Heights Arts blog

Heights Arts blog

SPOTLIGHT: Gregory Johnson

Friday August 18 – October 15, 2023 Gregory Alan Johnson was born in 1954 and grew up in Brook Park, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. He began doodling as a child, a practice that his father encouraged by bringing unused forms home…

Gallery Concert: David Bays

August 31, 7:00 p.m. David Bays is a folk-rock singer/songwriter originally from Cleveland Heights. He has recently been putting together his backing band, the Achy Joints, for live shows. He’s been playing and writing music for as long as he can remember…

HEART in the Heights Live Drawing

August 20, 7:00 p.m.   July may be over, but HEART in the Heights beats on! Throughout the month of August, Heights Arts will announce the winners of each of our raffle packages via social media and on our website. The excitement…

Collaborage

Friday August 18 – October 15, 2023 In celebration of surrealism, Heights Arts partners with No Exit New Music Ensemble to bring together groups of artists to create collaborative works that embrace chance and the inexplicable. Inspired by games and thought exercises the Surrealists…

Enriching Cultural Lives – The Amalfi Coast & Tuscany

The Heights Arts mission is 1) to foster and promote the work of local visual, musical, and poetic artists and 2) to integrate their work into the life fabric of the wider community. We show and sell artworks by regional artists, present…

Open Call for 2023 Holiday Store Artists

A curated show of works by more than 100 artists and artisans, the Holiday Store fills the entire Heights Arts gallery on Lee Road with fine art prints, paintings, and photographs; functional art in ceramics, glass, wood, and fiber; plus jewelry, clothing,…

Press Release: HEART in the Heights 2023

Cameron Gorman heartintheheights@heightsarts.org 216-371-3457 x102 2023 Heart in the Heights Press Release FOR  IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 28, 2023 Heights Arts Presents a local business raffle to support Heights Arts July 1 – July 31, 2023 Cleveland Heights, OH: This July, local art…

July Musical Artist of the Month – TKO

The Tischler Klezmer Orchestra (TKO) is a Northeast Ohio community band open to musicians who want to discover and perform the traditional music that (mainly) Eastern European Jews brought to America. Founded as the Workman’s Circle Klezmer Orchestra more than 20 years…

July Literary Artist of the Month – Elijah Blumov

Elijah Perseus Blumov is a poet and playwright with an MFA in Poetry from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. He is the creator and host of the poetry analysis podcast Versecraft, produced in partnership with the Ohio Poetry Association.

July Visual Artist of the Month – Joan Neubecker

I hold a B.F.A from The Cleveland Institute of Art from 1985. I worked at The Cleveland Museum of Art in the Conservation Department as a Conservation Photographer and Technician for the Photo Collection. I recently showed at the Cleveland Print Room…