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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…

Die-Hard Haiku

It’s cold in Cleveland Heights during the month of January after one of the first significant snowfalls of the season. Businesses are shutting down again due to a surging COVID variant and your pillow seems to stare at you with puppy dog…

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…

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT – JESSE RHINEHART

Jesse has painted both indoor and out door murals in restaurants, private homes, and public locations through out greater Cleveland. Rhinehart’s public commissions include three 10’x10’ oil paintings in the Club Lounge at Progressive Field and interior murals in the former Special Exhibition Dining Room and Education Classroom at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Area highlights are his murals commissioned by Heights Arts at both ends of the Cedar Fairmont Center building in Cleveland Heights.

RUST

January 14–March 13, 2022 VIRTUAL Opening Friday, January 14 The Rust Belt refers to an area of states near the Great Lakes that grew to prominence in the late 1800s as the country’s “industrial heartland” but which has experienced a decrease of…

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…