February::Create::Listen::Witness

February is packed full with amazing programs, music, plays and gallery openings – click the read more tab to find out more! Don’t for get to sign up for our mailing list, and keep checking in for our spring art classes! Fun for the whole family!

All events are FREE and Open to the Public!

This Moment in Black History

ARTS COLLINWOOD 2nd ANNUAL WINTER MUSIC RESIDENCY

Feb 11, Feb 18, Feb 24

To kick off our annual winter music residency, the legendary post-punk band and local heroes – THIS MOMENT IN BLACK HISTORY

Will perform for the first time in nine months as part of our Art De Rockus Modern Music Series Friday, February 11. The music starts at 9pm, with special guest performers to be announced.

Our residency continues with a 80’S Dance Party featuring the band as DJ’S Friday, February 18. The dancing starts at 9pm!

Café Music, an evening of classical instrumentation

Saturday, February 12

7-11pm

FREE and open to the public

William Meyer (clarinets) and the duo MiZ (Marjorie Rutherford, woodwinds, and Liz Crowe, strings) will play a wonderful program of instrumental classical, show, and pop selections from 7pm to 11.

ARTS COLLINWOOD GALLERY

Presents

Stephanie Kluk + Elizabeth Emery

“Homescape”

Exhibit runs Friday, February 18 – Sunday, March 13

Opening Reception – Friday, February 18 6-9pm

Kluk and Emery team up to produce one of the most ambitious sculpture, and photography based exhibits our gallery has ever produced.

As the second exhibition in our gallery series “Homescape” combines mixed media sculpture by Elizabeth Emery and photography by Stephanie Kluk – both exploring mental landscapes of memories and physical surroundings using color, texture, and abstract space. The photographs act as the backdrop or environment for the sculptural still lifes.

Kluk’s photographs depict a romantic and somewhat ghostly view of home. Kluk creates images that explore how children (her son) shift definitions of home. Eliminating physical objects normally associated with children (trucks, crayons, etc.) Kluk focus on the spirit of energy and mystery that fills one conception of home.

Emery’s abstract sculptures are a mixture of created and found materials including ceramic, plaster, fabric, wood, paint, and found objects. Forms and materials fill her studio where they, thru chance and experimentation, begin to suggest combinations and the resulting possible meanings created by memories, personal narratives, and unconscious beliefs. These sculptures become a physical manifestation of the mental flotsam and memories we collect of people and places—complete with uncanny juxtapositions, pattern and confusion, order and instability, the familiar and a fear of the unknown.

In the cafe – Neon Artist, Jeff Chiplis will celebrate the installation of a new series of Neon sculpture, the exhibit ties together his installation from last year entitled, IN BALANCE (it hangs lovely in our cafe) with four new pieces.

SUNDAY EVENING ROAST POETRY SERIES

Sunday, February 20

7pm

Steve Sargeant (TX) + Friends

SHE SPEAKS WOMEN POETS PERFORMANCE SERIES

Saturday, February 26th and every Last Saturday of the month

7pm with an Open Mic

Join Poet/Activists Shelly Nagy, Kisha Foster, and Blaire Bommer for an amazing performance series celebrating women’s voices. Check our website for special events, and workshops.

ARTS COLLINWOOD DRAMATIC READING SERIES

Series begins Sunday, February 27

6pm

Our Dramatic Reading Series jumps off with the classic, and iconic play by Ntzoke Shange – For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Not Enuf

Poet/Educator Michelle Smith leads an amazing ensemble of women voices for all over Northeast Ohio.

The series continues with new work from Karamu Poet in Residence Michael Oatman, entitled LeadBelly, and a provocative new work entitled DIRT by Dr. Mary E. Weems.

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