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April Visual Artist of the Month – Pat Isenstadt

What started as a hobby turned into a passion. My handmade line of greeting cards is called Precious Greetings. I use stamps, dies, various inks, and I use wet and dry embossing techniques to make my cards. I also have a second…

April Musical Artist of the Month – Neina K.

Nina is a classical pianist and native Clevelander. Having begun studying piano at the age of four, Nina double majored in English and Piano Performance at Cleveland State University. Nina has taught piano and music theory to countless students over many years.…

Heights Arts Appoints Eleventh Poet Laureate

HEIGHTS ARTS APPOINTS 11TH HEIGHTS POET LAUREATE Heights Arts proudly presents the Heights’ eleventh Poet Laureate —Siaara Freeman. She began her two-year term in April 2023, joining a long line of celebrated laureates, the most recent of whom was 2022 Academy of…

Call for Artists – Collaborage

This fall and into next year, Heights Arts will participate in a city-wide exploration of Surrealism in partnership with the No Exit New Music Ensemble and other collaborators. The celebration will begin with Collaborage, an exhibition opening in late August for which…

Inspired Art Fundraiser for America SCORES

Inspired Art is a fundraiser for America SCORES in collaboration with artists and young poet-athletes. The artists generously create and donate original works that are inspired by poems written by the youth enrolled in America SCORES’ programming. Through the in-person event attendees…

FREE TICKETS to CLOSE ENCOUNTERS

Board President, Bill Stigelman, is generously sponsoring two complimentary tickets per concert to eight lucky winners who have never before attended a Heights Arts’ Close Encounters performance. The winners will experience what keeps our loyal audience members coming back –  the opportunity…

Open Rehearsal at Heights Arts

March 22 at 6pm Join us at Heights Arts for this free event in preparation for Concert 2 in the 16th season of Close Encounters. This world-class string quartet featuring Steven Tavani, Yun-Ting Lee, William Bender and Dane Johansen of the Cleveland…

Literary Artist of the Month – March: Michael Loderstedt

Michael Loderstedt is a Professor Emeritus of Kent State University where he also served as Interim Director of the School of Art. He continues to explore new studio and writing projects that investigate the geography, histories or natural phenomena of particular sites and…

Visual Artist of the Month – March: Marianne Hite

Marianne Hite, a native of Akron Ohio, was born in 1962. She started as an enamelist on metal but upon seeing a cover of a magazine with Dominick Labino’s glasswork she searched for a place she could study glass as well as…