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Author Heights Arts

2013 Holiday Store

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Heights Arts is celebrating its 12th annual Holiday Store featuring the works of over seventy regional artists through December 29 – the perfect place to find the perfect gift!  What began as a small pop-up gallery in a borrowed space on Lee…

Close Encounters Concert: Trio TaPASi – In Twos and Threes

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Sunday, June 1, 2014 at 3pm Franz Schubert wrote one of his greatest masterpieces for an Arpeggione: a strange guitar-cello hybrid. Had he known how beautiful it would sound on a cello, he would surely have changed his mind. Johannes Brahms expressed…

Founding Director Peggy Spaeth is awarded Cleveland Arts Prize

Heights Arts is very proud of recently retired founding director Peggy Spaeth for being recognized as a recipient of a 2013 Cleveland Arts Prize – Martha Joseph Award.  This award acknowledges exceptional commitment, vision and leadership that has made a significant contribution…

Pool Poem, Park Poem

My thanks to the staff and students of LakeErieInk for tweeting me inspirations for the following poems on our June topic of Parks and Recreation. Kathleen Cumberland Pool The blue glass of the pool, lane lines wavering below; one deep breath– and…

All Ohio Ceramic Invitational

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Curated by University Hospitals curator Tom Huck, this special exhibition features artists whose works display contrasts in scale, clay bodies, firing ranges, glazing techniques, and execution. The exhibit will feature a representation of sculptural works, vessel inspired pieces, and functional works. Primarily…

Heights Youth Club Mosaic Project

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Heights Youth Club Mosaic Project resulted in a 90 square foot glass mosaic mural installed on the exterior of the club’s building in the Cedar Lee business district.  This partnership was made possible through an Ohio Arts Council Artist in Residence Grant…

The View From Now

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Cleveland-area artists Linda Butler, Jennie Jones, and Judith McMillan 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…

Play Me, I’m Yours

Heights Arts participates in Play Me, I’m Yours, an international street piano project made possible locally 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,…

On the Streets Where We Live

Some of us get our best and most restorative exercise cycling or walking the beautiful streets of our city.   Here’s a poem inspired by tweets from a current and a former Cleveland Heights resident and about what one can observe on…

First June Poetweet Post

First June Poetweet Post, thanks to an amazingly beautiful and more amazingly talented actress in our midst. June’s topic is Parks and Recreation. There are many kinds  of recreation.   For those of us who work all day, sometimes just a drink…