My fascination with plein air painting (French for “in the open air”) began when I traveled to Monhegan Island in Maine several years ago. As a longtime studio painter, I was looking for inspiration and ways to improve my painting. I longed to paint on location, immersed in nature. I took a workshop with a wonderful group of people, in […]
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Artist Karen Jewell-Kett will bring her show Moment:Momentum to the BAYarts Sullivan Family Gallery this June. As a member of the group BAYarts Sunday Painters, Jewell-Kett can often be found navigating the world of plein air painting throughout the BAYarts campus. While Moment:Momentum will primarily consist of work completed in her Screw Factory studio, Jewell-Kett brings the same level of […]
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Raised in Fredericktown, Ohio—a rural town of 1,800 marked by barns, aging farmhouses, and fading roadside signs—Cochran grew up immersed in both quiet landscapes and loud music. While rural life unfolded outside his window, Cochran spent countless hours inside his bedroom listening to songs, carefully transcribing lyrics, and surrounding himself with concert posters. In high school, he picked up a […]
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Humans coexist with the natural world and benefit from its abundant resources. From the soil all creatures emerge and will return in due course. It is the interconnectedness of life which inspires Debra Sue Solecki in her latest exhibition, Nature’s Networks: A Visual Exploration of Mycelium. By way of a complex mixture of writing, pasted historical photography and realistic paintings […]
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In Weaving Currents: Reclaiming Joy, Melissa English Campbell presents a vivid and unapologetic celebration of family, community, and the serenity of water. Drawing on themes of swimming, watching children grow, and sun-drenched days at the lake, she transforms these familiar experiences into powerful narratives of identity and resistance. Featuring her own family members—including those from the LGBTQ+ community—as models, Campbell […]
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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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