Sparx in the City

Ohio's Largest Art Walk!




September 15 - 16, 2007
Saturday, 11am - 7 pm and Sunday 12pm - 5 pm

The weekend of September 15-16 marks the fifth annual Sparx Gallery Hop where the work of more than 500 artists will be accessible to the public from inside galleries, studios, major festivals, and art institutions. It's considered Ohio's largest art walk because of it's geographic size and large number of featured venues across the City Center, Tremont, Superior Corridor, University Circle and Little Italy neighborhoods.



I have an area inside the Galleria for my work and that of Jerry Schmidt's the sculpture artist.
Stop in, say hi, this is going be a huge event, lots to see and do in Cleveland!



Here is the link for more info on Sparx in the City

http://www.cleveland.com/sparx/

My fine art america site and Jerry's fine art america site

http://www.fineartamerica.com/profiles/shannon-marie.html

http://www.fineartamerica.com/profiles/jerry-schmidt.html

Autumn Awakening Art Show

Art Show at the studio, corner of East 160th and Waterloo,

Cleveland, Ohio
September 28th and September 29th
Friday 7-9 Saturday 11-7 with an event in the sculpture garden following

featuring the work of area artists
Jerry Schmidt, metal sculpturer
Tyler Schmidt, metal sculptuer
Rita DiCello, fine artist, abstracts

Leslie Cohen Jeffries, fine artist, abstracts
Meat, contemporary artist
Ray, realistic artist
and ME, Shannon Marie....mulitmedia artist

The Sculpture Garden will also be open all weekend
check out the sculptures, enjoy the zen garden and relax in our little oasis!

moved

My new studio space!
I spent the last week moving all my stuff, once again, but now it's decidedly more permanent....at least for this month. :) All that room and what do I instinctively do? push everything to the walls....it took a moment to realize how unnecessary this was, so I spread out and used the eaves for shelves and the hooks on the walls to hang frames...next I'll start hanging some art.
This building is currently being remodeled, to be turned into some really neat apartments, 3 story, two bedrooms, with a working studio space downstairs...I love what they are doing to this building.
My studio is fairly immune from all this, I'm in the back attic space, I don't need much to work, lights, music, action!

studio...moved again

Changes, everything changes, all the time....crashing waves describe my life the best. My studio has been moved, again. I no longer have my spacious, four walled, actual room to myself. Now I am in the garage, one wall, that's it. This could be frustrating, but seeing as though I tend to go with the flow, regardless of how far those flowing waves decide to throw me, I'm okay with this move. In fact, as I was painting today in my new space, I realized a definite perk. Instead of having four walls, I now have one that opens wide to the outdoors. I suspect many brain cells will be saved due to this move.

My lastest project involves quite a bit of mess too....the close proximity to the utility tub is going to helpful, although nothing is really that far away in my little house, I won't be tempted to just wash up in the kitchen sink, just this once, anymore. ( then spend far too long cleaning the stains out of it!)

Plus I can easily move my paintings, easels and table along to the car for shows, and won't have to even leave the studio to shellac...just push a button and open the door. How convienent.

There is a pollyanna lurking inside of me, she's good to have around on occasions such as this.