Vince Packard, who is based in Kent, Ohio, is gaining attention on an international level, but still a well-kept secret here:

http://cannibol.com

If you'd rather go in person to see / buy Vince's art, you can contact him through the Standing Rock Cultural Arts Center: http://standingrock.net

Vince's father is Ray Packard, a well-known Akron artist. Vince has many pieces of art, paintings, sculptures, modified antiques, etc. that you can purchase and display, or he can make custom pieces.

A large and impressive collaboration put together by Vince Packard is on public display outside of Standing Rock Cultural Arts - the Lost Animal Graveyard displays life-sized tombstones for extinct animals that once roamed Ohio. Photos here:

http://www.magikglasses.com/cannibol/abodream/pages/graveyard4.htm

Cherokee artist Edwin George's massive mural depicting Ohio animals from a Native American perspective is the backdrop for the Lost Ohio Graveyard - It spans the entire side of the building next door to the graveyard. The mural was painted in 2005.

There are so many artists I could list and I have a lot to say about all of them! There's Viktor Schreckengost who turns 100 this year, print maker Pamela Dodds, Neon artist Dana  Patterson, sculptor Charmaine Spencer, painter Douglass Max Utter, installation artist Jason Lee, textile artist Lilian Tyrrell. For now I will choose Arabella Proffer-Vendetta because I love her work and she has a lot of work up on line that you can see right now. (www.arabellaproffer.com)

Arabella Proffer-Vendetta is a portrait painter who works in the Gothic-Realist style (I made that term up, but it fits) I won't say any more, her website is excellent -- go visit, download some wall paper, commission a portrait or two.

Nominate your favorite artist, designer, writer, choreographer for The Cleveland Arts Prize www.clevelandartsprize.org and come buy some art at HeightsArts

March 4 - April 16, 2006

Collector's Choice, Third Annual

15 artists, three works each (and more in reserve).

$200 to $600 with at least one piece by each artist at $200.

Opening Reception Saturday, March 4, 6–9 pm
Through April 15. Gallery hours Wed–Sat, 12–9 pm, Sunday, 1-5.

Photo: Jeff Chiplis’s neon piece We BE

 www.heightsarts.org

music, dead or alive

new lou reeds
dead boys
rocket from the tombs
mikey machine
carlos jones
first light
perfect guy
the very knees
the six parts seven
the black keys
devo
xela
honeypot
finless brown
replife

i will think more about visual art now........and get back to you