Christine Howey is a performance poet, theater critic, playwright, actor and director. Her one person play, Exact Change, was an official selection of both the New York International Fringe Festival (as a play) and the Chagrin Documentary Film Festival (as a film).…
Thursday, February 15, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. Three guest poets will join Heights Poet Laureate Siaara Freeman to perform original works inspired by the exhibitions on view in our gallery space—Prismatic and Amelia C. Joynes. Artists also discuss their work.
December 1 at 6:00p.m. Join Heights Poet Laureate Siaara Freeman, Calil Cage, Jeremy Jusek, and Michelle R. Smith as they respond to Valley Art Center’s 52nd Annual Juried Art Exhibition. Location: Valley Art Center, 155 Bell St, Chagrin Falls, OH 44022
If you are a poet in Northeast Ohio, we welcome your application to perform in the Heights Arts EKPHRASTACY Series. About Ekphrastacy The Ekphrastacy literary program is a series of artist talks + poetry readings held regularly in the Heights…
Thursday September 21, 7:00 p.m. Amy Hughes, Sujata Lakhe, and Vince Robinson will join Heights Poet Laureate Siaara Freeman for one of Heights Arts’ most popular programs. Ekphrastacy brings poets together to perform original works inspired by the exhibitions on view in…
July 20th at 7pm Each exhibition at Heights Arts inspires local poets and CHUH Poet Laureate Siarra Freeman to write and perform original works at Ekphrastacy. This is one of our most popular events because it offers rare insight and powerful…
Saturday, June 24th from 2pm-4pm Cleveland Public Library – Main Branch Heights Arts is pleased to celebrate the maginificent work of our most recent exiting Cleveland Heights Poet Laureate. His current project, A Poem for Cleveland showcases a “mosaic” of Cleveland –…
April 20th at 7pm The artists of All Access and Spotlight artist, Charles Schweigert have inspired some of the area’s best poets to respond with a live performance on April 20th at Heights Arts! The original poems written just for this show…
HEIGHTS ARTS APPOINTS 11TH HEIGHTS POET LAUREATE Heights Arts proudly presents the Heights’ eleventh Poet Laureate —Siaara Freeman. She began her two-year term in April 2023, joining a long line of celebrated laureates, the most recent of whom was 2022 Academy of…
Michael Loderstedt is a Professor Emeritus of Kent State University where he also served as Interim Director of the School of Art. He continues to explore new studio and writing projects that investigate the geography, histories or natural phenomena of particular sites and…