ALL THIS IS HAPPENING SATURDAY, JULY 24! In the Waterloo Arts District, in Cleveland’s North Collinwood neighborhood! Conveniently located just off of I-90, only ten minutes from downtown Cleveland. (Events listed East to West, from the corner of E.161^st to the corner of E.156^th)

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/

Arts Collinwood Summer Sculpture Residency pairs renowned Sculptors, Laila Voss and John Ranally.

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.

Opens Friday July 16

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.

Supposing you’re a big fan of artists, or art, or music, or Arts Collinwood volunteers; and supposing you’d like to meet/look at/listen to or clap for: you’ll want to come to the opening of the Annual Arts Collinwood Members’ Show on Friday, May 28; reception 6 – 9 pm. Besides a ton of art works (which seem to get better every year), there’ll be food, drink, music, door prizes, volunteer awards and general jollity.

The show will be up in the gallery through June 26. Our Guest Juror is none other than Ann Hanrahan, a wonderful painter in her own right, and blessed with an uncommon wit! Guitarist/songwriter Jeff Powers will provide the musical backdrop.

Northeast Ohio based painter, Zinsmeister Parker’s amazing exhibit “Heavenly Bodies” closes this weekend with a party you do not want to miss. This is your last chance to see this wonderful exhibit, and while you are at it enjoy our wonderful cafe. The closing starts at 6pm, with an evening of new music by NO EXIT New Music Ensemble. You don’t want to miss this wonderful evening. Music starts at 8pm.

Below is Ms. Parker’s artist statement,

You think it horrible that lust and rage should dance attention upon my old age: William Butler Yeats.

In essence my paintings of the human figure over recent years  have become an autobiographical odyssey of aging and change, both physical and psychological. The body of work which I have selected to exhibit at the Arts Collinwood gallery was executed in 1999, 2005 and 2010.  I feel that the earlier pieces have aged rather well like good wine and deserve another exposure. The Venus de Milo suite was last shown in a solo show at the Massillon Museum, Massillon, Ohio in 1999 and in 2001 the same body of work was exhibited at the Firelands Association for the Visual Arts  gallery in Oberlin, Ohio. When the  University of Akron hosted a one person exhibition in 2005, several of the figure paintings in this installation were included. In addition, there are five new paintings on raw canvas and unframed. Because the works on paper serve as a chronicle for the evolution of my figure studies, I thought they would be of interest to the viewers therefore I have included a selection of drawings.

Over the last two decades, I  have abandoned the male form completely as subject matter  and concentrated on drawing the female body in all  its decrepitude and corpulence on full display. The act of drawing is intrinsic to all visual art disciplines and to  express oneself through the basic mediums of paper and pencil or paint and canvas is to penetrate an interior, subconscious  existence–one that is uncharted yet rich in creative discovery. For this artist, drawing the most challenging of subject matters, the human figure, has become a life long passion and one that continues to engage me in new and innovative ways. An early influence and someone who taught me how to look for the outline of a pose and then to develop the anatomical parts within that space was Paul Travis, teacher extraordinaire who taught life drawing at the Cleveland Institute of Art for decades. I‘m sure that I was only one of an army of students studying at the Institute back in the 50’s who felt the pull of his personality and the philosophical approach to the study of the human form which he projected.

Another gifted teacher who influenced my love of life drawing was Dwight Mutchler who taught at Ohio University. As the recipient of the ‘’Outstanding Freshman Artist’’ award at O.U., Mutchler inspired me to master the physical components of anatomy which I did and having accomplished that task I then experimented with a more expressionistic and personal connection to the human figure.

I would be remiss not to mention the overtones of feminism which are manifest not only in the work but in the titles which  reflect my position on the subject. As a woman, as a  painter and educator,  my perspective is colored by my experiences in the world of academia and in the art world at large.  Some of the figures have dismembered or missing various body parts, which symbolize a sense of alienation or an  awareness of gender bias, an intransigent status quo  which has  existed in the art world historically and even today —certainly in terms of the number of exhibitions for women artists versus male artists in the major museums in the United States. The good news is that women artists will always pursue their commitment to making art and eventually with the passage of time and a little luck, we’ll have achieved an even playing field.

Zinsmeister Parker

Painter

“A LITTLE R & R”  featuring the work of George Roby,and GR Hamilton, opens Friday February 12, 2010 from 6-9pm.

This exhibit is FREE and open to the public. Opening Reception:: Friday February 12, 2010 / 6-9pm. Closing Reception:: Saturday March 13, 2010 / 6-9pm

George Roby
A juxtaposition of degrees informs the work of the artists curated for this exciting show. For George Roby it is problem, and its natural solution. The way in which a piece of new sculpture can inform, or as the artist says, “solve” a question being asked in an earlier work. Roby is a respected Ohio potter, sculptor, and teacher. He was a student at Cranbrook and worked with Claude Conover. His works can be found in the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Butler Institute of American Art, the Columbus Museum of Art, and numerous private collections.

GR Hamilton

For the last five years GR Hamilton has been consumed with the art-making materials, and the material’s history. In his artist statement he elaborates on his latest process, “I began to put to use objects which I’d found and collected through the years: unusual flora, scraps of metal, bits of plastic, paint and paper, small figures, memorabilia, magazine clippings, autographs and a variety of secondhand finds and curbside cast-offs. This impulse was propelled by my interest in the work of Joseph Cornell, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp and the films of the Quay brothers. “

Join us Wednesday February 10 from 6pm – 10pm at Arts Collinwood for the Art for Haiti Benefit, including a live art auction from top local and national artists, food, cocktails and live jazz music. Proceeds will go directly to the Haiti Emergency Village Project. Arts Collinwood is honored to be hosting this event.

Maybelle, 2009

Terry Durst’s exhibit opens at Arts Collinwood Gallery Friday January 8, reception from 6:00-9:00p.m.. The show runs until Saturday February 8 with a closing reception featuring a performance by Mystery of Two at 8:00 p.m.

Terry Durst is a sculptor and installation artist who has been making and exhibiting art in Cleveland and surrounding areas since graduating from Kent State University in 1987.

Recently he taught art for five years at The Cuyahoga Community College Eastern Campus, and for two years at the Cleveland Institute of Art.

The title of this show, The Carter Excavations, refers to several things – mostly, the artist’s exploration of sculpture as an excavation of emotional states. The name Carter was chosen as it is a common American name, suggesting that these finds could be from a viewer’s own personal excavations.

Secondly, the songs of the original three members of the band The Carter Family, Maybelle, Alvin and Sara, were inspirations for these pieces – the influence of these early recordings resulting in wall sculpture made mostly from old wood and found material.

Also, the name Carter suggests the major excavation of Howard Carter, English archaeologist and Egyptologist, who discovered the tomb of King Tutankhamun on November 4, 1922.

The Arts Collinwood Gallery is open for viewing during all of the hours of the adjoining Café: Tuesday-Saturday 11 am – 11 pm and Sunday 9 am – 5 pm.

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