Ron Shelton, Author at Collective Arts Network

High Art Fridays: The Sustainable Art of Plastics to Be Installed at Beachwood Community Center

High Art Fridays: The Sustainable Art of Plastics will open on July 6 and run through August 26 at the Beachwood Community Center: 25325 Fairmount Boulevard. This exhibition is the third in-person display for this project. The show’s main feature is over fifty plastic-embellished Art Hats made by local, national, and international artists, along with an inclusion of Cleveland’s various population segments, such […]

High Art Fridays Connects by Recycling Plastic Waste Into Art

Ron Shelton

HAF Connects: The Sustainable Art of Plastics began in 2019 under the auspices of the Urban Bright Art Residency at Art House, Inc. Ron Shelton, artist and publisher of the online arts magazine High Art Fridays (HAF), engaged 23 energetic third graders about how plastics are invading our culture, our environment, and our lives. The theme of this project was centered […]

High Art Fridays Challenges the Global Plastic Epidemic

Ron Shelton

High Art Fridays (HAF) is an eclectic assembly of local and international artists working in a wide range of materials and iconographic ideas to address critical social, historical, and environmental issues through art, education, and community engagement. For the past four years, HAF has focused much of its attention on the current global plastic epidemic, featuring artists around the globe […]