11.28-29

11.28-29

Hectic Studio and Bette Drake Studio, 3619 Walton Ave. Cleveland,  2^nd Floor, 440.590.0672, www.hecticstudio.com  “Holiday Open House and Sale.”  11-5pm both days.  Featuring the work of NOC’s own Stephanie Craig,  Bette Drake, Virginia Houston, and Todd Leech.  Many other artists in the building will be open as well including Mike Mikula Glass!  (Image Above)

11.29

Prosperity, 1814 East 40^th Street, Cleve.  “Shopping Extravaganza.” Open 1-6pm.   Featuring work by NOC’s own Theresa Yondo.  

11.20-22

Thank you so much to all the members who attended the lectures Wednesday night at Brick.  It was our biggest event yet!

11.20

Third Fridays 78^th Street Studios!

Kenneth Paul Lesko Gallery 1305 West 80^th St., Cleveland, 216.870.6719 www.kennethpaullesko.com  “Judith Brandon:  Solo Exhibition.”  Opening 5-9pm.   (Image Above). 

Akron Museum of Art, 1 S. High Street. Akron, 330.376.9185, www.akronartmuseum.org  “NEOGEO.”  Opening 7:30-9pm.  Featuring work by NOC’s own Amy Sinbondit. About NEO Geo:  Geometric abstraction pares visual art down to pure shapes, lines and colors, yet infinite possibilities lie within those boundaries. NEO Geo features recent work by artists in the surrounding region who explore the potential of geometric abstraction.

Spaces, 2220 Superior Viaduct, Cleveland 216.621.2314 www.spacesgallery.org  “The Venus Vault, Imperial Differences, Natural Itstory.”  Opening 6-9pm.  

Heights Art Gallery, 2175 Lee Road  Cleveland Hts., 216.371.3457 www.heightsarts.org  “CAN Journal Launch Party.”  Opening 6-8pm.

11.21

River Gallery,19046 Old Detroit Road, Rocky River 44116 440 331-8406, www.rivergalleryarts.com  “Winter Collection.”  Opening 12-5pm.  Featuring the work of many NOC members!

11.21-22

Bonnie Gordon Holiday Sale, 167 Pine Needle Dr., Seville, OH.  I am pleased to announce I will be exhibiting my work with the following artists at my annual November open house.  Please accept this invitation to join us for a great opportunity to select a unique gift of fine art and craft for those on your holiday list.  You may even find a special piece of artwork for yourself. Featuring NOC members:  Bonnie Gordon, – Porcelain vessels & ornaments, Elaine Lamb – Ornaments & functional porcelain, Theresa Yondo – Functional ceramics.  NOVEMBER   (2 Weekends)  Sat 21 - 10 AM to 6 PM    Sun 22 - 11 AM to 4 PM

11.13-18

11.13

Tremont Artwalk 5-9pm.  

Harris-Stanton Gallery 2301 West Market Street, Akron, 330.867.7600, www.harrisstantongallery.com  “Ohio Printmakers.”  Opening 5:30-8pm. Featuring the work of Charles Beneke, Julie Friedman and Joe VanKerkhove

11.14

“Bonnie Gordon Holiday Sale”, 167 Pine Needle Dr., Seville, OH.  I am pleased to announce I will be exhibiting my work with the following artists at my annual November open house.  Please accept this invitation to join us for a great opportunity to select a unique gift of fine art and craft for those on your holiday list.  You may even find a special piece of artwork for yourself. Featuring NOC members:  Bonnie Gordon, – Porcelain vessels & ornaments, Elaine Lamb – Ornaments & functional porcelain, Theresa Yondo – Functional ceramics.  NOVEMBER   (2 Weekends)  Sat 14 - 10 AM to 6 PM    Sun 15 - 11 AM to 4 PM.  Sat 21 - 10 AM to 6 PM    Sun 22 - 11 AM to 4 PM  (Image Above)

2731 Prospect, 2731 Prospect Ave., Cleveland 216.298.9071 “Photographic Works-Artist Talk.”  2 pm.  Cleveland-based artist Joseph Minek creates works of abstract art using photographic materials — but no camera. Working with paper and chemicals in the darkroom, he produces images that are leagues more sophisticated than that photogram every beginning photographer makes, clearly informed by the abstract expressionist tradition in painting. 

Artists Talk This Week! 

11.18

The Next NOC event will be Wednesday November 18^th , 7 pm at Brick Ceramic + Design Studio, 420 East 161^st. Street Cleveland.  www.brickceramics.com!  It will be a presentation by the new CIA ceramics faculty,  Seth Nagelberg and the new KSU faculty Peter Christian Johnson.  Pizza will be provided.  Please bring beverages and anything else you may want!  Tell your friends!  If you have not paid your membership fee of $25 this year please bring it to this event!  Please RSVP to Todd Leech.   (Image Above)

11.6-7

Reminder!!

The Next NOC event will be Wednesday November 18^th , 7 pm at Brick Ceramic + Design Studio, 420 East 161^st. Street Cleveland.  www.brickceramics.com!  It will be a presentation by the new CIA ceramics faculty,  Seth Nagelberg and the new KSU faculty Peter Christian Johnson.  Pizza will be provided.  Please bring beverages and anything else you may want!  Tell your friends!  If you have not paid your membership fee of $25 this year please bring it to this event!  Please RSVP to Todd Leech

11.6

Sculpture Center, 1834 East 123^rd St., Cleveland, 216.229.6527  sculpturecenter.org   “Nathan Prouty and Zimra Beiner: Fabricated Fictions.”  Opening 5:30-8:30 pm.  With guest curator James Barker

The Artists Talk @ 7 pm in the Euclid Avenue Gallery.  All new work by two of the outstanding ceramic artists of our region. Nathan Prouty, from Philadelphia and now in Athens, OH, received his BFA from Alfred University, his MFA from Ohio University (2014). (Image Above)  Zimra Beiner, originally from Toronto, Canada, is teaching at Millersville University in Lancaster, PA. He completed his undergraduate studies at Sheridan College and the Novia Scotia School of Art and Design, his MFA at Alfred University.

Brick Ceramic + Design, 420 East 161^st. Street Cleve. www.brickceramics.com  “Samantha Mills.”  Opening 6-10pm.  

Fawick Gallery, Baldwin-Wallace College 94 E. Bagley Rd., Berea, OH 440.826.2152  “Unreliable Systems:  New Work by Abbey Blake and Catherine Spencer.”  Opening 5-8pm.  

Heights Art Gallery, 2175 Lee Road  Cleveland Hts., 216.371.3457 www.heightsarts.org  “14^th Annual Holiday Store.”  Open 7-9pm. Heights Arts kicks off its 14th Annual Holiday Store on Friday, November 6 with works in all media from more than eighty regional artists... and you're invited! Join us to nosh on tasty bites while you get a jump on holiday shopping and support local artists.

Waterloo Arts, 15605 Waterloo Rd., Cleveland, 216.692.9500 artscollinwood.org  “Treesure House.”  Opening 6-9PM.  Cleveland Foundation Creative Fusion artist Kuenlin Tsai works in multiple media and has created and installed many public art sculptures in his native Taiwan as well as China and Japan. He says the piece, titled “Treesure House,” will address cycles of decay and regrowth, such as what’s going on in the North Collinwood neighborhood. He’ll incorporate the sculptures of Collinwood students into his work which will be constructed in the next several weeks.  There’ll be a reception for him tonight at Waterloo Arts from 6-9pm; he’ll give an artist talk to explain what he’s doing at 7pm during the monthly Walk All Over Waterloo art walk. It’s free.

Gallery One Sixty, 16008 Waterloo Road, Cleveland  “Northern Exposure.”  Open 6-10pm.  

Zygote Press, 1410 East 30^th St., Cleveland 216.621.2900  www.zygotepress.com   “Heading Utopia: New Works by Behrang Samadzadegan.”  Opening 6-9pm.  

Cleveland Print Room (in Artcraft Building), 2550 Superior Ave, Suite 102, Cleveland, 216.401.5981  “Scans.”  Opening 5 pm. Welcome the Cleveland Print Room‘s artist in residence, Adolfo Bimer, to the community by attending the opening of his new show SCANS. Bimer, an artist from Chile, will be showcasing his Cleveland work, which focuses on the the theme of the material and metaphorical innerness of the human body.  The new show will include an unique dissection of the painting, construction and medical fields, in relation to the human body theme. SCANS will also bring into question health, disease, the body’s movement, fluids, organs, and textures, in addition to analyzing medical technology imaging systems such as x-rays, microscopy, scans, and anatomical drawings.

Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Blvd, Cleveland, 216.421.7350, www.clevelandart.org  “MIX.” Open 5PM.  Mingle with some of Cleveland’s finest at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s MIX: Bloom event. Explore the museum with cocktail in hand, and take in everything that one of Cleveland’s greatest institutions has to offer. In addition to the CMA Classics, be sure to check out their new Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse exhibit.  Tickets are $18.

11.7

Transformer Station 1460 W.29^th Street, Cleveland, www.transformerstation.org  “Choice — the Akron Art Museum’s Art and Acquisitions.” Talk at 2PM.  The Akron Art Museum has always been a pillar of excellence for the NEO community, so find out what makes them tick at their panel discussion Held at the Transformer Station in Ohio City, this panel discussion will feature key individuals like former director Michael Danoff, former Associate Curator Ellen Rudolph , and former educator and collection artist Don Harvey.  The discussion will also coincide with their new show Choice: Contemporary Art from the Akron Art Museum,” which is on display at the Transformer Station until the beginning of December.

Spaces, 2220 Superior Viaduct, Cleveland 216.621.2314 www.spacesgallery.org  “SPACES Annual Benefit.”  Opening 6:30-1 am.  Check Website for pricing and different entrance times.

Juma Gallery, 20100 Chagrin Blvd., Shaker Heights, 44122, 216.295.1717 “Deborah Woolfork & Brandon Holschuh.”  Opening 1-4 pm.

Lake Erie Screw Factory  13000 Athens Ave., Lakewood, Ohio 44107 "Open Studio" Noon-6.  Featuring work by NOC's own Diana Bjel and Lauren Herzak-Bauman!

10.29-30

Attention!!

The Next NOC event will be Wednesday November 18^th , 7 pm at Brick Ceramic + Design Studio, 420 East 161^st. Street Cleveland.  www.brickceramics.com!  It will be a presentation by the new CIA ceramics faculty,  Seth Nagelberg and the new KSU faculty Peter Christian Johnson.  Pizza will be provided.  Please bring beverages and anything else you may want!  Tell your friends! 

10.29

Tri-C Gallery East, 4250 Richmond Rd., Highland Hills, OH  “Judy Takacs, Chicks With Balls.”  Opening Reception 6-8:30 pm.  

Lakeland Community College 7700 Clocktower Drive, Kirtland, OH 44094, 440.525.7029  “Skull and Skeleton Exhibit.”  Opening 6-9pm. The 4th Skull and Skeleton in Art … Folk Art to Pop Culture exhibit at the gallery at Lakeland Community College has gotten to be a huge undertaking. Curated by gallery coordinator Mary Urbas, it’s exploded in size from 18 artists to more than 80 from across the country as well as England and Mexico, with more than 300 works in virtually every media you can name.

10.30

2731 Prospect, 2731 Prospect Ave., Cleveland 216.298.9071 “Joseph Minek and Amber Stucke.”  Opening 6-9pm.   The second pair of shows at 2731 Prospect demonstrates the direction new gallery director Lauren Davis said they were interested in going. They’ve got another show of photography, something Busta didn’t do much of, and they’re casting a wider regional net. Clevelander Joseph Minek does abstract works created in the darkroom without a camera, while Cincinnati-based artist Amber Stucke will be showing graphite drawings of lichen, fungi, algae and moss in her show Symbiosis State, which “investigate the complex visual relationships between survival, both parasitic and mutualistic, that take place under symbiosis.”

10.23

First of All!!!!!!!!!

The Next NOC event will be Wednesday November 18^th , 7 pm at Brick Studio !  It will be a presentation by the new CIA ceramics faculty,  Seth Nagelberg.  Pizza will be provided.  Please bring beverages and anything else you may want!  Tell your friends!  There may be a second presentation (it’s still in the works, more info next week.)

10.23

“Workshop: Engaging Space: Creative Potential in Contemporary Ceramics.”  Otterbein University, Westerville, OH  Friday, October 23: 3:00 - 6:00 pm: Exhibition tours - Continuous shuttle between featured exhibitions • Things Love: Kirk Mangus; Miller Gallery, Art & Communications Building • The Space Between: curated by Sherman Hall, Fisher Gallery, Roush Hall • Love Between the Atoms: Eva Kwong; Frank Museum, 39 S. Vine St., Westerville 7:00 - 8:30 pm: Keynote Speaker • Garth Johnson, Curator of Ceramics, Arizona State University, Museum of Art Ceramics Research Center Roush Hall, Otterbein Campus 8:30 - 10:00 pm: Meet the artists reception for The Space Between exhibition Saturday, October 24: 8:00 - 10:00 am: Continuous shuttle between exhibitions 10:00 am - 12:30 pm: Speakers Roush Hall, Otterbein Campus • Sherman Hall, Managing Director, Ceramic Publications Company • Rose Bouthillier, Assistant Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, organizer of Things Love exhibition • Meg Roberts, Artist, Activist, Executive Director of Plants for Patients • Jim Bowling, Assoc. Professor of Art, Otterbein University 12:30 - 2:00 pm: lunch (on own) 2:15 - 3:30 pm: Open Space round table discussions 3:30 - 4:00 pm: Closing remarks 4:30 - 8:00 pm: Reception for Eva Kwong's exhibition, Love Between the Atoms Frank Museum of Art The symposium is open to all who have interest; registration includes admittance to all events, and it is FREE. We very excited about the programming, and expect it to fill quickly, so please let people know to register soon!

Juma Gallery, 20100 Chagrin Blvd., Shaker Heights, 44122, 216.295.1717  “Joey Thate:  New Work.”  Opening 6-8pm. (Image Above)  Joey Thate was born in LaCrosse, Wisconsin in 1983 and now lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio. In his lakeside studio Joey concentrates on painting large scale oil and acrylic pieces and smaller scale multi-media drawings.  Joey studied studio painting at Daytona State College in Daytona, Florida. He has been featured to millions of viewers through Fox's Network Television show Hell's Kitchen in Seasons 9 and 10. (2011) and other feature films while living and working in Los Angeles

10.15-20

10.15

Morgan Conservatory, 1754 E. 47^th Street, Cleveland, 216.361.9255, www.morganconservatory.org   “Buoyancy.”  Opening 6-9PM.  Buoyancy, the Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory’s last gallery show of the year, addresses the theme of water and swimming in the work of two artists, Aimee Lee and Kristen Martincic.  Both grew up around water — Martincic in Cleveland, Lee along New York’s Hudson River — and it has played an influential role in their work. Both ground their work in different forms of Asian papermaking (Lee led the launch of Morgan’s eastern Paper studio last year), which they use to create prints, mixed-media work and three-dimensional objects.  The show opens with a reception Thu 10/15 from 6-9pm, with an artist talk by both artists at 6pm. It runs through Sat 12/5. It’s free. 

10.16

Third Fridays at 78^th Street Studios!

Survival Kit Gallery, 1305 W. 80^th Street Suite 303, Cleveland 216.533.4855www.survivalkitgallery.com  “Assholes and Elbows:  Recent work by Dana Depew.”  Opening 5-9pm. exhibition of recent sculptural works produced from reclaimed and found objects 'assholes and elbows' refers to working hard at a task. It originated in farm work. If a group of field hands is busy and bent over picking crops, then a supervisor looking out over the group would see nothing but "assholes and elbows".  I grew up on a farm in Medina, Ohio with eight siblings. There were always daily chores and tasks we each had to do. My father would always say "Get out there and do your chores and all I want to see is assholes and elbows."

Tregoning & Company, 1300 West 78^th Street, Cleveland, 216.281.8626, www.tregoningandco.com  “A Pocket Full of Change:  Michael Gill.”  Opening 5-9pm.  Michael Gill is well known around town as an arts and news writer who worked for years for the Free Times and Scene. He co-founded the Collective Arts Network and is publisher/editor of the quarterly CAN Journal.  But he’s also an accomplished printmaker and creator of artist books. He’s got a new show opening and it will feature a selection of prints from his brand-new artist book of woodcuts, A Pocket Full of Change, which shows and tells the story of a boy who goes out on his bicycle  to put coins on tracks to be run over by trains. 

Derek Hess Gallery at &8^th Street Studios.  “Gojira: An Artistic Celebration of Godzilla.”  Opening 5-9PM.  More than two dozen mostly local artists are contributing their talents to Gojira: An Artistic Celebration of Godzilla, including Hess himself, as well as others known for their pop culture sensibility such as Rich Cihlar, John Greiner, Jake Kelly, Aaron Sechrist and Clay Parker. Those contributions include drawing, painting, sculpture and even handmade books.

10.17

River Gallery,19046 Old Detroit Road, Rocky River 44116 440 331-8406, www.rivergalleryarts.com  “Partners in Art.”  Opening 3-7pm.   Featuring work by NOC’s Own Stephanie Craig, Todd Leech, Mark Yasenchack and John Miyazawa!  Also including work by Kristen Sutcliffe, Jim Fish, Patti Fiels, Ray Juaire, Justin Rothshank, Brooke Rothshank, Dianne and Pat Barker, Drbra Kay & Mike Steciw, and Linda Zmina and Earl James.

10.18

Sandusky Cultural Center, 2130 Hayes Avenue at Perkins Sandusky, OH 44870 419.625.1188  www.sanduskyculturalcenter.org  “Rituals and Meditations.”  Opening 1-4pm.  Featuring work by Gary Spinosa and NOC’s Own Ikuko Miklowski, John Miyazawa and Yumiko Goto.

10.20

Cleveland Institute of Art, 11610 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, 800.223.4700, www.cia.edu “Ceramic designer, cia grad Nancy Yusko.”  to speak Oct. 20

Nancy Yusko ’03, lead industrial designer at Kohler, will give a talk about her creative career and her “intense research fortitude” at 10:30am on Tuesday, Oct. 20 in the  Peter B.Lewis Aud.

Upcoming Workshop: Engaging Space: Creative Potential in Contemporary Ceramics.  Otterbein University, Westerville, OH

Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/engaging-space-creative-potential-in-contemporary-ceramics-registration-18416026832 Host hotel link: (Homewood Suites on Polaris) http://homewoodsuites.hilton.com/en/hw/groups/personalized/C/CMHPPHW-CER-20151023/index.jhtml?WT.mc_id=POG Schedule of events: Friday, October 23: 3:00 - 6:00 pm: Exhibition tours - Continuous shuttle between featured exhibitions • Things Love: Kirk Mangus; Miller Gallery, Art & Communications Building • The Space Between: curated by Sherman Hall, Fisher Gallery, Roush Hall • Love Between the Atoms: Eva Kwong; Frank Museum, 39 S. Vine St., Westerville 7:00 - 8:30 pm: Keynote Speaker • Garth Johnson, Curator of Ceramics, Arizona State University, Museum of Art Ceramics Research Center Roush Hall, Otterbein Campus 8:30 - 10:00 pm: Meet the artists reception for The Space Between exhibition Saturday, October 24: 8:00 - 10:00 am: Continuous shuttle between exhibitions 10:00 am - 12:30 pm: Speakers Roush Hall, Otterbein Campus • Sherman Hall, Managing Director, Ceramic Publications Company • Rose Bouthillier, Assistant Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, organizer of Things Love exhibition • Meg Roberts, Artist, Activist, Executive Director of Plants for Patients • Jim Bowling, Assoc. Professor of Art, Otterbein University 12:30 - 2:00 pm: lunch (on own) 2:15 - 3:30 pm: Open Space round table discussions 3:30 - 4:00 pm: Closing remarks 4:30 - 8:00 pm: Reception for Eva Kwong's exhibition, Love Between the Atoms Frank Museum of Art The symposium is open to all who have interest; registration includes admittance to all events, and it is FREE. We very excited about the programming, and expect it to fill quickly, so please let people know to register soon!