Little Italy Summer Art Walk @ Tara Seibel Gallery

Tara Seibel Art Gallery & Studio, located above Presti’s Bakery will be open for the annual Cleveland’s Little Italy Summer ArtWalk. Tara is celebrating a decade of creating the neighborhood’s ArtWalk posters. The first poster was designed in 2014 for the Winter ArtWalk Festival. Her posters are for sale in the gallery. Friday evening Kristina Haberek of Cleveland Henna will be set up for complimentary henna tattoos. Saturday afternoon Tara will be working on a live painting of Southern Italy in the studio section of the gallery.

In the gallery, located at 12107 Mayfield Road (above Presti’s Bakery) you will find an eclectic mix of fine art paintings, original drawings, matted prints of various illustrations that Tara creates of her own take on Italian-American pop culture and tongue ‘n’ cheek renditions of Connie Francis, Nancy Sinatra, Marlon Brando, Al Pacino and of the iconic neighborhood will all be on display and for sale. If you are looking for a unique gift, fine art prints are an excellent choice. There’s also a collection of jewelry, fiber art / wearable art, pottery, and graphic mugs.

Tara Seibel has been a working artist in Little Italy since 2009. She worked with the late Harvey Pekar of America Splendor fame on several comic strips that were published in Cleveland Scene, The Free Times, The Funny Times, and The Jewish Review of Books. Before she opened a studio in Little Italy she worked in Chicago as a Graphic Artist and American Greetings as a gift wrap designer. Her work has been published in several graphic novel anthologies. Recently she has painted a mural depicting the Murray Hill neighborhood paying homage to the original owners of Presti’s Bakery. Tara just finished a design label for a pilsner beer called Murray Hillsner depicting the iconic Feast of the Assumption for Collision Bend Brewery located in the Flats.