Sarah Sampsell Sweet Dish & Darling is a small, handcrafted candle business based out of our home studio in the Detroit Shoreway neighborhood of Cleveland. I started making candles as a way to express myself creatively in a medium I was unfamiliar…
Artist of Month
Heights Arts Staff
December 3, 2019
Stephanie Miller-Davis Stephanie Miller-Davis pursues her passion for clay both as studio artist and as teacher. She enjoyed a long career as an art educator for the East Cleveland City schools, retiring in 2007. Throughout her teaching years, she sought…
Heights Arts Staff
October 31, 2019
Andrew Valdez Andrew Aaron Valdez (he/him/his) is an actor, director, playwright, poet and educator. He is a C.A.R.E. Teaching Artist at Cleveland Playhouse, Steering Committee Member of the Latinx Theatre Commons, a 2019-2020 Americans for the Arts & Culture Leaders of Color…
Heights Arts Staff
October 31, 2019
Susan Skove Susan Skove has been painting on silk since 1991. Working from her studios in Cleveland and Oberlin, Ohio, her Skov Silk line of painted by hand, one of a kind scarves are carried by museum stores and galleries throughout the…
Heights Arts Staff
September 30, 2019
Cindy Washabaugh Cindy Washabaugh is a poet, community artist and organizational consultant whose passion is supporting others in their growth and self-development. She designs and facilitates outreach programs for diverse populations and has taught creative writing and writing for healing at Cleveland…
Heights Arts Staff
September 30, 2019
Joy Ex Joy Ex, simply defined as joyful expressions, is a 25 year-old new aged neo-soul/ hip hop artist. My music is inspired by great artist such as Etta James, Lauryn Hill, Nina Simone, and today’s Jhene Aiko. Her work is inspired…
Heights Arts Staff
September 30, 2019
Yumiko Goto Yumiko Goto is a native born Japanese ceramicist and art educator. Currently she is teaching at Cuyahoga Community College. Her nature inspired sculptures ware exhibited in Erie Art Museum in PA, Zainesville Museum of Art in OH, Ohr-OKeefe Museum in…
Heights Arts Staff
August 26, 2019
Mary Turzillo’s poetry collection, Lovers & Killers, won the 2013 Elgin Award. Her 1999 Nebula winner,”Mars Is No Place for Children,” is read on the International Space Station. She has been on the British SF Association, Pushcart, Stoker, Dwarf Stars, and Rhysling…
Heights Arts Staff
August 26, 2019
Mark Sudduth Mark J. Sudduth is a 1983 Graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art. He majored in Glass with a minor in Drawing. Mark has been operating a private studio since 1983. His work consists of hand blown and sculptural glass.…
Heights Arts Staff
August 26, 2019
Sophie Benn Sophie Benn enjoys a multifaceted career as a musicologist, cellist, and educator. She has been hailed for her “brilliant technical prowess” (ClevelandClassical.com), and in 2019 was named one of moCa Cleveland’s New Agents, a group of 52 “experimenters, catalysts, and…