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Press Release: Local Artists Featured in Heights Arts’ 2023 Holiday Store

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 2023 Cameron Gorman, programs@heightsarts.org    Local Artists Featured in Heights Arts’ 2023 Holiday Store   Shoppers can give back when they buy gifts through the Heights Arts Holiday Store. The Holiday Store, now in its 22nd year, offers…

Spotlight: Josh Chefitz

January 16 –  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 the art…

Consider Fires

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…

PRISMATIC

January 12-March 10, 2024   Heights Arts presents regular group exhibitions curated by our Exhibition Community Team from submissions local artists make through our web-site. PRISMATIC is a collection of five artists, each working with a different but complementary medium, united by…

Irrational Objects

March 15 – May 12, 2024 Irrational Objects: Backwards Into the Future takes its inspiration from the many fantastical and utterly illogical objects created by the Dadaists and Surrealists in the opening decades of the 20th century. The concept behind the exhibition…

Rolling Open Call for Poets

  If you are a poet in Northeast Ohio, we welcome your application to perform in the Heights Arts EKPHRASTACY Series.   About Ekphrastacy The Ekphrastacy literary program is a series of artist talks + poetry readings held regularly in the Heights…

Where to Park

NOTICE: For your convenience, there is a loading zone in front of Heights Arts if needed. 24-hour free parking is available on Lee Road, and a free parking garage is behind Heights Arts. A free parking lot is also off Cedar Road,…

Heights Arts 22nd Annual Holiday Store

November 3 – December 30, 2023 Give back when you buy gifts this Holiday season! The Heights Arts Holiday Store offers art and craft gifts from over a hundred local artists, with something for everyone – and every kind of celebration. Each…

October Musical Artist of the Month – Larry Smiley

Larry Smiley was born in Cleveland in 1951. He lived in the Harvard Lee area. In 1962 his family moved to Independence. He studied art at high school and eventually in college at Tri C metro campus. He also took guitar lessons…

October Literary Artist of the Month – Milenko Budimir

Milenko (Miles) Budimir is from Cleveland, Ohio, entering the world at St. Alexis Hospital on Broadway Avenue, just up the hill from the steel mills, a few months after the EPA came into existence. He spent his childhood in the soot-covered streets…