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Applause - Luca Mundaca, Musician July 3, 2008
Applause
 
 
 
The music of Chilean native Luca Mundaca is a beautiful take on the classic sounds of Bossa Nova. Luca came of age in Brazil, steeped in its rhythms and melodies, and it's through a not so simple twist of fate that she now calls Cleveland her second home... thanks to a little Ohio hospitality. Luca Mundaca joins us in the Westfield Insurance Studio Theatre at the Idea Center at Playhouse Square.

Photographer and CSU professor Masumi Hayashi's life came to a tragic end long before her time. In 2006, she, along with fellow artist John Jackson, were slain at a west side apartment in Cleveland after complaining to a neighbor about loud music. In memory of Masumi Hayashi, the Akron Art Museum, MOCA Cleveland, Spaces Gallery and Cleveland State University recently presented a retrospective of her work.

If you haven't cruised down Superior Avenue lately, between East 17th and 22nd Streets, you might want to add that area to your list of arts destinations. But you won't be searching for a museum or gallery there... because the art in question has been taken to the streets! Producer Dennis Knowles shares this profile of the artist behind the Superior installations, Steve Manka.

July 3, 2008