by Karen Petkovic and Beth Milli This fall, BAYarts is launching the newly renovated BAYarts Cultural Center, a unique venue featuring a flexible meeting space with a 100-seat auditorium and stage, a gallery with a full schedule of curated shows perfect to inspire discussion and engagement with art, and an outside patio nestled right in the heart of the Huntington […]
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Tricia Kaman is partnering with BAYarts to showcase a themed collection of work in her upcoming solo exhibition, A Closer Look. The exhibition is designed to show viewers the intricacies of Kaman’s unique creative methods. Paintings from throughout her career will provide examples of her techniques for approaching color and composition, rendering fabrics and metals, and other elements of design. […]
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We’re late to this party, but an exhibit recently closed at BAYarts–Erjon Hajnaj: My Light & Shadow—makes us wonder how many highly skilled artists are out there, operating below the radar, actively practicing their craft, either working toward their first shows or just rarely showing their work. Hajnaj was born in Fier, Albania—one of the Balkan countries, directly across the […]
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Lisa Schonberg will showcase work inspired by nature in her show, Inner Nature: Expressions in Monoprints, at BAYarts this summer. As a printmaker, Schonberg advises she explores the process of monoprinting to express her feelings for our natural environment. This process allows her to experiment with various elements and techniques to produce several images on one concept, leading her to […]
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Spend more than a few minutes with the 50-plus selections on view in Moments in the Spotlight: Music Photography by Anastasia Pantsios, and it soon becomes clear that a thread is woven throughout the latest exhibit by the longtime Cleveland photographer. While artists such as Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, and local favorite Michael Stanley can be found, another focus here […]
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BAYarts will be showcasing our faculty in an exhibition this January. We are looking forward to sharing with the community and the local art scene the amazing talent we have in our Education Department. Opening January 10, 2025, we will be featuring thirteen artists—all of them part of our esteemed faculty, and all of them artists with their own artistic […]
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Artist Tony Skinner is a figurative artist and illustrator. His work is characterized by layered illustrations of people. Color and texture are two of the tools he uses as he explores the human figure and condition. This body of work deals with the housing insecurity problem that continues to plague our country in every community—Skinner noticed the problem magnified in […]
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BAYarts Executive Director Nancy Walters Heaton will step down after twenty years, and it’s not exaggerating to say she and a team of women who were not soccer moms saved the organization. BAYarts Board President Mary Conway Sullivan says she and Executive Director Nancy Heaton met before either of them was actively involved at the gallery and community art center. […]
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Artists are most celebrated for their big shows at major institutions. Nonetheless, measured in terms of impact on the world, commercial artists and teachers give big names a run for the money. Commercial artists are the image makers who define the look of the world—from the way people are remembered in portraits to the way landscapes are perceived, to how […]
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Imagine a turbine always in motion; it spins quietly and eternally in the background, barely humming, gathering energy and transforming it into something else. It’s a sort of mechanical alchemy: a cool, perpetual transmogrifier that harnesses power from one source and outputs something completely different. Welcome to Allison Bogard Hall’s creative process. For the past eighteen months, Hall has immersed […]
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