Artist of Month

Artist of Month

APRIL 2022 LITERARY ARTIST OF THE MONTH – DIANE VOGEL FERRI

Diane Vogel Ferri spent her career as a teacher of special needs children. Now she is a volunteer tutor, poet, and writer living in Solon, Ohio. Her latest novel is No Life But This: A Novel of Emily Warren Roebling. Her essays…

APRIL 2022 VISUAL ARTIST OF THE MONTH – JEFFREY BALAZS

Jeffrey Balazs is multi-talented craftsman, professional graphic designer and collaborator. As a young student, he explored the relationship between form and function and has incorporated that principle in every piece he creates. His background was filled with projects spanning industrial design, wood…

February Artist of the Month – Visual: Lori Pastor

  Creating is my passion! If I am not painting, I am creating jewelry. I originally started as an oil painter several decades ago and enthusiastically merged into painting on the back of glass with acrylic paints inspired by my trip to…

February Artist of the Month – Music: Obediya Jones – Darrell

“In February I am debuting my new Opera Fairy in the Lake in Cleveland’s Short. Sweet. Film Festival. I composed the music (performed by the Prague Orchestra), and it includes dance choreography and animation. In March my Play with music, Speak Easy, will be performed in…

January Artist of the Month – Music: Blue Streak Ensemble

  The Blue Streak Ensemble was founded in 2011 by award-winning composer Margaret Brouwer to bring contemporary chamber music to Ohio communities along Lake Erie. They achieved immediate success and quickly began to expand performances in and around Cleveland including recording sessions at…

March Artist of the Month – Literary: Molly Fuller

  Molly Fuller is the author of the full-length collections For Girls Forged by Lightning: Prose & Other Poems (All Nations Press) and Always a Body (Cornerstone Press, forthcoming); two chapbooks Tender the Body (Spare Change Press) and The Neighborhood Psycho Dreams…

February Artist of the Month – Literary: Robert Miltner

  Creative Writing Poetry Books  Splendor of Ignition: Five Prose Poetry Sequences.  Manuscript under review Orpheus & Echo. From Triptych: Orpheus & Echo by Robert Miltner; In Time by James McCorkle; and The Three-legged World by Peter Grandbois. Etruscan Press at Wilkes…

January Artist of the Month – Literary: Andrea Doe

Background Having roots in the South of the United States as well as Liberia and being raised in international contexts, my motley of cultural experiences are the foundation of my work. I believe poetry is a form of healing, and, through its…

January Artist of the Month – Visual: Joan Lederer

I am a physician by trade and a photographer by passion. Something about trying to capture a moment and having that moment be quintessential intrigues and challenges me. Through photography I am trying to uncover the inner truths of others and myself. Sounds…

ARTIST OF THE MONTH: VISUAL – SUSAN SKOVE

OCTOBER 2021 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…