From furry walls to billowing fabric eyes, the landscape of Irrational Objects: Backwards into the Future envelops its viewers in the surreal. A “fruit basket” is a baby doll. A “housewarming gift” shifts from soft to sharp. The Venus de Milo floats, suspended, over waves of sand. Born of No Exit New Music Ensemble’s yearlong exploration of Surrealism, Irrational Objects […]
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For over twenty years, Heights Arts—a nonprofit nestled in the heart of Cleveland Heights—has presented the region with programming in visual art, poetry, and music that reflects the vibrancy of the community it calls home. Alongside the opening of its 22nd annual Holiday Store, Heights Arts presents its entire music season of eleven concerts through August 2024. The 2024 music […]
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A spell of the surreal has settled over Cleveland. Cast by No Exit New Music Ensemble and fostered by many partners, including Heights Arts, Year of Surreality is an attempt to unlock the power of freewheeling creativity. “One of the things that is appealing about dedicating No Exit’s entire season to surrealism is that surrealism is not a particular style […]
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This fall and into next year, Heights Arts will participate in a city-wide exploration of surrealism in partnership with the No Exit New Music Ensemble and other collaborators. The celebration will begin with Collaborage, an exhibition opening in late August for which Heights Arts will tap its unique multidisciplinary resources. The concept for the exhibition employs the game strategies avant-garde […]
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Heights Arts opens two new exhibitions from 5 to 8pm on March 7 at its Lee Road gallery in Cleveland Heights. Artist Charles Schweigert debuts his solo exhibition in the Spotlight Gallery alongside the All Access group exhibition. All Access presents a fresh look at folk art from a modern perspective, and highlights some of the area’s pioneers who make […]
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Visual artists have long been fascinated by books, often as a way to distribute reproductions of original works. Impagination, agroup exhibition running from August 19 to October 16, is not about reproductions, but about books that themselves are one-of-a-kind works of art, designed to be held in the hands and leafed through in a narrative sequence. Each participant was selected […]
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Time and time again, the course of history has been changed by young people with the courage to address their community in solidarity. In 1903, children of coal miners marched from Philadelphia to New York in protest against child labor. In 1960, the young Greensboro Four staged sit-ins that roused students across the nation to join in the civil rights […]
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From March 18 through May 15 in the Heights Arts exhibition space, artists Peter Christian Johnson, Karin Dijkstra, Corrie Slawson, Claudio Orso, and Carmen Romine test where boundaries lie between representational study and abstract expression. FIGURATIVE /ABSTRACT explores the familiar in unfamiliar ways, referring to the recognizable as a foundation from which new ideas are born. Portraying subjects from […]
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With so much focus being centered around the home these days, we’ve become increasingly aware of what we surround ourselves with. The right piece of art has the potential to transform imposing walls into open windows that expand your space and light up every room. Awareness and appreciation of others seem to be shifting globally too, in ways that can […]
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When we think of art, it’s easy to think of a painting hanging in a museum, or a large sculpture in a park. But art comes in many forms, and to close out 2021, a year in which art has meant so much more, Heights Arts is celebrating many art forms in its fall exhibitions, poetry reading, and Holiday […]
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