Studio to Studio – a Moving Experience

I had decided to move from from my studio of more than a dozen years, even before I heard that the building was tagged for sale. The old space had a certain charm, sinks down the hall along with restrooms reminiscent of those found in clothing sweatshops, which the building had once housed. It was a jolly game to find […]

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A Winning Trio

With the Banner Project a great success, artists from City Artists at Work and The Artists Archive of the Western Reserve joined together with Frontlines Services, an assessment and intervention organization to create four workshops for the clients from social services in monotype, painting, card creation and keepsake box design. Although the weather on Saturday, February 21st was nippy, creativity […]

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Working Together, Now and in the Future

    As an artist, you never know when an opportunity will present itself. So that is why when Bobbi Reichtell, Executive Director of the Campus District emailed me last November and asked if I would be willing to be involved in the “Banner UP” project,” I said, yes.   The project involved getting artists and homeless men from the […]

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A Banner Day on Superior

  Elementary school may have been the last time the four men who came to my studio from Lutheran Metropolitan Ministries on Lakeside Avenue were ever asked to express themselves artistically. In August, Bobbi Reichtell of the Campus District asked me if City Artists at Work were willing to join with these men in developing designs for banners that would […]

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Sparx and the Open Studio: Why and how it works for us

  When City Artists at Work (CAAW) came into existence, one of its goals was to reactivate the Open Studio events that NOVA (New Organization for the Visual Arts) had sponsored before its demise. NOVA’s Open Studio weekends included galleries across Northeast Ohio, but those in outlying areas had very little attendance. CAAW decided to reduce the size of the […]

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The Artists Upstairs – Yes We Can!

Most of us started creating art in our parents’ basement, in our bedroom, or maybe on the dining room table if there was a dining room. So actually to have a studio is within itself a dream come true–let alone to have a community of artists and their studios!   On any floor of the building that’s home to the […]

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TerraVista Studio: Ceramics R US

TerraVista Studio is a bustling ceramics studio located on the fourth floor of the building on 30th Street off Superior. Most of the artists are veterans of the fourteen years the studio has been in existence: Lynne Norwood Lofton, Megan Dull, Yomiko Goto, Rob Romeo and Andrea LeBlond. On entering the gallery you’ll see signs that they are in the […]

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Printmaking: Working Outside Your Comfort Zone

What happens when a new faculty member in the Printmaking Department at the Cleveland Institute of Art decides not  only to think outside the box but also move the class out of the studio into the parking lot? Barbara Chira proposed to Pr int Department head Maggie Denk-Leigh a risky project that became known as “The Big Squeeze,” and after she laid out the plans, timelines and logistics, […]

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