Blog Archives

Blog Archives

Jake Kelly

Jake Kelly is a Cleveland-based artist. Over the last 25 years he has created around 1,500 posters and fliers for various local clubs and internationally touring bands. He is also a muralist and has painted dozens of murals around the eastern United…

Ceré Bellow

Ceré Bellow is a Columbus-based multimedia artist and educator whose work sits at the vital intersection of tactile exploration, environmental stewardship, and personal healing. Born in 1988 on a military base in San Diego, California, Bellow relocated to Columbus in 1997, eventually…

Marissa Nicole Stewart is photographic based artist residing in the Midwest. Her practice is based on ideas involving Black families, matriarchallineage, race, oral history, aging and health. The root of these ideas take shape through traditional and experimental storytelling practices. She received…

Andrew Reach

Andrew Reach is a Cleveland based multidisciplinary artist working in the realm of digital media. His experience spans decades bringing him to this stage of his artistic development. For 21 years he was an architect,practicing in New York, Los Angeles and Miami…

Regina E. Dorfmeyer

Regina E. Dorfmeyer is a visually impaired, self-taught finger painter whose work is shaped by resilience, touch, and lived experience. Born highly myopic, Regina completely lost sight in her right eye in 1988. As her vision continued to deteriorate, she made the…

Nate Puppets

Nate Puppets was raised on a diet of fine art and absolute trash. A sculptor, puppeteer and general surreal cartoonist, Nate Puppets has spent the better half of 20 years working to develop a whole new world that has never been seen…

Mary Defer

Mary Defer (she/her) is a Lakewood, Ohio-based artist primarily working with analog photography. Her work centersaround the unreliable nature of memory, the natural world, and the unearthing of family history. Raised on a familyfarm, she discovered a love of photography her first…

Leigh Brooklyn

Leigh Brooklyn earned her degree in Biomedical Illustration from the Cleveland Institute of Art and worked with several hospitals, museums, and research facilities. In 2011 she began moving throughout the US pursuing street photography, switching her focus back to figurative art and…

Rita Betts

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A self-taught photographer with a sharp eye for detail and storytelling, Rita Betts transforms everyday moments into compelling visual narratives.  Driven by curiosity and creativity, Rita has has honed her gift through hands-on experience, experimentation, and a deep passion for capturing authentic…

Josh Chefitz

Josh Chefitz (b. 1977) is a multimedia artist based in Cleveland, Ohio, who also works as the Director of Student Care at Ruffing Montessori School. In the fall of 2023, Chefitz found himself in the art room during a Children’s House art…