Knitting at the Cedar Lee

As part of a project called Knitscape CedarLee, artists are
knitting and crocheting sheaths for select trees in the neighborhood to
mark the business district with a line of color and pattern — to
knit, in the shape of the pieces, an identity for the city. Artist
Carol Hummel crocheted a cover for a parking-meter pole in front
of Heights Arts Gallery (2173 Lee Rd.). Someone apparently called the
police while Hummel was installing the colorful parking-meter condom.
When they arrived, Hummel explained the project to the officer,
mentioning that Heights Arts had permission from the city and that she
was installing the prototype — so he didn’t give her a ticket.
But some time Saturday night, the protective shield was removed —
stolen or perhaps censored by someone who had a disturbing personal
reaction to it. Anyone who knows anything about this should contact
Heights Arts at 216.371.3457 or heightsarts.org.

Artist Brian Jones‘ new paintings are a little like
sonnets, using consistent, sensible and even rhetorically sound form to
explore another idea entirely. In Jones’ case, the form is a little
grove of trees on the left side of a hillside horizon that gradually
slopes to the right, organizing the whole thing into color fields of
land and sky. Jones shows his work at his eponymous gallery, one of
more than 20 galleries, restaurants and shops participating in the 30th
anniversary of the Murray Hill Art Walk, noon-10 p.m. Friday and
Saturday, and noon-6 Sunday. For information, call Brian Jones Gallery
(2021 Murray Hill Road, brianjonesart.com, 216.229.5110).

Matt Greenfield’s monthly Oddy Festival marches on, with a
vaudevillian blend of Shakespearean bits with rap, reggae and a campy
morality play that seems to really want to mean something. Oddy
Festival’s June program, dubbed txt-ing, comes in three parts.
The Fog is Greenfield’s mashup of Shakespearean bits. Then comes
the intermission music, featuring a “minimalistic” rap called “Drop the
Mic.” Greenfield has tagged the second-half production, Stand Down:
A Morality Play for the Modern Era, “F-bombastic for language.”
Performances are at 7:30 p.m. June 3 and 17, at the Heights Arts Studio
(2340 Lee Rd., Cleveland Hts., Heightsarts.org, 216.371.3457). Tickets:
$10.