MARCH ARTIST - GISELA TOWNER

gisela towner " open 24 hours " acrylic

NEW EXHIBIT @ 5700
MARCH 2006
GISELA TOWNER
paintings and pastels of the industrial valley

Exhibit on Display thru April 1, 2006
Public Viewing - AIV @ 5700
Monday thru Friday 9 am - 5 pm

"I paint in watercolors, pastels, oils and acrylics. I do paintings of people, landscapes, city scenes and wildlife. I also have an ongoing series of India ink portraits and landscapes. Most of my current work is urban landscapes and I'm now busy with Great Lakes themes.

Not one to stick with a single medium or type of subject matter; I'm always searching for fresh new way to express myself. " towner 2006

Towner's recent series of urban Cleveland landscapes featured at 5700 are inspired by a recent late nite photo shoot in the industrial valley in the middle of winter in the dead of night. Her work has been featured in many galleries in the Cleveland area, most recently at the Paradise Gallery in Cleveland Heights. The artist currently works and lives out of the Tremont neighborhood. More examples of her work of her work can be found on her website http://www.townerart.com/















gislea towner "City Harbour" pastel

BLACK & WHITE IMAGES OF SLAVIC VILLAGE - Barbara Breen - FEBRUARY ARTIST

golden pin bowling
22 X 26 inches

Currently on Exhibit at AIV@5700
On exhibit for February - March
local photographer

Barbara Breen
Her black and white prints reflect
past, present and future urban imagery















walking bridge
16 x 20 inches



about the artist.....
Barbara Breen is a Cleveland photographer whose work featuring local neighborhoods incorporates multiple layers of past and present. Her black and white images are presented in a familiar manner that allows the viewer their own measure of nostalgia. The current exhibition at AIV@5700 Gallery features Breen’s work of local storefronts, former factories, and nearby bridges from the Slavic Village area. Her signature process is working in large –format photography that enables the viewer to see character and texture of each subject. Breen is a graduate of the Ohio Institute of Photography and has worked in the Cleveland area for several years. Capturing old storefronts and neighborhoods in the Midwest has been a focus of her black and white portfolio. Her images from her Slavic Village project were published locally; nine of her images were featured in the bicentennial book “ Images From the Heart “ and Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Sunday Magazine (6/16/96). By day she works as a photographer for the Cleveland VA Medical Center, taking shots of surgeries and patients. Currently, she lives in Beachwood and works out of her studio in Cleveland Heights. She has exhibited her work at JCU, BW, Lightkeepers Gallery, the College of Wooster, Mansfield Art Center and she was featured in the May Show at CMA in 1990. Her work has been included in many private collections such as BF Goodrich and KeyCorp. She is represented by the Harris – Stanton Gallery in Akron

AIV@5700 MISSON STATEMENT

Art Program Mission Statement –

Providing opportunities to showcase local talent while encouraging community participation and artistic access in a thriving and diverse neighborhood of Cleveland

Interested in Exhibiting?

If you are interested in being considered for exhibition at AIV@5700, please send us the following bits of information about yourself, your work and your prices. Also, we have listed some participation rules and regulations for you to consider when contacting the space to show.

Please send for consideration :

SASE to return materials
Resume
Bio
CV
exhibition list
slides, photos, floppy or CDROM
color copies are OK or link to website

Please keep in mind

all work subject to install should be preapproved by curator

all work should be properly prepared to install

all work should be framed with wires on the back to hang

NHSGC is not responsible for any theft or damage of artwork
and all artists will sign a liability disclosure before installation

all sales will be subject to a 25 % commission to NHSGC

MAP

coming from downtown >
take 77 south
off at Fleet, turn left on Fleet
turn left on 55th
park for free in lot behind Broadway
Entrance in ReaR

January Press Release 2006

NEW ART SPACE OPENS IN SLAVIC VILLAGE NEIGHBORHOOD

Neighborhood Housing Services of Greater Cleveland
to Promote Local Artistic Talent in
Newly Renovated Space in Slavic Village Historic District

Neighborhood Housing Services of Greater Cleveland (NHSGC)
announces the opening of
Art in the Village @ 5700
their new gallery space within their main offices.
Located at 5700 Broadway Avenue
in the Slavic Village Historic Business District,
the space offers a new, unique opportunity
to showcase local emerging artists.

Lou Tisler, Executive Director of NHSGC states,

“Opening our doors to the opportunity of the mixing of local artists with the art serious and art curious, creates a critical mass of community, culture and sense of place.”

Open for public viewing during regular business hours Monday thru Friday, 9am. – 5pm, the space will rotate local artists monthly on the walls and will be curated by local artist and former Buzz gallery owner, Bridget Ginley.

Exhibiting Artist for month of JANUARY :

New Paintings by curator / artist
Bridget Ginley
works on display until January 26, 2006


curator@nhscleveland.org
http://www.nhscleveland.org/

Art Program Mission Statement –
Providing opportunities to showcase local talent while encouraging community participation and artistic access in a thriving and diverse neighborhood of Cleveland.


Neighborhood Housing Services of Greater Cleveland is not-for-profit community development corporation incorporated in 1975 to promote investment and revitalization of neighborhoods in the City of Cleveland through home repair programming and home ownership education. As one of the first five original charters with NeighborhoodWorks® America, the mission of NHS of Greater Cleveland is enhance the quality of life in Cleveland’s neighborhoods and inner-ring suburbs by promoting home ownership, increasing economic development, developing affordable housing through education and home repair programming.

NEW GALLERY IN CLEVO

welcome to the Art in the Village @ 5700 Gallery blog ! The Neighborhood Housing Services of Great Cleveland is opening their wall space to local visual artists. Monthly solo exhibits will be featured starting in 2006. The non-profit is located at 5700 Broadway in the historic Slavic Vilage Business District and is open to the public for viewing 9 - 5 Monday thru Friday. This blog was launched 1/1/06 and will be updated & edited & is currently under construction...interested in exhibiting at 5700 ? shoot me an email ....