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HIGO GABARRON

Visual Artist: Illustration, Painting, Sculpture

Higo (Hilda Gabarron Ordorica) A professional mixed-media artist, graphic designer, gallery owner/operator, college art professor, and award-winning editorial designer, Higo received her BS in Graphic Arts and Design at the Universidad de las Americas in Puebla, Mexico. Her graduate studies were in art restoration at Puebla’s Universidad Iberoamericana. Higo has been in more than 20 collective and individual exhibitions in Mexico and the USA including shows at MOCA, E11even2 and Gallery Plus at 78th St. Studios in Cleveland, Beachwood Community Center, Lakeland Community College, and Detroit Institute of Art; she has lived in Shaker Heights, Ohio since 2012. Winner of the Utility Box contest on Shaker Heights in 2019 with her illustration “Starry Meow in Cle”. www.higoart.com

Gwendolyn Garth

Graphic Artist; Poet; Teaching Artist; Visual Artist: Illustration, Painting, Photography, Sculpture; Writer

I was born in Cleveland, Ohio and grew up in 4 Cleveland neighborhoods Hough, Central, Fairfax and Glenville. I am a multimedia artist, Creative Arts Therapy Specialist and Community Activist. My favorite medium is the pencil, presently Creative Art Journaling has become my mode of artistic expression; recording my thoughts through art and writing. I am working on a series now called “Off The Pages” were I am bringing my artwork out of my journals and making them into larger pieces to hang. My Artist Statement: My work explores a new form of artistic expression, that questions the canon of art history’s conventional attitudes towards art making. My Art investigates the unlimited possibilities of art making by combining multiple mediums. I create because Art is in the middle of my last name and in the middle of me and I have No Plan B.

Jasmine Golphin

Film, Radio and Television Artist; Teaching Artist; Visual Artist: Photography; Writer

Jasmine Golphin is an independent filmmaker and creative writer from Cleveland Ohio who has a nearly unhealthy obsession with the art of storytelling. She wrote, directed and produced the web series To New Beginnings (2016) , directed the first season of The Adventures of Fab Jenkins (2016), has been published in HitRecord’s Tiny Book of Tiny Stories vol 3 (2013), in various online publications like Indiewire and Alturus and placed second in Octavia Spencer’s Short Film competition (2013). Currently she is working on The Whitebox: Redux, a documentary web series exploring the experiences artists of color in Cleveland. She also mentors high school students, typically female and non-binary students of color interested in visual storytelling through programs with MyCom, Neighborhood Leadership Instituted and the Cleveland International Film Festival. Jasmine’s focus is on telling stories of marginalized people in whether medium may suit that story best – narrative or nonfiction, essay or podcast, feature film or series, and whatever new storytelling technology is to come. More than anything, she sees as art is not just a path for self expression but also a way to connect to one another. To see yourself in someone else’s story and feel perhaps a little less alone.

Zac Gorell

Designer; Scientist; Teaching Artist; Visual Artist; Glass

Since taking his first gather of glass in the fall of 2001, Zac has been practicing the craft as well as teaching others all over the world. Beginning his career in Cleveland Ohio, Zac had his ‘baptism by fire’ at Superior Hot Glass. In these fertile grounds a foundation was laid so Zac could acquire and hone the skills necessary to become a master gaffer. The following years he practiced what he learned from the local glass masters and attended workshops at various trade schools like Penland School of Crafts. His continued artistic pursuits have led him to work for Corning Museum of Glass, teach glass blowing in Taiwan, and travel throughout Europe and the Caribbean. The last 2 years he has been in South Florida helping to build the glass community and create new works. Recently he has returned home to be the Technical Specialist position in the glass department at Cleveland Institute of Art.

Scott Goss

Visual Artist: Sculpture; Artist: installation, video, glass, public art

Scott Goss is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores various mediums including public art, sculpture, interactive installations, and glass. His work has been exhibited nationally and is represented by galleries in Akron, Cleveland, Columbus, and Pittsburgh. Scott has completed numerous public art projects and commissions, including an illuminated sculpture for Lakewood, OH’s Fire Station #2, an interactive illuminated sculpture for Worthington Yards Apartments in downtown Cleveland, a gateway project for the city of Shaker Heights, OH, a viewing platform for the Cleveland Conventions Bureau, and a glass panel project for Summa Hospital in Akron, OH. He received his BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2006 and his MFA from Kent State University in 2014. His work is included in number collections across the country, including the Arkansas Fine Arts Museum (Little Rock, AR), the Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento, CA), the Enamel Arts Foundation (Los Angeles, CA), the Dalad Art Collection (Cleveland, OH), and the Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, OH). His work and research have additionally been supported through grants by the Urgent Art Fund (presented by SPACES Gallery in Cleveland, OH), the Ohio Arts Council, Harpo Foundation and Kent State University. Currently Scott is a Lecturer and the Assistant Chair of the Foundation Department at the Cleveland Institute of Art.

Rosemary Gramajo Quiñones

Film, Radio and Television Artist; Musician; Poet; Singer; Writer

Hello, my name is Rosemary Gramajo Quiñones I am a first-year college student. My career started when I was in the fifth grade and wrote a poem called Three Countries in a Heart. With this poem, I was able to visit Barack Obama at the white house and it opened doors to many opportunities. Along the way, I started high school and joined nonprofits like the ACLU of Ohio, HOLA, Esperanza, and now more recently Art of me. Because of my accomplishments, I’ve been asked to speak with different groups of youths and motivate them. My passion is to help others find themselves and explore their talents. I like to do this through my writing. A lot of the things that I write about are based on experiences that I’ve been through and how I’ve overcome them. I am also a songwriter and singer. I also play piano!!! Everything I do out of love. My mentality is not to gain fame and money. My mentality is to grow and help others grow and if in that process I gain some fame and money then I will give thanks to the Lord for that. But my priority as an artist is to inspire.

Aja Grant

Graphic Artist; Visual Artist: Photography

Aja Joi is a Cleveland photographer, highlighting the human connection to the unknown and unseen, and the beauty and power of our own being. Utilizing digital media, her works blend the human experience to our environment, and how one molds the other . Our environment supports us, and established itself before we came to exist, so of course we must honor our first home and mother. “My work is very sacred to me, as it allows me to express my current journey. Creative portraiture allows me to appreciate others who are just like me, ad totally different from me in countless ways. It is a challenge to portray a subject as a complete, unique human being, deserving of respect and a voice.”

Tiara Grayson

Visual Artist: Painting

Artist Statement- Insomnia gives way to hypnagogic images, forming a loose translation of an unknown universe. These images are often vivid, detailed, abstract and woven into many of my paintings. Sometimes in unexpected ways. My current work, abstract mixed media was born out of curiosity, a lack of traditional materials, and ultimately a need to challenge myself. My paintings give shape, color and structure to this intangible, theoretical universe allowing for vulnerability, an open-mindedness and a connection we all seek as humans.

Richie Green

Musician; Singer; Guitarist

Richie Green a short music history some of the bands I’ve been a member of: Bocky and the Visions Dick Whittington’s Cats Climax with Sonny Geraci the Motion Conway Owens Band some of the bands I guested or filled in with: Willie Dixon Sonny Terry and Brownie Mcgee Bobby Blue Bland the Drifters Little Anthony Luther Allison Robert Lockwood Jr. Chuck Berry Chuck Mangione James Gang Glass Harp Rastus Bill DeArango Armstrong Bearcat Alan Greene Some of the lables I’ve been on: Round (Bell) Paramount Phillips currently independant distributed by CdBaby with a new CD “Richie Green Songz” Some of the artists I’ve opened for: Freddie King Lonnie Mack Muddy Waters Rolling Stones Rascals Temptations Four Tops Beach Boys Edwin Hawkins Singers George Benson Hound Dog Taylor

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