David Bays is a singer/songwriter and actor based in Cleveland, Ohio. His music combines a striking and dramatic, rock inspired guitar flavor with deeply visceral and personal lyrics. He has been creating music and performing for as long as he can remember.…
Cameron Gorman is a writer and painter from Ohio. Cameron has been published by The Rumpus, Pithead Chapel, and more — and loves poetry, creative nonfiction, and magic.
Meet our January Musical Artists of the Month, Sails! They have gone by many names since members Luke Heberle, Dalton Brewer, and guitarist Nick Snyder, began playing together in secondary school! Sails’ approach to music has long been to prioritize shows…
Bio: Doc Janning is the 79-year-old, actively involved, Inaugural Poet Laureate of The City of South Euclid, Ohio. He has created Ekphrastic Poetry for Heights Arts and for Cleveland Photo Fest. Doc is currently pulling together an ekphrastic event he has created…
Bobby and Danielle Allen are the husband and wife duo behind The Circle Craft. They make custom jewelry, wedding bands, and small sculptures in bronze, silver, and gold. Each piece is first hand carved and then cast in solid metal. They are…
I am a recovering photojournalist, having spent 25 years in newspaper business. I worked as a photographer, picture editor and director of photography. The journey took me from working with film into the digital age. After my newspaper career I worked 15…
Shelley Chernin is an environmental activist and ukulele enthusiast who has been writing poetry on and off for most of her life. She is the author of The Vigil, published by Crisis Chronicles Press in 2012. Her poems have appeared in many…
Cathalyn Roberts, Founder of The Katy, is a Cleveland based songwriter, bassist & vocalist. The spirit of The Katy is expressed through energetic melodies and pulsing, driven tempos along with the purposeful lyrics addressing inequality, loneliness, adoration and struggle. Cathalyn’s songs have…
Melissa Hintz, a Shaker Heights resident, escaped from corporate America to become a writer, her left brain exhausted from years as a number-crunching actuary and her right brain impatient to let her imagination run wild again. Her first book, On Chagrin Boulevard;…
Local Artist Nancy Luken has spent much of her career exploring the lines between reality and imagination. Whether taking common everyday items and altering them to create a new object seen in a whole new perspective; or taking reality and incorporating whimsical…