20, 6 to 9 p.m.
Through August 18
Heights Arts Studio
2340 Lee Road
(at the library on the west side of the bridge)
216.371.3457 office
heightsarts@heightsarts.org
Tuesday-Saturday 1-5 p.m.
Closed Sunday-Monday
Or by appointment
David
Buttram's cooly luminous oil paintings depict working-class Cleveland
neightborhoods, while David Bergholz's textural and witty photographs
constitute a unique portrait of Carnegie Avenue. Both are presented in
support of Person Place and Thing,
a six-month exploration at the Heights Arts Studio of how the
connection between a person and a place inspires the creation of art
objects.
David Buttram
of University Heights has recently returned to the studio after a ten
year break. After being a machinist for 17 years at General
Electric, Buttram went back to school and received his Bachelor of Fine
Arts at the Cleveland Institute of Art. In 1996 he received a
Masters of Arts in Fine Arts at Kent State University. Buttram has
taught art at the Cleveland Municipal School District since 1991.
Buttram
has twice received an Ohio Arts Council Fellowship for visual arts. He
has exhibited in a number of invitational shows. His work has been
commissioned by Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital and The Society
Bank and is part of the Governor's residence art collection.
David Bergholz
of Shaker Heights is a fine arts photographer perhaps more well-known
as the exective director of the George Gund Foundation from 1989 to
2003. He has had exhibits of his images and conceptual work at
SPACES, Heights Arts, Murray Hill Galleries LLC, the Cleveland
Botanical Garden, Firelands Association for the Visual Arts in Oberlin, and the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh. His work is represented by Bonfoey Gallery.
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Call for entries
Enter a Portrait for
Portrait Project: Heights Businesses
an exhibit at Heights Arts Studio presenting portraits of individuals and groups who work at Cleveland Heights businesses or organizations submitted by YOU.
Reception Friday, September 7, 6 to 9 p.m.
presented by Heights Arts and FutureHeights
Anyone can submit a portrait in any media.
Framing and matting are optional.
Entries will be exhibited at the discretion of the organizations.
Deadline for submissions is Saturday, August 18
Entry form: contact heightsarts@heightsarts.org or 216.371.3457
Entries may be dropped off at Heights Arts Studio
Tuesday through Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m.
Workshops!
Come spend an air conditioned evening making cool art!
Ages 8+ welcome.
Heights
Arts is presenting workshops by local artists to help you with your
portrait. Bring a snapshot or sketch, or use one of ours for
inspiration.
$10 per workshop includes materials. (Financial aid available)
REGISTRATION REQUIRED:
heightsarts@heightsarts.org or 216.371.3457
Tuesday evenings from 6:15 pm to 8:45 pm at Heights Arts Studio.
July 24 Monoprint portraits. Artist: Jeanne Regan
Create
a merchant masterpiece and explore making many marvelous monoprints! No
drawing experience required! Using water-based color, you can paint -
even trace - a portrait that will create an impressive image when it is transferred to paper.
July 31 Make a caricature. Artist: Reed Simon
Learn
the art of caricature through a hands on studio workshop that combines
the power of observation with the design concepts of line and shape.
You don't have to be a cartoonist or fine renderer to take this class. Beginners welcome.
August 7 Paint a portrait. Artist: Anna Arnold 
Anna
Arnold will inspire participants to create vividly colorful textured
expressive portraits using a variety of fun materials including paint,
feathers, glitter, beads. Anna begins the workshop by showing slides of
her vibrant work and various artists and cultures to inspire students.
August 14 Wild wire portraits.
Artist: Catherine Butler
Using
wire for lines we will create 3 dimensional portraits to hang on a
wall. If you have your own needle nose pliers or wire cutters
please bring them with you. No previous experience is necessary
to have fun creating these portraits.
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Portfolio Plus
prints, sketches,illustrations by 2007 Heights High graduate Ari Warner
Heights Library lobby
2345 Lee Road
August 1-15
Reception Thursday, August 2 and Friday, August 3, 5-9 in the Levey Room
Ari
Warner will be attending Pratt Institute of Art and Design in New York
majoring in Communication Design. He is the recipient of the Heights
Teachers' Union Arts Prize and was a finalist in the Ohio
Governor's competition in Columbus. Also a talented violinist,
Ari was one of three
senior soloists with the Heights High Symphony during the 2006-07
season and studied at The Cleveland Institute of Music. Ari is
the son of Cleveland Orchestra musicians Carolyn and Stephen Warner.
information: clevelandduo@sbcglobal.net
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Harry Potter Festival at Coventry
 Friday, July 20
6 p.m. to midnight
Full schedule of events, including movie at Coventry PEACE park
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Patti Family Music Fund
Benefit Concert
July 21 at 2:30 pm
McGregor Home
an
intergenerational line-up of musicians performs big band and chamber
music in a concert to honor Vince Patti, and to benefit future
generations of musicians!
Admission is free but donations to the Patti Family Scholarship Fund at Reaching Heights
are encouraged. The fund provides 5th-8th grade music students in the
Cleveland Heights-University Heights School District scholarships for
private music lessons.
The
concert will feature students who received music lesson scholarships
this year, and performances by the TOPS Swing Band led by Dick Wooley
including big band sax player Brian Patti, and chamber music performed
by Bruce Patti of the Dallas Symphony and local professionals Chris
Hill, Diane Mather, Marcia Ferrito and Sarah Ross. Evie Rosen-Morris
and Doug Patti will be the masters of ceremonies. It will be a
wonderful afternoon of music for a wonderful cause - young musicians!
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Peter Kuper returns
Peter Kuper Book-signing
Stop Forgetting to Remember:
The Autobiography of Walter Kurtz (Crown, 2007)
Mac's Backs ~ Books on Coventry,
1820 Coventry Road
Tuesday, July 31 at 7 p.m. Free and open to the public.
Artist Peter Kuper's illustrated autobiography, Stop Forgetting to Remember cleverly merges the reality of his life with that of his fictional alter-ego Walter Kurtz.
The book covers the years 1995-2005 when Kuper becomes a father for the
first time and deals with issues of parenting, politics and 9/11.
Heights Arts showed Kuper's work in January, 2005.
He is a Heights High graduate whose parents still live in the
Heights. He has spent most of his adult life in New York City
before a recent move to Mexico. He has been in the vanguard of
graphic novel publishing, an early practitioner of the medium and
founder and regular contributor to World War III, the semi-annual influential illustrated political anthology first published in 1979.
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Recently released Heights writers
 Unexpected Grace: Stories of Faith, Science, and Altruism
by Bill Kramer
216.371.3576
janbill@nowonline.net
 At the Five-and-Dime, Lavallette, New Jersey
a chapbook of poems by Jim Garrett
"Like waves on the New Jersey beach, these poems cast up the seashells of one bright, lovely revelation after another." - George Bilgere
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