If you’re the party planner for your – workplace, family, friends – we have exactly what you need to make this year’s celebration different.  Several Waterloo businesses are inviting you to party at their place. Take the credit for planning the most creative, most fun, hippest holiday party your group has ever attended!

• Make holiday art with a kids’ party in the Arts Collinwood community center.
• Chill at Low Life Gallery for private gathering with a graffitti demonstration.
• Rock out with closed-door discounted shopping where you pick the playlist at Music Saves.
• Throw a puppet-making party or retro video game tournament at Star Pop.
• Go behind the scenes at Azure Stained Glass Studios to follow the artistic process from design to installation.
• Purchase wine/beer/food at the Beachland or Arts Collinwood Cafe to take to your event to support Waterloo even further

For $50 per hour*, you’ve got plenty of options with new ones are being added every day. You can stay at your favorite Waterloo location OR you can plan a progressive party spending an hour at each.

Call 216.692.9500 to have an Arts Collinwood Rep contact you with more information.

The Holiday Sale at Arts Collinwood Gallery

The 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

Click here to download the postcard!

Shop at participating E.185th businesses and collect stickers to fill the spaces on the “I SHOP 185″ postcard. Can’t find a postcard around the neighborhood? Just download and print out the one here.

After your card is filled, return it to a participating business (see list below). You will be entered into a drawing to win one of several awesome prizes. The more cards you complete, the better your chances of winning! And really, when you shop in your community and support local merchants, EVERYONE WINS!

Here is  a complete list of participating businesses:

• Beachland Hair Design

• Chili Pepper’s

• Federated Auto Parts

• LakeShore Automotive

• Northeast Shores Development Corp

• Patria Imports

• Tuthill’s Florist

• Adriatic Pets

• Arabica

• Fresh Catch

• Helping Hands Day Care

• Joe Compoli, Attorney

• National City Bank

• Shore Carpet

• Azman Meats

• Best Friend Self Serve Dog Wash

• Blue Sky Bike

• Cebar’s

• Groom Room

• Gus’ Diner

• Lakeshore Florist

• Martin’s Men’s Wea

• Music Emporiumh

• Old World Plaza Barber Shop

• Oz Collectibles

• Scotti’s Italian Eaterly

• Seven Star Muffler

• Used Cars Inc

• Video Game and Record Exchang

• Villa Rosa Pizzeria

• Vince’s Barber Shop