A. Grace Lee Mims, Community Arts Leader
The special distinction A. Grace Lee Mims enjoys in Cleveland’s Arts community was earned by living a life committed to music, family and the contributions of African Americans to culture, history and the arts. In 1976, Grace contacted Robert Conrad at Cleveland’s classical radio station WCLV and suggested a program devoted to black classical music […]
Zygote Press, Fine Art Printmaking Workshop
There is one simple guiding principle in printmaking: no press, no prints. Presses are not easy to come by, either, so many artists who are printmakers find other media after they graduate and lose access to the equipment at a university or art school. That’s why four artists with ties to the Cleveland Institute of […]
Albert Albano
Growing up in Flushing, N.Y, the son of a mason and builder/contractor in Manhattan, Albert Albano started working in construction at age 13. He liked learning about architecture, but found the field and his life becoming somewhat claustrophobic. At 17, partly to get away and partly to surf, he enrolled in the University of Natal […]