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Heart in the Heights LIVE Raffle Drawing and Entertainment Event

August 7th at 7:00pm Heights Arts will celebrate the culmination of its Heart in the Heights campaign with a live-streamed raffle drawing from Heights Arts. This FREE event will feature a cash bar, light bites, poetry, music, and artist talks from various…

Ways to Engage

Heights Arts invests in the arts community and asks that participants invest back by joining as members. You can help extend the reach of Heights Arts’ efforts to bring the arts to your community by doing any or all of the following:…

Bill Newby

Bill Newby was born and raised in Cleveland Heights, a teacher and administrator at Shaker Heights High School, and an academic advisor and lecturer at Cleveland State University. He wrote his first short story, “Private Eyeballs – the Detective,” in Mrs. Hahn’s…

July 2022 Visual Artist of the Month – Amelia Joynes

Amelia C. Joynes -Transparent Enamels on Copper  “I am intrigued by the nature of how light ripples through water, or flows through windows, and how I can translate that into new images in glass and metal.  I have explored many media to…

July 2022 Musical Artist of the Month – Henry Samuels

Henry Samuels is a double bass player and music teacher living in Cleveland, Ohio. He has performed across the US, China, Europe, and Japan with orchestra including the Akron Symphony, The Cleveland Orchestra, the Sapporo Symphony, the Mansfield Symphony, and the Bluewater Chamber Orchestra.  Henry…

Heart in the Heights

Throughout the month of July. Winners to be announced on August 7 at 7pm   Together we grow! Heights local businesses are proud supporters of Heights Arts. Thanks to their generosity, every raffle ticket you purchase helps our creative community flourish and…

Heights Arts Presents heART in the Heights

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 24, 2022 Heights Arts Presents a local business raffle to support Heights Arts July 1 – July 31, 2022 Please direct all media inquiries to Rachel at  heartintheheights@heightsarts.org Cleveland Heights, OH: HEART in the Heights is a local…

Ekphrastacy : Artists Talk and Poets Respond to Members Show 2022

July 21, 2022   Poet Laureate Ray McNiece with local poets Suzanne Ondrus, Michelle Smith and Bill Newby (Heights Arts’ July 2022 literary Artist of the Month) will respond to the work of artist and non-artist members alike in an exhibition that…

SPOTLIGHT : WAYNE NIEMI

June 17th – August 14th ARTIST STATEMENT When beginning a new work, I am not interested in color, form or anything else. I am interested in expressing basic human emotions – fear, sorrow, doom, happiness, and so on. The materials I use…

Heights Arts Members Show 2022

A Member Show to Remember  June 17th – August 14th Heights Arts takes pride, not only in the arts programs they offer, but in the exceptional community comprised of their volunteers, staff, board, patrons and members. During Members Show, opening on June…