FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 2026 Contact: Arleigh Savage – programs@heightsarts.org Heights Poet Laureate, Michelle R. Smith, Launches Community Project: The Brave New Voices Poetry Showcase Cleveland Heights, OH — Heights Poet Laureate Michelle R. Smith announces the launch of her community…
Kathleen Cerveny is an artist, poet, grantmaker, and dedicated arts advocate whose work has had a lasting impact on the cultural life of Northeast Ohio. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art (BFA, Ceramics) and the University of Southern Maine (MFA,…
March 20 – May 17, 2026 In the Spotlight Gallery, photographer Jeneen Hobby presents a collection of works from her travels to both polar regions: Antarctica and Greenland. “I wanted to witness the ice. The ice appeared to me in books and dreams and visual…
March 20 – May 17, 2026 Not your typical gallery show—Ungallery presents work that defies the expected. Featuring art that’s experimental, unconventional, and unapologetically bold, the exhibition celebrates creativity in forms often overlooked by traditional spaces. Participating artists include Leigh Brooklyn,…
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…
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,…
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…
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 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)…
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.
