Public Pressure Mounting To Keep Coventry PEACE Campus As Is

Next week should be busy for the Coventry PEACE Campus, the former Coventry school-turned-arts-hive, the preservation of which has become a rallying point for East Side creatives. Artful, representing individual artists and their studios, along with 11 other tenants, want CPC to remain where it is. The University Heights-Cleveland Heights Library Board, which owns the building, wants CPC out, claiming […]

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Coventry PEACE Campus Faces Shaky Future: New Short-Term Leases Threaten Artist Community In Cleveland Heights

A group of artists and administrators stepped up to the microphone at Cleveland Heights City Council Monday night to plead the case for the Coventry PEACE Campus, a community hub in danger of closing because of a change in lease terms. Three members of the board of Cleveland Heights-University Heights Libraries also spoke. CPC and Heights Libraries, its landlord, have […]

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Updated: Some Answers, No Peace

EDIT: This story has been updated with responses from The Cleveland Heights-University Heights Library Board. Advocates for the Coventry PEACE Campus in Cleveland Heights hope once again to rally residents to their cause and persuade the building owner to sell them the controversial, yet thriving, non-profit artist complex. CPC and ARTFUL Cleveland, the tenants CPC represents, have been a bone […]

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Kaman Style

Artist Tricia Kaman is known for more than her portraiture studio in the Murray Hill Schoolhouse, where she hosted the Murray Hill Life Drawing Group for 24 years. She also built Kaman’s Art Shoppes with her husband Rich. At its peak four years ago, Kaman’s had 2,500 seasonal employees drawing portraits in the Kaman style, and offering other creative services, at amusement parks across […]

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SOUVENIRS OF AN INDELIBLE TIME: The passing of John W. Carlson tears Cleveland’s cultural fabric

John Wallace Carlson died December 20, sealing, for those who knew him, 2020’s reputation as a truly horrible year. Carlson was 66. His passing robbed Cleveland of a kindly, creative force whose art and teaching leave a memorable mark. Carlson was tall and skinny, his fashion casual and faintly glam, his hair electric. Walk into a show and he’d beam […]

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A Truce: Coventry PEACE Campus and Heights Libraries come to terms

  Coventry PEACE Campus and the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library have forged an agreement designed to solidify Coventry PEACE Campus (CPC) as a Cleveland Heights institution by way of a long-term lease for the nonprofit and the tenants it represents. It aims to expand by adding new tenants to its current base. The pact gives CPC stability. Now, CPC […]

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SHUFFLEHEAD

Kasumi has said she doesn’t know what her brain knows, suggesting a mysterious and limitless ore to mine. Her willingness to plunder that mine—her curiosity and fearlessness—inform her art, whether cinema, installation, or app. While Kasumi productions are abstract and demanding no matter how kinetic, they are based on her feelings, her deep connections. Even as her multimedia, high-tech work […]

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Showdown at Coventry: PEACE Campus in jeopardy

Deanna Bremer Fisher–head of the board of the Coventry PEACE Campus in Cleveland Heights, and also executive director of the nonprofit advocacy organization for the city, Future Heights–hopes to temper, perhaps even resolve, a dispute between that arts-and-culture organization and Heights Libraries, the system that continues to serve as landlord to CPC, perhaps against its will. Bremer Fisher will make […]

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Shufflehead: A Good Reason to Look at Your Phone

I’ve never been as well-informed as I have been this viral year, but I’m not sure that’s a good thing. The confluence of protests following the murder of George Floyd, the coronavirus pandemic, and the Trump pestilence have had the perverse effect of making me even more of a news junkie than I was in less turbulent times. So much […]

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Belt’s Midwest Architecture Journeys

  Midwest Architecture Journeys, an unusual and ambitious book from Belt Publishing, takes us on a tour of the region’s monuments, above and below ground, imaginary and actual. As Alexandra Lange says in the introduction, the book stems from an itch to explore a region that is far more than flyover country. You will want to visit these places. There […]

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