Heights Arts Poet Laureate Siaara Freeman, along with guest poets Barbara Minney, Caira Lee, and Conor Bracken, recite poetry inspired by the current exhibitions at Heights Art’s gallery. Enjoy original works reflecting the themes of Emerged and Frank Hadzima in the Spotlight…
Ross Karre (he/him b. 1983 in Michigan) is a percussionist, filmmaker, and producer based in Oberlin, OH and New York City. He is the associate professor of percussion at Oberlin Conservatory. After completing his Doctorate in Music at UCSD with Steven Schick,…
Barbara Marie Minney, a native of West Virginia and a seventh generation Appalachian, is a Christian transgender woman, award winning poet, speaker, teaching artist, guest reader/editor, and quiet activist. Her poetry and essays have been widely published and translated into Spanish. Barbara…
Historically oil paint has been a tool for documenting important dead people. I’m doing the same thing with a contemporary twist. As a painter in the age of the internet, I spend an insane amount of time looking at pictures online.…
The mission of Heights Arts is especially well represented by its biennial Emergent exhibition. In five editions starting in 2015, the Emergent show has featured exactly 50 artists for whom this exhibition was their first opportunity to reach a broad audience. Some…
January 16, 2026 to March 15, 2026 Josh Chefitz (b. 1977) is a multimedia artist based in Cleveland, Ohio, who also works as the Director of Student Care at Ruffing Montessori School. In the fall of 2023, Chefitz found himself in…
January 16, 2026 to March 15, 2026 Heights Arts is excited to have guest curator Gina Washington for this exhibition. Fire consumes. Fire cleanses. Fire transforms. It is destruction and renewal, warmth and warning, a flickering ember, and an unstoppable blaze. It…
