SEPTEMBER EXHIBIT : CURATOR's CHOICE

SEPTEMBER EXHIBIT : CURATOr's COLLECTION

This month at Art In the Village, I have curated an excellent exhibit of local artists in a group exhibit chosen from my personal art collection. I find collecting local art a personally rewarding investment on the small scale and this is my example of how one not very wealthy volunteer coordinator can collect some great stuff by personal relationships with the artists, art auctions for charity or great bargins from studio visits or artwalks. On display at AIV would be several pieces I am very proud to have in my own home for personal enjoyment as well and it sure makes the house look swell too. The artists featured in the small group exhibit would be Craig Lucas, Scott Radke, Michael Loderstadt, Laila Voss, Bruce Edwards, Derek Hess, Dexter Davis, Greg Alberti, Maria Garcia Blume, Kyle Stone, Blythe Pavone and this gem above from Michael Wartgow. The exhibit is up thru the month of September.

5700 Broadway in Slavic Village
Free Parking & Open to the Public
Monday ~ Friday from 9am - 5 pm

AUGUST EXHIBIT - MIKE ZELLERS & GINA DESANTIS

AUGUST @ Art in the Village 5700

PHOTOGRAPHER
MIKE ZELLERS
&

POTTER
GINA DESANTIS

Exhibit will be on display
thru the month of August

AIV 5700 GALLERY
5700 BROADWAY
CLEVELAND, OHIO 44127
( located in slavic village,
look for the green pointy thing)

FREE PARKING &
ENTRANCE in the back

















Mike Zellers















MIKE Zellers

JULY EXHIBIT - NATALIE LANESE / recent works

ON EXHIBIT AT ART IN THE VILLAGE

Natalie Lanese :
Recent Graduate Works

July 5 - August 3, 2006

OPENING RECEPTION :

THURSDAY JULY 6
from 5:30 - 8:30pm
wine, snacks & free parking

Our featured artist for the month of July is Natalie Lanese. This local artist is currently working towards her Master of Fine Arts at Pratt in New York where she attends graduate school. Her current body of work features a focus on collaged images of interior patterns, advertising models and appealing items of consumerist culture. Last summer her works were featured at the NEWSENSE gallery and at BUZZ Gallery. Accepted to Pratt, this former CIA grad has brought back a few highlights from her studies at the institution and these works will be featured at our space for the month of JULY. PLEASE join us this THursday, July 6 from 5:30 - 8:30pm for an artist's reception for Natalie. Free Parking, snacks and wine - get cultured & support art !

This summer AIV will be featuring some of our recent graduates from our local art institutions and art colleges to further support emerging artists who are new to the area, not commerically acceptable. Art in the Village provides a much needed professional, non-profit, non-commerical space to visual artists in the northeast ohio region to showcase their work to the cultural community of greater Cleveland.

questions or comments ?
please contact curator@nhscleveland.org













more imagery, bio and info can be found at her new website
www.natalielanese.com

JUNE ARTIST - TODD V

ARTIST - Todd V
"Mosaics and Martinis"
Works on Exhibit Friday, June 2 - July 5, 2006

Opening / Artists Reception
FRIDAY JUNE 2 from 5:30 ~ 8:30pm
FREE & OPEN TO PUBLIC



Artist Biography: Lifelong northeast Ohio native todd v is an energetic multi-tasker in life and in art. He�s a prolific painter who works on several canvases at once -- each in a different style. To market his work, Todd created iSmudge, an on-line art gallery that now features the work of more than 970 artists from around the world. He also works full-time as website developer and systems manager at a family-owned insurance company. His mother, also an artist, recognized Todd�s aptitude for the visual arts when he was young, and enrolled him at Chagrin Valley Art Center. At age 6, he won an award in the first contest he ever entered. At Hudson High School, Todd took every art class he could, from photography to graphic design, and as a senior won a Gold Key, the highest honor conferred by the Scholastic National Art Awards. During the next several years he developed computer and marketing expertise, which eventually landed him a position in charge of the company�s websites and on-line development. He would later apply these skills to create and maintain iSmudge. Today, he maintains the website of the Cleveland Artists Foundation, and he launched The Cleveland Canvas in March 2004. The Canvas is a monthly online arts and cultural newsletter that reaches well over 2,000 monthly subscribers. Recently todd began working with Hector Vega in his new gallery ARTEFINO, and uses his time to help other artists enjoy the same success he has. Recently, todd also has been named to the Board of Directors of The Cleveland Artists Foundation. ........more imges, more info , more at TOddV's Website

AIV MAY ARTIST - ARABELLA PROFFER

AIV Artist for the month of May
is painter/illustrator Arabella Proffer.
Her works are on display at Art in the Village 5700
throughout the month of May

Arabella is a Cleveland based painter and co-owner of Elephant Stone Records. Her loose narrative themes and interests revolve around a fascination with punk fashion; aristocrats; Elizabethan portraiture; Ian Schrager hotels; vapid socialites; eastern European cultures and rock n’ roll lifestyles.

A native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, she attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA before receiving a BFA from California Institute of the Arts where she studied art, animation and film. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Los Angeles, Laguna Beach, Boston, Austin, San Diego, Cleveland, London, and Moscow.

arabellaproffer.com

APRIL AIV@5700 ARTIST - BRIDGET MCGINTY

Bridget McGinty

APRIL ARTIST
BRIDGET MCGINTY

Exhibit on Display thru MAY 1, 2006

APRIL AIV Featured Artist – Bridget McGinty

This month AIV@5700 features local artist and chef Bridget McGinty. Her paintings are usually seen adorning her trendy café TASTEBUDS, but this month they travel to the walls in Slavic Village for a solo exhibit of her recent works. McGinty’s paintings are comparable to the food she lavishly prepares, both flavorful and colorful in presentation and preparation. Her abstract works feature bright colors and forms energetically interwoven on canvas bursting with movement and expression. Many of McGinty's pieces include the landscape of Cleveland, figures, gestures and faces within abstracted shapes and colorful use of bright hues and thick strokes of acrylic paint.
McGinty was born and raised on the west side of Cleveland, Ohio. She attended Erieview Catholic High School, moved to Tremont in 1989 and was greatly influenced by the culture and the creative class who resided in the neighborhood. She has worked in several fine dining establishments until 2001 when she opened TASTEBUDS, her own space in Chinatown. When asked about her work, the artist states; “ I have an insatiable love for flavor and color, I consider my paintings very personal expressions of my feelings I am unable to contain.”

For more information about the artist or the works featured, pls contact the gallery

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 ....