Only 3 more shows to catch the robotic mayhem in "Heddatron"!!!
HEDDATRON
Written by Elizabeth Meriwether
Directed by Jeremy Paul
"Heddatron" is the story of a pregnant housewife who is kidnapped by robots and taken to the Amazon rainforest where she is forced to perform Henrik Ibsen's 'Hedda Gabler' over and over again. Meanwhile, her family plans a rescue attempt and back in 1890, Ibsen struggles to write a new play. Intelligent, funny and surprisingly poignant, "Heddatron" includes the only human-robot musical number on Cleveland stages this year.
April 17 - May 3, 2009
Fri, Sat @ 8pm
Sun @ 3pm*
Monday, April 20 @ 8pm
*except Sunday, April 26 @ 7pm
Pilgrim Congregational Church
Main Theater
2592 West 14th St.
Cleveland OH 44113
Tickets are only $10-$15. Call 216-539-0662 to reserve your tickets or buy them Online.
Heddatron is contains adult language and historical inaccuracies. Parental discretion is advised...
Starring
Amy Bistok Bunce - Jane Gordon
Una Hanley - Nugget Gordon
Peter Nalepa - Rick Gordon
Doug Kusak - Cubby Gordon
Stuart Hoffman - The Film Student/Aunt-Julie-bot
Allen Branstein - Henrik Ibsen
Kelly Elliott - Mrs. Ibsen
Faye Hargate - Else the Maid
Scott Skiba - August Strindberg
Michael Andrews-Hinders - Hans the robot
Sarah Kunchik - Billy-bot
Michael Regnier - The Engineer
Emily Pucell - Stindberg's Monkey
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
SPACES - SPACELAB seeking applications from regional artists
Dear Professor, Educator, Artist or Friend,
Please join SPACES in spreading our call: Applications wanted for 2009/10 SPACELab Season. This program is open to established or emerging artists, age 21 or older, living in the following Northeast Ohio counties: Ashtabula, Columbiana, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Holmes, Lake, Lorain, Mahoning, Medina, Portage, Stark, Summit, Trumbull, and Wayne. Deadlines are: May 15, 2009 (first review) and August 14, 2009 (second review) for the 2009/10 exhibition season.
SPACELab is a laboratory created to help artists push and pull a concept until it materializes. By providing resources and instruction SPACELab not only acts as a venue for the display of process and projects but plays an active role in the conceptualization of art. Participation in SPACELab has been narrowed in scope to the Northeast Ohio region in order to ensure an affordable experience to artists while creating new opportunities for artists in the region.
Accepted artists will participate in an intensive program geared toward experimenting with artistic practices and concepts that will culminate in small solo exhibitions or events during SPACES 2009/10 exhibition season. With a focus on new ideas and the creation of new work within the immediate artistic community, SPACELab cultivates progressive thought in the community at large.
Your role in the community is crucial to the future of the arts in Cleveland . We want to engage you, your colleges and your students as much as possible. Please feel free to apply and pass applications along to those you think might be interested. Please let us know if you have any questions
Best Regards,
Christopher Lynn Susan Vincent
Executive Director SPACELab Manager
clynn@spacesgallery.org Membership & Administrative Manager
216.621.2314 svincent@spacesgallery.org
Best regards,
Susan Vincent
Membership & Admin Manager
SPACELab Manager
SPACES
2220 Superior Viaduct
Cleveland, OH 44113
216.621.2314
www.spacesgallery.org
Please join SPACES in spreading our call: Applications wanted for 2009/10 SPACELab Season. This program is open to established or emerging artists, age 21 or older, living in the following Northeast Ohio counties: Ashtabula, Columbiana, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Holmes, Lake, Lorain, Mahoning, Medina, Portage, Stark, Summit, Trumbull, and Wayne. Deadlines are: May 15, 2009 (first review) and August 14, 2009 (second review) for the 2009/10 exhibition season.
SPACELab is a laboratory created to help artists push and pull a concept until it materializes. By providing resources and instruction SPACELab not only acts as a venue for the display of process and projects but plays an active role in the conceptualization of art. Participation in SPACELab has been narrowed in scope to the Northeast Ohio region in order to ensure an affordable experience to artists while creating new opportunities for artists in the region.
Accepted artists will participate in an intensive program geared toward experimenting with artistic practices and concepts that will culminate in small solo exhibitions or events during SPACES 2009/10 exhibition season. With a focus on new ideas and the creation of new work within the immediate artistic community, SPACELab cultivates progressive thought in the community at large.
Your role in the community is crucial to the future of the arts in Cleveland . We want to engage you, your colleges and your students as much as possible. Please feel free to apply and pass applications along to those you think might be interested. Please let us know if you have any questions
Best Regards,
Christopher Lynn Susan Vincent
Executive Director SPACELab Manager
clynn@spacesgallery.org Membership & Administrative Manager
216.621.2314 svincent@spacesgallery.org
Best regards,
Susan Vincent
Membership & Admin Manager
SPACELab Manager
SPACES
2220 Superior Viaduct
Cleveland, OH 44113
216.621.2314
www.spacesgallery.org
Paint and Photos: New work by Mary Platz Hughes and Arnold Tunstall
WHO: Standing Rock Cultural Arts presents
WHAT: Paint and Photos: New work by Mary Platz Hughes and Arnold Tunstall
WHERE: North Water Street Gallery, 257 N. Water St., Downtown Kent
WHEN: May 9. 8-11pm. Opening Reception-Exhibit runs through May 30
GALLERY HOURS: Thursday-Saturday, 1-5pm.
CONTACT: 330-673-4970 www.standingrock.net for updates
About the Artist MARY PLATZ HUGHESplatzhughes@sbcglobal.net Primarily a painter and printmaker, I also work with other media that each have their own unique qualities. Encaustic paint is vivid, luminous, and of rich color and texture and relief prints are organic and rough. These vehicles are only one of many components that convey my ideas graphically. When working on something abstract for instance, the ideas and concerns related to color, composition, and mood help communicate or evoke a certain response with graphic concerns. When working with more realistic imagery, it may still be abstracted or taken out of context. While the shape or subject matter is of interest, real objects may be transformed and reduced. And then there are times when it is just plain fun to play with color and design. There is no deliberate plan and I just go with whatever moves me at the time. Whether pastels, painting, printmaking, or photography technical qualities and my life are both relevant in my art.
EXHIBITIONS: Ultra Frame, custom picture frame and gallery; 2006–2008; exhibited/sold original art; Akron Ohio Art From The Heart Benefit Auction; 1996-1998, 2000, 2003, 2004 ; Grand Prize (or whatever it’s called, if it has a name) 2004; Akron, Ohio Group Show; 2002; Butler Museum; Salem, Ohio Women Artists Annual Benefit Exhibition; 1999; YMCA; Youngstown, Ohio Women's Voices Exhibit; 1997 YMCA Summit County and Artists of Rubber City, Akron, Ohio 5 and Dime; 1996 In Collaboration Akron, Ohio Group Show; 1996 Studio 425; Kent Ohio Art You Can Afford; 1996 Studio 425; Kent Ohio Press Your Hand; 1996 North Water Street Gallery; Kent Ohio Harris School Auction; 1995, 1996; Akron Ohio. Printmaker's; 1986 Kent State University, Curator and Exhibited; Kent Ohio Blossom Art Program;; 1984 - 1986 Eells Gallery 1984; Kent State University, Kent Ohio and Blossom Music Center, Akron Ohio Senior Show; 1986 Kent State University; Kent, Ohio Independant Student Exhibition; 1984, 1985 Kent State University; Kent Ohio Portage County Art Show, Best Portfolio Award 1980 Kent Roosevelt Gallery; Kent Ohio Received BFA from Kent State University in 1986Resides in Kent Ohio -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Arnie Tunstall is a photographer from Akron who has been a part of many exhibitions in the area. He’s worked for the Akron Art Museum and participated in The Summit Art Space program.
WHAT: Paint and Photos: New work by Mary Platz Hughes and Arnold Tunstall
WHERE: North Water Street Gallery, 257 N. Water St., Downtown Kent
WHEN: May 9. 8-11pm. Opening Reception-Exhibit runs through May 30
GALLERY HOURS: Thursday-Saturday, 1-5pm.
CONTACT: 330-673-4970 www.standingrock.net for updates
About the Artist MARY PLATZ HUGHESplatzhughes@sbcglobal.net Primarily a painter and printmaker, I also work with other media that each have their own unique qualities. Encaustic paint is vivid, luminous, and of rich color and texture and relief prints are organic and rough. These vehicles are only one of many components that convey my ideas graphically. When working on something abstract for instance, the ideas and concerns related to color, composition, and mood help communicate or evoke a certain response with graphic concerns. When working with more realistic imagery, it may still be abstracted or taken out of context. While the shape or subject matter is of interest, real objects may be transformed and reduced. And then there are times when it is just plain fun to play with color and design. There is no deliberate plan and I just go with whatever moves me at the time. Whether pastels, painting, printmaking, or photography technical qualities and my life are both relevant in my art.
EXHIBITIONS: Ultra Frame, custom picture frame and gallery; 2006–2008; exhibited/sold original art; Akron Ohio Art From The Heart Benefit Auction; 1996-1998, 2000, 2003, 2004 ; Grand Prize (or whatever it’s called, if it has a name) 2004; Akron, Ohio Group Show; 2002; Butler Museum; Salem, Ohio Women Artists Annual Benefit Exhibition; 1999; YMCA; Youngstown, Ohio Women's Voices Exhibit; 1997 YMCA Summit County and Artists of Rubber City, Akron, Ohio 5 and Dime; 1996 In Collaboration Akron, Ohio Group Show; 1996 Studio 425; Kent Ohio Art You Can Afford; 1996 Studio 425; Kent Ohio Press Your Hand; 1996 North Water Street Gallery; Kent Ohio Harris School Auction; 1995, 1996; Akron Ohio. Printmaker's; 1986 Kent State University, Curator and Exhibited; Kent Ohio Blossom Art Program;; 1984 - 1986 Eells Gallery 1984; Kent State University, Kent Ohio and Blossom Music Center, Akron Ohio Senior Show; 1986 Kent State University; Kent, Ohio Independant Student Exhibition; 1984, 1985 Kent State University; Kent Ohio Portage County Art Show, Best Portfolio Award 1980 Kent Roosevelt Gallery; Kent Ohio Received BFA from Kent State University in 1986Resides in Kent Ohio -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Arnie Tunstall is a photographer from Akron who has been a part of many exhibitions in the area. He’s worked for the Akron Art Museum and participated in The Summit Art Space program.
Friday, April 24, 2009
The Pop Shop Gallery/(art)ificial Gallery - Deckwreckers
The Pop Shop Gallery/(art)ificial Gallery
17020 Madison Ave.
Lakewood, OH 44107
216.227.8440
New Gallery Opens and Defines Arts District in Lakewood
The Pop Shop Gallery opens new doors and births a new child. On May 2nd 2009, the Pop Shop opens it’s second wing (once it’s studio space) to a new gallery called (Art)ificial Gallery. (Art)ificial Gallery will be a contemporary gallery geared towards national and seasoned artists, complimenting the Pop Shop which supports local and up and coming artists. This space will help define the arts in the Cleveland area, and anchor the arts district growing on the east side of Madison Ave.
(Art)ificial Gallery will present its first show entitled “DECKWRECKERS” (a group skateboard art show ) for it’s unveiling on May 2nd, 2009 from 6-9pm curated by Keith Corcoran. This show will run from May 2 - May 29, 2009.
NYC transplant and contemporary artist Keith Corcoran joins forces with (art)ificial Gallery in Lakewood, Ohio to bring you a hand-picked collection of tasty artwork slathered onto hundreds of layers of wood veneer goodness. While there is no overall subject matter theme to the show, the common thread is the use of a blank skate deck as a substrate for the artwork.
As curator of this group art show, Keith has assembled the talents of more than 20 artists from Ohio, Los Angeles and New York City. The diverse artist list for DECKWRECKERS features fine artists, children's book illustrators, graffiti artists and others who bring their own unique approach to a common wooden “canvas.”
"One of my goals in curating this show, aside from bringing together top talent, is to give the gallery visitor an immersive experience that compels them to want to see the show more then once," says Keith. To accomplish this goal Keith transforms the gallery space into an environment that not only complements the individual artwork contained within but brings the various pieces together for a complete experience.
In addition to the opening of (Art)ificial Gallery, the Pop Shop will house its 4th anniversary show simultaneously. Two shows for the price of one, for low, low price of FREE!
DECKWRECKERS and the 4th Anniversary show will kick the night off at 6pm on Saturday, May 2nd and will feature music, drinks, hors d'oeuvres and a special after-party for attendees at 9pm at Mullens on Madison (www.mullensonmadison.com).
Thursday, April 23, 2009
ArtCares - Benefit this Sunday
Initiated by the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) in 2003, ArtCares is a collaboration between the CIA, the AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland, and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). Born out of the awareness of the devastating impact the AIDS epidemic has had on the world of art, and out of a consequent awareness that artists can contribute to the fight against HIV/AIDS, ArtCares celebrates contemporary art by providing opportunities to bid on original works in a variety of media, while enjoying wine and savories at an elegant reception. All proceeds from the event benefit the AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland.
ArtCares
Sunday, April 26, 2009
AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland (3210 Euclid Ave., Cleveland)
6 – 9 p.m.
VIP reception: 5 p.m.
General admission: $50
VIP admission: $100
ArtCares
Sunday, April 26, 2009
AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland (3210 Euclid Ave., Cleveland)
6 – 9 p.m.
VIP reception: 5 p.m.
General admission: $50
VIP admission: $100
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
ART AND COCKTAILS BENEFIT SEEKING ART DONATIONS
The 2nd Annual "Art & Cocktails" Art Auction to benefit the community organizing programs of Tremont West Development Corporation will be held May 2, 2009 at Asterisk Gallery in Tremont.
Tremont West Development Corporation is requesting submissions of original art to be exhibited and auctioned to benefit this program that is so vital to the welfare of the residents of our neighborhood. Community organizers staff block clubs, help run events like the Arts and Cultural Festival and the Tremont Farmers' Market and educate residents about community programs, events and issues.
We are seeking donated work from professional artists, advanced amateurs and art students. This is a non-juried event; however, the committee reserves the right to make final selections as space allows.
Artists contributing pieces for silent auctions will have their names listed on the program and, if work is received early enough, in press releases for the event.
Please let us know by Friday, April 24, if you plan to donate artwork to the silent auction. All artwork for the silent auction is due by Wednesday, April 29. Artists are welcome to specify a minimum bid for their work.
For further information, contact Sandy Smith at slsmith819@hotmail.com or Dana Depew at rdog72@hotmail.com.
Tremont West Development Corporation is requesting submissions of original art to be exhibited and auctioned to benefit this program that is so vital to the welfare of the residents of our neighborhood. Community organizers staff block clubs, help run events like the Arts and Cultural Festival and the Tremont Farmers' Market and educate residents about community programs, events and issues.
We are seeking donated work from professional artists, advanced amateurs and art students. This is a non-juried event; however, the committee reserves the right to make final selections as space allows.
Artists contributing pieces for silent auctions will have their names listed on the program and, if work is received early enough, in press releases for the event.
Please let us know by Friday, April 24, if you plan to donate artwork to the silent auction. All artwork for the silent auction is due by Wednesday, April 29. Artists are welcome to specify a minimum bid for their work.
For further information, contact Sandy Smith at slsmith819@hotmail.com or Dana Depew at rdog72@hotmail.com.
Two events in May in the Lake Erie Screw Factory
Hello Everyone,
Two events in May in the Lake Erie Screw Factory:
First, May 2nd Rutabaga Nights, The LEAF Fundraising Party will be held from 7-midnight. This is a ticketed event. My studio will be open and I will be joined by Ruth Sholtis-Furyes and Bridget Ginley. I am also donating a piece to their auction. All of the info is at http://www.leafcommunity.org/.
The Lake Erie Screw Factory artists are opening their studios to the public on Saturday, May 9th from 4-9 pm. A variety of fine art and craft will be on display and for sale. Featuring the work of Ann Brown, Gina DeSantis, Katie Hanrahan, Hunter Harrison, Peter Jennings, Marc Konys, Allyson Meier, M.C. Nagel, Martin O’Connor, Steven Ollay, Ann Onusko, Kari Sanford, Josh Sanford, Ruth Sholtis-Furyes, Kate Tobin and Liz Trenholme.
The Lake Erie Building is located in the Bird Town area of Lakewood at 13000 Athens Ave. The building houses artist studios and local businesses. Both the second and third floors house artist studios.
Visit http://www.ginadesantisceramics.com for more info or contact Gina DeSantis at artzy_grl@yahoo.com. As always please pass this email on. I hope to see you there.
Gina DeSantis
Two events in May in the Lake Erie Screw Factory:
First, May 2nd Rutabaga Nights, The LEAF Fundraising Party will be held from 7-midnight. This is a ticketed event. My studio will be open and I will be joined by Ruth Sholtis-Furyes and Bridget Ginley. I am also donating a piece to their auction. All of the info is at http://www.leafcommunity.org/.
The Lake Erie Screw Factory artists are opening their studios to the public on Saturday, May 9th from 4-9 pm. A variety of fine art and craft will be on display and for sale. Featuring the work of Ann Brown, Gina DeSantis, Katie Hanrahan, Hunter Harrison, Peter Jennings, Marc Konys, Allyson Meier, M.C. Nagel, Martin O’Connor, Steven Ollay, Ann Onusko, Kari Sanford, Josh Sanford, Ruth Sholtis-Furyes, Kate Tobin and Liz Trenholme.
The Lake Erie Building is located in the Bird Town area of Lakewood at 13000 Athens Ave. The building houses artist studios and local businesses. Both the second and third floors house artist studios.
Visit http://www.ginadesantisceramics.com for more info or contact Gina DeSantis at artzy_grl@yahoo.com. As always please pass this email on. I hope to see you there.
Gina DeSantis
Monday, April 20, 2009
POISE, POSTURE AND PROFANITY @ Artchitecture
Exhibition: POISE, POSTURE AND PROFANITY
An exhibition by Andrea Heimer and Arabella Proffer
April 24 - May 17, 2009
Opening reception 7-10 pm Friday, April 24, 2009
"Poise, Posture, and Profanity" is a dual exhibit featuring the works of Arabella Proffer and Andrea Heimer. Despite their different styles and technique, both artists share a love of portraiture with loose references to history and pop culture. Their common themes of feminine power, fashion, beauty and design can at times even contain a hint of the sinister. Arabella will be debuting a new series of her fashionable punk and gothic aristocrats, this time consisting of miniatures. Andrea will be exhibiting recent works from her "Voyeur" and "Pulp" series; voyeuristic watercolors painted from the perspective of a camera lens aimed at her subjects and bright, dramatic acrylics of red-lipped women inspired by the pages of romance comics.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Dana Depew submissions for Mayhem exhibiton
Attached are a few images of the work I will be exhibiting at the Mayhem show opening May 2 at Lowlife Gallery. 2 pieces will be lightboxes. One will consist of plastic flies obtained at a local dollar store, adhered to plexiglass and enclosed in lightbox. Object is then retrofitted with incandesent light fixtures and flicker bulbs and entitled " Firefly". Second lightbox is a glow in the dark plastic skeletons adhered to plexiglass and enclosed in a wooden lightbox. The object is retrofitted with flicker bulbs and blacklite and entitled "28 Skeletons". The 2 collage pieces are hazmat stickers arranged in a manner that the patterns resemble a quilt. These will be made larger and more elaborate patterns in later works.
MAYHEM @ LOWLIFE GALLERY - OPENING MAY 2
Day of the Dead themed exhibiton featuring works by regional artists opens on May 2 at Lowlife Gallery located on Waterloo in Collinwood.
Image and Object - gallery hours
Gallery hours for "Image and Object" at Asterisk
show runs through May 2 and hours are Fridays and Sat 6-8pm or by appt
call 330-304-8528 or email - contact@asteriskgallery.com
show runs through May 2 and hours are Fridays and Sat 6-8pm or by appt
call 330-304-8528 or email - contact@asteriskgallery.com
Internal Compasses Friday, May 15, 6 – 9pm
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Internal and external architectures are mapped and charted in this multi-media exhibition.
Internal Compasses
Opening Night: Friday, May 15, 6 – 9pm
May 15–July 17, 2009
Free; Free Parking
Also opening on May 15:
Efrat Klipshtien (Tel Aviv, Israel)
SPACES World Artists Program>>
Sung Jin Choi
Ambient Sound
SPACELab>>
Image: Tent and Tetons, 2006, Sarah FitzSimons, (film still), multi-media installation
Cleveland, OH, April 17, 2009—Artists, like philosophers, researchers, and scientists demonstrate an obsessive curiosity about the world by way of collecting, deconstructing, and analyzing data in an attempt to unearth secrets buried within natural and manufactured systems. The artists in SPACES’ upcoming Internal Compasses exhibit the ‘emergent’, while revealing the equally engaging inquiry, patterns and processes along the way.
Internal Compasses features visual thinkers who map, code, and catalog experiences and information, then systematically arrange the material evidence according to personal internal strategies. Join SPACES for the opening reception of Internal Compasses on Friday, May 15, 2009 from 6 – 9 p.m. The exhibition will remain on view through July 17, 2009. Admission to the opening reception and during normal gallery hours is free and open to the public.
Derek Coté and Nicole Baumann (Richmond, VA) team up to examine the concept of the gallery as a “Mega Space” and its impact on the artist’s and viewer’s experience. Coté and Baumman build scale models of famous contemporary art galleries to demonstrate the role of architecture in the art experience. Sarah FitzSimons (Athens, OH) builds large-scale outdoor sculptures that mirror the aesthetics of natural landscapes. In a more recent series Tents, the artist uses mountainous terrain as a muse to explore wider patterns found in nature and how we adapt, function and often idealize it. Drawing from her own migration from Eastern to Western culture, Xia Gao (Lincoln, NE) uses the interplay of textile and space to explore how memories, narratives, and contemplations can emerge through layering and pattern of representational images. Greg Murr (Granville, OH) uses satellite images from Google Earth as preliminary maps for drawings and watercolors that examine the gradual transformation of our natural environment through the recorded evolutions of lakes, rivers, lagoons and other bodies of water. Also capitalizing on everyday technology, Michael Sherwin (Morgantown, WV) uses video and photography to present what he terms a “visual geography” emerging from the vast observations and recordings present online and taken from “artists, amateurs, and armchair cartographers.” Susken Rosenthal (Baitz, Land Brandenburg, Germany) creates “portraits” of live soccer games. Through active line drawings created within the standard 90-minute game, the artist creates seismographic, as well as abstract, line drawings that record patterns of movement, energy, and strategy. By capturing ritual and place simultaneously through a long, extended photographic exposure, Eric Sung (Hammond, LA) creates still images that reveal movement and transformation producing a deeply ephemeral result.
Also opening on Friday, May 15, 2009:
SWAP: Efrat Klipshtien (Tel Aviv, Israel) presents new work in a large-scale installation. Klipshtien will continue her residency in Cleveland (through June 8, 2009) working in collaboration with Viva! Dance Studio to complete an upcoming project that will take place outside of the gallery space.
SPACELab: Sung Jin Choi (Brooklyn, NY) presents Ambient Sound an intricate installation composed of found objects intended to evoke cultural nostalgia (On view through June 12, 2009). In Permeability, Transformation and the Neutral (June 19 – July 17, 2009) Evan Larson (Dearborn, MI) employs techniques such as plaster carving, mold-making, and woodworking to manipulate the existing structures within the gallery, thereby creating a seemingly-organic space of neutrality between object and viewer within institutional dynamics.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
From Wall Street Journal - April 17, 2009
Artists vs. Blight Article
By ALEXANDRA ALTER
Last month, artists Michael Di Liberto and Sunia Boneham moved into a two-story, three-bedroom house in Cleveland's Collinwood neighborhood, where about 220 homes out of 5,000 sit vacant and boarded up. They lined their walls with Ms. Boneham's large, neon-hued canvases, turned a spare bedroom into a graphic-design studio and made the attic a rehearsal space for their band, Arte Povera.
Greg Ruffing for The Wall Street Journal
Michael DiLiberto and Sunia Boneham, with their 18-month-old son Harrison.
The couple used to live in New York, but they were drawn to Cleveland by cheap rent and the creative possibilities of a city in transition. "It seemed real alive and cool," said Mr. Di Liberto.
Their new house is one of nine previously foreclosed properties that a local community development corporation bought, some for as little as a few thousand dollars. The group aims to create a 10-block "artists village" in Collinwood, with residences for artists like Mr. Di Liberto, 31 years old, and Ms. Boneham, 34.
Artists have long been leaders of an urban vanguard that colonizes blighted areas. Now, the current housing crisis has created a new class of urban pioneer. Nationwide, home foreclosure proceedings increased 81% in 2008 from the previous year, rising to 2.3 million, according to California-based foreclosure listing firm RealtyTrac. Homes in hard-hit cities such as Detroit and Cleveland are selling for as little as $1.
Drawn by available spaces and cheap rents, artists are filling in some of the neighborhoods being emptied by foreclosures. City officials and community groups seeking ways to stop the rash of vacancies are offering them incentives to move in, from low rents and mortgages to creative control over renovation projects.
"Artists have become the occupiers of last resort," said Robert McNulty, president of Partners for Livable Communities, a Washington-based nonprofit organization. "The worse things get, the more creative you have to become."
Artists and architects are buying foreclosed homes in Detroit for as little as $100. In St. Louis, artists are moving into vacant retail spaces in a shopping mall, turning stores that stood empty for more than a year into studios and event spaces for rents of $100 a month. Artspace Projects Inc., a national nonprofit development corporation, plans to create 35 live/work spaces for artists on vacant property in Hamilton, Ohio, after converting an empty car factory and an adjacent lot in Buffalo, N.Y., into 60 artists' lofts last year.
Exploring Art Communities
Upcoming tours, exhibits and events in Cleveland, Detroit and Buffalo.
Cleveland
DanceWorks 09, through May 24
The Cleveland Public Theater in Detroit-Shoreway hosts six weekends of dance performances, featuring new works from six local dance companies. cptonline.org
78th Street Studios Experience, April 17-18
Visitors can wander through three stories of recording studios, art studios and galleries at this studio space in a former factory warehouse in Cleveland's Detroit Shoreway neighborhood. 78streetstudios.com
ArtMart 09, April 17-May 1
More than 100 regional artists will exhibit and sell their work at this show at Spaces Gallery. spacesgallery.org
'There Goes the Neighborhood,' June 5-Aug. 16
This exhibit at Cleveland's Museum of Contemporary Art will showcase artists from such places as Cleveland, New Orleans, Brazil, Vietnam and Brooklyn, N.Y., whose work explores cities in transition. mocacleveland.org
ArtSpace Studio Tour, June 27
ArtSpace Cleveland, a group that helps artists find affordable housing, will lead a trolley tour of 13 artists' live/work studios, three urban gardens and five galleries around the St. Clair Superior neighborhood, where a design district is taking shape. artspacecleveland.org
Waterloo Arts Festival, June 27
An annual summer festival on Waterloo Road, an emerging art destination, features open galleries, music and family events. artscollinwood.org
Ingenuity Fest, July 10-12
Cleveland's "Ingenuity Fest," a festival for arts and technology, brings performance artists from the region and around the world to 25 or 30 spaces, including vacant storefronts and unused parking lots. ingenuitycleveland.com
Detroit
'I Repeat Myself When Under Stress,' through May 3
An exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Arts Detroit showcases three artists who use visual and narrative repetition, including Tris Vonna-Michell, who projects slides of Detroit's urban landscape onto fragmented walls. mocadetroit.org.
Scott Hocking, May 29
Detroit artist Scott Hocking builds massive sculptures out of recycled materials in abandoned auto factories and empty neighborhoods, taking photographs before the structures get torn down. His photographs will be shown at 2739 Edwin Gallery in Hamtramck. http://2739edwin.com/index.html
Buffalo, N.Y.
ArtSpace Buffalo Lofts, May 1-31
Sixty artists' live/work spaces in a former factory in downtown Buffalo will host a month-long, curated show of residents' work. artspacebuffalo.org.
Cleveland is emerging as a testing ground for the strategy. With the collapse of the manufacturing industry, the city's population has plummeted to around 430,000 residents today from nearly a million in 1950. A wave of home foreclosures has accelerated the slide. The Cuyahoga County treasurer estimates that 15,000 homes sit vacant -- roughly one in 10. City officials tore down 1,000 homes last year, and more than 12,000 buildings await demolition.
In neighborhoods pocked by vacancies, artists have started filling the void. Last November, Katherine Chilcote, a local painter, bought a boarded-up, bank-owned house for $5,000 in Cleveland's Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood, where one in four family homes has gone into foreclosure in the last three years. Thieves had stolen the doors, punched out windows and ripped out all the pipes, sinks and electrical wiring. Eight cats had moved in.
The 29-year-old artist and four friends spent months ripping up moldy carpet, laying down new tiles and hardwood floors, repairing walls and stripping peeling paint. She bought the empty, weed-filled lot next door for $500. She plans to build a sculpture garden there, with large, whimsical mobiles that twist in the breeze. She's applying for grant money from the Cleveland Foundation to turn four more vacant houses in the neighborhood into artist residences and studios.
Through her nonprofit public art organization, Building Bridges, Ms. Chilcote is also working to turn vacant storefronts in Cleveland's Westown neighborhood into artists' exhibition spaces. Four storefronts are now filled with hand-painted pottery, landscapes of trees and fields, and large, spray-painted scenes of the city's abandoned steel mills and factories.
Ms. Chilcote plans to expand to seven storefronts this summer, and is working with the Westown Community Development Corp. to create nine permanent artist residences and studios in an old theater that's been vacant since the mid-1980s. In the meantime, Ms. Chilcote and other artists are hatching creative, temporary uses for buildings that are scheduled to be demolished. This summer, she plans to transform an empty ice cream parlor into a giant sculpture of a cake.
What began as a grass-roots movement, with artists gravitating to cheaper neighborhoods and making improvements, is now being embraced by city officials as a tool to revive neighborhoods reeling from vacancies and home foreclosures.
Over the next 18 months, Cleveland plans to spend $500,000 to fund 50 citizen-led pilot projects to reclaim vacant property. The Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative, part of Kent State University's College of Architecture, launched an initiative called "Pop Up City" a year and a half ago, which brings performance artists into empty lots, vacant buildings and unused urban infrastructure. In Cleveland's Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood, two theater companies have teamed with the local development organization on a $30 million drive to rebrand the former factory hub as an entertainment and arts district, with a new community theater and independent-film house.
"At first, the strategy was [placing artists in] old warehouses, now it's whole neighborhoods," says Bob Brown, director of the Cleveland City Planning Commission. "The next phase is capitalizing on the presence of artist and art-related businesses and using it as the lever for high-density development."
This September, Cleveland's Community Partnership for Arts and Culture will host its second conference, titled "From Rust Belt to Artist Belt," with artists, city leaders, local banks and real-estate agents to discuss ways to transform Cleveland into a regional arts hub. Tom Schorgl, the group's president, said it's creating a Web site for artists that will include a searchable database of cheap properties. His group is also helping artists find vacant properties through the newly created county land bank -- a bank of distressed properties the county will manage until they can be redeveloped.
Artists have flocked to, and improved, blighted areas for decades -- for example, New York's SoHo and Williamsburg, parts of Baltimore and Berlin, Germany. They often get displaced once gentrification begins. But now, since real estate has hit rock bottom in many places, artists with little equity and sometimes spotty credit history have a chance to become stakeholders, economists and urban planners say.
Cleveland's push is modeled in part on an arts-fueled revival in Paducah, Ky., Mr. Schorgl said. Paducah transformed a rundown, crime-ridden neighborhood into an arts district by offering artists from around the country a $2,500 reimbursement to buy cheap, vacant houses and fix them up. Some artists bought homes for $1 when the program launched in 2001. Since then, more than 50 artists have moved into the neighborhood, which is now dense with cafes, wine bars and art galleries.
The strategy is controversial. Some urban planners warn against treating the arts as a cure-all for urban development, particularly since low-income residents are often forced out when artists move in. "Artists have had the effect of gentrifying neighborhoods that were working for the existing communities," says Dana Cuff, an architecture professor at UCLA and founder of cityLAB, an urban-design think tank.
Some artists are also wary of being branded as agents of development. "I could never afford the neighborhoods that I've helped contribute to," says Bridget Ginley, a 38-year-old painter, who says she was priced out of Cleveland's trendy Tremont and Ohio City neighborhoods once the galleries and restaurants arrived.
In Collinwood, where Mr. Di Liberto and Ms. Boneham moved last month, the Northeast Shores Development Corp. has bought nine vacant properties, and so far has renovated five as artists' residences. Executive director Brian Friedman says the group plans to expand the project to 25 or 30 homes, using funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's $4 billion Neighborhood Stabilization Program.
In exchange for low rents or low-interest mortgages that range from $500 to $1,100 a month, the artists help design the homes. Artists also have the option of buying the homes cheaply and fixing them up themselves. The development corporation verifies potential home-buyers' income and ability to pay rent, and asks artists to specify in their housing application what type of creative work they do, and what kind of work space they want.
Mr. Di Liberto and Ms. Boneham, who first moved to Cleveland from New York in 2006, pay $595 a month in rent in their new house. After they make monthly payments for a year, the rent will roll over into a fixed mortgage towards the house's $104,000 cost. Three of the couple's friends, fellow artists and musicians, are now looking to buy foreclosed houses in the neighborhood.
"Our chief goal is ownership," says Mr. Friedman. "We don't want the neighborhood to gentrify them out."
Larry Coleman
Double-Edge Dance will perform at the Cleveland Public Theater
Once a bustling neighborhood of Eastern European rail workers, Collinwood now has a 40% poverty rate. A few years ago, its commercial strip, Waterloo Road, had little more than two dive bars and a flophouse where drug dealers and prostitutes lived. Home prices have plummeted to $18,000 today from a median of $68,000 before the foreclosure crisis.
The seeds of the renaissance were planted by a dozen artists who formed a collective called Arts Collinwood. Five years ago, the group bought the 5,000-square-foot flophouse with donated money and began converting it into an art gallery, café and nine art studios that rent for $150 a month. Arts Collinwood, now a non-profit directed by neighborhood resident Sarah Gyorki, paved the way for a flood of musicians, painters and sculptors. In the last couple of years, three other art galleries, a recording studio, vintage record store, boutique and a stained glass studio have opened on Waterloo.
These cultural outposts sit alongside traces of the old neighborhood: two shops that sell handmade sausages, and a Slovenian Hall where neighborhood residents gather for Friday fish fries, polka music and bocce.
The transition hasn't been completely smooth. Jim Tomko, one of the first to open a gallery on Waterloo, closed it last year after someone broke in and stole about $8,000 worth of paintings. Undercover police officers caught the thief, a neighborhood resident who was selling the paintings out of his nearby home for $20 a piece.
A few blocks over, on a street dotted with boarded-up houses, Monica Doyle is renovating a foreclosed house that she bought for $7,150. Ms. Doyle, a painter and Cleveland native who moved back to the city from Australia three years ago, bought the house last August. The plumbing had been stolen, the bathroom and kitchen walls had been ripped out, and a family of raccoons was living in the attic. She renovated the top floor, where she now lives and paints, and plans to rent out the ground floor once it's fixed up. "It was like a great canvas itself just to bring this place to life," she says.
Write to Alexandra Alter at alexandra.alter@wsj.com
By ALEXANDRA ALTER
Last month, artists Michael Di Liberto and Sunia Boneham moved into a two-story, three-bedroom house in Cleveland's Collinwood neighborhood, where about 220 homes out of 5,000 sit vacant and boarded up. They lined their walls with Ms. Boneham's large, neon-hued canvases, turned a spare bedroom into a graphic-design studio and made the attic a rehearsal space for their band, Arte Povera.
Greg Ruffing for The Wall Street Journal
Michael DiLiberto and Sunia Boneham, with their 18-month-old son Harrison.
The couple used to live in New York, but they were drawn to Cleveland by cheap rent and the creative possibilities of a city in transition. "It seemed real alive and cool," said Mr. Di Liberto.
Their new house is one of nine previously foreclosed properties that a local community development corporation bought, some for as little as a few thousand dollars. The group aims to create a 10-block "artists village" in Collinwood, with residences for artists like Mr. Di Liberto, 31 years old, and Ms. Boneham, 34.
Artists have long been leaders of an urban vanguard that colonizes blighted areas. Now, the current housing crisis has created a new class of urban pioneer. Nationwide, home foreclosure proceedings increased 81% in 2008 from the previous year, rising to 2.3 million, according to California-based foreclosure listing firm RealtyTrac. Homes in hard-hit cities such as Detroit and Cleveland are selling for as little as $1.
Drawn by available spaces and cheap rents, artists are filling in some of the neighborhoods being emptied by foreclosures. City officials and community groups seeking ways to stop the rash of vacancies are offering them incentives to move in, from low rents and mortgages to creative control over renovation projects.
"Artists have become the occupiers of last resort," said Robert McNulty, president of Partners for Livable Communities, a Washington-based nonprofit organization. "The worse things get, the more creative you have to become."
Artists and architects are buying foreclosed homes in Detroit for as little as $100. In St. Louis, artists are moving into vacant retail spaces in a shopping mall, turning stores that stood empty for more than a year into studios and event spaces for rents of $100 a month. Artspace Projects Inc., a national nonprofit development corporation, plans to create 35 live/work spaces for artists on vacant property in Hamilton, Ohio, after converting an empty car factory and an adjacent lot in Buffalo, N.Y., into 60 artists' lofts last year.
Exploring Art Communities
Upcoming tours, exhibits and events in Cleveland, Detroit and Buffalo.
Cleveland
DanceWorks 09, through May 24
The Cleveland Public Theater in Detroit-Shoreway hosts six weekends of dance performances, featuring new works from six local dance companies. cptonline.org
78th Street Studios Experience, April 17-18
Visitors can wander through three stories of recording studios, art studios and galleries at this studio space in a former factory warehouse in Cleveland's Detroit Shoreway neighborhood. 78streetstudios.com
ArtMart 09, April 17-May 1
More than 100 regional artists will exhibit and sell their work at this show at Spaces Gallery. spacesgallery.org
'There Goes the Neighborhood,' June 5-Aug. 16
This exhibit at Cleveland's Museum of Contemporary Art will showcase artists from such places as Cleveland, New Orleans, Brazil, Vietnam and Brooklyn, N.Y., whose work explores cities in transition. mocacleveland.org
ArtSpace Studio Tour, June 27
ArtSpace Cleveland, a group that helps artists find affordable housing, will lead a trolley tour of 13 artists' live/work studios, three urban gardens and five galleries around the St. Clair Superior neighborhood, where a design district is taking shape. artspacecleveland.org
Waterloo Arts Festival, June 27
An annual summer festival on Waterloo Road, an emerging art destination, features open galleries, music and family events. artscollinwood.org
Ingenuity Fest, July 10-12
Cleveland's "Ingenuity Fest," a festival for arts and technology, brings performance artists from the region and around the world to 25 or 30 spaces, including vacant storefronts and unused parking lots. ingenuitycleveland.com
Detroit
'I Repeat Myself When Under Stress,' through May 3
An exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Arts Detroit showcases three artists who use visual and narrative repetition, including Tris Vonna-Michell, who projects slides of Detroit's urban landscape onto fragmented walls. mocadetroit.org.
Scott Hocking, May 29
Detroit artist Scott Hocking builds massive sculptures out of recycled materials in abandoned auto factories and empty neighborhoods, taking photographs before the structures get torn down. His photographs will be shown at 2739 Edwin Gallery in Hamtramck. http://2739edwin.com/index.html
Buffalo, N.Y.
ArtSpace Buffalo Lofts, May 1-31
Sixty artists' live/work spaces in a former factory in downtown Buffalo will host a month-long, curated show of residents' work. artspacebuffalo.org.
Cleveland is emerging as a testing ground for the strategy. With the collapse of the manufacturing industry, the city's population has plummeted to around 430,000 residents today from nearly a million in 1950. A wave of home foreclosures has accelerated the slide. The Cuyahoga County treasurer estimates that 15,000 homes sit vacant -- roughly one in 10. City officials tore down 1,000 homes last year, and more than 12,000 buildings await demolition.
In neighborhoods pocked by vacancies, artists have started filling the void. Last November, Katherine Chilcote, a local painter, bought a boarded-up, bank-owned house for $5,000 in Cleveland's Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood, where one in four family homes has gone into foreclosure in the last three years. Thieves had stolen the doors, punched out windows and ripped out all the pipes, sinks and electrical wiring. Eight cats had moved in.
The 29-year-old artist and four friends spent months ripping up moldy carpet, laying down new tiles and hardwood floors, repairing walls and stripping peeling paint. She bought the empty, weed-filled lot next door for $500. She plans to build a sculpture garden there, with large, whimsical mobiles that twist in the breeze. She's applying for grant money from the Cleveland Foundation to turn four more vacant houses in the neighborhood into artist residences and studios.
Through her nonprofit public art organization, Building Bridges, Ms. Chilcote is also working to turn vacant storefronts in Cleveland's Westown neighborhood into artists' exhibition spaces. Four storefronts are now filled with hand-painted pottery, landscapes of trees and fields, and large, spray-painted scenes of the city's abandoned steel mills and factories.
Ms. Chilcote plans to expand to seven storefronts this summer, and is working with the Westown Community Development Corp. to create nine permanent artist residences and studios in an old theater that's been vacant since the mid-1980s. In the meantime, Ms. Chilcote and other artists are hatching creative, temporary uses for buildings that are scheduled to be demolished. This summer, she plans to transform an empty ice cream parlor into a giant sculpture of a cake.
What began as a grass-roots movement, with artists gravitating to cheaper neighborhoods and making improvements, is now being embraced by city officials as a tool to revive neighborhoods reeling from vacancies and home foreclosures.
Over the next 18 months, Cleveland plans to spend $500,000 to fund 50 citizen-led pilot projects to reclaim vacant property. The Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative, part of Kent State University's College of Architecture, launched an initiative called "Pop Up City" a year and a half ago, which brings performance artists into empty lots, vacant buildings and unused urban infrastructure. In Cleveland's Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood, two theater companies have teamed with the local development organization on a $30 million drive to rebrand the former factory hub as an entertainment and arts district, with a new community theater and independent-film house.
"At first, the strategy was [placing artists in] old warehouses, now it's whole neighborhoods," says Bob Brown, director of the Cleveland City Planning Commission. "The next phase is capitalizing on the presence of artist and art-related businesses and using it as the lever for high-density development."
This September, Cleveland's Community Partnership for Arts and Culture will host its second conference, titled "From Rust Belt to Artist Belt," with artists, city leaders, local banks and real-estate agents to discuss ways to transform Cleveland into a regional arts hub. Tom Schorgl, the group's president, said it's creating a Web site for artists that will include a searchable database of cheap properties. His group is also helping artists find vacant properties through the newly created county land bank -- a bank of distressed properties the county will manage until they can be redeveloped.
Artists have flocked to, and improved, blighted areas for decades -- for example, New York's SoHo and Williamsburg, parts of Baltimore and Berlin, Germany. They often get displaced once gentrification begins. But now, since real estate has hit rock bottom in many places, artists with little equity and sometimes spotty credit history have a chance to become stakeholders, economists and urban planners say.
Cleveland's push is modeled in part on an arts-fueled revival in Paducah, Ky., Mr. Schorgl said. Paducah transformed a rundown, crime-ridden neighborhood into an arts district by offering artists from around the country a $2,500 reimbursement to buy cheap, vacant houses and fix them up. Some artists bought homes for $1 when the program launched in 2001. Since then, more than 50 artists have moved into the neighborhood, which is now dense with cafes, wine bars and art galleries.
The strategy is controversial. Some urban planners warn against treating the arts as a cure-all for urban development, particularly since low-income residents are often forced out when artists move in. "Artists have had the effect of gentrifying neighborhoods that were working for the existing communities," says Dana Cuff, an architecture professor at UCLA and founder of cityLAB, an urban-design think tank.
Some artists are also wary of being branded as agents of development. "I could never afford the neighborhoods that I've helped contribute to," says Bridget Ginley, a 38-year-old painter, who says she was priced out of Cleveland's trendy Tremont and Ohio City neighborhoods once the galleries and restaurants arrived.
In Collinwood, where Mr. Di Liberto and Ms. Boneham moved last month, the Northeast Shores Development Corp. has bought nine vacant properties, and so far has renovated five as artists' residences. Executive director Brian Friedman says the group plans to expand the project to 25 or 30 homes, using funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's $4 billion Neighborhood Stabilization Program.
In exchange for low rents or low-interest mortgages that range from $500 to $1,100 a month, the artists help design the homes. Artists also have the option of buying the homes cheaply and fixing them up themselves. The development corporation verifies potential home-buyers' income and ability to pay rent, and asks artists to specify in their housing application what type of creative work they do, and what kind of work space they want.
Mr. Di Liberto and Ms. Boneham, who first moved to Cleveland from New York in 2006, pay $595 a month in rent in their new house. After they make monthly payments for a year, the rent will roll over into a fixed mortgage towards the house's $104,000 cost. Three of the couple's friends, fellow artists and musicians, are now looking to buy foreclosed houses in the neighborhood.
"Our chief goal is ownership," says Mr. Friedman. "We don't want the neighborhood to gentrify them out."
Larry Coleman
Double-Edge Dance will perform at the Cleveland Public Theater
Once a bustling neighborhood of Eastern European rail workers, Collinwood now has a 40% poverty rate. A few years ago, its commercial strip, Waterloo Road, had little more than two dive bars and a flophouse where drug dealers and prostitutes lived. Home prices have plummeted to $18,000 today from a median of $68,000 before the foreclosure crisis.
The seeds of the renaissance were planted by a dozen artists who formed a collective called Arts Collinwood. Five years ago, the group bought the 5,000-square-foot flophouse with donated money and began converting it into an art gallery, café and nine art studios that rent for $150 a month. Arts Collinwood, now a non-profit directed by neighborhood resident Sarah Gyorki, paved the way for a flood of musicians, painters and sculptors. In the last couple of years, three other art galleries, a recording studio, vintage record store, boutique and a stained glass studio have opened on Waterloo.
These cultural outposts sit alongside traces of the old neighborhood: two shops that sell handmade sausages, and a Slovenian Hall where neighborhood residents gather for Friday fish fries, polka music and bocce.
The transition hasn't been completely smooth. Jim Tomko, one of the first to open a gallery on Waterloo, closed it last year after someone broke in and stole about $8,000 worth of paintings. Undercover police officers caught the thief, a neighborhood resident who was selling the paintings out of his nearby home for $20 a piece.
A few blocks over, on a street dotted with boarded-up houses, Monica Doyle is renovating a foreclosed house that she bought for $7,150. Ms. Doyle, a painter and Cleveland native who moved back to the city from Australia three years ago, bought the house last August. The plumbing had been stolen, the bathroom and kitchen walls had been ripped out, and a family of raccoons was living in the attic. She renovated the top floor, where she now lives and paints, and plans to rent out the ground floor once it's fixed up. "It was like a great canvas itself just to bring this place to life," she says.
Write to Alexandra Alter at alexandra.alter@wsj.com
Please come down if you can! Please support THOM!!!!
Please come down if you can! Please support THOM!!!!
THE SOLOIST follows the life of Cleveland native Nathaniel Ayers (played by Jaime Foxx).
EVENT: Tuesday, April 21st join musicians from the Cleveland Music School Settlement and artist Thom Rossino at the Tower City Center from noon to 1pm for a FREE concert and art presentation in celebration of Paramount Pictures upcoming release THE SOLOIST!
DATE: Tuesday, April 21
TIME: noon to 1pm
LOCATION: Tower City Center
Musical Talent: Cleveland Music School Settlement
Artist: Thom Rossino http://www.thomrossino.com/ NOTE: Thom describes his artistic style as “Visual Music”
The Movie
In “The Soloist,” an emotionally soaring drama about the redemptive power of music, journalist Steve Lopez (OscarR nominee Robert Downey Jr.) discovers Nathaniel Anthony Ayers (OscarR winner Jamie Foxx), a former classical music prodigy, playing his violin on the streets of L.A. As Lopez endeavors to help the homeless man find his way back, a unique Friendship is formed, one that transforms both their lives. “The Soloist” is directed by Joe Wright (Golden Globe winner for Best Drama and OscarR nominee for Best Picture
“Atonement”). Opening Date: Friday, April 24, 2009 (Nationwide) Rated PG-13 for thematic
elements, some drug use and language. Official Website: http://www.soloistmovie.com/
Cleveland Music School Settlement
The Cleveland Music School Settlement was founded in 1912 by Almeda Adams with the support of The Fortnightly Musical Club and several of Cleveland’s leading families. With growing interest in the Settlement movement, Miss Adams started the school to provide high quality music education to students
of all ages regardless of their ability to pay. Over ninety years later, the founders would be pleased to know that The Settlement is now one of the largest community music schools in the country. The original mission was expanded to offer a variety of arts related programs to a diverse student population. Programs beyond music instruction include a nationally acclaimed Music Therapy program and one of the most popular Early Childhood Education programs in Cleveland. The Settlement offers services at our University
Circle campus, satellites and contracted agencies throughout Northeast Ohio. Altogether, the Settlement brings music and the arts into the lives of nearly 3,000 people on a weekly basis throughout the Greater Cleveland area.
Artist Thom Rossino
Creating art all his life, Thom Rossino is a Cleveland artist showing in galleries for the past five years in and surrounding Cleveland areas. To this date, he has had over twenty gallery exhibits and doesn’t plan on
slowing down. Using primarily pen & ink and mixed media, Thom’s work is surreal with subject matter of the absurdity. Thom’s latest work has been a three year love creating Visual Music, it is ambitious work and the sky is the limit. Images of his work can be found at www.thomrossino.com.
THE SOLOIST follows the life of Cleveland native Nathaniel Ayers (played by Jaime Foxx).
EVENT: Tuesday, April 21st join musicians from the Cleveland Music School Settlement and artist Thom Rossino at the Tower City Center from noon to 1pm for a FREE concert and art presentation in celebration of Paramount Pictures upcoming release THE SOLOIST!
DATE: Tuesday, April 21
TIME: noon to 1pm
LOCATION: Tower City Center
Musical Talent: Cleveland Music School Settlement
Artist: Thom Rossino http://www.thomrossino.com/ NOTE: Thom describes his artistic style as “Visual Music”
The Movie
In “The Soloist,” an emotionally soaring drama about the redemptive power of music, journalist Steve Lopez (OscarR nominee Robert Downey Jr.) discovers Nathaniel Anthony Ayers (OscarR winner Jamie Foxx), a former classical music prodigy, playing his violin on the streets of L.A. As Lopez endeavors to help the homeless man find his way back, a unique Friendship is formed, one that transforms both their lives. “The Soloist” is directed by Joe Wright (Golden Globe winner for Best Drama and OscarR nominee for Best Picture
“Atonement”). Opening Date: Friday, April 24, 2009 (Nationwide) Rated PG-13 for thematic
elements, some drug use and language. Official Website: http://www.soloistmovie.com/
Cleveland Music School Settlement
The Cleveland Music School Settlement was founded in 1912 by Almeda Adams with the support of The Fortnightly Musical Club and several of Cleveland’s leading families. With growing interest in the Settlement movement, Miss Adams started the school to provide high quality music education to students
of all ages regardless of their ability to pay. Over ninety years later, the founders would be pleased to know that The Settlement is now one of the largest community music schools in the country. The original mission was expanded to offer a variety of arts related programs to a diverse student population. Programs beyond music instruction include a nationally acclaimed Music Therapy program and one of the most popular Early Childhood Education programs in Cleveland. The Settlement offers services at our University
Circle campus, satellites and contracted agencies throughout Northeast Ohio. Altogether, the Settlement brings music and the arts into the lives of nearly 3,000 people on a weekly basis throughout the Greater Cleveland area.
Artist Thom Rossino
Creating art all his life, Thom Rossino is a Cleveland artist showing in galleries for the past five years in and surrounding Cleveland areas. To this date, he has had over twenty gallery exhibits and doesn’t plan on
slowing down. Using primarily pen & ink and mixed media, Thom’s work is surreal with subject matter of the absurdity. Thom’s latest work has been a three year love creating Visual Music, it is ambitious work and the sky is the limit. Images of his work can be found at www.thomrossino.com.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Help support RiverSweep with a visit to Johnny Mango!
Help support RiverSweep with a visit to Johnny Mango!
5th Annual "Art Fur Animals" Benefit & Art Auction CALL TO ARTISTS
CALL TO ARTISTS!
**5th Annual Art Fur Animals Benefit**
Support from local artists needed for the homeless & abused animal in need at the Cleveland Kennel!
Friends of the Cleveland Kennel are seeking donated work from local artists for this annual fundraiser.
We are requesting submissions of original art to be exhibited and auctioned to benefit the homeless, abused and neglected animals being sheltered at the City of Cleveland Kennel.
Artists contributing pieces for the silent art auction will receive complimentary tickets to the event and will have their names listed on all print and web materials.
(This is a non-juried event; however, the committee reserves the right to make final selections as space allows.)
If interested in donating:
Please notify of participation by replying to this email no later than Friday, April 17.
**(all artists participating will have name listed on ALL print & web materials)**
All artwork for the silent auction will be due by Friday, May 8 2009.
Artists are welcome to specify a minimum bid for their work.
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Event Details:
5th Annual "Art Fur Animals" Benefit & Art Auction
When: Friday, May 22, 2009, 6-10 pm
Where: Galleria at Erieview, 1301 E. 9th St, Downtown Cleveland
Featuring:
• Live auction of 20 ceramic dog sculptures created by some of Northeast Ohio's most creative artists
• Silent art auction featuring paintings, photographs, prints, jewelry, ceramics and fiber art by artists from around the country.
• Beer, wine, food & fun included in the $15 ticket price
• Music by DJ Byron
Join art & animal lovers alike for this truly unique and fun event... and support Cleveland's homeless animals at the same time!
For more information about Friends of the Cleveland Kennel's mission, visit: www.friendsofclevelandkennel.com
**5th Annual Art Fur Animals Benefit**
Support from local artists needed for the homeless & abused animal in need at the Cleveland Kennel!
Friends of the Cleveland Kennel are seeking donated work from local artists for this annual fundraiser.
We are requesting submissions of original art to be exhibited and auctioned to benefit the homeless, abused and neglected animals being sheltered at the City of Cleveland Kennel.
Artists contributing pieces for the silent art auction will receive complimentary tickets to the event and will have their names listed on all print and web materials.
(This is a non-juried event; however, the committee reserves the right to make final selections as space allows.)
If interested in donating:
Please notify of participation by replying to this email no later than Friday, April 17.
**(all artists participating will have name listed on ALL print & web materials)**
All artwork for the silent auction will be due by Friday, May 8 2009.
Artists are welcome to specify a minimum bid for their work.
***************************************************************
Event Details:
5th Annual "Art Fur Animals" Benefit & Art Auction
When: Friday, May 22, 2009, 6-10 pm
Where: Galleria at Erieview, 1301 E. 9th St, Downtown Cleveland
Featuring:
• Live auction of 20 ceramic dog sculptures created by some of Northeast Ohio's most creative artists
• Silent art auction featuring paintings, photographs, prints, jewelry, ceramics and fiber art by artists from around the country.
• Beer, wine, food & fun included in the $15 ticket price
• Music by DJ Byron
Join art & animal lovers alike for this truly unique and fun event... and support Cleveland's homeless animals at the same time!
For more information about Friends of the Cleveland Kennel's mission, visit: www.friendsofclevelandkennel.com
Friday, April 10, 2009
Tremont Electric’s Earth Day Open House
Please join us on Friday, April 17 for Tremont Electric’s Earth Day Open House. We’ve brought “the other alternative energy” to Cleveland, and we’d like to share our recent accomplishments with you!
Tremont Electric is proud to announce that the patent on our nPower™ technology was granted this March, and we have been working to make Cleveland known as a leader in alternative energy technologies.
Tremont Electric specializes in Kinetic Energy Generation, and has the ability to generate electricity through Wave Energy Convertors on Lake Erie, through the nPower™ PEG (Personal Energy Generator) which is used to recharge handheld electronic devices, and more!
During our Open House, you’ll enjoy:
Appetizers from some of Tremont’s best restaurants
Beer, wine, and other beverages
Good company
Learning about alternative energy in Cleveland
Meeting with local leaders to discuss Cleveland’s opportunities with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
We’ll also be introducing a new local initiative in sustainability, “Green Tremont.”
Date & Time: April 17, 2009 • 5:00 pm –9:00 pm
Location: Tremont Electric • 2379 Professor Ave • Cleveland, OH 44113
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Tremont Electric is proud to announce that the patent on our nPower™ technology was granted this March, and we have been working to make Cleveland known as a leader in alternative energy technologies.
Tremont Electric specializes in Kinetic Energy Generation, and has the ability to generate electricity through Wave Energy Convertors on Lake Erie, through the nPower™ PEG (Personal Energy Generator) which is used to recharge handheld electronic devices, and more!
During our Open House, you’ll enjoy:
Appetizers from some of Tremont’s best restaurants
Beer, wine, and other beverages
Good company
Learning about alternative energy in Cleveland
Meeting with local leaders to discuss Cleveland’s opportunities with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
We’ll also be introducing a new local initiative in sustainability, “Green Tremont.”
Date & Time: April 17, 2009 • 5:00 pm –9:00 pm
Location: Tremont Electric • 2379 Professor Ave • Cleveland, OH 44113
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Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Art and Cocktails seeking donations
The 2nd Annual "Art & Cocktails" Art Auction to benefit the community organizing programs of Tremont West Development Corporation will be held May 2, 2009 at Asterisk Gallery in Tremont.
Tremont West Development Corporation is requesting submissions of original art to be exhibited and auctioned to benefit this program that is so vital to the welfare of the residents of our neighborhood. Community organizers staff block clubs, help run events like the Arts and Cultural Festival and the Tremont Farmers' Market and educate residents about community programs, events and issues.
We are seeking donated work from professional artists, advanced amateurs and art students. This is a non-juried event; however, the committee reserves the right to make final selections as space allows.
Artists contributing pieces for silent auctions will have their names listed on the program and, if work is received early enough, in press releases for the event.
Please let us know by Friday, April 24, if you plan to donate artwork to the silent auction. All artwork for the silent auction is due by Wednesday, April 29. Artists are welcome to specify a minimum bid for their work.
For further information, contact Sandy Smith at slsmith819@hotmail.com or Dana Depew at rdog72@hotmail.com.
Tremont West Development Corporation is requesting submissions of original art to be exhibited and auctioned to benefit this program that is so vital to the welfare of the residents of our neighborhood. Community organizers staff block clubs, help run events like the Arts and Cultural Festival and the Tremont Farmers' Market and educate residents about community programs, events and issues.
We are seeking donated work from professional artists, advanced amateurs and art students. This is a non-juried event; however, the committee reserves the right to make final selections as space allows.
Artists contributing pieces for silent auctions will have their names listed on the program and, if work is received early enough, in press releases for the event.
Please let us know by Friday, April 24, if you plan to donate artwork to the silent auction. All artwork for the silent auction is due by Wednesday, April 29. Artists are welcome to specify a minimum bid for their work.
For further information, contact Sandy Smith at slsmith819@hotmail.com or Dana Depew at rdog72@hotmail.com.
RIVERSWEEP 2009
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Monday, April 6, 2009
“Equipping the Shop for Action” new works by Matthew Dibble @ Asterisk is Aug
Asterisk Gallery Proudly Presents:
“Equipping the Shop for Action”
New Works by Matthew Dibble
with drawings selected by Christopher Pekoc
Opening reception Friday August 14, 2009, 6-11pm and Sat August 15, noon until 5pm
2393 Professor Ave in historic Tremont
330-304-8528
www.asteriskgallery.com
Show runs through Sept 5
hrs by appt
Making a statement about my painting doesn’t feel authentic to my experience as an artist. Sitting here drafting this view I’m thinking about what I want to say about my work. This also doesn’t feel related to my experience.
Can it be said I am an artist when painting but other times, no? I see I’ve been led to a question. When am I an artist? An artist question seems more appropriate at this time. The creative process puts me in question. When I begin to work, the first thing I see is how lazy I am, and how weak my attention is. I see I want to fall back on old tricks, things I know that will make a successful painting. But I’m trying to discover something new.
So I begin to let go of my old ideas, my habitual way of doing things, my grasping approach. I notice another part of myself, a quieter part. Instead of trying to make something happen, I try to allow more of this part to surface.
I’m very much interested in this process, not necessarily to make a good picture but to
discover something new. How can I bring more feeling to my work? Am I being honest about my experience as a painter? This questioning process leads to bigger questions such as who am I and why am I here?
My current work is very much related to something I’ve been doing for a long time—drawing. As far back as I can remember, I would draw pictures. Somewhere around the age of thirteen, I began to draw with India ink, dipping the pen into the ink jar. I was endlessly fascinated with the line and continued to draw using these materials to this day.
When painting seemed too demanding, I would draw. I always felt that the imagery and scale of my smaller drawings was stronger than in my larger work. I continued to paint and draw, and the surfaces of my paintings became quite interesting but somehow they lacked something, a quality the drawings had but I could never transfer to the paintings.
I stayed with it for over 20 years, and recently have been able been able to use the compositions from the small drawings successfully in the larger paintings.
HEDDATRON Theater Ninjas mash up Robots and Ibsen
HEDDATRON
Theater Ninjas mash up Robots and Ibsen
"Heddatron" is the story of a pregnant housewife who is kidnapped by robots and taken to the Amazon rainforest where she is forced to perform Henrik Ibsen's 'Hedda Gabler' over and over again. Meanwhile, her family plans a rescue attempt and back in 1890, Ibsen struggles to write a new play. Intelligent, funny and surprisingly poignant, "Heddatron" includes the only human-robot musical number on Cleveland stages this year.
April 17 - May 3, 2009
Fri, Sat @ 8pm
Sun @ 3pm*
Monday, April 20 @ 8pm
*Sunday, April 26 @ 7pm
Pilgrim Congregational Church
Main Theater
2592 West 14th St.
Cleveland OH 44113
Tickets are $10-$15. Call 216-539-0662 to reserve your tickets or buy them online.
Starring
Amy Bistok Bunce - Jane Gordon
Una Hanley - Nugget Gordon
Peter Nalepa - Rick Gordon
Doug Kusak - Cubby Gordon
Stuart Hoffman - The Film Student/Aunt-Julie-bot
Allen Branstein - Henrik Ibsen
Kelly Elliot - Mrs. Ibsen
Faye Hargate - Else the Maid
Scott Skiba - August Strindberg
Michael Andrews-Hinders - Hans the robot
Sarah Kunchik - Billy-bot
Emily Pucell - Stindberg's Monkey
ARTMart: MEMBERS’ SHOW & SALE
ARTMart: MEMBERS’ SHOW & SALE
April 17–May 1, 2009
Opening reception: Friday, April 17, 2009
Free for members; $5 general admission
Featuring work in all media by over 100 SPACES’ artist/members
www.spacesgallery.org/artmart
Cleveland, OH, March 24, 2009—Looking to add to your art collection without breaking the bank? How about fulfilling your undying urge to accessorize? Or maybe you just want to party whilst being surrounded by beautiful things. Join SPACES for the opening reception of ARTMart: SPACES Annual Members’ Show & Sale on Friday, April 17, 2009 between 6 and 9 p.m. Aside from attending one of the coolest annual parties in town, you can take home fresh art on the spot while supporting your favorite artist and art space. Over one hundred regional artists (all members supporting SPACES’ mission) will exhibit and sell paintings, photography, prints, ceramics, sculpture, jewelry, and much more. Meet and mingle with over 500 of your closest friends on opening night as you enjoy art from all walks of life, funky music, free edibles from area restaurants, games and prizes. Join us for the return of ARTDart and toss darts at artwork. Whichever piece you spear first, you win! Gather all the mall rats and personal shoppers and bring ‘em over. Art sales benefit both individual artists and SPACES. ArtMart is on view through Friday, May 1, 2009 (extended to two weeks!) during regular gallery hours.
Admission to the opening reception is free for members, $5 for guests at the door, or free with the purchase of a new membership. Become a member by 11 a.m. on April 15, and be eligible to show your work in this year’s Members’ Show & Sale (depending upon available space). All MEMBERS ARE INVITED TO SELL THEIR WORK!
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Asterisk Gallery presents: “the May Show”
Asterisk Gallery in conjunction with Detroit Avenue Arts
proudly presents”
“the May Show”
featuring new works by:
Eva Kwong
J. Mutt
Andrew Newbold
Joyce Porcelli
Anderson Turner
curated by Dana L.Depew
Opening reception May 8, 6 – 11pm
Sat May 9 noon – 6pm
2393 Professor Ave. in historic Tremont
330-304-8528
www.asteriskgallery.com
show runs through May 30
hrs. by appt.
sponsored by Pabst
EVA KWONG
Eva Kwong was born in Hong Kong. She received a B.F.A. at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence, Rhode Island and an M.F.A at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is a studio artist and adjunct faculty member at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. Eva is known for her compelling, colorful and sensuous forms inspired by natural objects.
Artist's Statement
I am interested in the interconnection of everything in the world, from microcosm to macrocosm. Maybe it is because I grew up with both eastern and western cultures. I was brought up with the traditional chinese concept of yin and yang that underlies all life forms and energies. This was discussed everyday with my grandmother who also passed on to me the joy of making things. Growing up in Hong Kong and New York,I learned to look at everything through the lens of both cultures.
This attraction of opposites, the intertwining of dualities has informed all my work for several decades since I was a student. I am interested in the juxtaposition of mass/space, land/air, solid/hollow, male and female forms. I feel I am a hybrid made of opposites.
J. MUTT
Every once in a while something truly grand happens: a voice hidden deep within a previously rather quiet object starts to shout and make itself known. There is no getting away from it and it asks me to give it life.
It can be: old
used
new
pretty
not pretty
free
pricey
cheap
hidden in a corner
hidden in plain sight
displayed under a bright light
profound
witty
funny
saddening
ordinary
not ordinary
This recognition, the perceived shouting, removes it from the realm of the mundane, and the voice becomes mine. Its own specialness helps me transform it into art (possibly merging with one or more objects that act as soul mates).
It is at these moments that I feel very happy - something profoundly special has occurred - and I have become an everlasting part of it all.
J. Mutt
2/28/08
ANDREW NEWBOLD
Newbold, a dedicated skateboarder, describes himself as being drawn to the “physicality” of glass, a discipline in which one can always “learn new tricks.” His researches into the ancient technologies of glass-making are one aspect of this desire for mastery of the medium in all its potential.
One could also theorize that the phenomenological qualities of Newbold’s installations reflect a well honed almost subconscious body-sense of the spatial aspects of his surroundings, an exaggerated perceptual skill needed by one who moves rapidly through unfamiliar territory.
JOYCE PORCELLI
The paintings in my current series represent the raw energy that exists within all things, from the mundane to the sublime.
As a painter, I have attempted to reach, both knowingly and unknowingly, the inherent power that propels me out from figural or realistic imagery. This aim can be achieved by utilizing a strength of expression that is, I hope, noticeably palpable to any observer.
The visual arts are a medium of expression which inherently have a small audience and therefore, a relatively small chance of reaching many human souls; unlike the performing arts - plays, films or concerts.
The visual artist, if fortunate, will create something that speaks to a small number of viewers forcefully enough so that an impression remains in the form of energy - energy that has been exchanged between the art and the viewer.
Joyce Porcelli
2/28/09
ANDERSON TURNER
Anderson Turner received a BFA in ceramic art from the University of Arizona
and went on to earn an MFA from Kent State University (Ohio). A former
Assistant Editor of Ceramics Monthly magazine, he has also edited numerous
handbooks for the American Ceramic Society as well scholarly journals for
the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts. He continues to make
and show artwork and maintains a studio at his farm in Garrettsville, Ohio
(www.luckypennyfarm.com). He currently serves as the Director of Galleries
for the Kent State University School of Art.
Israeli artist joins SPACES as 26th artist-in-residence
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Nicole Edwards
nedwards@spacesgallery.org
Office/Fax: 216.621.2314
www.spacesgallery.org
Israeli artist joins SPACES as 26th artist-in-residence to engage with
Northeast Ohio and create new work
Efrat Klipshtien
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
SPACES World Artists Program
Residency:
March 30-June 8, 2009
Exhibition Dates:
May 15-July 17, 2009
Saturday, April 11, 2009, 7pm, Free
PRESENTATION & PERFORMANCE:
Meet the artist and learn about her past work, her upcoming project (opening
reception May 15, 6 -9 p.m.), and enjoy a performance.
Cleveland, OH, April 2, 2009 - Efrat Klipshtien (Tel Aviv, Israel) recently arrived in Cleveland on March 30th to begin her nine-week residency as the
twenty-sixth SPACES World Artist. She has exhibited widely in Israel at
venues such as the Haifa Museum, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art in Tel
Aviv, and the Israel Museum. This will be her first residency in the United
States. As part of her residency program, Klipshtien will conduct a free
presentation on her past work, speak about her ambitions in Cleveland during
her stay, and present a special performance titled Opening Out on Saturday,
April 11 at 7pm. Klipshtien's exhibition will open with a reception Friday,
May 15, 2009 from 6-9 p.m. and will be on view through July 17, 2009.
While in the Israeli army, Efrat Klipshtien provided nature tours at various
sites in the mountains. After her service, she began to implement more
non-conventional tour tactics into her art practice as a performance artist.
Drawing on her experiences as a guide, Klipshtien explores the dynamics of
the viewer's relationship with public spaces, objects, and positions of
power. Through subtle feminist-political delivery, Klipshtien engages
audiences through a versatile range of media.
In Cleveland, the artist plans to capitalize on the differences in culture
and language between Israel and Cleveland to further her investigation of
performance. Klipshtien also plans to explore local materials for possible
use in a large-scale gallery installation.
Klipshtien writes in her statement, "For me, the spectator is part of the
journey, and his [.] experience within the installation consciously includes
[.] the distance he passes in the installation and the distance between him
and the art work, while visible and hidden temptations take the experience
to the extreme."
Klipshtien received a B.A in psychology and geography from the Ben-Gurion
University (Israel, 1992) followed by an M.Sc. in industrial design at the
Israel Institute of Technology (1997). In 1998, Klipshtien studied art at Ha
Midrasa, Beit Berl College (Israel, 1998).
Through a partnership with the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland, the
artist's residency is extended form the usual 8-week stay to 9-weeks,
allowing for deeper engagement with the community. Major funds for
Klipshtien's residency are provided by the Ohio Arts Council. As part of
this Ohio Arts Council funded residency, a partnership with the Haifa Museum
(Israel) resulted in identifying Efrat Klipshtien as SPACES' most recent
artist-in-residence.
SWAP was created to give visiting artists from around the world an
opportunity to create new work and interact with Northeast Ohioans.
Currently, SWAP consists of four 8-week residencies per year by national and
international artists who create a new body of work that is exhibited at the
conclusion of their stay. SPACES also produces a full-color brochure with a
critical essay to document each residency. Klipshtien's performances during
her residency are made possible through a collaboration with Rebecca Sweet
and her students from Viva Dance! Studio.
Major support comes from The Cleveland Foundation; The George Gund
Foundation; Kulas Foundation; John P. Murphy Foundation; National Endowment
for the Arts; Nimoy Foundation; Ohio Arts Council; and Process Creative
Studios. Additionally, SPACES is generously funded by Cuyahoga County
residents through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.
SPACES is located at 2220 Superior Viaduct, in Cleveland. Superior Viaduct
runs parallel to the Detroit Superior Bridge at the intersection of West
25th Street. Gallery hours are Tues-Thurs, 11am-5:30pm; Fri 11am-7pm; Sat
11am-5pm and Sun 1-5pm. Admission to SPACES and its events are free and open
to the public.
For more information, visit www.SPACESgallery.org, call 216-621-2314 or
email info@SPACESgallery.org.
Contact: Nicole Edwards
nedwards@spacesgallery.org
Office/Fax: 216.621.2314
www.spacesgallery.org
Israeli artist joins SPACES as 26th artist-in-residence to engage with
Northeast Ohio and create new work
Efrat Klipshtien
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
SPACES World Artists Program
Residency:
March 30-June 8, 2009
Exhibition Dates:
May 15-July 17, 2009
Saturday, April 11, 2009, 7pm, Free
PRESENTATION & PERFORMANCE:
Meet the artist and learn about her past work, her upcoming project (opening
reception May 15, 6 -9 p.m.), and enjoy a performance.
Cleveland, OH, April 2, 2009 - Efrat Klipshtien (Tel Aviv, Israel) recently arrived in Cleveland on March 30th to begin her nine-week residency as the
twenty-sixth SPACES World Artist. She has exhibited widely in Israel at
venues such as the Haifa Museum, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art in Tel
Aviv, and the Israel Museum. This will be her first residency in the United
States. As part of her residency program, Klipshtien will conduct a free
presentation on her past work, speak about her ambitions in Cleveland during
her stay, and present a special performance titled Opening Out on Saturday,
April 11 at 7pm. Klipshtien's exhibition will open with a reception Friday,
May 15, 2009 from 6-9 p.m. and will be on view through July 17, 2009.
While in the Israeli army, Efrat Klipshtien provided nature tours at various
sites in the mountains. After her service, she began to implement more
non-conventional tour tactics into her art practice as a performance artist.
Drawing on her experiences as a guide, Klipshtien explores the dynamics of
the viewer's relationship with public spaces, objects, and positions of
power. Through subtle feminist-political delivery, Klipshtien engages
audiences through a versatile range of media.
In Cleveland, the artist plans to capitalize on the differences in culture
and language between Israel and Cleveland to further her investigation of
performance. Klipshtien also plans to explore local materials for possible
use in a large-scale gallery installation.
Klipshtien writes in her statement, "For me, the spectator is part of the
journey, and his [.] experience within the installation consciously includes
[.] the distance he passes in the installation and the distance between him
and the art work, while visible and hidden temptations take the experience
to the extreme."
Klipshtien received a B.A in psychology and geography from the Ben-Gurion
University (Israel, 1992) followed by an M.Sc. in industrial design at the
Israel Institute of Technology (1997). In 1998, Klipshtien studied art at Ha
Midrasa, Beit Berl College (Israel, 1998).
Through a partnership with the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland, the
artist's residency is extended form the usual 8-week stay to 9-weeks,
allowing for deeper engagement with the community. Major funds for
Klipshtien's residency are provided by the Ohio Arts Council. As part of
this Ohio Arts Council funded residency, a partnership with the Haifa Museum
(Israel) resulted in identifying Efrat Klipshtien as SPACES' most recent
artist-in-residence.
SWAP was created to give visiting artists from around the world an
opportunity to create new work and interact with Northeast Ohioans.
Currently, SWAP consists of four 8-week residencies per year by national and
international artists who create a new body of work that is exhibited at the
conclusion of their stay. SPACES also produces a full-color brochure with a
critical essay to document each residency. Klipshtien's performances during
her residency are made possible through a collaboration with Rebecca Sweet
and her students from Viva Dance! Studio.
Major support comes from The Cleveland Foundation; The George Gund
Foundation; Kulas Foundation; John P. Murphy Foundation; National Endowment
for the Arts; Nimoy Foundation; Ohio Arts Council; and Process Creative
Studios. Additionally, SPACES is generously funded by Cuyahoga County
residents through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.
SPACES is located at 2220 Superior Viaduct, in Cleveland. Superior Viaduct
runs parallel to the Detroit Superior Bridge at the intersection of West
25th Street. Gallery hours are Tues-Thurs, 11am-5:30pm; Fri 11am-7pm; Sat
11am-5pm and Sun 1-5pm. Admission to SPACES and its events are free and open
to the public.
For more information, visit www.SPACESgallery.org, call 216-621-2314 or
email info@SPACESgallery.org.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
5th Annual “19” Exhibition roster
Asterisk Gallery Proudly Presents:
5th Annual “19” Exhibition
opening reception July 3, 2009
show runs through August 8, 2009
Lisa Kenion
Laszlo Gyorki
Sunie Boneham
Jake Beckman
Bruce Edwards
Cathy Kasdan
Janet Snell
Debra DeGregorio
Michael Wallace
Brian McCollum
Sally Hudak
Laila Voss
Linda Herman
Elizabeth Emery
Thea Miklowski
Dana Oldfather
Robin Leftovich
Shauna Merriman
Charles Wince
Asterisk Gallery Proudly Presents:"Image and Object"
Asterisk Gallery Proudly Presents:
"Image and Object"
curated by Irina Kouchhanova and Mark Slankard
opening reception Friday April, 10, 2009
6 - 11 pm
show runs through May
hrs by appt
2393 Professor Ave in historic Tremont
330-304-8528
www.asteriskgallery.com
"The overtly fabricated dollhouse tableaux brings to the forefront dark psychological themes that depict a realm of imagination in which the power to control domestic environments is complete. The scenes evoke sublimated fears and desires and explore tensions between childhood innocence and sadism." - Mark Slankard "I've been working with the theme of physical and psychological conflicts to explore ratios of suffering and struggle, the nature of art and the untouchable distances of history. Altered states of humanity through contradictions between personal perception and imposed structure continues in my current work in sculpture and drawing." - Irina Koukhanova
The exhibition “Image and Object” will explore the crossroads of two historically opposite ways of processing reality in art. The current state of discourse allows for image and object to coexist as an ever-shifting mode with multiple faces. Mark Slankard and Irina Koukhanova, both professors at Cleveland State University, will exhibit their respective photographic and sculptural work with possible participation of their colleagues from Youngstown State University. Additional component in the exhibition will be the inclusion of their students’ work addressing photography based on a sculptural object and sculpture incorporating an image as its anchoring point
CALL FOR DONATIONS
The 2nd Annual "Art & Cocktails" Art Auction to benefit the community organizing programs of Tremont West Development Corporation will be held May 2, 2009 at Asterisk Gallery in Tremont.
Tremont West Development Corporation is requesting submissions of original art to be exhibited and auctioned to benefit this program that is so vital to the welfare of the residents of our neighborhood. Community organizers staff block clubs, help run events like the Arts and Cultural Festival and the Tremont Farmers' Market and educate residents about community programs, events and issues.
We are seeking donated work from professional artists, advanced amateurs and art students. This is a non-juried event; however, the committee reserves the right to make final selections as space allows.
Artists contributing pieces for silent auctions will have their names listed on the program and, if work is received early enough, in press releases for the event.
Please let us know by Friday, April 24, if you plan to donate artwork to the silent auction. All artwork for the silent auction is due by Wednesday, April 29. Artists are welcome to specify a minimum bid for their work.
For further information, contact Sandy Smith at slsmith819@hotmail.com or Dana Depew at rdog72@hotmail.com.
Tremont West Development Corporation is requesting submissions of original art to be exhibited and auctioned to benefit this program that is so vital to the welfare of the residents of our neighborhood. Community organizers staff block clubs, help run events like the Arts and Cultural Festival and the Tremont Farmers' Market and educate residents about community programs, events and issues.
We are seeking donated work from professional artists, advanced amateurs and art students. This is a non-juried event; however, the committee reserves the right to make final selections as space allows.
Artists contributing pieces for silent auctions will have their names listed on the program and, if work is received early enough, in press releases for the event.
Please let us know by Friday, April 24, if you plan to donate artwork to the silent auction. All artwork for the silent auction is due by Wednesday, April 29. Artists are welcome to specify a minimum bid for their work.
For further information, contact Sandy Smith at slsmith819@hotmail.com or Dana Depew at rdog72@hotmail.com.
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