Heights Arts blog

Heights Arts blog

Copy of Spotlight: Josh Chefitz

01/16/26 – 03/15/26 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 the art room during a…

Spotlight: Josh Chefitz

01/16/26 – 03/15/26 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 the art room during a…

Heights Youth Club Mosaic Project

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…

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,…

Our Kids On Lee

Featuring the Heights Youth Club Mosaic Mural, paintings by Augusto Bordelois, and art work selected from the art classes of Lee Road public schools – Fairfax Elementary, Boulevard Elementary, and Heights High School. The Heights Youth Club Mosaic Mural is a project…

Fencepiration

Heights Arts enlisted professional artists Debbie Apple-Presser and Carol Hummel as well as dozens of community volunteers in creating Fencepiration, a whimsical temporary art piece that covered approximately 400 running feet of a utilitarian construction fence surrounding the razed landscape of a…

Knitscape

Knitscape is a temporary community public art project under the creative oversight of Heights Arts artist-in-residence Carol Hummel.  The project creates a visual line of color and pattern in the Cedar Lee and Larchmere business districts (cities of Cleveland Heights and Cleveland)…

Heights Center Building Mural East

Jesse Rhinehart, artist 2008–Surrey Road at Cedar, Cleveland Heights, OH Painted to complement the Heights Center Building Mural West, Jesse Rhinehart derived the composition of the mural from a photo in the Cleveland Public Library archives and painted it in his studio.

Coventry Signage

Raymond Bugelski, artist 2007—Coventry + Lancashire Rds, Coventry + Hampshire Rds, Cleveland Heights, OH The Coventry Village Special Improvement District commissioned artist Raymond Bugelski to design unique signage to brand the Coventry Village business district. The signage references the 1960s, when the…