Washington Post: Painter Eagerly Pushed Other D.C.-Based Artists Into Spotlight
September 13, 2009
By Joe Holley
Washington Post Staff Writer
as published in the Washington Post
Sunday, September 13, 2009
One morning a dozen years ago, Seth Rosenberg opened up his Georgetown frame shop and gallery and happened to notice a mysterious vine growing in a planter box near the front door — growing almost before his eyes. He began watering the plant every day, and after two months, it was 24 feet long and still growing.
A neighbor named it “Audrey,” after the voracious plant in the movie-musical “Little Shop of Horrors.”
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The Plain Dealer: Memorial service at MOCA for artist Seth Rosenberg, 57
September 4, 2009
by Dan Tranberg / Special to The Plain Dealer
Friday September 04, 2009, 2:48 PM
Seth Rosenberg, a greatly admired Cleveland painter who, earlier this summer, was awarded a $20,000 Creative Workforce Fellowship through Cleveland’s Community Partnership for Arts and Culture, died Tuesday, Sept. 1 of a heart attack. He was 57.
Rosenberg moved to Cleveland in 2005 from Washington, D.C., where, for more than 20 years, he owned and operated District Fine Arts, a framing business and art gallery.
In recent years, he and his wife, Jane, had become highly active patrons of the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, where a memorial service will be held Sunday, Sept. 6.
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The Plain Dealer: Artist Seth Rosenberg wins Creative Workforce Fellowship after shifting from abstracts to figures
August 23, 2009
Seth Rosenberg, shown here in his painting studio in downtown Cleveland, relocated to Northeast Ohio from Washington, D.C., in 2005. He is one of 20 winners of a $20,000 Creative Workforce Fellowship from the Cleveland Partnership for Arts and Culture.
by Dan Tranberg, Special to the Plain Dealer
Sunday August 23, 2009
Originally from Connecticut, artist Seth Rosenberg lived in Washington, D.C., for 24 years before he and his wife moved to Cleveland in 2005. He spent two decades as the owner of a framing business and art gallery, and then gave it all up to become a full-time artist.
Now, at 57, Rosenberg leaves his home in Pepper Pike each morning and heads to his painting studio, a huge fifth-floor loft space just east of downtown Cleveland with a postcard view of the skyline.
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Seth Rosenberg awarded Creative Workforce Fellowship
June 12, 2009
Seth Rosenberg has been awarded a Creative Workforce Fellowship (2009-2010) from the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture. He and nineteen other artists, filmmakers and craftspeople from Cuyahoga County will receive each a $20,000 award to pursue their artistic ambitions, as well as membership in COSE (The Council of Smaller Enterprises). For more information on Community Partnership for Arts and Culture and COSE, click the links below.
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