Heights Arts Annual Holiday Store opens Nov. 6
Heights Arts will be celebrating its 10th anniversary next year, and it’s fascinating to look back and remember how various projects began. For example, the idea of a Holiday Store featuring local artists was brought up in a lunchtime conversation at Stone Oven Bakery in 2002. The next step was asking landlord Jon Forman if we could temporarily use an empty storefront for the shop (yes, you can!). Then we had a meeting, rounded up our husbands and friends, scraped the carpet off the floor, cleaned up and painted, contacted artists, and opened the doors.
The arty store began as a partnership among the Cedar Lee Merchant Association (Joan Costello), FutureHeights (Sarah Wean and Lita Gonzalez), Fairfax Neighborhood Network (Elaine Mosbrook), Heights Arts (Sharon Grossman, Jan Kious and Peggy Spaeth), and the cooperation of the City of Cleveland Heights (Nancy McLaughlin).
Today, thanks to the imagination and generosity of these instigators, Heights Arts Gallery is a rent-paying art destination for people from all over the region and beyond. We shine a light on creativity in our own neighborhood, and make sure that our community knows its artists and their work. Save that airfare to New York, or shipping charges online, and buy art locally! You don’t have to travel beyond Lee Road to find high-quality art work.
The Gallery presents six shows a year and is staffed primarily by volunteers. Heights Arts staff supports a Gallery Committee that reviews and seeks art to show. An artist does not have to live in Cleveland Heights to be included, although we think local first.
Once a year, the Gallery is transformed into a Holiday Store with work by more than 80 regional artists. You can find paintings, prints, ceramics, glass, cards, books, CDs and more.
The 8th-annual Holiday Store opens Friday, Nov. 6, from 6 to 9 p.m., with a reception for members of Heights Arts. Membership requires no initiation ceremony, simply a minimum $35 tax-deductible donation for individuals.
Peggy Spaeth is the executive director of Heights Arts.
Heights Arts Gallery Hours
2173 Lee Road Tues - Sat 1:30 -9:30 p.m.
www.heightsarts.org Mon 6:30 - 9:30 p.m.
216-371-3457 Closed Sundays
