You've probably received dozens of emails calling you to action. If they haven't moved you yet, please respond now to catastrophic cuts proposed to the Ohio Arts Council and Ohio Libraries.
Heights Arts
has received annual grants from the Ohio Arts Council since 2000.
The grants are competitive, and we are held accountable for
receiving these public funds. Like many arts organizations, our
revenues are diverse and replacing anticipated funds from the Ohio Arts
Council will be especially challenging in today's economic climate.
So
please ACTIVATE yourself and your friends to tell our elected
representatives that "Art is never necessary. It is merely
indispensable." (Michael Kimmelman, NYTimes, 2/13/05)
Ohio Citizens for The Arts
Arts Funding Crisis
The
Ohio Arts Council faces a 52% budget cut in the next biennium,
putting funding near the level of 1985 appropriations. If
the proposal is approved by the Conference Committee on HB 1 (the
budget) and passes the House and Senate, the OAC will have $13,188,578
to invest in the arts beginning July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2011. In
what should be the last week before the approval of the budget, it is
imperative that we, who believe in the intrinsic, economic, educational
and community benefits produced by the arts, reinforce to conference
committee members, our elected representatives and senators as well as
our governor our message of the importance of the arts.
To respond to this action alert visit Ohio Citizens for the Arts.
Ohio's Libraries
50% Reduction at Stake
Governor
Strickland has proposed a 50% reduction in state funding for Ohio's
public libraries. This drastic proposal, if adopted by the state
legislature, will devastate public library service in Ohio. During this
time of economic distress, more people than ever are turning to their
public libraries for services like career counseling, computer
training, internet access, financial literacy, health information and
more. Please contact your state legislators today and tell them how
much the Library means to you, your family and friends.
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SUMMER MEWSIC
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Tuesday, July 14, 7pm
a romantic concert at the Barrie home in Herrick Mews to commemorate Bastille Day
Program:
W. A. Mozart - Quintet in g-minor for 2 violins, two violas and cello.
Arnold Schoenberg- Transfigured Night for string sextet.
Mari Sato, Isabel Trautwein - violins
Jessica Oudin, Yu Jin - violas
Tanya Ell, Daniel Pereira - celli
Reservations $40/$35 for members of Heights Arts
216.371.3457 or register@heightsarts.org
sponsored by David H.Lavelle, CFP
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PODCAST
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In a tip of the hat to the art+journalism connection featured in Heights Arts Studio's current exhibition In Plain View II,
Cleveland Heights Poet Laureate Gail Bellamy explores the connection
between journalism and poetry with octogenarian poet and former
newswoman Janice Ghetia Orr.
LISTEN here
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CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS
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Speaking of a crisis....
We are offering art classes and workshops for people of all ages at Heights Arts Studio at the Library taught by local artists.
However, many classes have been cancelled because we do not have minimum enrollment.
And
sometimes, people call at the last minute to register, and we could
have run the class if we had known that they wanted to enroll!
So: please pay attention to our registration deadlines for our classes:
JULY 8 for Summer Session II (July 13-July 23)
JULY 29 for Summer Session III (August 3-13)
If you want to register for a Workshop (Thursday evenings and Saturdays),
please register a week in advance.
Our classes and workshops are GREAT! We've even been nominated for a
2009 Nickelodeon's Parents' Picks Award! You can vote for us HERE*!
Vote early and often!
*This website has been temperamental, so try going here first if it doesn't work.
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2 PHOTOGRAPHY SHOWS THIS SUMMER
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photo by Chuck Crow
In Plain View II
Art that's news-Plain Dealer photojournalists
Heights Arts Studio, 2340 Lee Road
Open Thurs, Sat, Sun 1-4:30 pm
and when classes are in session: 216.371.3344
UNFRAMED PRINTS OF THE PD PHOTOS ARE AVAILABLE:
8"X10"--$25
11"X14"-$45
13"X19"-$65
plus tax
Call 216.371.3457 to order
Night Lights
Coriana Close, Christine Lebeck, and Barry Underwood
Heights Arts Gallery, 2173 Lee Road
Open Thurs-Sat 1:30-9:30 pm
216.371.3457
This show is made up of
three photographers who shoot at night:
Coriana Close, of Cleveland Heights, is in a graduate program in Arizona. Her subject is houses in Oberlin that were on
the Underground Railway. She takes long
exposures at night, which is when the slaves would have been traveling.
Christine Lebeck, of New York, takes
time-lapse photographs of herself in bed so the images you see are the blankets
as she moves through the night sleeping.
Barry Underwood, who
teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Art, stages his photographs before taking
them. For example, he strings the lights
in a lake, or has dancers move with glow sticks down a hill, or sets up twigs
on a table to look like trees in a photograph.
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