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About
Nia Arts Advocates |
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The Nia Coffeehouse exists to:
support poetry and jazz in Northeast Ohio
edify and reinforce the social and cultural fabric of the community
introduce people to the Cleveland Museum of Art as a forum to express
themselves among their peers
encourage the use of the Cleveland Museum of Art as resource
Expose relevant ties between writing, poetry, "spoken word" and the visual arts |
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Poet&Writer's League of Greater Cleveland Calendar |
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>For more information< |
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Nia Email List sign-up |
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The Work of Tina Kellogg @ the Nia Coffeehouse/ gallery, East Cleveland Adult Activity Center. Photo by Rosemary (copyright) |
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The Nia Coffeehouse at the East Cleveland Adult Activity Center
Activity Center. Photo by Rosemary (copyright) |
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Although the first Poetry set at The Cleveland Museum of Art took place in 1997 featuring the Black Poetic Society the Nia Coffeehouse is an out growth of the Everyday People art program for people with physical and mental disabilities, which started in September or 1997. Initially this collaboration was with Art On Wheels, a nonprofit arts organization and The East Cleveland Adult Training.
An art opening was planned in the spring of 1998 during National Mental Retardation Month to introduce the artwork to the community, families and peers. The Museum provided live music and the ECATC provide refreshments. Cavana Faithwalker who started the program with Carolina Martin of Art On Wheels, designed and "spec'd out" a gallery space for the East Cleveland Adult Training Center (ECATC) which instaled his design of 384sq ft of museum quality gallery space in their cafeteria, along with 128 sq. ft temporary wall and 62 sq. ft portable kiosk. The clients work is circulated to such places as Cleveland State University art gallery, Shore Bank and Trust, Cleveland Heights Library and several area coffeehouses including Arabica, University Circle. The work is also entered in artists' local and state competitions. |
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1.Eddie Baccus, Jr Robert Hubbard of Straight to the point. 2. & 3. Dr. Mary Ann Harris & Nana Agyman of the Cleveland Association of Black Storytellers. 4. Jessie Dandy. Photos 1,3,4 by Cavana Faithwalker. Photo 2 by Rosemary (copyright) |
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The program soon expanded into a music and poetry format based on the social model of the coffeehouse as a gathering place where one could hear music and hear and perform poetry and other spoken word art and just hang out. The people and bands that have featured at Nia are a veritable who's who in regional poetry and music. |
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