Our Mission

The world needs Humanæ desperately in 2025.  In November of 2018, I had the opportunity to meet with Angelica Dass, the Brazilian photographer, humanitarian, and founder of Humanæ, at the Madison.  The Madison, on E. 105 St, was an artist cultural gathering place in the Glenville community of Cleveland, Ohio. Angelica was one of eight […]

Gina Washington is a product of exposure.        In 2024, Gina’s work was in five exhibits around Greater Cleveland and Akron, including last year’s Black History Month celebration at Cleveland City Hall, curated by Senior Arts Strategist and native Clevelander Rhonda Brown, and the Universal Child exhibit at Akron Soul Train, which explored the […]

“CrossingBorders: (We Are All Immigrants)” is an exhibition of works by members of Global Art Project, an international multimedia collaborative collective founded and directed by Carl Heyward, USA, with 90 members from 19 different countries. This project has been exhibited at The Westbeth Gallery in New York City, and at Nine Eighteen Nine Studio Gallery […]

A recent beautification trend in Northeast Ohio neighborhoods is the creation of public art projects to decorate otherwise drab utility boxes with vibrant art. Six local artists have transformed seven utility boxes in the Fairfax neighborhood, providing long-lasting, additional bursts of color to the area.     The Fairfax utility box project was initially started […]

O P E N C A L L The Sustainable Art of Plastics An international art exhibition project exploring the sustainable art of plastics – 10dence platform – High Art Fridays Submission deadline Open Call: December 31, 2024 Exhibition venue will take place in 2026 at Campo Santo in Ghent, Belgium The Sustainable Art of […]

Art in Veere, is an artist collective in the Netherlands by and for artists that organizes art exhibitions and interacts with cultural partners and entrepreneurs in Veere. Every year, members organize an art route for guest exhibitors.  A beautiful range of authenticity, imagination, and craftsmanship awaits you from Friday, May 30, to Sunday, June 1, 2025. […]

Agnes Richter (1844–1918) was a German seamstress who was a patient in a psychiatric hospital where she created her embroidered jacket. She worked on it for many years, sewing personal messages and markings onto the garment’s surface. It is a complex mixture of drawing and writing. Much like a scrawl, the scratching on prison walls, […]

The HAF article: “Art Now… as Historical Commentary on HAF: Greco-Roman” is a revelation, a Rosetta Stone deciphering the hidden African presence in Greco-Roman art. As an environmentalist who champions JEDI principles, I see a chilling parallel in the erasure of African contributions to art and ecology. “History is written by the victors,” Ron Shelton […]

For Ron Shelton, 2023 has been a year of opening minds – both at home and abroad – to sustainable art’s creativity and importance. On Thursday, November 16, from 5-7 pm, a sustainable art exhibition comprised of pieces created in a series of workshops held in Cleveland at the Cuyahoga County Youth Justice Center, Bolton […]

HAF expands its sustainability reach by conducting art workshops in Ghana Plastics artist Ron Shelton has taken his show on the road – to West Africa! While he continues to educate and inspire local school children throughout Greater Cleveland, he recently had the opportunity to conduct plastic weaving workshops abroad during a three-week visit to […]