Handmade Fine Art in the Heart of Downtown Cleveland

The W Gallery is a fine art store inside of Downtown Cleveland’s 5th Street Arcades. The gallery features several artist collections of handmade jewelry in addition to hand-blown glass, ceramics, photography and encaustic wax paintings. Besides curating the amazing and diverse work of the several featured artists, I also create and hand-engrave custom jewelry in my onsite design studio, where […]

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Women in Reverie

Before I learned to paint, I played the piano, and the songs I enjoyed the most were not the ones with crashing crescendos and fortissimos, but rather the quiet Reveries. Those dreamlike pieces of music led me to a place of inner peace and reflection. Likewise, as a painter, I have enjoyed capturing on canvas the same dreamlike “states of […]

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Art and Artists live in Tremont

There’s a rumor that Tremont is no longer a haven for artists, a rumor that gentrification is not the artist’s friend. Not so in Tremont, where artists thrive and transform their community by reimagining what a creative lifestyle means. Beginning in the late 1970s, artist of all persuasions—painters, sculptors, dancers, musicians, chefs, arts educators, graphic artists—began moving in. By 2011, […]

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Alternate worlds emerge at Transformer Station this winter: works by Esther Teichmann

She dives into blackness. Hurtling into and through darkness, everything inside her breathes with strength and relief. She swims downwards and away from land, eyes open, seeing nothing, saltwater entering every pore.   Something is shifting, changing. Waters churn faster, a low rumbling building steadily from a far off place. Black clouds plunge this otherworldly stage into momentary darkness, their […]

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Screw Factory Open Studios celebrates 10 years and host Weihnachtsmarkt, plus: Cleveland maker spaces organize for Cleveland Creates Weekend

It will be a busy December  for the Screw Factory Artists, who are celebrating the Tenth Anniversary of the Screw Factory Artists Open Studios show.  The first weekend of December is devoted to the Fall/Winter Artists’ Open Studios show.  The Screw Factory Artists are collaborating with other area studios to celebrate the Cleveland Creates weekend.   The Screw Factory, along with several […]

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Open Studios at the Morgan Conservatory

The Open Studios program allows professional and emerging artists and students access to studio space and equipment, and provides them with an opportunity to create art in the areas of papermaking, letterpress printing, bookbinding and book arts. Robert Cmarick, a regular of the Open Studios program at the Morgan is originally from Cleveland, and most of his family still lives […]

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Loren Naji Brings Emoh homE for New Adventures, and Prepares for American Greetings Exhibit

After departure from a delightful send-off at Prosperity Social Club in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood, the live-in sculpture Emoh (Home spelled backwards) continued to garner attention at its first stop, another reception—this time at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. Ultimately, after three weeks in Grand Rapids, As a top 20 ArtPrize finalist, out of 1455 competitors, Emoh was featured in […]

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Heights Arts Holiday Store celebrates 15 years of showcasing Cleveland artists

Part of our nonprofit’s mission is to showcase and support our region’s artists, whether they are visual, literary or musical. Fortunately for all of us, Northeast Ohio and particularly Cleveland Heights,  is a burgeoning hotbed of creative talent. This season, Heights Arts is hosting the largest holiday store in its history, with a broad selection of giftable art in ceramics, […]

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Healing Through Art

HEDGE Gallery hosts “Healing Through Art,” an exhibit that will display artwork by students from Ursuline College’s Counseling and Art Therapy Graduate Program. The work in this show will focus on healing through means of creative expression. HEDGE Gallery represented artist, Meghann Snow Hennen, will also be involved in the exhibit, with one of her interactive performance pieces taking place […]

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