Arts Collinwood is pleased to present the 10th Annual Waterloo Arts Fest on June 30, 2012 from noon-7pm. Join art vendors, bands, DJs, performers, food vendors and a host of other attractions in the N. Collinwood neighborhood of Cleveland. Lots to [...]
Arts Collinwood’s 2011 Holiday Art Sale
Holiday Art Sale Sneak Preview
Thursday, December 8th - 6pm-10pm
Become a member of Arts Collinwood for as little as $10 and enjoy this early bird shopping experience exclusive to our members. The evening will include wine and light appetizers, a live performance by the Carnegie Brass Trio, holiday drink specials in our Café, first pick at the work of over thirty of the regions best artists, and of course, lots of holiday spirit!
Arts Collinwood Annual Holiday Sale
Friday, December 9th -11am-11pm
Saturday, December 10th -11am-11pm
Sunday, December 11th - 11am-5pm
Shop local this holiday season at Arts Collinwood’s Annual Holiday Art Sale featuring over 30 of the region’s best artists. The Arts Collinwood Holiday Art Sale has become a popular Cleveland destination and a draw for holiday shoppers from around the city, featuring a wide array of unique, affordable artwork including: wearable art, award- winning jewelry designs, prints, adorable baby items, museum quality paintings, exquisite glassworks, luxurious knitwear, beautiful holiday cards and much more.
Take advantage of free childcare while you shop from noon-4pm on Saturday and Sunday. Enjoy lunch, dinner or cocktails in our adjoining Café. The Café at Arts Collinwood features a full bar with a great selection of microbrews, wine and espresso drinks, as well as soups, salads, sandwiches and daily specials. Also, enjoy live music Friday and Saturday night with no cover charge.
Knock more off your gift list by strolling down Waterloo Road for fabulous sales at all the vintage, record, clothing and toy shops. Revel in all the festivities the Waterloo Arts District has to offer this special holiday weekend!
For more information about the Holiday Art Sale at the Arts Collinwood Gallery, or any of the events in the Waterloo Arts District, visit us on Facebook or at www.artscollinwood.org or by calling 216-692-9500.
Only 10 minutes from downtown Cleveland, just north of I-90 on the corner of E. 156th and Waterloo.
XeLa at Arts Collinwood Cafe, Saturday, November 26th at 8:30 pm, local singer/guitarist Xe La will perform in the Cafe at Arts Collinwood. Known for his solovox & guitar performances as well as his “artrock comix” visual art, he is a unique experience. This is a no-cover performance. For more information about XeLa visit www.luvmutha.com.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING FROM ARTS COLLINWOOD!
Join the gang at Arts Collinwood this evening, Wednesday, November 23rdin the Cafe to show your thanks for the arts! Bert Dennis and the New Jazz Quartet will make your toes tap and Great Lakes Christmas Ale will bring a smile to your face! Celebrate all the Waterloo Arts District has to offer under one roof with a awesome Gallery show with paintings by Harris Johnson, full bar, food, coffee drinks and music! The Cafe will be open from 4pm-11pm.
Join Arts Collinwood and the Ohio Independent Film Festival on Friday, November 18th at 7 pm for this timely, award-winning film,” Subprime.” This is a no cost event!
The year is 2001 and both David’s life and the mortgage industry are in balance. After the attacks on 9/11 the stock markets shut down for over a week marking its biggest decline since the great depression. America’s economy is in the tank and the mortgage industry’s response is easy lending and easier money. It was the dawn of the biggest boom in the mortgage industry’s history and a young and naive David Martin was interviewing at a chop shop brokerage called Empire Funding. Once hired, David joins an unsavory group of unethical mortgage brokers led by Empire’s manipulative and controlling owner, Michael Banco. It is here where David is exposed to the mortgage industry’s veritable group of crooks, cons and cheats – Realtors, Appraisers and Investors – and they all have a con of their own. David is soon faced with the decision of abandoning what he knows is right…Written by James Repici.
ButtOut Ohio is partnering with the LGBT Center of Greater Cleveland to host an art exhibit at the Arts Collinwood café on Thursday, Nov. 17! The artwork, prepared by Center students, will encourage tobacco cessation. Members of the community are invited to view the art display between 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. on Thursday, (11/17) at Arts Collinwood (15605 Waterloo Road, Cleveland).
ButtOut Ohio is a tobacco cessation campaign sponsored by the Ohio Department of Health that aims to curb tobacco use among LGBT students across the state – especially in Northeast Ohio, where nearly 80 percent of LGBT youth self-identify themselves as smokers.
In collaboration with community partners, this event will highlight the Center students’ creative work and free quit line resources will be provided to individuals interested in kicking the bad habit!
The event is free-of-charge, so come out and support LGBT health & wellness, as well as the local Cleveland art scene!
Request for Proposals
Northeast Shores Development Corporation, in partnership with Arts Collinwood, Cleveland Public Art and the City of Cleveland, is requesting proposals from qualified artists for a temporary artwork installation for the Waterloo Tower Revolving Art Program.
History of the Waterloo Tower and the Revolving Art Program
The Waterloo Tower is a three-story stainless steel structure, which sits on a grassy triangle on the corner of E. 156th St and Waterloo Rd in the North Collinwood neighborhood of Cleveland. Northeast Shores Development Corporation built the Tower in 2010 in partnership with The City of Cleveland, with support from Councilman Michael D. Polensek and Cuyahoga Arts and Culture. The design of the Tower was a collaboration of artist, Christopher Diehl, and the fabricator, Mike Moritz of Moritz Wood & Metal.
Prior to it being built, 50 local residents met at Arts Collinwood Gallery to discuss a plan for the Tower and suggested it should be used as a framework for changing public art and should have a stage for performing art such as concerts, poetry readings and plays. Hence, the Waterloo Tower Revolving Public Art Program was started, which oversees the changing art installations that are housed in or in some way incorporate the Tower.
Christopher Diehl, artist from dielio inc, provides some history regarding the philosophy behind the creation of the Tower concept. “The large area of asphalt intersection at E. 156th and Waterloo streets was created in order to turn street trolleys around. The trolleys served this vibrant working class neighborhood and they, in turn, served the Collinwood rail yards. Visitors also poured onto Waterloo in order to spend the day at the Euclid Beach Park Amusement park just north off of Lake Shore Blvd. After the trolley service ended, the amusement park closed and I-90 cut the Waterloo neighborhood off from the rail yards. This intersection became a large and ungainly place for cars and trucks to pass through and a hazard for the unwary pedestrian.
“The Waterloo placemaking Tower stakes a flag, of sorts, to reclaim that area as a new civic heart for this reawakening district now reprogrammed for the visual and entertainment arts. The tower will act as the centerpiece of the new pedestrian-friendly plaza next to Arts Collinwood Gallery and the Cafe at Arts Collinwood. As such, the raw stainless steel structure will become a site for temporary public art installations and live music performances. Like the neighborhood around it, it becomes the container to house and display the incredible talent and gifts of the Waterloo community.
Budget
The complete, all-inclusive budget for the program is $3,000, which must include installation fees, artist fees and material cost. If you have an idea and would like help seeking out material donations, please let us know and we will try to provide assistance depending on the nature of the need.
Artwork Requirements
The artwork should be designed to remain in place for up to 7 months. Artwork must be designed to require minimal or no maintenance. All maintenance requirements that cannot be met by the artist must be worked out in advance.
Artwork must be affixed to the tower in a safe manner and designed to withstand stormy weather, including high winds and heavy snow. Artworks consisting of other than soft material may require the approval of a structural engineer.
Please see the attached specification drawings of the Tower. The eyebolts pictured can be used as possible mounting hardware and will be provided if needed.
Submission Requirements
Submissions should contain as much information as necessary to clearly convey the concept and may include drawings, renderings, or other visual or written devices. Artist identification information should be on the back of the submission and thus out of the view of those who will be evaluating the proposals.
Submissions must arrive at Arts Collinwood no later than 10 p.m. on Friday, November 18th. Proposals may be emailed to a.callahan@artscollinwood.org or delivered/mailed to: Arts Collinwood, 15605 Waterloo Rd, Cleveland, OH 44110.
The competition is open to all artists 18 years or older. Collinwood artists are especially encouraged to apply.
Due to the limited budget, time constraints, and the challenging installation space, it is suggested that the installations proposed, be simple in nature.
Selection Process
Entries will be judged by an independent panel of neighborhood stakeholders and art and design professionals. Interested artists are encouraged to visit the park in advance of developing their proposals.
Questions can be directed to Amy Callahan at Arts Collinwood: 216-692-9500 or a.callahan@artscollinwood.org.
“That’s All, Folks!”, paintings by Harris Johnson, opens on November 11th at 6pm in the Gallery at Arts Collinwood. The show runs through December 3rd. The image above is entitled, “In the Gallery”, acrylic on canvas, 70″ x 81″, 2011.
Harris Johnson was born in Columbus,Ohio in 1986. He graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art with a BFA in Painting in 2009 and Certificate from The Burren College in Ballyvaughan, Ireland. His work has been displayed in local and overseas exhibitions, featured in online publications and held in numerous private collections. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
Artist Statement: For the past year, I’ve been working on a group of paintings that explores and satirizes the notion of the artist in the studio My recent paintings come from a tradition of still life painting, portraiture and caricature, yet have no real objects or people present during their making. Every painting is conceived and resolved on the canvas. I begin with a kind of absent-minded doodling that becomes something as the work physically evolves through the process of painting. I draw from specific genres of art (Caricature, Portraiture, Still-life) and take an idiosyncratic or comical approach to my subject matter.
It is my belief that being an artist is a self- referential and self- critical process, rife with absurdity, humor, tragedy, and paradox. When I abandoned the idea of seriousness and gravity, this in turn, allowed me to make this series of paintings. I have always battled with artistic tradition and notions of creative progress, and I use my painting practice to investigate and satirize the world of the artist. Yet, at their foundation, these paintings are sincere, autobiographical ‘tools’ that allow me to remain actively engaged in a dialogue with the world of art.
This Saturday, October 29th at 7pm, get  your Halloween spirit on with this smart, quirky independent film entitled “Zombie Dearest”.  This film is the second in a series of films being shown at Arts Collinwood in partnership with Independent Pictures.  The critics called it Creepy and Hilarious!  This film will be shown in the Nan and Miles Kennedy Art Center and is free to the public.  Art School music classics will be played in the Cafe afterwards along with some seasonal food and drink specials!
Zombie Dearest is a romantic black comedy with its very own take on the modern zombie; a scary, quirky comedy that delivers cult horror in an award-winning indie film (Winner, Audience Favorite at The First Time Film Festival in Los Angeles). What Zombie Dearestlacks in blood, guts and gore, it more than makes up for with comic characters, outrageously funny situations and memorable dialogue, making it “Frightening and Hilarious” (Dan Goldberg, producer of The Hangover ), a fun diversion for everyone from the dedicated Zombie Walk aficionado to fans of Shaun of the Dead, Fido or Zombieland. If you like your humor with a pinch of current affair, watchZombie Dearest … very independent, very original… a cult classic in the offing.  Click here for more on this creeper www.zombiedearest.com.
Chamber music comes to the Arts Collinwood Gallery and honors Arts Collinwood founder and friend, the late Miles Kennedy.  Miles and Nan Kennedy’s son, Simon and his wife Catharine are sponsoring this series.  The M4M Chamber Music Series begins on Sunday, October 16th at 4pm with a string performance by the International Composer Collective.  Visit this dynamic organization’s website at  www.intercompcollective.com for more information about the group led by composers, Tim Mauthe and Sam Cave.  The program will include the following pieces:
Breezes and Rogue Winds for Guitar Duo by Tim Mauthe
Robert Sharpe and Danny Rectenwald, guitars
7 minutes
Easter Music by Sam Cave
Satoko Hayami, piano
2 minutes
Three Movements for Solo Violin by Tim Mauthe
Anthony Bracewell, violin
18 minutes
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The Dissection of the Angel’s Eye by Sam Cave
Ludek Wojtkowski, violin; Danny Rectenwald, guitar; Zack Zydek, bass
12 minutes
Toccata Kaléidoscopique by Calogero Panvino
Satoko Hayami, piano
9 minutes
Free Speeches by George Holloway
Michelle Abraham, violin; Tim Mauthe, viola; Schuyler Slack, cello;
Satoko Hayami, piano
7.5 minutes
Singer/songwriter Charlie Mosbrook is a well-loved Cleveland icon. He will treat guests at the Arts Collinwood Café to an intimate evening of song on November 12th at 9 pm in the Cafe. For for more about Charlie and some samples of his songs visit his site at http://charliemosbrook.blogspot.com/.
