Heights Arts blog

Heights Arts blog

Carolyn Merklein

ABOUT THE ARTIST In portraiture, Carolyn’s goal is to bring the viewer to feel an empathy for the subject – to see the image comprised of paint on canvas as a “living” being. She believes the quality of empathy is more important…

Kristen Cliffel

ABOUT THE ARTIST Kristen Cliffel is a 2015 recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, and 2013 Creative Workforce Fellow through the Community Partnership for Arts and culture. She graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art with a BFA in…

Lindsey Bryan

ABOUT THE ARTIST Lindsey Bryan is a recent graduate from the Cleveland Institute of Art with a BFA in Illustration and a concentration in Creative Writing. She currently works for American Greetings, writes and illustrates her own children’s books, and freelances on…

Maggy Brown

ABOUT THE ARTIST Maggy Brown studied art direction and film at the prestigious Los Angeles Art Center College of Design. After a whirlwind career in film and fashion in Paris, France and Milan, Italy she returned to the States to continue her…

Auction to benefit Public Art

Wednesday, October 26, 2016 Cleveland’s “Naked Trump” Sculpture Auction at Gray’s to Bring More Public Art to Cleveland Heights Gray’s Auctioneers of Cleveland announces its October 26 live and online auction, featuring the naked Donald Trump sculpture entitled “The Emperor Has No…

No Exit Community Concert

Saturday, October 8, 2016 at 8:00 p.m. No Exit will be ringing in their 2016-17 concert season by returning to Heights Arts to present an evening of sonic landscapes dripping with color. The concert will feature pieces by Per Nørgård, Jefferson Friedman,…

Ekphrastacy: Artists Talk + Poets Respond

Thursday, September 29 at 7 pm Join us for a gallery talk on the exhibition, Herbert Ascherman Jr.: 40 Years. Hear Herbert speak about his life in photography outside his very successful portraiture career, as well as hear from invited Cleveland poets…

Heights Music Hop @Heights Art

Saturday, September 24, 2016 from 5:30 to 10:00 p.m. Join us for the fourth annual Heights Music Hop, where we celebrate the best of our local music scene, our small businesses, and our community. COMPLETE TWO-DAY MUSIC HOP SCHEDULE.   Sam Silverman performs on…

SPOTLIGHT: Sarah Kabot Opening Reception

Friday, September 16, 2016 from 6 to 9 p.m. New works by Cleveland Institute of Art faculty Sarah Kabot take over the Spotlight gallery space this fall, with a public reception on Friday, September 16 from 6 to 9 p.m. For the…

SPOTLIGHT: Jeanne Regan Opening Reception

Friday, January 27 from 6 to 9 p.m. The Heights Arts spotlight gallery space, dedicated to showing the newest art from our working artist-members, opens with an exhibition of painted stencil prints by Jeanne Regan on Friday, January 27, 6-9 p.m. Using…