Openings, shows, Workshops, job postings, equipment, & anything else that might involve the northern
Ohio clay community.

Friday, November 25, 2011

11.25-28



11.25 and 26

“Bayarts Annual Holiday Open House.” 10-4 both days. Bayarts, 28795 Lake Road, Bay Village, OH

11.26 and 27

“DRAKE STUDIO and HECTIC STUDIO HOLIDAY SALE 2011.” BETTE DRAKE (pictured above) stoneware pottery, porcelain Jewelry. MEGAN JOHN pottery & jewelry Nov. 26th & 27h, and Dec. 3rd & 4th11 am to 5pm all 4 days NOV. 26 & 27 HECTIC STUDIO: TODD LEECH and STEPHANIE CRAIG (pictured BAove) will be open The Hildebrandt Bldg., 2nd floor, 216-961-8118 3619 Walton Ave., Cleveland 216-251-3878

11.25-11.28

“Jenny Mendes Online Black Friday through Cyber Monday Sale.”

All items listed in my Etsy Online Gallery Store will be on sale.

This Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday 11/25/2011 - 11/28/2011 http://www.etsy.com/shop/jennymendes As always fast, reliable shipping.


Thursday, November 17, 2011

11.18 and 19th



11.18


“Re-New: New Work by Stephen Yusko.(Work Above.) And…Garden of Earthly Delights: Cecelia Phillips. And…Brinsley Tyrrell.” Opening Reception 5-9pm. William Busta Gallery, 2731 Prospect Ave., Cleveland 216.298.9071 www.williambustagallery.com

“2011 Print Invitational.” Opening Reception 5-8pm. Fawick Gallery, Baldwin-Wallace College 94 E. Bagley Rd., Berea, OH 440.826.2152


We invite you to the public opening of Red and the wolf, a love story. We also invite you to participate in our COLLECTORS' DRAW NIGHT. This is your chance to become a wealthy collector! Drink wine, look around, have fun, buy a $10 ticket and you might win up to $3000 in high quality fine art. As a matter of fact, you don't even have to be present to buy a ticket, just call me at 216 548 9798 or email me at Augusto@AugustoFineArt.com and get your tickets today. Please, read these simple rules to participate http://www.augustofineart.com/AFAGallery/AFADrawRules.htm Augusto Fine Art Gallery, 1305 West 80th St., Suite 109, Cleveland, www.augustofineart.com


“AAWR Annual Members Show and Sale.” Opening Reception 5-8pm. Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, 1834 E. 123rd St. Cleveland

“Chang Jin Lee, Ben Kinsley & Jessica Langley, Christopher Auerbach-Brown.” Spaces, 2220 Superior Viaduct, Cleveland 216.621.2314 www.spacesgallery.org


11.19

“Ales BASK Hostomsky. BOX OF FUN.” Opening Reception: 7-10 PM, Cleveland's favorite culture-spinning Czech vandal, Ales BASK Hostomsky comes back "home" with a portfolio of brand new, never-before seen, mixed-media works. Throwing innocence and purity right into the meat grinder, BASK's newest series of portraits are both playful at heart, and sinister by nature. Through these difficult times in which we live, BASK shows us that we can still have fun by manipulating our own realities, even while they constantly change around us. A metaphor… that indicates that in this twisted world, we don't always come out in the same manner in which we came in. In commemoration of BASK's fourth solo exhibition at WRG, the artist has partnered with 1xRun to make available a limited edition print titled, Fun Box Toons. This 24 x 24 in. giclee is printed on 330gsm archival cotton paper and is priced at $75 ea. The edition is available for seven days beginning Tuesday, November 15, and can only be purchased direct from 1xRun. Please join us for the Box of Fun After-Party, hosted at Lava Lounge, immediately following the gallery reception on November 19. An exhibition of new artworks from the portfolio, HEAT by Cleveland-based gallery owner and artist William Rupnik will be on view in the downstairs lounge. Lava Lounge is located at 1307 Auburn Avenue, in the historic Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland. William Rupnik Gallery1117 Euclid Ave. Cleveland, Ohio 44115

11.19 and 20


“Bonnie Gordon’s Studio Open House and Fine Art Sale.” (Work Pictured Above, NOC Member!) Hours Saturday the 19th from 10am-6pm and Sunday the 20th from 12-5pm. I'm hosting my annual open house and have invited some of my favorite fine art and craft artists to participate. Joining me will be Chad Gordon (infrared photography), Rozanne Anderson (paintings and jewelry), Barbara Gillette (hand painted glass and small drawings), Marie Lim (handmade embellished felt), Carol Thombs (felted alpaca), Polly Gilmore (blown glass), and Elaine Lamb (ornaments and functional porcelain). This is a great opportunity to see pieces created by these talented artists. You may even be tempted to purchase a holiday gift for yourself or a special friend. 167 Pine Needle Drive, Seville, OH 44273 330.769.3636


Workshop Info:

La Meridiana Curtis Benzle--Porcelain-Color & Light April 22-29, 2012

“Porcelain: Color and Light”, will celebrate the beauty and magic of light as it accentuates color, expands form and energizes surfaces in translucent porcelain. We will discuss the unique, light transmitting characteristics of vitreous porcelain and will follow up with an exploration of techniques used to color and incorporate color and light into our artwork. Topics will include relief carving (lithophane), color additions, colored clay techniques and porcelain formulas, as we consider colored, translucent porcelain in its many manifestations; sculpture, pottery (agateware or neriagi), translucent lighting and jewelry. Mornings will be devoted to exploration---demonstrations and technical discussions aimed at unlocking mysteries, expanding knowledge and empowering creativity. Afternoons will be devoted to making. Your quiet, personal experimentation or technical guidance and assistance---whatever it takes to help you bring out the best. The workshop fee for the students includes tuition ( 6/7 hours per day with 12 hours studio time - we do close the studio at night, unlike Americans – but here is to explore restaurants and wineries at night), materials and firings, lodging, welcome dinner and a freshly prepared Tuscan lunch on the working days and a wine tasting dinner on one of the evenings of the week. Other outings like evening trips to San Gimignano and Certaldo alto or cooking lessons can be organized at request, to be paid extra. The final cost for the students is of Euros 910($1,240). More Info: info@lameridiana.fi.it


Thursday, November 10, 2011

11.11-17


Ongoing Cup the Intimate Object Show featuring work by Bill Brouillard and Judith Salomon. http://claylink.com/zen/

11.11

“Home.” Opening Reception 6pm. As holidays are approaching, it is hard not to think of our roots. Proximity welcomes all interpretations of this with their newest exhibition, Home. Cleveland artists Jen and James Young delve into the notions of place, connection and history through print and paint. Home as a mental state, vs home as a place. Proximity Gallery, 1667 East 40th, Cleveland 216.262.8903 www.proximitycleveland.com

“Opening Night @ Double Feature Gallery.” Opening Reception 8PM. A new gallery is opening in Gordon Square! Say hello to Double Feature Gallery, located right next to the Capitol Theatre. Join other artsy types for a sneak-peek at the gallery before it officially opens. Events include: unveiling of the finished logo; live music via White Rims, Thaddeus A. Greene, and Gossip Culture; pre-sale of featured items; and new work from Andy Hunt, John Malta & Joey Gantner. Plus, refreshments from LUXE. Come break in Cle’s newest gallery. Double Feature Gallery, 1392 W. 65th Street, Cleveland

The Art of Stanka Kordic.” Opening Reception 7-9pm in The Sullivan Family Gallery. Bayarts, 28795 Lake Road, Bay Village, OH

11.12

“Bonnie Gordon’s Studio Open House and Fine Art Sale.” (Work Pictured Above, NOC Member!) Hours Saturday the 12th from 10am-6pm and Sunday the 13th from 12-5pm. Please join us November 12, 13 or November 19, 20. I'm hosting my annual open house and have invited some of my favorite fine art and craft artists to participate. Joining me will be Chad Gordon (infrared photography), Rozanne Anderson (paintings and jewelry), Barbara Gillette (hand painted glass and small drawings), Marie Lim (handmade embellished felt), Carol Thombs (felted alpaca), Polly Gilmore (blown glass), and Elaine Lamb (ornaments and functional porcelain). This is a great opportunity to see pieces created by these talented artists. You may even be tempted to purchase a holiday gift for yourself or a special friend. 167 Pine Needle Drive, Seville, OH 44273 330.769.3636


“Girls! Girls! Girls!” Opening Reception 6pm. Cle’s coolest, loveliest, most talented ladies will be taking Zaller Gallery by storm. Girls! Girls! Girls! features live performances by Cassie Bishop, Uno Lady, Miss Firecracker, and The Burger Broads plus new work from Oliver App, Katie Maurer, Staci McNasty, Marlee Pickles and Dott Schnieder. Zaller Gallery, 16008 Waterloo Rd., Cleveland

“Second Saturday Art Show.” Opening Reception 6pm. View artwork by Karolina Kucharewicz, James Quarles & Spencer Cowan, that new-ish art gallery/tattoo shop in Cleveland Hts. Mingle w/ cool folk and feast your eyes on some lovely art. Kollective Gallery, 1908 S. Taylor Road, Cleveland Hts., www.KollectiveGallery.com

11.17

Rose Iron Works Holiday Open House and Boutique. Opening from 5-9pm. Forging Demonstrations at 6 and 8 pm. Rose Iron Works Studio and Forge, 1536 E. 43rd. St., Cleveland, www.roseironworks.com

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Opening Thursday! NOC's Yumiko Goto along with Kathy Skerritt


Gallery West at TRI-C West:

Exhibition Title: Anticipating the Beautiful

Artists’ Names: Yumiko Goto and Kathy Skerritt

Exhibition Dates: Monday November 7th – Friday December 9th, 2011

Reception Date: Thursday November 10, 2011 5-7pm

Exhibition Info:

Turning to the impulse toward beauty, this exhibition offers simultaneous visual pathways for finding secrets nested in the forms and patterns of nature. In the manner of a cultivated meditation garden, the paintings and poems of Kathy Skerritt and the vessels and sculptural expressions of Yumiko Goto offer the artists' sense of nature as a seamless sacramental space in which beauty may come upon the viewer in quietly surprising ways.

Friday, November 4, 2011

11.4 and 5


11.4

“Gentlemen of Oddity: Barry Underwood and Steven Jones.” Also… “Bay 3 - a late fall exhibition from studioTECHNE | architects.” And…” Ground Water: Out of Sight/ Site Out of Mind.” Opening Reception 5:30-8pm. Barry Underwood, winner of the 2011 Cleveland Arts Prize Mid-Career Award (Visual Arts), will create an installation in the Euclid Avenue Gallery, complemented by the work of sculptor Steven Jones of Baltimore, MD, in the adjacent The Platform. The artists have chosen a light hearted presentation of the challenging intellectuality that underlies their work, headlined with Gentlemen of Oddity/Look! See!/Marvel of Marvels. Sculpture Center, 1834 East 123rd St., Cleveland, 216.229.6527 sculpturecenter.org


“Deborah Woolfork Jewelry Trunk Show.” 5-9pm. Juma Gallery, 2026 Murray Hill Road, Cleveland, 216.721.3773, www.jumagallery.com

11.5


”PRIVATE EYES.”
Banksy, Invader, Vhils, Blu, Shepard Fairey November 5 – 12 Opening Reception: 7-10 PM. Debuting at our new Euclid Avenue gallery is Private Eyes, an exhibition of artworks created by some of today's most celebrated outsider contemporaries, privately sourced and consigned from some of the most significant new collections emerging in our region. Private Eyes provides the general public with a rare opportunity to readily view and purchase prints and editions by these highly acclaimed international talents; works that are only available on the secondary market. Please join us for the Private Eyes After-Party, hosted at Lava Lounge, immediately following the gallery reception. An exhibition of new artworks from the portfolio, Who Are The People In Your Neighborhood? by Cleveland-based artist Ryan Jaenke will be on view in the downstairs lounge. Lava Lounge is located at 1307 Auburn Avenue, in the historic Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland. William Rupnik Gallery
1117 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland OH 44115

“The Screw Factory Artists’ Holiday Open Studio.” Hours are 1-7pm. The Screw Factory Artists’ studios will be open for your perusal on Sat 11/5. Roam two floors of an old warehouse converted into an artist colony, pop in and out of studios and buy early holiday gifts at the Screw Factory Artists’ Holiday Open Studio. Featuring 30+ artists. Umami Moto will provide the grub starting at 2PM. Screw Factory 13000 Athens Ave., Lakewood www.screwfactory artists.com

“Pop Royalty: SPACES Annual Benefit & Art Auction.” Opening Reception 8pm-1am. Don your crowns and grab your scepters-SPACES stages another raucous annual benefit and art auction with a tip of the tiara to pop royalty. Whether you’re a pop chart princess, a carbonated king, Orville Redenbacher’s heir-apparent, or the Roy(alty) of Lichtenstein, this is the glitz and glamour that you’re looking for.

“Pop tarts, Warhol superstars, and anyone with a sequined glove” can join the SPACE’s Pop Royalty party featuring fantastic auction art, cash bar, finger foods, live music, and dancing until 1AM. Plus, enjoy the comedic art stylings of Brian Sabalausky’s performance art talk show, Late Night with SPACES O’Brian. Just another awesome party thrown by SPACES. Spaces, 2220 Superior Viaduct, Cleveland 216.621.2314 www.spacesgallery.org


Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Auction! Tomorrow!

Message from a NOC member. There is a storage unit auction in Medina tomorrow! There are 2 kilns being auctioned. One is a Paragon TNF283. It is not new but I looked it up online and the new one sells for around $3,000. I went out to look at it. I don`t know if the computer works, there is no way to try it there. The friend of mine who owns the units said if it does`t work he will give the money back. The bricks are pretty good and the coils don`t look worn. There are also hundreds of molds with mold straps and another smaller kiln that is not in very good shape. The molds look like hobby molds from a store but there are some really big ones and it is so crowded that it was hard to see them. There is also alot of metal shelving. The auction is Thurs, Nov. 3 at 10:00 at Bob`s Storage on Rt 18 west of Medina.