3.2

3.2

Tri-C Gallery West, 2^nd Floor Campus Library, 11000 Pleasant Valley Road, Parma, 216.987.5322, www.tri-c.edu "Women's Work."  opening Reception 5-7pm.  Featuring the work of NOC's own Lauren Herzak-Bauman along with Mel Rea, Barbara Chira, Mindy Tousley, Anne Kibbe, and Yuko Kimura.

2.19-20

2.19

Hedge Gallery 1300 W.78^th Street, Cleveland  “Thread.”  Opening 5-9pm.  

Also Opening at 78^th Street Studios is “Mark Gaingaspero:  Large Figurative Works at Tregoning and CO. 

2.20

River Gallery,19046 Old Detroit Road, Rocky River 44116 440 331-8406, www.rivergalleryarts.com  “11^th Annual Ceramics Invitational.”  Opening Reception 3-7pm.  Featuring the work of Many NOC Members (of course!...duh!)

2.14

2.14

Sandusky Cultural Center, 2130 Hayes Avenue at Perkins Sandusky, OH 44870 419.625.1188  www.sanduskyculturalcenter.org  “Broad Spectrum.”  opening 1-4pm.  Featuring the work of NOC members Stephanie Craig and Mark Yasenchack along with Marsha Carrington, Justin Delli BOvi, Eileen Dorsey, Josh Haplea, Nina Huryn, George Kocar, Matt Kokoski, Mike Mikula, Seungbo Roh, Christine Wegland and Steve Ziebarth.

2.4 + 5

2.4

Akron Museum of Art, 1 S. High Street. Akron, 330.376.9185, www.akronartmuseum.org “Andrea Modica: Extended Moments.”   6:30 PM The Akron Art Museum’s Knight Purchase Prize was established 25 years ago to acquire a body of work by a significant photographer. In that time, it has honored a diverse range of photographers from photojournalists to cutting-edge experimentalists.  The 2015 winner was Philadelphia-based Andrea Modica , whose work revolves around high-degree-of-difficulty processes that are becoming increasing valued in the era of digital ease and profligacy. She shoots with an 8 x 10 view camera and makes her prints using the platinum palladium contact printing process, which makes creating her photos time-consuming. That increases her engagement with her subject matter, which includes landscapes, teenage best friends and rural families.  Her work is on display now at the Akron Art Museum in Andrea Modica: Extended Moments. And she’ll be at the museum to present the Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Lecture to talk about her work. It’s free and open to the public.

2.5

Waterloo Arts, 15605 Waterloo Rd., Cleveland, 216.692.9500 artscollinwood.org  “Walk all Over Waterloo.”  Including Fandom 216.

Bay Arts, 28795 Lake Road, Bay Village, OH “Destruction of Form + Timothy Joyce: Facing Forward.”  Opening 7-9PM.  Last fall, painter John Carlson and photographer and Cleveland Print Room director Shari Wilkins put together a show called Destruction of Form which showed at the Cleveland Print Room. In it, each artist used vernacular or found photos — a passion of Shari’s — as the basis for the work they created. Carlson’s paintings riffed on the photos while Wilkins used the photos as her basic material.

Studio Space Available!

Would you like to rent space in the Historic Hildebrandt Building?  If so please contact Bette Drake at betteclev@aol.com   The space is 15 x 20 feet and rent is $200.  There is kiln access.  

Upcoming NOC Events!

April 7^th at 7 pm.  2^nd NOC Potcha Kucha.  Please contact Todd at Todd@toddleech.com if you would like to present.  Event will be held at The Screw Factory.

April 24^th 2-5 pm.  Dick Lehman Workshop “Altering on the Wheel.”  The workshop will be held at AK Studios.

Happy New Year 1.29-30

1.29

Shaker Historical Society, 16740 South park Boulevard, Shaker Heights, 216.921.1201, www.shakerhistory.org “Christopher Pekoc:  Recent Works.”  Opening 6-8pm.  Artist Talk at 7 pm.

Museum of Contemporary Art, 11400 Euclid Ave., Cleveland 216.421.8671, www.mocacleveland.org “Xavier Cha:  Abduct, Stranger-Group Show.”  Opening 7-10 pm. 7pm Xavier Cha Artist Talk.

Spaces, 2220 Superior Viaduct, Cleveland 216.621.2314 www.spacesgallery.org  “I Am Goat Stains on the Doors, Underneath is Before, Google Earth.”  Opening 6-9pm. 

Heights Art Gallery, 2175 Lee Road  Cleveland Hts., 216.371.3457 www.heightsarts.org  “Spotlight: Rafael Valdivieso Troya.”  Opening Reception 6-9 p.m.  An exhibition of recent works by Rafael Valdivieso Troya, ranging from small drawings to a very large muralistic painting.  Born in Ecuador and now a Cleveland Heights resident, Rafael Valdivieso creates intricate compositions using pen and ink, wash, acrylic, and collage techniques. A single work might contain hundreds of figures or faces layered into imaginary spaces that evoke a sense of teeming wildness and intertwine themes of human joy and struggle. (Image Above)

Zygote Press, 1410 East 30^th St., Cleveland 216.621.2900  www.zygotepress.com  “Fandom 216.”  Opening 6-8pm. 

1.30

Spaces, 2220 Superior Viaduct, Cleveland 216.621.2314 www.spacesgallery.org  “Interlocutors.”  Opening 8 pm. Immerse yourself in sound and visuals at Interlocutors: A Live Video & Music Experience, taking place at SPACES Gallery.  Andrew Auten and Lisa Miralia have curated an evening that brings together some of northeast Ohio’s most intriguing and adventurous artists.  The evening will open with the experimental trio Celluloid Liberation Orchestra doing a partly improvised/partly composed accompaniment to two silent films: Georges Méliès’ 1904 “The Impossible Voyage (Voyage à travers l’impossible)” and Germaine Dulac’s 1928 “The Seashell and the Clergyman (La Coquille et le clergyman).”  The second half of the program features a live video performance in which internationally noted, Cleveland-based avant-garde filmmaker/video artist Kasumi will interact with improvised performances by a new group called Silence Quartet and the Kent-based Mike Crooker/Ron Pyrosonic Slabe duo for a spontaneous and unpredictable outcome.  Admission is $10 which all goes to the artists.

Upcoming Workshop of NOC Artist Bill Brouillard:

The Walter Gropius Master Artist Series brings nationally and internationally recognized artists to the Huntington Museum of Art to inspire artists, educators and students through lectures, exhibitions, and workshops.  Upcoming Gropius Master Artist:  William Brouillard

Exhibition: November 7, 2015-February 14, 2016  Public Presentation:  February 11, 2016 at 7 p.m.  Workshop:  February 12-14, 2016 from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. 

Workshop title and description:  The Eclectic Table

Standard dinnerware is designed and made as a “service.” Conventional services are made up of multiple place settings. There can be numerous parts to a place setting. The minimum number of parts is usually three, with as many as thirty parts in some formal settings. Participants will explore non-traditional compositions of tableware that encompass variety in their design, fabrication and surface. The workshop will begin with a collaborative design session, then each student will present designs and prototypes for their “Eclectic Table.”  Images of table-related works from historical and contemporary models will be shown as a reference. Using basic wheel techniques and slab construction, participants will originate and fabricate place settings of dinnerware and table-related vessels, using earthenware clay with majolica decoration as the basis for fabrication and surface. We will finish with greenware prototypes. Students are encouraged to come to the workshop with a statement of what you want your tableware to embody, referencing historical or contemporary source materials in clay and any other research materials, such as books, websites, music, or food recipes that are related to your project research.  Drawings to scale of at least two approaches to your project will be a starting point for discussion in the design session at the beginning of the workshop.

To register for this workshop or for fee information, call (304) 529-2701, Ext. 311, or email

gwlanham@hmoa.org or kcox@hmoa.org

For more information on the Walter Gropius Master Artist Series workshops and William Brouillard,   please visit our website: www.hmoa.org

Upcoming Summer Workshop of NOC Artist Judith Salomon:

AndersonRanch arts center CERAMICS STUDIO SUMMER 2016 WORKSHOP  June 20 – July 1 The Tabletop  Judith Salomon

SKILL LEVEL: Open to All CONCEPT: Fill your family’s dining

table with a variety of handcrafted treasures you make yourself in this engaging, introductory workshop. Abandon the digital touchpoints of daily life and reconnect with the palpable and concrete experience of working with clay to produce a variety of useful wares. We explore many facets of the craft, including porcelain, slips and glazes. Learn through a mix of demonstrations, slide shows, discussions and hand building approaches to ceramics.

MEDIA & TECHNIQUES: We work with cone 6 mid-range porcelain, slips and glazes. Students hand build pieces before exploring glazing with stencils, underglaze pencils, wax- resist and more.

ACTIVITIES: We begin with daily demonstrations in the morning and work time during the day and evening. Students also learn via numerous slide shows, reviews and group discussions. The instructor works with you, one-on-one, to best formulate your ideas and bring them to fruition.  Anderson Ranch arts center provides transformative experiences that celebrate artists, art making, creative dialogue & community. 

FACULTY: Judith Salomon received her M.F.A. from Alfred University in Alfred, N.Y. She taught at the Cleveland Institute of Art until 2015 and is currently a full-time studio artist whose work is represented in many books and publications. Collections include LACMA, Racine Art Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art and Taipei National Museum.  www.judithsalomonceramics.com

Tuition: $1175  OR Tuition + Studio Support Donation: $1575 Registration Fee: $45 Studio Fee: $175  Code: C0304 Enrollment Limit:1122 Registration opens January 4,  2016, 9:00 AM MST :  online at andersonranch.org phone (970) 923-3181  fax (970) 923- 3871

Kiln for sale:  nice small kiln, never been fired, probably 9+yrs old,asking $200.( negotiable?) In Cleve. Hts . If you are interested, call Curtis at 216-534-9949.

12.10-12

12.10

Canton Museum of Art, 1001 Market Ave., N  Canton, Oh 330.453.7666.  www.cantonart.org “Out of the Woods and Into the Ring: Clay Sculptures .”  Opening 6-8pm.  Cleveland artist Kristen Cliffel is technically a ceramicist but not like most of the ones you see around. She uses clay as a medium to sculpt personal but open-ended narratives about women’s lives that often veer into the fantastical, whimsical and even humorous, drawing on popular culture and fairy-tale imagery.  Her work has been seen around Cleveland at galleries such as the former William Busta Gallery., as well as in Columbus, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Banff, Alberta. Show runs through 3.6.2016.  (Image Above)

12.11

“Jenny Mendes Annual Online Holiday Sale.”  Opens at 11am.  Ends Monday December 14^th at 11 am.  Website Link here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/jennymendes?ref=hdr_shop_menu  (Image Above)

2731 Prospect, 2731 Prospect Ave., Cleveland 216.298.9071  “Works on Paper.”  Opening 6-9pm. “This group exhibition focuses on the unique attributes of paper investigated within a variety of approaches that ranges from re-envisioning traditional techniques to experimental and hybrid processes,” says the gallery. “Some works deftly utilize paint that is applied to paper with a delicate touch, while other works feature screen printed imagery sourced from the culture of contemporary pop entertainment.”

12.11

78^th Street Studios. 1300 West 78^th Street, "Cleveland Bazaar."  12.11 10 am - 9 pm  12.12 10am-6pm.  Featuring the work of NOC artists!

12.12 

River Gallery,19046 Old Detroit Road, Rocky River 44116 440 331-8406, www.rivergalleryarts.com “Winter Open House.”  Open 12-5pm.  Featuring the work of many NOC artists!  Show runs through January.  

12.4-6

12.4

Lake Erie Screw Factory  13000 Athens Ave., Lakewood, Ohio 44107  "Open Studio"  Featuring NOC Artists Diana Bjel, Lauren Herzak Bauman and Kristen Cliffel. Friday, December 4. 6-10 pm.  

The Nicholson B. White Gallery at St. Pauls Episcopal Church , 2747 Fairmount Blvd., Cleveland Heights, “Spaces/Places/Structures.”  Opening 5-7pm.  Featuring the work of NOC’s own Stephanie Craig and Todd Leech along with Rita Schuenemann, Susan Griffith and Dawn Tekler.

1point618 Gallery 6421 Detroit Ave., Cleveland, 216.281.1618 www.1point618gallery.com  “Brent Kee Young:  Matrix Series Defining Form With Light and Line.”  Opening 7-10pm.

Bay Arts, 28795 Lake Road, Bay Village, OH  “Tall Walls.”  Opening 7-9pm.  

Praxis Fiber Workshop,  15301 Waterloo Road, Cleve, www.praxisfiberworkshop.org  “Rust Never Sleeps.”  Opening Reception 6-11pm.

12.4-6

TerraVista Studios, 1400 East 30^th Street #401, Cleveland, 216.523.1387, www.terravistastudios.com  “16^th Annual Holiday Sale.”  Friday 11-4, Saturday 12-7, Sunday 12-4.  

Brick Ceramic + Design, 420 East 161^st. Street Cleve. www.brickceramics.com “Holiday Sale.”  Open Friday 6-10, Saturday 11-5 and Sunday 11-5.  Featuring the work of NOC’s own Val Grossman.

12.5

Judith Salomon Studio.  2190 Professor Ave.  Cleve.  “Judith Salomon Holiday Sale.”  Open 10-5pm.  

12.5-6

Artcraft Building 2570 Superior Ave, Cleve.  “Open Studio Holiday Sale.”  Saturday 10-7 and Sunday 11-5pm.  Featuring the work of many NOC Members!

Bette Drake Studio, 3619 Walton Ave. Cleveland,  2^nd Floor.  “Holiday Open House and Sale.”  11-5pm both days.  Featuring the work of NOC’s own Bette Drake.

Superior Hot Glass, 1588 E. 40^th Street, Cleve.  “Open House.”  11-6 Both Days.  Featuring the work of NOC’s own Theresa Yondo.

12.8

Tri-C Gallery East, 4250 Richmond Rd., Highland Hills, OH  “Good Things to Life:  Exhibition Honoring the Life of Roy Bigler.”  Opening Reception 6-9pm. *Special Last Night Auction:  Thursday, January 28th, 2016 – 6pm to 9pm.