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The Plain Dealer will feature artists Bonnie Dolin and William Gould in their first floor Lobby/Gallery with an exhibit,  titled Artists View of the Western Reserve. The exhibit, which runs from January 21 to March 30, represents their  interpretations of landscapes and cityscapes in Northeast Ohio. Artist Bonnie Dolin feels that although we are in an age of new technology, she still uses traditional materials with roots  in […]

The Plain Dealer will feature artists Bonnie Dolin and William Gould in their first floor Lobby/Gallery with an exhibit,  titled Artists View of the Western Reserve. The exhibit, which runs from January 21 to March 30, represents their  interpretations of landscapes and cityscapes in Northeast Ohio.   Artist Bonnie Dolin feels that although we are in an age of new technology, she still uses traditional materials with roots […]

“I look so forward to coming to Art Therapy Studio. I love creating here. Art completes me. Thank you, Art Therapy Studio.”   Marc Ranallo is a 30-plus-year survivor of a traumatic brain injury. He was struck by a car when he was just 11 years old  and spent the next three months in a coma, followed by nine months of rehabilitation at MetroHealth Medical Center. He  had […]

Im agine a place where artists can live and work in converted warehouses or factories in a great neighborhood. In 2001,  the Cleveland City Council enacted the Live-Work Overlay District Zoning Ordinance to encourage development of artist  spaces and to establish an artist studio district. Councilman Joe Cimperman spearheaded the creation of  the LWO  District Zoning Ordinance, with input from ArtSpace-Cleveland and support from the Community Partnership for Arts and […]

If you have not yet seen the new Galleries at Cleveland State University, you are missing out! Located in the historic  Cowell & Hubbard Building at the corner of Euclid Avenue and East 13th Street, this state-ofthe- art new Gallery Space   preserves many of the graceful features of the elegant old jewelry store that used to occupy the site – this in itself is worth a trip. […]

The Orange Art Center (OAC) is not only a place for art classes. The OAC hosts three exhibitions a year: a student show, a faculty show and an invitational show. The 5th installment of Animals in Art (AIA) is our first exhibition of 2013. Collaborating this year with the Cleveland  Animal Protective League (APL), we once again are inviting artists to submit  examples of their animal-themed art […]

So, what is this Loren Naji Studio Gallery in Ohio City, and what is Loren trying to do? Affordable real estate in this sort of  rundown section of West 25th Street enabled me to realize my dream art space in this budding, urban West Side Market  neighborhood eleven years ago.   I purchased this double store-front building back in 2001 and intended for it to serve as my […]

This spring, in partnership with The Cleveland Foundation’s Creative Fusion Program, Art House has the privilege of hosting international artist Alka Mathur, from New Delhi, India. As one of six host organizations in the city, Art House is  delighted to have this wonderful opportunity.   Born in Ajmer, Rajasthan, India, Mathur graduated in fine arts from the Sir J. J. School of Arts, Mumbai. Working in  mixed media, she […]

Two of Hollywood’s most talented personalities have Cleveland roots and are returning home to talk about what it means to be from Cleveland and how a regional personality and perspective takes shape. On April 25th, Modern Family  executive producer Dan O’Shannon and Community’s Yvette Nicole Brown will be at the Cleveland Public Library for a  free and lighthearted dialogue titled Who We Are: Comedy, Tragedy, & Cleveland.   Cleveland, once […]

William Busta Gallery: Most people take their outdoor photographs outdoors, don’t they?   Lori Kella: Yes I’m sure most do, but I was always dissatisfied with the exact scene in front of me, so I started building  landscapes myself. By creating artificial worlds I can merge different parts of the landscape as well as different places. In  my photographs I create a world that is partly based on […]