Art Collector and Go-Big Developer Hopes to Turn Warehouse District into a Cultural Hub

For nearly thirty years, the five-story George Worthington building—a T-shaped red-brick structure hidden behind the St. Clair Avenue and West 6th Street strip—sat inactive. From the 1980s though the millennium, office buildings were sparsely populated, or housed low-income artists as illegal squatters (the Bradley Building being one of them). A few art galleries came and went. The district was SPACES’s […]

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Eileen Dorsey: Cleveland’s landscape artist paints from the hip

The last thing painter Eileen Dorsey wants to know is how much exactly she spends on paint. In her first-floor space in 78th Street Studios, table-sized palettes lay flat with paint chips as big as apples. Walls are lined with a dozen oil paintings of a green-and-purple Ireland, those all furnished with the well-known Dorsey schtick: a palette knife and […]

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