Monday, July 16, 2012
The annual festival draws artists from across the country and beyond.
The weather gods provided a warm, summer evening for the first day of the 2012 Cain Park Arts Festival on Friday. About 150 artists from as near as Cleveland and as far as Minnesota, Florida and Canada will show and sell their work today and Sunday. The fair runs until 8 p.m. today, and from noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is $5 for those 13 and older, free for children 12 and younger.
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Sunday, July 15, 2012
Cleveland Heights Patch profiles some of the artists at this year's festival.
The 2012 Cain Park Arts Festival will feature the work of 150 artists, and Cleveland Heights Patch has selected a few to tell you about. We'll provide a brief profile of one artist each day leading up to and during the event. R.N. Goldthwaite specializes in ergonomic chair and bench design. On his website, he describes the intricate process he uses to make sure the Windsor Western Reserve Chair Company chairs are comfortable. And he customizes each piece. "(The design is) deceptively simple, the dips and swells that lend such an elegant line are actually made to support and cradle a person’s frame with the utmost comfort, delighting you with support and support with each curve of wood and flourish of design," according to Goldthwaite's …
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Saturday, July 14, 2012
Cleveland Heights Patch profiles some of the artists at this year's festival.
The 2012 Cain Park Arts Festival will feature the work of 150 artists, and Cleveland Heights Patch has selected a few to tell you about. We'll provide a brief profile of one artist each day leading up to and during the event. Clevelanders should recognize many of the places in Kelli Finnegan's photographs. The Cleveland resident is inspired by the city around her and has taken photographs of The West Side Market, Indians games, abandoned warehouses and skate parks. "I originally picked up a camera and began to capture images because of my constant need to people watch, and excitement over naturally placed splashes of color in a otherwise forgotten landscape," Finnegan wrote in the about me page on her website. "Holding a camera, I find it …
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Friday, July 13, 2012
Cleveland Heights Patch profiles some of the artists at this year's festival.
The 2012 Cain Park Arts Festival will feature the work of 150 artists, and Cleveland Heights Patch has selected a few to tell you about. We'll provide a brief profile of one artist each day leading up to and during the event. Keith Culley says his stainless steel pendants and earrings are simple and practical. The mostly square and rectangular pieces aren't embellished with gems or designs, but it's obvious that Culley took careful consideration when arranging and creating the shapes. Culley grew up in a farm in rural Ohio, and he said the experience influenced his preference for a simple, ordered look rather than a busy, complex one. "...simplicity and efficiency were part of daily life, as was the application of form following function. …
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Thursday, July 12, 2012
Cleveland Heights Patch profiles some of the artists at this year's festival.
The 2012 Cain Park Arts Festival will feature the work of 150 artists, and Cleveland Heights Patch has selected a few to tell you about. We'll provide a brief profile of one artist each day leading up to and during the event. Artist Linda Adato specializes in etching landscapes, especially the urban ones all around her at her home in Brooklyn, NY, but she doesn't pigeonhole herself to one place. The rooftops and trees she can see from her back porch, the financial district and ancient ruins have all served as inspiration for her work. "I work in the printmaking technique of intaglio in which the areas etched are below the surface of the plate. I am attracted to the dramatic interplay of light and shadow which can be achieved in the etching…
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Cleveland Heights Patch profiles some of the artists at this year's festival.
The 2012 Cain Park Arts Festival will feature the work of 150 artists, and Cleveland Heights Patch has selected a few to tell you about. We'll provide a brief profile of one artist each day leading up to and during the event. Cleveland Heights artist Chris Zielski believes that "ideas and inspiration come from all around us." Her inspiration to pursue working in the metal medium came after she researched non-toxic printmaking techniques for a high school course, according to her website. She didn't end up teaching the course, but she did pick up, and now specializes in, metals. Zielski, who started Copper Leaf Studios, said she's lived in Cleveland Heights for more than 10 years. "One of the main reasons I was drawn to this community was …
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Cleveland Heights Patch profiles some of the artists at this year's festival.
The 2012 Cain Park Arts Festival will feature the work of 150 artists, and Cleveland Heights Patch has selected a few to tell you about. We'll provide a brief profile of one artist each day leading up to and during the event. Before John Boyett of Canton Glass Works learned the art of glass blowing, he joined the U.S. Air Force because he wanted to see the world, according to his website. After serving, the Florida native returned home, pursued and completed both an associate’s and a bachelor’s of fine arts, and joined the University of Miami glass blowing guild. After traveling a bit more, Boyett landed in Northeast Ohio in 1997 to study glass at Kent State University. “And in April 2006, I co-founded and opened Akron Glass Works,” wrote …
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The festival will showcase the work of 150 artists from around the country.
One of the most popular events of the year for Cleveland Heights is this weekend. For more than 30 years, the Cain Park Arts Festival has showcased work from artists from around the country. This year, the festival will feature 150 from New York, Missouri, Vermont and Georgia, to name a few. Artists specialize in everything from painting and pottery to blown glass and textiles. A few artists hail from the Heights. Like Grace Stokes, who won a ribbon her first year at the festival and will sell her jewelry for the fifth time this year. Each summer, 30 artists are awarded ribbons, and that group is invited back the following year. They must reapply, but they have a guaranteed in and won’t get turned down by judges. The show is juried by a …
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Sunday, November 6, 2011
90 photos that define Cleveland Heights
Cleveland Heights officially became a city in 1921. Cleveland Heights Patch is observing that 90th anniversary by compiling 90 photos to create an album of the city's past and present. We'll run the feature for 90 days, one photo at a time. One of the most popular events of the year for Cleveland Heights is the Cain Park Arts Festival. For more than 30 years, the Cain Park Arts Festival has showcased work from artists from around the country. This year, the festival featured more than 150 from California, Illinois, New Mexico, Vermont and Georgia, to name a few. And a few hailed from the Heights. The competition is tough — 300 or 400 artists applied this year, said Susanna Niermann O’Neil, community services director for the city. And in …
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Saturday, July 16, 2011
Catch up on what you missed on Cleveland Heights Patch this week
Look for the Week in Review every weekend to get up to speed on Cleveland Heights Patch articles you may have missed. See below for briefs of and links to business, government police and fire and neighborhood news from around the Heights last week. Browse our news section to see other articles from this week, and don't forget about our announcements section for important information about events, registration deadlines and other community news.
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12:40 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
For almost 40 years the Heights Home and Garden Tour sponsored by Heights Community Congress has been a festival of sorts. Each September people from all over northeast Ohio come to enjoy the wonderful Homes and Gardens of Cleveland Heights more ›