Blog Archives

Blog Archives

Barbara Verne

  I am attorney and teacher by vocation. Printmaking and painting are my avocation. With art, nothing is predictable. There are happy and not so happy outcomes! We found our first rescued dog, Mack, in our yard one night. Mack became my…

Renee Sentilles

Renée Sentilles is a self-trained artist who paints and grows flowers in Cleveland Heights. She calls her paintings “edited art” because she begins with a mess of color and then searches for flowers, painting out the negative spaces and adding to the…

Marcus Schafer

I’ve been builder and a designer since I was young. And after earning a Master’s in Architecture at Kent State University, I worked professionally in the field of architecture until I discovered what could be created with lasers. Even designing simple pieces…

Claire Marks

Claire Marks is an Akron-based artist whose practice focuses mainly on paper marbling and collage. Over the past ten years, Marks has used her paper to make books, jewelry, magnets, and more. She has taught marbling workshops for many of Akron’s local…

Nicole Carroll

Nicole Carroll is originally from Mentor, Ohio and currently based in Cleveland, Ohio. She received a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in Painting and an emphasis in Printmaking at the Cleveland Institute of Art in the Spring of 2023. She currently works…

Patricia Zinsmeister Parker

As a 12 year old, growing up in Cleveland, I was granted a 4 year scholarship to The Cleveland Institute of Art on a ”Gifted Children’s Program. It was the start of a lifetime of creating art, studying art and teaching art.…

Sue Kirchner

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I was attracted to Encaustic not only because it is an ancient media, one of the first used by artists wishing to preserve their work for another day. But this medium, created with layers upon layers of pigmented wax, each one fused…

Bob Sferra

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I am a sturdy advocate of all things Cleveland Heights; I have lived with my husband in CH for nearly 30 years. My career in foodservice and hospitality started 36 years ago as a chef’s apprentice, in a small, local, French restaurant.…

Lisa Goldman

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Lisa Goldman served the Beachwood City Schools for 24 years as orchestra director (founder), as the district Fine Arts Subject Coordinator for 13 years and most recently, Fine Arts Resource Specialist. Lisa is currently a supervisor for music education students at Baldwin…