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.
Arts Collinwood Cleveland + The Haiti Emergency Village Project
Inconjunction w/ NEONAC+ Cleveland Tapes
$10 suggested donation
International, and regional artists have gathered together for this unique event. It’s a rare thing when over twenty-five organizations can move in one direction, and make such a tangible gesture of support.
THE HAITI EMERGENCY VILLAGE PROJECT (HEVP) is a consortium of organizations working towards the building of emerging villages in Haiti that will provide housing, infrastructure and other aspects of what constitutes a community. This group brings to Haiti transferrable lessons learned from Katrina. HEVP has been conceived, organized and put into action by New Orleans residents, supporters and rebuilders, and Haitians on the ground, most with longstanding ties to New Orleans, to create a model for recovery.
You will have a chance to bid on art from some amazing regional, and international artists including – Keith Marlowe, Amy Casey, Dan Tranberg, Julius Lyle, Dana Depew, Bridget Caswell, Sunia Boneham, Paul Sydorenko, Jacob Wesley Lang, David Wilder, Tary Yu, Petroucha Moise to name a few!
The Auctioneer for the evening will be Voice Legend and Art Provocateur Lawrence Daniel Caswell.
PLUS a SILENT AUCTION of AN AMAZING ARRAY OF Donated items from local Merchants +venues including Macback’s Bookstore, Beachland Ballroom, Visible Voice Books, House of Blues, Playhouse Square, Grog Shop!
The Cafe at Arts Collinwood will be open for a wonderful list of fresh hot/cold Tapas, and a Cash Bar!
LIVE MUSIC WILL be Provided by WILL MASON TRIO
PLEASE SHOW YOUR SUPPORT, and Help SPREAD THE WORD!
It’s been a busy year for the Mystery of Two camp. After releasing a self titled LP on Exit Stencil Recordings we hit the road playing the Midwest and East Coast including this years CMJ fest in NYC. Their travels have found them back in Cleveland prepping new material and working on various video projects, on of which will be debuting over the course of these events.
- Feb 6 th w/ Filmstrip ( Closing night for the Terry Durst gallery show )
- Feb 13 th w/ Buried Wires
- Feb 20 th w/ Freedom Feb 27 th w/ Founding Fathers
Media Contact : Ryan Weitzel – 440.476.0510
Poster by John G.
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.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
The annual holiday sale at Arts Collinwood is only the beginning! Check out the entire listing of all the great events happening in the Waterloo Arts District from now until the New Year!
The Holiday Sale at Arts Collinwood Gallery
Holiday Sale Hours : Dec. 11: 5-11pm, Dec. 12: 11am-11pm, Dec. 13: 11am-5pmThe Holiday Sale at Arts Collinwood Gallery has already become a popular Cleveland institution and a draw for visitors from around the city, featuring unique and affordable artwork from more than 30 top regional artists. This year’s sale will be held from December 11 through December 13, and will feature a wide array of wearable art, jewelry, prints, paintings and glass, in a festive holiday ambience.
Look for work by some of Cleveland’s best-known glass artists – one-of-a-kind vases, bowls, glasses, even fixtures, including museum quality art – along with award-winning silver designs, hand-made vintage clothing and accessories, unique knits and hats, collectible prints and much more. (For a list of artists participating, see below.) And enjoy it in an inviting gallery setting, with an adjoining café serving a full range of lunch and dinner options, specialty coffee drinks and a fully licensed bar.
And as a special feature for families, this year’s sale offers a free supervised children’s art area: let the kids play and make art of their own in our community arts center, while you browse for special gifts. And treat everyone to cookies and cocoa to top it all off.
It’s a chance to eat well while doing good. ”Every purchase shoppers make, in our gallery or our café, helps to support community arts,” says Executive Director Sarah Gyorki. “The fabulous vintage clutch you grab for your best friend helps make a children’s art class possible. That Randall Tiedman painting helps buy a budding painter supplies. It’s hard not to feel good about taking home great art, benefiting artists and children, and having a really great day out in one of Cleveland’s hippest neighborhoods.”
For more information about the Holiday Sale at Arts Collinwood Gallery, or any of the Weekends on Waterloo events taking place in the Waterloo Arts District between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, visit HYPERLINK “http://www.artscollinwood.org” www.artscollinwood.org, or call 216-692-9500.
Arts Collinwood Gallery Holiday Sale 2009 Featured Artists
Michelle Biondo
Sunia Boneham
Amy Casey
Jon Cotterman
Designs by Arielle and Pamela
Joan of Art (Deveney)
Chris Dixon
Gretchen Goss
Scott Goss
Ann Grecar
John Gulyas and Maryann Posch
Mark Hartung
Jon Hicks
Jeanetta Ho
Mariamne Ingalls
Megan Kelly
Chris Kolcsar
Chadd Lacy
Nathan Longnecker
Michael Mikula
Michael Romanik
Steve and Michelle Romanik
Susan Skoczen
Mark Sudduth
Randall Tiedman
Tutu’s Designs
Beth Whalley
Karin Wishner
Brent Kee Young
Sandra Zodnik
Linda Zolten Wood
Weekends on Waterloo Holiday Sale @ Arts Collinwood Gallery – December 11-13: Friday, 5-11pm Saturday, 11am-11pm Sunday, 11am-5pm
Come for shopping, music & other goodies! While you’re in the neighborhood, check out the rock’n’roll flea market at the Beachland, gallery openings, holiday parties, sales, concerts, and more! Get festive with us on Waterloo!
- All purchases support local artists and community arts programs!
- FREE supervised arts area where the kids can play while you shop!
- Fully licensed cafe with lunch, dinner, drinks and yummy holiday treats! Save $1 off your purchase at the Arts Collinwood Cafe when you bring in a receipt from a purchase made with any of these merchants on any weekend during this time!
ARTISTS: Michelle Biondo * Sunia Boneham * Amy Casey * Jon Cotterman * Designs by Arielle and Pamela * Joan of Art (Deveney) * Chris Dixon * Gretchen Goss * Scott Goss * Ann Grecar * John Gulyas and Maryann Posch * Mark Hartung * Jon Hicks * Jeanetta Ho * Mariamne Ingalls * Megan Kelly * Chris Kulcsar * Chadd Lacy * Nathan Longnecker * Michael Mikula * Michael Romanik * Steve and Michelle Romanik * Susan Skoczen * Mark Sudduth * Randall Tiedman * Tutu’s Designs * Beth Whalley * Karin Wishner * Brent Kee Young * Sandra Zodnik * Linda Zolten Wood * and MORE!
Participating merchants:
- Arts Collinwood Gallery & Cafe
- Azure Stained Glass
- Beachland Ballroom & Tavern
- Blue Arrow Records
- The Boardwalk
- Cakes By Sweetwater
- Fotina’s
- Low Life
- Mac’s Lock Shop
- Music Saves
- Neighbor’s Choice
- R&D Sausage
- Raddell’s Sausage
- Star Pop
- Shoparooni & The Annex
- Slovenian Workman’s Home
- This Way Out
- Waterloo 7 Gallery
- Wunderkind Gallery
Amy Casey and Jen Omaitz
Opening Reception: November 6, 2009 from 6-9 p.m. Gallery Hours: Thurs.-Fri. 6-9 p.m., Sat.-Sun. 1-4 p.m. Visitors are also welcome in the gallery when the adjoining Cafe at Arts Collinwood is open.
Amy Casey is a Creative Workforce Fellow. The Creative Workforce Fellowship is a program of the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture, generously funded by Cuyahoga Arts and Culture. Amy Casey is also Cleveland Arts Prize 2009.
Amy Casey
Amy Casey, Artist Statement:
For about the last ten years, I’ve been experiencing a sporadically recurring dream about the end of the world. Animals stampeding and buildings falling into dust around me, I wake up in a panic and with a heavy sense of inevitability.
Although I’m not trying to recreate this dream in my work, I think that like my dream, my paintings reflect my view of the nervous state of affairs the world seems to be in. Inspired by natural and unnatural disasters, personal fiascos and the never-ending stream of bad news coming in from the media, the world inside my paintings has been turned (sometimes literally) upside down. The sky is falling and the ground has crumbled underneath anyone left to stand on it. In the wake of this, my created world tries to come up with coping plans to tie their world back together. This lets me explore ideas of anxiety and vulnerability, community, and the illusions of safety. I am fascinated by the resilience of life. Every disaster is followed by rebirth, where we try to cobble together a plan b. out of what remains. My paintings celebrate this fascination and my love of the urban landscape and it’s creatures.
Jen Omaitz
Jen Omaitz, Artist Statement:
My work explores the construction and destruction of invented space. I work within the boundaries of my studio or a designated space to confront the possibilities of architecture beyond the frame of a canvas. For me art is a spectacle, an assemblage, a gesture of simulated repetitions: arranged, projected and reconfigured. My newest body of work consists of interlinking structures that explore the relationship between wall, ceiling and floor, between psychic space and physical space.
This series encompasses three-dimensional landscapes that appear frozen in the midst of a chaotic event. I incorporate drawing and painting with heterogeneous objects, igniting play between the structure of the gallery and the theatrics of a gesture and the painterly mark. This sense of theater is a formal extension of the shadows cast by the gallery lights, the configuration of the wall, ceiling, and the intrinsic architectural nature of the given space.
My work juxtaposes found objects, home building materials, architectural models and abstract painterly approaches to signify [imply] a shift between topography, natural disasters, and tension between physical landscape and landscape of the psyche.
Appreciation Night For The Mother Ship November 20
The artists and merchants of Waterloo invite artists to donate work for a Beachland Ballroom Appreciation Night on November 20. Donated pieces will be displayed in Waterloo stores and galleries, with bags for depositing purchased tickets. To contribute in any way, contact Debbie Gulyas (Blue Arrow Records and This Way Out) at pete.debbie1960@sbcglobal.net, or Jerry Schmidt (Waterloo 7 and Wunderkind) at sculptor1121@yahoo.com.
The Shoparooni Art Bomb (December 4 – January 1)
Shoparooni is looking for giftable art and handcraft from local designers and artists. The work will be shown in a gallery setting, but this is not a gallery show. No one will be giving your life-size self-portrait to granny for Christmas (not for Chanukah, either); Shoparooni is looking for jewelry, clothing, prints, ceramics, candles, soaps, plush, knits, bags, stencil art, reclaimed vintage, and other handmade or small run goods. Get more info and keep up to date on the shop’s event page http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=165495586416.
A few guidelines: Stuff looks better when there’s lots of it. Don’t bring only one or two of anything. Feel free to help set up your display – Marlee and her crew aim to promote artists as well as sales. Holiday shopping during a recession is hard — the under $10 and under $20 pieces are everyone’s best friend. If you submit product photos with your pieces, it will make Shoparooni smile, and they’ll be able to list it on their website!
Shoparooni, 15813 Waterloo Road, http://www.shoparooni.com, 216-383-3633
There’s a place in Cleveland where cats of bizarre geometries hang with politicians, zombies, musicians and other singular characters (including the writer/creator of American Splendor, Harvey Pekar).
Gary and Laura Dumm have depicted all these beings and more in pen & ink and paint in their two-person art show at Arts Collinwood Gallery, 15605 Waterloo Road (216) 692-9500. The show’s opening reception, with treats and spirits, is October 9th from 6:00 pm till 9 pm. Gallery Hours: Thur-Fri 6-9, Sat-Sun 1-4pm. This exhibit offers the viewer a broad spectrum of techniques and sensibilities: from Laura’s lighter, funkified color approach in painting the feline to Gary’s ink drawings of blues people, cartoons and dark re-animated horrors. It can also be viewed during open hours for the adjoining Waterloo Cafe, then closes rather appropriately on Halloween.
Bring your imagination, a love of color (and black & white) and maybe a few “treats”, some of these beasties look hungry!
Contact the Dumms at 216-961-0230 for more information or email artcat12@sbcglobal.net
Randall Tiedman and Douglas Max Utter, 1987-2009. September 11- October 3, 2009.
The Landscape, Limbo Patrum by Randall Tiedman
Ghost Portrait by Douglas Max Utter
The article below is taken from Tonic.
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Beth and Roger Miller are hosting an art exchange at the Waterloo 7 Studio & Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio at 7pm on Saturday, August 1st. Yes, we know that most of you probably aren’t in Cleveland, but we’re telling you about it anyway because it’s like, the coolest idea ever.
And you’re going to want to do it, too.
Two or three times per year, Beth and Roger, who are both artists, pick a theme and send out an e-mail blast to all their artsy friends, inviting them to create a piece that follows the theme and bring it to the art exchange party. We chatted with them about the event and how it all came about.
“Basically, about 15 years ago, Roger realized that he was surrounded by really creative and artistic friends, but had none of their art on his walls,” says Beth. “It works like this; bring an original piece of artwork of your own creation following the theme” … “Each piece of art should be covered or wrapped in some way, so that whomever is choosing it cannot tell what it is. Each artist who brings work gets the opportunity to choose a covered piece of original artwork to unwrap in front of the group and take home.”
Pretty neat, right? More from their e-mail blast: “New artists are encouraged to participate. However, if you would prefer to just experience the event, please come and meet some of Cleveland’s top artists, movie makers, special effects artists, photographers and writers.”
The parties, which they used to hold in their home, have attracted so many participants that they’ve moved the event to an art gallery. “The idea to hold the Exchange in a gallery or larger venue has been simmering for awhile,” says Beth. “Both Roger and I want the local art scene to grow, but also to be united. This seems a great way to get artists to see and hold each other’s work, to inspire each other and to communicate with each other.”
How awesome is that? Answer: Very.
If you are in the Cleveland area and would like to attend, or would just like to get in touch with the Millers — perhaps you’re interested in holding an art exchange in your own town — you can contact them at artexchange_miller at yahoo.com.
Photos (both past art exchange) courtesty of Beth and Roger Miller.
