Author: Heights Arts Staff

Heights Arts Celebrates 25 Years of Creativity, Connection, and Community

This fall, Heights Arts marks a significant milestone: 25 years of enriching Cleveland’s East Side with multidisciplinary art experiences that connect people and foster community. From visual art exhibitions and music performances to literary readings and public art installations, Heights Arts continues to break down barriers to participation and ensure that everyone has access to creative expression. In keeping with […]

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Heights Arts Welcomes Young Artists in Summer Exhibitions

Heights Arts is known for celebrating art in many forms at its longstanding Cleveland Heights gallery—especially up-and-coming artists. For the summer, Heights Arts is excited to present two exhibitions celebrating this new talent, with our intern exhibition Innate Environments and the following Emergent exhibition, each accompanied by its own Spotlight showcase. Both will be on display with live viewings at […]

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Heights Arts Celebrates Community with Three Exhibitions

Heights Arts presents its group and accompanying Spotlight exhibitions on Friday, March 19 through Sunday, May 16. Group Show 2021 features work across various mediums, allowing gallery visitors to experience work submitted by local artists and curated by Heights Arts’ Exhibition Community Team. The exhibition features artists Dante Rodriguez, Julie Friedman, Paula Izydorek, Mark Keffer, and Alessandro Ravagnan, with an […]

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Fall into Some Untouched Territory, Get into the Spotlight and Gear Up for the Holidays at Heights Arts

We start our 2019–2020 exhibition season with Untouched: The Digital Paradox, a group exhibition opening on Friday, August 30. Matthew Hollern, professor and chair of Jewelry + Metals at the Cleveland Institute of Art, is the guest curator for the show, which explores the evolving role of technology in the creation of art. “Sometimes the digital history of an object […]

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Heights Arts presents Emergent, and more

Heights Arts’ gallery, 2175 Lee Road, is excited to present the third iteration of the well-received exhibition Emergent, which shines a light on artists who have recently graduated from area colleges and universities. First organized in 2015, Emergent celebrates the strength of the Northeast Ohio region as a training ground for significant artists of tomorrow. Numerous artists who appeared in […]

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Heights Arts Thinks Sideways, Shines Two Spotlights, and Focuses on Emergent Artists This Spring

Opening March 8 in the Heights Arts group exhibition space is a show that could be titled Playing. The artists in SIDEWAYS THINKING—Leslye Discont Arian, Catherine Butler, Julianne Edberg, Laurie Garrett, Jenny Mendes, and Melissa O’Grady—take us to alternate, more fantastic worlds. Guest curator Julianne Edberg says, “When we play, we let loose the inspired part of our mind to […]

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Heights Arts Presents Drawn Together and Its First Members Show

Opening March 9 in the Heights Arts main gallery, Drawn Together: Emotional Intelligence and the Vernacular of the Heart explores the Buddhist concept of the brahma-viharas, also known as the four divine emotions, through drawings by John Carlson, Suzanne Head, Tony Ingrisano, and Dana Oldfather. Drawn Together explores the emotions of loving-kindness (metta), compassion (karuna), vicarious or sympathetic joy (mudita), […]

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Public conscience, communities, and emerging artists at Heights Arts

Graphic design and illustration have expanded from the publishing and advertising industries from which they sprung.  Influenced by graffiti, new technologies in animation or gaming, illustrators now create stories about world issues, popular culture, trends in daily life. Artists take issues out of context and reexamine them in unconsidered perspectives which cleverly challenge  the viewers to assess their own part […]

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