• Tuesday November 14, 2023 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

    Snuggle up this fall with a giant fiber creation. In this fun crafting workshop, teens and adults will learn the basics of arm knitting and walk away with a large snuggly scarf to beat the coming winter chill!
    • Age: Adults and Mature Teens 13+
    • Session: One Time Workshop, meets on November 14, 2023
    • Instructor: Jess Morini
    • Cost: $45/student
    • Class Size: minimum of 4 students registered to run class; no more than 12 students total
    • Class Location: CCAC @ Short Vine (2728 Short Vine Street).
    • Registration Deadline: November 10, 2023
    Jess Morini Jess Morini recently moved to the Cincinnati area and brought all her craft supplies with her! She loves to find new ways to make art and fun gifts and is always learning and experimenting.  You can follow her creative journey and purchase anything you see on social media @XoMoeHandmade
  • Saturday September 16 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

    Art-making doesn't need to be done alone - you can experience the joy and surprise of collaboration!  Bring a friend, partner, relative, or neighbor! This drawing class will work with a variety of media and feature individual, paired, and group activities. No supplies needed!
    • Ages: Adults 18+
    • Session: One-Time Workshop, meets on September 16, 2023
    • Cost: $35/session
    • Class Size: Minimum of 4 students required to run workshop, no more than 12 students registered.
    • Class Location: CCAC @ Short Vine (2728 Short Vine Street, Cincinnati OH, 45219)
    • Registration Deadline: September 13, 2023
    Deb Brod Deb enjoys teaching art and sharing her love of art-making and its countless therapeutic effects with people of all ages. She has taught and led community-based art projects through the Ohio Arts Council, community arts centers, schools, art museums, and many other organizations. She has created artwork for commissions (including for the Taft Museum of Art and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital), and exhibited her artwork made with many media and approaches including, painting, textiles, and installation, in the midwest (including at Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center), and occasionally other parts of the country and the world. In college, Deb studied French, art history, and fine art, culminating in a masters degree in fine art in painting. Although her work often appears abstract, or non-representational, the sources of Deb’s inspiration draw on both her inner life and the outer world, and range from nature to human nature.
  • Saturday October 7, 2023 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

    Learn from the 2022 Golden Ticket Winner, Leslie Getz, as she shares her phototransfer technique. In this one-time workshop, students will create a self-portrait utilizing Leslie's techniques paired with mixed media. All students should submit the image of themselves they'd like to use at registration or to classes@cliftonculturalarts.org

    • Age: Adults
    • Session: One Time Workshop, meets on October 7, 2023
    • Instructor: Leslie Getz
    • Cost: $45/student
    • Class Size: minimum of 4 students registered to run class; no more than 12 students total
    • Class Location: CCAC @ Short Vine (2728 Short Vine Street).
    • Registration Deadline: October 4, 2023
    Leslie Getz Good art is not about matching your sofa, but about the conversation it starts. Artists, by nature, are emotional people. It is the driving force inside us that compels us to create art. I have always created artwork that was based on trying to create images for things I cannot see but wish to understand: the soul, what makes us who we are, and emotions.  Trying to give an image to what I was feeling or looking for or wanting to better understand.   Figuring out how to make the intangible tangible is a problem that I can solve only through my artwork. When creating a new series, the best thing to do is to draw something...anything, to get yourself moving.  Chuck Close once said, "I drew myself because I was the only one in the room". My current series is inspired by John Lennon’s “Imagine” lyrics…particularly “and the world will be as one”. Color, size, shape, preferences don’t have to keep us from living as one. What makes us different is what makes us beautiful. If you are too afraid to be different from the world, how can you make a difference in the world. Using my platform as an artist, my hope is that my artwork will encourage people to be genuine even if they stand out and to embrace and celebrate each other’s differences. Only then will we be able to live as one. -Leslie Getz Education: Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in Photography and Drawing, College of Mount St. Joseph, Cincinnati, OH, 1995 Masters of Arts in Education, College of Mount St. Joseph, Cincinnati, OH, 2002 Awards: Honorable Mention, "Delectable", D'Art Center, VA, 2023 Honorable Mention, "51st Hamilton Current Regional", Fitton Center, OH 2023 Best of Show, "The Golden Ticket", Clifton Cultural Arts Center, OH, 2022 Honorable Mention, "Regional Art Exhibition", Artlink, IN, 2022 Honorable Mention, "50th Hamilton Current Regional", Fitton Center, OH, 2021 Best of Show, "Soul Searching", Grosse Pointe Artist Association, MI, 2020 Best of Show, "Animals", Pop Revolution Gallery, OH, 2020 Best of Show, "Movement", Pop Revolution Gallery, OH, 2019 John Nartker Award, Studio San Giuseppe, OH, 2019 Moderator: Grosse Pointe Artist Association artist forum for "My Favorite" 2022 Grosse Pointe Artist Association artist forum for for "The Challenge" 2020 ​ Publications: RISE: Empower, Change and Action! Gutfreund Cornett Art,  2018 Juror: Exhibition of Mount Student Art and Design, Studio. San Giuseppe, 2019 The Coffee Peddlar Call for Entries,  2011-2013 ​ Curator: The Coffee Peddlar Call for Entries,  2011-2013 Member: Women's Caucus for Art, 2021-present ​The Fitton Center, 2019-present ​Featured Artist: Solo Show, Clifton Cultural Arts Center, September, 2023 Best of the Best, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 2021 The Coffee Peddlar, 2020 ​Yellow Springs Brewery, Dayton, OH 2019 Studio San Giuseppe Art Gallery, Alumni Excellence Exhibition, Cincinnati, OH 2019 Awakenings, Cincinnati, OH 2017 Redtree Gallery, Walking Through Trees, Cincinnati, OH 2016 The Coffee Peddlar, Not All Who Wander Are Lost, Harrison, OH 2016 The Coffee Peddlar, Clearings in Mind, Harrison, OH 2014 Venue 222, Cincinnati OTR district, OH 2014 The Coffee Peddlar, Pressing, Harrison, OH 2013 Visceral Gallery, Middletown Pendleton Arts Center, Middletown, OH, Ongoing 2011-2013 Fitton Center for Creative and Performing Arts, Hamilton, OH, 2012 The Coffee Peddlar, Embracing Nature, Harrison, OH, 2011 Visceral Gallery, Transforming Nature, Dayton, OH, 2011 Redtree Gallery, Mixed Media, Cincinnati, OH, 2009 Group Exhibitions: D'Art Center, Delectable, VA, 2023 Fitton Center, 51st Hamilton Current, OH, 2023 Fitton Center, Member Show, OH, 2022 The Power of Portraits-Human and Animal, PA, 2022 ​CCAC, The Golden Ticket, OH, 2022 CCAC, New Woman, OH, 2022 Stola Contemporary Art, Best of Women, IL, 2022 Grosse Pointe Farms, My Favorite, MI, 2022 Artlink Contemporary Art Center, 2021 Regional Exhibition, IN, 2022 CCAC, The Golden Ticket, OH, 2021 ARC Gallery, Go Make a Thing, Chicago, IL, 2021 Fitton Center, 50th Hamilton Current Regional, OH, 2021 Healdsburg, Unprecedented, CA, 2021 Mix it up!, The Artless Bastard, WI, 2021 The Woman’s Art Club of Cincinnati 128th Annual Juried Exhibition, Cincinnati, OH, 2021 Grosse Pointe Artists' Association, The Art of Domesticity, MI, 2021 Grosse Pointe Artists' Association, The Challenge, MI, 2021 Grosse Pointe Artists' Association, Soul Searching, MI, 2020 ​Stola Contemporary Art, Imagine, Chicago, IL, 2020 Fitton Center, Member Show 2020, Ohio, 2020 Fitton Center, Hamilton Pride 2020, Ohio, 2020 Pop Revolution Gallery, Animals, Ohio, 2020 Seagrave Exhibit, DAAP Galleries, Ohio, 2020 ​Las Laguna Gallery, Animalz, Laguna Beach, California, 2020 Secret Artworks, Music Hall, Ohio, 2019 ​Las Laguna Gallery, Aqueous, Laguna Beach, California, 2019 Grosse Pointe Artists' Association, People Stories, MI, 2019 ​Evendale Cultural Arts Center, Ohio 2019 NYA Gallery, Grand Opening, New York 2019 Sense Gallery, Quietly Powerful, Washington, DC 2019 Studio San Giuseppe, Parallel Visions, Ohio 2019 Pop Revolution Gallery, Movement, Ohio 2019 Las Laguna Gallery, 6X6, Laguna Beach, California 2019 ​Secret Artworks,Cincinnati, OH, 2018 Northern California Arts, Sacramento Fine Arts Center, Bold Expressions, Carmichael, California, 2018 Healdsburg Center for the Arts, Figure Study, Hidden Story, Healdsburg, California, 2018 Kelwood Contemporary Art, Finding Your Voice, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 2018 Las Laguna Gallery, It's Political, Laguna Beach, California 2018 Whitney Modern Gallery, Gutfreund Cornett Art, RISE, Empower Change and Action!, Los Gatos, California, 2018 1650 Gallery, Blurred, Los Angeles, California 2018 Redtree Galery, Neon, Cincinnati, OH, 2017 College of Mount St. Joseph, Parallel Visions, Cincinnati, OH, 2016 Redtree Gallery, A Small Glimpse, Cincinnati, OH, 2015 College of Mount St. Joseph, Parallel Visions, Cincinnati, OH, 2014 Redtree Gallery, A Small Glimpse, Cincinnati, OH, 2014 Holiday on the Hill, Flats Gallery, Cincinnati, OH 2013 Redtree Gallery, A Small Glimpse, Cincinnati, OH, 2013 Redtree Gallery, Evoke IV, Cincinnati, OH, 2013 The Coffee Peddlar, Blue, Harrison, OH, 2013 College of Mount St. Joseph, Parallel Visions, Cincinnati, OH, 2012 Redtree Gallery, A Small Glimpse, Cincinnati, OH, 2012 The Coffee Peddlar, My Own Backyard, Harrison, OH 2012 RUA Studio/Gallery, Delicious, Kettering, OH, 2012 Circle Tail, Fundraiser, Loveland, OH, 2012 The Coffee Peddlar, Small Wanderings, Harrison, OH, 2012 RUA Studio/Gallery, Exhibit 99, Dayton, OH, 2011 Redtree Gallery, A Small Glimpse, Cincinnati, OH, 2011 The Coffee Peddlar, Gratitude Rendered, Harrison, OH, 2011 Redtree Gallery, Scapes, Juried Exhibit, Cincinnati, OH, 2011 Visceral Gallery, Middletown Pendleton Arts Center, Middletown, OH, Ongoing 2011 Visceral Gallery, Full Circle, Dayton, OH 2011 RUA Studio/Gallery, Small Works 2011, Dayton, OH, 2011 RUA Studio/Gallery, Portraying the Soul, Dayton, OH, 2011 Redtree Gallery, Entry, Juried Exhibit, Cincinnati, OH, 2011 College of Mount St. Joseph, Parallel Visions, Cincinnati, OH, 2011 Convergys Gallery, Art Academy of Cincinnati High School Art Educator Exhibition, Cincinnati, OH, 2011 Redtree Gallery, A Small Glimpse, Juried Exhibit, Cincinnati, OH, 2010 Artworks, Secret Artworks, Cincinnati, OH, November 19th, 2010 Artisan Enterprise Center, 50/50, Juried Exhibit, Covington, KY, 2010 Target Gallery, 5X5 Exposed, Juried Exhibit, Alexandria, VA, 2010 Rosewood Art Center, HWD 2010, Juried Exhibit, Kettering, OH, 2010 Semantics Gallery, Feedbag Feedback, Juried Exhibit, Cincinnati, OH,2010 Sixth Street Gallery, Who Am I Today?, Juried Exhibit, Vancouver, WA, 2010 Redtree Gallery, Focus, Juried Exhibit, Cincinnati, OH, 2010 Redtree Gallery, Space: Real or Implied, Juried Exhibit, Cincinnati, OH, 2010 LVAA, 2010 Regional Water Tower Exhibit,Juried Exhibit, Louisville, KY, 2010 ZieherSmith,Postcards from the Edge, Visual Aids, New York, NY, 2010 Gallery 42, Art Open, Juried Exhibit, Mason, OH, 2009-2010 Redtree gallery,November Show, Juried Exhibit, Cincinnati, OH, 2009 Westin,Secret Artworks,group show, Cincinnati, OH, 2009 Visceral Gallery, Color Restrained, Juried Exhibit, Centerville, OH, 2009 Redtree gallery, A Small Glimpse, International Juried Exhibit, Cincinnati, OH, 2009 Redtree gallery, Scapes, Juried Exhibit, Cincinnati, OH, 2009 Studio San Giuseppe Art Gallery, Parallel Visions, group show, Cincinnati, OH, 2009. Metro Pictures, Postcards from the Edge, Visual Aids, New York, NY, 2009 Westin, Secret ArtWorks, Group Show, Cincinnati, OH, 2008. Convergys and Chidlaw Galleries, Regional High School Art Educator Exhibit, Group Show, Cincinnati, OH, 2008. Studio San Giuseppe Art Gallery, Parallel Visions, Group Show, Cincinnati, OH, 2007. James Cohan Gallery, Postcards from the Edge, Visual Aids, New York, NY, 2007. Sikkema Jenkins & Co., Postcards from the Edge, Visual Aids, New York, NY, 2006. Broadway & 52 St.,Continuous Exhibit, New Trenton, IN, 2002-2004 LAM’S Disease Fundraiser, Fundraiser Exhibit, Cincinnati, OH, 2002 Cove Gallery, Cooperative Gallery, Member Artist, Cincinnati, OH, 1996-2000 Mind & Matter Gallery, Member Artist, Continuous Exhibit, Cincinnati, OH, 2000 Studio San Giuseppe Art Gallery, Alumni Exhibit, Senior Thesis, Medusa: Dream of the Earth, The Visual Surge, Student Show, Cincinnati, OH, 1993-1999 Carnegie Arts Center, Vision on Tap, Juried Exhibit, Covington, KY, 1997 Dion’s Restaurant, Invited Artist, Two Person Exhibit, Cincinnati, OH, 1997 Bien’s Coffee House, Invited Artist, Solo Exhibit, Aurora, IN, 1997-1999 YWCA, Figuratively Speaking, Group Show, Juried Exhibit, Cincinnati, OH, 1996
  • In this fast moving immersion workshop, students will have an opportunity to select either a fall pattern or an abstract design to create a stained glass suncatcher. Students will have the opportunity to select the glass, learn to prepare a pattern, cut and fit glass, and then will wrap and solder for a finished piece that can be hung suspended on its own, or in a corner. Come learn the art of breaking glass!
    • Age: Adults and Mature Teens 14+
    • Session: One-Time Workshop
      • Fall 1: October 6, 2023 from 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
        • Make a sunflower, grasshopper, feather, or mushrooms
      • Fall 2: November 4, 2023 from 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
        • Make a leaf, pumpkin, feather, or mushrooms
      • Fall 3: December 2, 2023 from 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
        • Make a cardinal, snowflake, gnome, or mushrooms
    • Instructor: Kerri Brammy
    • Cost: $50/student
    • Class Size: minimum of 5 students registered to run class; no more than 12 students total
    • Class Location: CCAC @ Short Vine (2728 Short Vine Street).
    • Registration Deadline:
      • Fall 1: October 2, 2023
      • Fall 2: October 30, 2023
      • Fall 3: November 27, 2023
    Kerri Bram Kerri is a long time artist and art educator, specializing in the design, construction and repair of architectural stained glass windows. She is the owner and operator of Tea Stained Studio, is an old pickle deli/residence located in the Clifton/University Heights area of Cincinnati, Ohio. As an artist, she uses natural elements as the media for her work (glass, metal, rocks, wood and fibers) to alter both one’s perspective and relationship with their environment. At the end of the day, she loves the sound of breaking glass.
  • Tai Chi with Rick Warm

    $5.00$30.00

    Tuesdays, 9:30 - 10:45 a.m.

    Tai chi and qigong are complementary traditional Chinese arts that help to improve one’s health, vitality, and wellbeing. Tai chi is a series of gentle flowing movements based on martial arts. Qigong is a mind/body exercise that helps stimulate “elemental life force.” In this class, we will focus on the basic forms of traditional Yang tai chi and in particular the Yang 8 step form. Over time we will begin to explore the Yang 16 step. Both of these forms are excellent preparation to practice the longer Yang 24 step form. We will also learn the Ba Duan Jin, a simple qigong form. Both the tai chi and qigong forms can be performed standing or seated. In addition we will explore some of the philosophy and basic principles behind these arts.
    • Ages: Adults ages 50+
    • Session: 
      • Fall 1: 5 weeks (September 12 – October 10, 2023)
      • Fall 2: 6 weeks (November 14 - December 19, 2023)
    • Instructor: Rick Warm
    • Cost: $5 per class; $25 for 5-week session and $30 for 6-week session
    • Class Location: CCAC @ Immanuel Presbyterian Church (3445 Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati OH, 45220)
    Rick Warm Rick Warm has practiced martial arts including tai chi for 40+ years. His study of tai chi and qigong has become more serious and focused over the past 10 years, and he is a certified instructor from the prestigious Deyin Institute in the UK. Rick is also the director of the Center for Wisdom and Leadership. 
    Though the crux of Rick's work has centered on leadership and the development of wise leaders, for the last decade Rick has also focused on  wisdom in “second half of life,” the midlife transition, and in particular what it means to be an elder. Rick has taught classes and run seminars and workshops on the topics of wisdom, spirituality and aging. He also  leads a number of Elder Wisdom Circles around the city. Elder Wisdom Circles are groups of older adults, generally in retirement, that gather weekly to discuss such topics as conscious aging, spirituality, and the journey towards wisdom. The circles gather to learn from each other, encourage lifelong learning and growth, and discern how they can make a difference in the world – small or large. 
  • Tuesdays, 7:30 – 8:30 p.m.

    Tai Chi is the slow meditative Chinese martial art practiced to promote health, balance, mental calm and clarity. Come and join us to learn and practice this profound and wonderful art. No previous experience is necessary.
    • Ages: Adults and Mature Teens 14+
    • Session: Ongoing, meets year-round
    • Instructor: Uri Sella
    • Cost: Free; suggested donation of $5 per class (pay online below or in person before class with cash/check)
    • Class Location: CCAC @ Short Vine (2728 Short Vine Street, Cincinnati OH, 45219)
    • How to Register: Email classes@cliftonculturalarts.org with “Tai Chi” in the subject line.
    Uri Sella Uri grew up in Israel where he served in the Israeli army and studied law. Upon graduation he clerked on the Israeli Supreme Court and in 1994 moved to New York City to start a career as a corporate lawyer.
    In New York he discovered a passion to express himself with paint. Twice a week, after a long day in the office, he would shed his suit and tie and travel downtown to attend Jack Potter’s evening classes on drawing and composition at the School of Visual Arts. Several years later he decided to abandon the practice of law and joined his wife in Cincinnati. Upon the birth of his first child he became a stay-at-home father. He also studies and teaches tai chi.

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