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

Thursday, December 10, 2015

12.10-12



12.10
Canton Museum of Art, 1001 Market Ave., N  Canton, Oh 330.453.7666.  www.cantonart.orgOut 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 14th 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
78th Street Studios. 1300 West 78th 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.  

Thursday, December 3, 2015

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 30th Street #401, Cleveland, 216.523.1387, www.terravistastudios.com  “16th Annual Holiday Sale.”  Friday 11-4, Saturday 12-7, Sunday 12-4.  
Brick Ceramic + Design, 420 East 161st. 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,  2nd Floor.  “Holiday Open House and Sale.”  11-5pm both days.  Featuring the work of NOC’s own Bette Drake.

Superior Hot Glass, 1588 E. 40th 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.  

Friday, November 27, 2015

11.28-29


11.28-29
Hectic Studio and Bette Drake Studio, 3619 Walton Ave. Cleveland,  2nd 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 40th Street, Cleve.  “Shopping Extravaganza.” Open 1-6pm.   Featuring work by NOC’s own Theresa Yondo.  

Thursday, November 19, 2015

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 78th Street Studios!
Kenneth Paul Lesko Gallery 1305 West 80th 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

Thursday, November 12, 2015

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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 18th , 7 pm at Brick Ceramic + Design Studio, 420 East 161st. 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)

Thursday, November 5, 2015

11.6-7


Reminder!!
The Next NOC event will be Wednesday November 18th , 7 pm at Brick Ceramic + Design Studio, 420 East 161st. 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 123rd 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 161st. 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  “14th 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 30th 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.29th 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!

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

10.29-30


Attention!!
The Next NOC event will be Wednesday November 18th , 7 pm at Brick Ceramic + Design Studio, 420 East 161st. 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.”