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		<title>PRESS RELEASE: Heights Poet Laureate, Michelle R. Smith, Launches Community Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 2026 Contact: Arleigh Savage – programs@heightsarts.org &#160; Heights Poet Laureate, Michelle R. Smith, Launches Community Project: The Brave New Voices Poetry Showcase Cleveland Heights, OH — Heights Poet Laureate Michelle R. Smith announces the launch of her community&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>PRESS RELEASE: Heights Arts Presents Ungallery and Spotlight: Jeneen Hobby</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[MEDIA RELEASE For immediate release February 2026 Contact: Arleigh Savage &#8211; programs@heightsarts.org Vast Antarctic Ocean Views and Nontraditional Mediums in Heights Arts&#8217; Upcoming Exhibitions Cleveland Heights, OH — On March 20, 2026, Heights Arts opens a dynamic new pairing of exhibitions: Ungallery&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>PRESS RELEASE: Heights Arts Presents first exhibitions of 2026, Consider Fires and Spotlight: Josh Chefitz</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[MEDIA RELEASE For immediate release January 2026 Contact: Arleigh Savage &#8211; programs@heightsarts.org Heights Arts presents Consider Fires and Spotlight: Josh Chefitz, two new exhibitions exploring transformation, memory, and healing Cleveland Heights, OH — Heights Arts launches its first paired exhibitions of 2026&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>PRESS RELEASE: Heights Arts Announces New Public Art in Cleveland Heights in 2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Heights Arts engages LAND Studio to assist in developing public art projects in Cleveland Heights]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>PRESS RELEASE: Heights Arts Announces its 2025-2026 Music Season</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 17:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Gallery Concert, ARTBar, No Exit, and Close Encounters]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Heights Arts Announces Michelle R. Smith as the New Heights Poet Laureate</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 17:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Heights Arts Announces Michelle R. Smith as the New Heights Poet Laureate CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, OH – Heights Arts is excited to announce Michelle R. Smith as the 12th Heights Poet Laureate. Smith, a poet and literary advocate, was selected&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Heights Arts Seeks Applications for 12th Heights Poet Laureate</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heights Arts Staff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2024 14:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 21, 2024 Jeanne Li &#124; marketing@heightsarts.org Heights Arts Seeks Applications for 12th Heights Poet Laureate  Cleveland Heights, OH – Heights Arts, a multidisciplinary arts organization in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, is excited to announce the selection process for the&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Request for Interest &#8211; Public Art Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2024 16:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Heights Arts, a nonprofit community arts organization based in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, is seeking expressions of interest in providing administrative services, including overall project management, for three neighborhood public art projects in the Noble, Coventry, and Taylor Road neighborhoods of Cleveland Heights.&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>PRESS RELEASE: Heights Arts Presents 3rd Annual HEART in the Heights</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2024 13:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 5, 2024 Heights Arts Presents a local business raffle to support Heights Arts July 1 – July 31, 2024 CLICK HERE to download Press Release Cleveland Heights, OH: This July, local art and community commerce will converge for&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Press Release: Heights Arts Advocates for the Future of Coventry PEACE Campus amid Lease Uncertainty</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2024 15:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 2024 Lydia Mandell marketing@heightsarts.org &#160; Heights Arts Advocates for the Future of Coventry PEACE Campus amid Lease Uncertainty Nonprofit arts organizations face potential displacement, threatening the creative vitality of the Heights area.   Cleveland Heights, OH: Heights Arts&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>PRESS RELEASE: Heights Arts Announces its 2025 Music Season</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2024 15:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 2024 Jeanne Li marketing@heightsarts.org &#160; Heights Arts Announces its 2024-2025 Music Season Heights Arts’ 2024-2025 music season presents a diverse array of offerings for every musical taste in a variety of local settings, from the intimate Close Encounters&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>PRESS RELEASE: Heights Arts Announces its 2024 Music Season</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heights Arts Staff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2023 23:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 2023 Cameron Gorman programs@heightsarts.org &#160; Heights Arts Announces its 2024 Music Season   From the uncommon intimacy of the Close Encounters series to the community-focused programming of free Gallery Concerts, Heights Arts’ 2024 music season is more&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Press Release: Local Artists Featured in Heights Arts’ 2023 Holiday Store</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2023 17:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 2023 Cameron Gorman, programs@heightsarts.org  &#160; Local Artists Featured in Heights Arts’ 2023 Holiday Store   Shoppers can give back when they buy gifts through the Heights Arts Holiday Store. The Holiday Store, now in its 22nd year, offers&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Call to Action &#8211; Heights Arts Responds to Ordinance 123-2023 (AS)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2023 15:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; To Our Heights Arts Supporters, On Monday, August 7, 2023, the Mayor Seren introduced an emergency Ordinance requesting the creation of a Cleveland Heights Arts Commission. While we are encouraged by the City’s new interest in elevating the arts in Cleveland&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Heights Arts Appoints Eleventh Poet Laureate</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heights Arts Staff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2023 14:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Heights Arts Presents heART in the Heights</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heights Arts]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2022 03:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 24, 2022 Heights Arts Presents a local business raffle to support Heights Arts July 1 – July 31, 2022 Please direct all media inquiries to Rachel at  heartintheheights@heightsarts.org Cleveland Heights, OH: HEART in the Heights is a local&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>ARTIST SPOTLIGHT &#8211; JESSE RHINEHART</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heights Arts Staff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2022 21:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>RUST</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heights Arts Staff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2022 18:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Heights Arts Member Ads in Heights Observer for Cheap!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2021 19:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you have a Working Artist Membership with Heights Arts, you already know that it comes with great benefits on items in our store and even at other local galleries offering programs, classes and more! New this year, we&#8217;re partnering with the&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Join our upcoming Haiku Hikes with Poet-Laureate Ray McNiece</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heights Arts Staff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2021 17:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Join Cleveland Heights Poet Laureate Ray McNiece on a seasonal morning ginkgo (haiku walk), learning and creating poetry according to centuries-old traditions. These customs cultivate a seasonal awareness that improves one’s powers of poetic and natural observation. Hikes will begin with a&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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