On Saturday July 17th Arts Collinwood has partnered with the Euclid Beach Adopt-A-Beach Team to bring you a day of free summer festivities, family fun and environmental awareness at Euclid Beach Park!

The day kicks off with a beach clean up at 11am.  Join members of the Euclid Beach Adopt-a-Beach team as we clean and screen Euclid Beach!  Then, grab your shovels and start building your best sand creations for a sand castle contest you do not want to miss! Get ready for lots of great prizes! After all that hard work, enjoy a cookout and entertainment by local artists along with Cleveland’s very own Show Wagon! And don’ forget to make and toot your own horn in an instrument making workshop with Cleveland’s own Dr. Craig Woodson.  Walk the promenade and learn about lakefront preservation.  Visit information tables from the Alliance for the Great Lakes, The City of South Euclid, Northeast Shores Development Corporation, The Friends of Euclid Creek and more! Finally, end the day with some good old fashioned storytelling that the whole family will enjoy!

Volunteers interested in participating in the beach cleanup should be advised to wear closed toed shoes, dress appropriately for the weather and apply both sun screen and bug repellent. Disposable gloves, trash bags, trash pickers, rakes and refreshments will be provided to cleanup participants at registration.

Schedule of Events:

11:00am – Beach Clean Up

12:00pm – Sand Sculpture Contest Begins

3:30pm – Sand Sculpture Judging

4pm – 6pm Cookout, Entertainment + Activities

4:00pm The City of Cleveland’s Show Wagon

4:30pm Laugh + Learn with Craig Woodson

5:30pm Storytelling

MANY THANKS TO:

Friends of Euclid Creek

Cuyahoga Riparian Action Plan

Councilman Michael D. Polensek

Northeast Shores Development Corporation

Clevelander’s In Motion – A program of the YMCA

The Collinwood Observer

DIRECTIONS:

The entire festival will take place at Euclid Beach Park off of Lakeshore Blvd.

From the west: Take I-71 North to I-90 East. Take I-90 East to the East 185th Street Exit. Turn right on East 185th. Take East 185th to Lakeshore Blvd. Turn left on Lakeshore Blvd. Continue on Lakeshore until you arrive at Euclid Beach State Park, on your right hand side and after you pass the Euclid Beach Trailer Park entrance.

From the east: Take Green Road north to Euclid Avenue. Turn right on Euclid Avenue. Take Euclid Avenue to Dille Rd. Turn left on Dille Rd. Continue on to Nottingham Rd. Continue on to East 185th St. Take East 185th to Lakeshore Blvd. Turn left on Lakeshore Blvd. Continue on Lakeshore Blvd. until you arrive at the Euclid Beach State Park entrance, on your right hand side and after you pass the Euclid Beach Trailer Park entrance..

SS&W BOARDWALK

1^st ever Classic Car Cruise, 4-10pm, The Blues DeVille perform at 10pm, Free! Up to 50 Classic Cars (register your car for $10), Vendors, Barmaid Dunk The Dolly Booth, Cleveland Burlesque’s Beauties posing for pictures with the cars 4-5pm. Full bar and food! 16011 Waterloo, 216-481-0077

THE SCULPTURE GARDEN

The Madison Crawl perform at 5-7pm, Free! 16006 Waterloo Rd, 216-481-0077.

BLUE ARROW RECORDS AND BOOKS

Scoliosis Jones perform at 8:00pm, Free! Vintage Flea Market in the Blue Arrow Annex
16001 Waterloo, 216.486.2415, http://www.bluearrowrecords.com/

STAR POP vintage + modern

Christmas in July Party & Sale 20% off!, snacks 7-10pm. Picklefight Puppets kid & adult friendly show at 7:30, Free!
15813 Waterloo, 216.965.2368, http://starpopcleveland.com

MUSIC SAVES

Stop by Music Saves for fun and surprises! 15801 Waterloo, 216.481.1875, http://www.MUSICSAVES.com/

BEACHLAND BALLROOM & TAVERN

Schwartz Brothers at the Beachland Tavern 9:00 pm $6. Black Mountain and Quest for Fire at the Beachland Ballroom 9:00 pm $12. Door times are one hour prior
15711 Waterloo, 216.383.1124, http://beachlandballroom.com/

THIS WAY OUT VINTAGE

Vintage clothing, accessories, albums and other one-of-a-kind things. In the basement of the Beachland Ballroom.
15711 Waterloo, 216.383.1124, http://www.beachlandballroom.com/two3.htm

REBEL CITY TATTOO STUDIO

20% OFF on all tattoos and gift certificates!
15701 Waterloo, 216.481.1635, http://www.rebelcitytattoo.com/

THE HEAD SHOP

The Head Shop’s merchandise will be set up inside of the 1976 VW Bus at the Car Cruise
15615 Waterloo, 216.403.0328, http://theHeadShop.org

SALTY NOT SWEET

Handmade Boutique & Letterpress Studio. 15613 Waterloo, 216.481.3925, http://saltynotsweetcraft.wordpress.com/details/

ARTS COLLINWOOD GALLERY

Katy Richards – Primal Cuts, 15605 Waterloo, 216.692.9500, http://artscollinwood.org/gallery/

ARTS COLLINWOOD CAFÉ

Open ‘til 11pm or later! Full bar, coffee, tapas, art, music and more!
15601 Waterloo, 216.692.9500, http://artscollinwood.org/cafe/

The Waterloo Arts District continues an amazing summer of programming with a unique exhibit of sculpture by Internationally re-nown artists, Laila Voss, and John Ranally. The Exhibit will be installed in the Waterloo Sculpture Garden, and will open as part of The Waterloo Sculpture Garden’s Sunday Concert Series Sunday July 11.

Laila Voss’s work has been included in such nationally recognized exhibitions as Urban Evidence: Contemporary Artists Reveal Cleveland and internationally, through exhibitions such as The Ninth International Shoebox Exhibition.  She created A Chaotic Symphony: The Catch-All Net for Urban Evidence, which consisted of three multi-media installations that were exhibited at each of the participating institutions: MOCA, Cleveland, the Cleveland Museum of Art and SPACES. Other multi-media installations include Everywhere is Here for NEO + ONE, and Fire and Embers, commissioned by the Akron Art Museum for the On-Site Ohio series. Voss has received artist-in-residence awards FCCA Prague, the Czech Republic and the Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA. Recent exhibitions include Connections: Ohio Artists Abroad, Columbus, OH and the Massillon Museum’s Outdoor Sculpture. In addition, this past September, Voss completed a public art project in the Hyacinth neighborhood in Slavic Village, Cleveland. This project involved community participation during design and implementation to create sculptural mounds, gardens and benches.

John Ranally’s work as a sculptor has been a source of amazement for over 3 decades. Ranally was a founding artist of the Studio Foundry and has participated in over 40 exhibitions. Ranally has collaborated with several artists to create performance installations for dance and theatre, including the celebrated movement company, SAFMOD. His work over the years as an artist/lecture has led to a whole new generation being exposed the multifaceted genius of Ranally.

ARTIST STATEMENT

My attraction to the flesh (the physicality of the human body as contrasted with the mind or soul) comes from my interest in the primordial urges that drive us to consume. The sensations that surround these primitive drives are what I aim to evoke. I want to arouse a sensual response: the feel, smell, and taste. I choose to paint meat because of its associations with the corporeal, and I connect the sensual experience of painting to that of the image I am depicting. I paint form photographs of still lifesI construct. I arrange and place the meat to allow it t be cropped and enlarged so the viewer can see its subtleties and focus on the tactility and physicality of both both the paint and the object.

Did you see the great Waterloo Arts District feature in Plain Dealer’s Friday magazine today? Thank you to PD writer John Petkovic for the story and to PD illustrator Ted Crowe for the beautiful illustration of the street.

We hope this will make the crowd at the Waterloo Arts Fest this weekend even bigger, as people from all over the area come to see our growing neighborhood scene!

The 8th Annual Fest was a huge success! Check out the photo gallery here.

Click here for more information on the project, including photos and information about the student Gallery exhibit opening May 23.

Portfolio Project Mural

Arts Collinwood is currently seeking submissions from experienced mural artists to create an original design on the North elevation of our arts center building.  The proposed image/concept should build on the work done by students in our Portfolio Project program, using their artistic discoveries, about themselves and their community, as a springboard for an original design. Click here for images of the mural location and more details.