TerraVista Studios, located on the 4th floor of an old Cleveland Warehouse, is the workspace for four local ceramic artists.
A wonderful and airy space, its textured wooden beams and unpainted brick walls create an immediate visual warmth for anyone who enters. Light pours in from three sides of expansive windows – to the west, a postcard view of the downtown skyline, to the north, the ever changing Lake Erie, and to the east, one of the city's many ethnic neighborhoods.
Surrounded by such inspirations and each other's creativity, we are continually motivated by this atmosphere of feedback, interaction and humor.
Once a year, in early December, we host an Annual Holiday Sale in the studios.
TerraVista Studios
1400 East 30th Street 4th Floor
Cleveland, OH 44114
Studio Phone: 216-523-1387
Megan Dull
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My work in clay is more about a journey inward than about the making of objects. It nurtures a contemplative movement toward a wholeness that is inseparable from the natural world. I am moved by underlying layers of interconnection, especially between the archaic and contemporary, between spirituality and embodiment, between dreams and personal transformation. Above all, I am moved by kinship with this earth of ours.
I find myself returning repeatedly to similar themes of passage: a deep-diving fish, the Persephone myth, the portal, a pilgrimage vessel for setting out, a wisdom bowl, stargazer, labyrinth. These speak to the grapplings we must all address in emerging into wholeness.
I’ve been a Sister of Notre Dame since 1966, and have been engaged in education over 35 years. Currently, I teach in the art departments of Notre Dame College and Ursuline College.
Education
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MFA Ceramics, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
• MA Art Education, Case Western Reserve University, in a joint program with the Cleveland Institute of Art
• BA Art Education, Notre Dame College of Ohio
Further link: http://www.sndchardon.org/art-publications_sr-Megan.asp
Email: mdull@att/net
Andrea LeBlond
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After graduating with a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1995, Andrea LeBlond has worked in the ceramic departments of numerous schools including Cuyahoga Community Colleges’ Eastern and Metro campuses and The University of Akron. For the past three years she has been teaching ceramics at Tri-C’s Metro campus and for the past seven years has been working in TerraVista Studios.
Recently, Ms. LeBlond has been inspired by Amish quilts, both in their bold and elegantly simple designs and the vibrant and sometimes shocking color juxtapositions. She has incorporated these ideas into her tray sets, and is exploring as many configurations as possible. She is striving to combine these elements to create pieces that inspire touch and play. She wants to create a sense of completeness and give the viewer a visual puzzle to solve; to tantalize a viewer to become a participant.
Lynne Norwood Lofton
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Clay is a teacher of things. During my 30 years of practicing clay art, I have learned invaluable lessons of life. To me the process of clay is a metaphor for the rhythms of life, both externally and internally.
The word “duality” has always held a fascination for me – whether it was referring to a physical characteristic, or human character. I like the ambiguity of that implication.
By making sculptural work that has two sides (physically), or by making a functional teapot (demonstrating another ‘side’ of the artist), I am presenting my ideas about illusions, fronts, outward appearances, inner secrets, duality and duplicity that has become a basis for my work.
Education
• Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois – B.S. in Art Education
• Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Email: mattlynne@aol.com
Kevin Snipes
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Kevin Snipes exhibits nationally and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for 2006. He completed his BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1994 and his MFA from the University of Florida in 2003.
Kevin’s artwork is a combination of atypical pottery forms and quirky figurative drawings. His pieces are influenced by an array of traditional and nontraditional art forms, including street art, architecture, contemporary painting, the avid love of art history and even children’s drawings. His work has an underlying sophistication, which is based in existentialist thought.
Email: kevsnipes@yahoo.com