Since her debut gallery show in Akron in 2010, Cindy Nichols is quickly becoming one of the premier fine art photographers in the NE Ohio area. She has been exhibited in numerous gallery and juried art shows including the prestigious Reinglass show. Her work has been praised by art critics and academia and is in many private collections across the country. In public she was a first alternate to the highly respected Boston Mills Arts festival, she was one of the four featured artists for the Vintage Canton festival and her work has graced the halls of Akron General Hospital.

It’s that time of year again!  School has started and it’s time to start thinking about your senior pictures.  Luckily, you don’t have to think too hard because your senior pictures are all about you!  They are a great way to showcase your hobbies, interests, style, favorite places, and most of all, your personality.  It’s a chance to be really creative and unique and just have fun!  Here we have a wonderful example from a recent senior session with Rae N.

This session was so much fun and we can’t wait to do many more senior shoots!

Stop in and browse the art gallery.  Heritage gift gallery has a large eclectic selection of original works by local artists.  Featuring glass, pottery, fabrics, paintings, photography, and jewelry!

We at Heritage Studio and Gallery would like to thank you for your participation in our Fall Stitchery Showcase.  The show was fun, looked great and drew a lot of positive feedback. We couldn’t have done it without you!

During the month of September we held a drawing to give away a framing voucher for Needle Art Framing valued at $100.00.  All participants of the Stitchery Showcase were automatically entered along with all visitors and customers who cared to enter. The winner of the drawing was Mike Farmer. Congratulations to Mike from our staff!

SEPTEMBER IS STITCHERY MONTH AT HERITAGE STUDIO AND GALLERY!

SEPT 1ST – OCT 1ST

Heritage Exhibit Gallery will be displaying a Stitchery Showcase with dozens of needle works by local crafters.  Come in and enjoy the many different styles of stitchery and  framing and enjoy complimentary refreshments.  All Stitchery Custom Framing will be 20% off through the month of September.  We will be holding a drawing at the end of the month.  The winner will receive a custom framing voucher valued at $100.

Come in and see this awesome art!

Scot Stoneking is a multi-talented local artist.  With his original paintings he combines quaint historical images with incredible detail to bring his work to life.  Heritage Studio and Gallery is proud to display the exclusive body of work based on Oxley’s Vintage Photography.  Check out his website at http://www.rocksolidart.com/.

Gina DeSantis is a Cleveland based ceramic artist. She holds a B.A. from Cleveland State and a M.F.A. in ceramics from Kent State University. She works in stoneware and porcelain clay creating functional, handmade pottery for the home and daily life. She teaches adult pottery courses at Art House located in Cleveland, Ohio. In addition she teaches children’s courses in clay, painting, and mixed media.

Her work continues to revolve around the parallel of making objects and the ritual of their use. It is clear that the interaction between objects and their environment plays a central theme in her body of work. Her work seeks to balance beauty and function. It is fluid in texture and pattern yet maintains its simplicity and elegance with often monochromatic glazes.

I have been called a “creative genius”, and indeed it is my passion to awaken people’s hidden and dormant creativity. Everyone is creative, but for some it is locked deep inside. Imagination Arts exercises are one of the keys to unlock your innate ability to innovate and create. I love to share the wonders of nature through my paintings, to help people learn how to draw and paint, and to show others how inner peace can be attained through intense observation of an object transferred to drawn lines on paper. For Imagination Arts workshops, I am “Director of Out-of-the-Box Thinking.” I began painting instruction at age 13 with a Purdue University professor of art. Creativity is my passion. The psychological blocks preventing you from expressing your true self can be released!

My jewelry making journey began in 2004 as a creative outlet while working as a professional computer trainer in the Washington, DC area. I started by playing with wire and a cheap pair of pliers from a local craft store. It was never my intention to make jewelry as a living or even on the scale of which I do now. My first formal jewelry making workshop was in the summer of 2005 where I was introduced to basic soldering techniques. From that point on, I was smitten! I have attended a few jewelry making workshops to help strengthen certain skill sets. Most recently I have attended several semesters in the metalsmithing program offered at the University of Akron in Ohio, where my skills continue to grow by leaps and bounds.

As I continued to play and work with wire and fire, it became apparent to me and those around that I have quite a natural talent in the jewelry arts. I am still amazed when a simple sheet of metal and length of wire become a piece of wearable art. It isn’t uncommon to find me in stunned silence after finishing a complex piece, wondering how in the world it came from my head and hands.
After moving to the Akron area in Ohio with my husband and two young daughters, I decided it was a good time to get serious about jewelry making and see where I could take it. I have not been disappointed. And based on the comments of my customers, they haven’t been disappointed either.

While I enjoy creating unique jewelry items, my passion lies in teaching. My classes are filled with energy and an easy going atmosphere. My goal is to have my students walk out comfortable with new techniques and confident in their own jewelry making ability. Working as a professional computer trainer for 10 years I learned that there are many ways to teach, and each person learns differently. I strive to use that knowledge to benefit my students. When you take a class from me, I won’t ever “leave you in the dust”. I will do my very best to make sure you understand the concept and technique we are covering in that course. I look forward to expanding my teaching opportunities.

My jewelry making journey began in 2004 as a creative outlet. I started by playing with wire and a cheap pair of pliers from a local craft store.  My first formal jewelry making workshop was in the summer of 2005 where I was introduced to basic soldering techniques. From that point on, I was smitten! I have attended a few jewelry making workshops to help strengthen certain skill sets. Most recently I have attended several semesters in the metal-smithing program offered at the University of Akron in Ohio, where my skills continue to grow by leaps and bounds.

As I continued to play and work with wire and fire, it became apparent to me and those around that I have quite a natural talent in the jewelry arts. I am still amazed when a simple sheet of metal and length of wire become a piece of wearable art. It isn’t uncommon to find me in stunned silence after finishing a complex piece, wondering how in the world it came from my head and hands.

After moving to the Akron area in Ohio with my husband and two young daughters, I decided it was a good time to get serious about jewelry making and see where I could take it. I have not been disappointed. And based on the comments of my customers, they haven’t been disappointed either.

I started my journey with sea beach glass several years ago while walking the local beaches with my family. We have collected many unique items such as shells, beach rocks, melted aluminum, and shipwrecked items including sea beach glass. We have in a sense, recycled these items into wearable pieces of art and more! Sea Beach Glass is glass that was once a beautiful piece of tableware, a medicine bottle, an ink well, a lost liqour bottle from the prohibition era, or simply a dish that once served a purpose for man. For one reason or another it was discarded and found it’s way into the water where nature refined it into a beautiful, smooth, gems. Nature has given it back to us by laying it on the shores for us to find.

Copper Leaf Studios Metal Work

Chris is an artist, educator, and arts advocate in Cleveland, Ohio.

She began working in metal after researching non-toxic printmaking techniques for a class she was teaching. She fell in love with the process, and has been creating, exhibiting, and selling her metal designs ever since. Her work is in local collections at COSE (Tower City, Cleveland OH), NextHome Realty (Westlake, OH), Arrowhead Industries (Independence, OH), and has been exhibited and sold internationally.