BAYarts Adult Classes Resume

BAYarts adult programming may have been sidelined for a minute (or year), but it’s back to capacity with the same quality programming and great faculty BAYarts has been known for over generations. Frankly, the virtual option during the pandemic year was not a big hit with BAYarts’ adult students, who prefer the experience of a classroom community and the inspiration […]

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Mystique at Huntington Beach at BAYarts

In life we may encounter dark times (deep seas) and feel we are drowning. Yet while in that dark place, we can find help (mermaids!). Thus the internal fire is reignited, and we give that storm hell (phoenix emerging!), and enjoy life once again with our family and friends (beach volleyball)—post COVID (calm seas). These are the themes that inspired […]

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CAN Editor Michael Gill Honored at BAYarts

BAYarts will honor CAN Journal’s co-founder and executive director at the annual Moondance Benefit on September 9. Each year, BAYarts honors an individual who has contributed to northeast Ohio’s cultural landscape in a transformative and lasting way. Past honorees have included CPAC President & CEO Tom Schorgl, Liz Maugans of Zygote Press and Brian Zimmerman, CEO of Cleveland Metroparks. Some […]

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BAYarts Galleries Present Pattern and Form

BAYarts greets the spring with its annual juried exhibition, followed by exhibits exploring pattern, form, and a variety of media, from photography, to paint, to pottery. In addition, as always, artists will find a range of artistic opportunities to see, hear, make, do, and sell their work—all in our stunning Metroparks campus on the shore of Lake Erie! For information […]

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BAYarts New Ceramic Arts and Education Center Opening

  After much anticipation and planning, The Karen Ryel Ceramic Arts & Education Center on BAYarts’ campus will open this winter. The studio is named in memory of a ceramic artist and member of BAYarts’ close-knit ceramics community and made possible by a gift from her family. The new structure replaces the existing studio now located in the basement of […]

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BAYarts Illuminates Cleveland’s Resurgence

“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical plan once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing asserting itself with growing insistence. “ -Daniel H. Burnham, architect […]

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BAYarts Hot Summer: Exhibit, Educate, Engage

Summer 2014 is packed with events at BAYarts,including the annual Art and Music Festival. Here’s what’s coming up in our galleries and on our stage.   June 6 – 30 A Place for Everything: Craig Mains Photography Noticing associations and messages, intended, unintended, misread. Preston Buchtel, curator. Information at craigmains.com.   June 6 – 30 Collectors Show Friends of BAYarts […]

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Guest Curators, 50th Juried Show at BAYarts

THREE VIEWS SEPTEMBER 7–30 Award winning artists David Ward, Ken Smith, Edward Beyer exhibit plein air studies and studio works from three points of view and three diverse careers: from American Greetings BAYarts portrait studio. Opening Reception September 7th, 7–9 pm 50TH ANNUAL JURIED EXHIBITION / THRESHOLD  OCTOBER 12–NOVEMBER 2 In the Sullivan Family Gallery. Esteemed judges: Susan Channing, curator, educator and artist, and Del Rey Loven,  artist/professor […]

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