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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.  

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!