[NEohioPAL]Jenna Foumier at TrueNorth

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Press Release
For Further Information, Please call Rick Fortney, 440-933-7771

TrueNorth New Hall Gallery Open House, Saturday November 4, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.

TrueNorth Cultural Arts will be hosting a Special Open House in the New Hall Saturday, November 4, from 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.  The New Hall will be featuring the original art and music of Jenna Foumier.

Born to an ever-traveling military family outside L.A. in 1984, Jenna Foumier has a fresh “baby toe” in the contemporary art door with her boldly colored, surrealistic and abstract oil paintings. Her other “toes” are busy writing and performing acoustic indie-rock music. “Painting, writing and singing are a way for me to express or analyze the dynamics of life and human emotion,” says Jenna. Her talents were developed while living independently in Las Vegas, Nevada where she first began to sell her work informally off the strip at the age of 18. On her move to Cleveland in the dawn of 2005 to be back near her family, she sold a piece via a mid-cross-country trip and finally “took a hint” that she needed to devote more time to creating art. She has since tripled her body of work.

Fellow musicians Alex Sykes and Matt Hectorne will join Jenna on the 4th at TrueNorth for a truly memorable cultural arts experience. Alex Sykes made his first public debut at the age of eight in Cleveland Ohio with members of the Ohio Chamber Orchestra performing the Haydn D Major Piano Concerto. Other local performances have included performing with the Cleveland Heights Chamber Orchestra, (1997), many recital appearances at the Cleveland Institute of Music, (1998-2001), a full length recital at Lakeland Community College, (2001), and various mini recitals at Lakeridge Academy in North Ridgeville, Ohio. He has been heard on WCLV 104.9 radio over several successive years to help promote the Cleveland International Piano Competition. Alex performed in Hong Kong, Montreal, and Pebble Beach, California in their Summer Music programs, and is currently a freshman at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.

Matthew Hectorne is a native Memphis born musician, who studied trombone, piano, and voice all throughout his middle and high school years. He recently made two successful tours in the South, and is currently on tour in Indiana, Nashville, and Memphis performing all works he composed with guitar, voice and harmonica. Matthew has been heard in over two dozen nightclub venues in the Cleveland area, and is looking forward to the True North Cultural Center performance.

In addition, TrueNorth’s newest tenants, SweetStuff Bakery will be offering samples of their delectable home baked goods. Sweet Stuff is scheduled to open their doors to the public on  November 13th  in the space formerly occupied by La Pastericcia. 

TrueNorth is committed to promoting the arts through a variety of instructional programs and both on-site and off-site community events. TrueNorth created a “Come and Create” Mural this summer where over 200 people participated in creating a beautiful 4 x 16 mural of Avon Lake.  In addition, similar murals were created at the Galleria in downtown Cleveland as part of the Sparx Gallery Hop. TrueNorth is represented in the lobby at the Great Lakes Theatre Festival and will be performing Mozart’s Requiem in collaboration with Trinity Lutheran Church on November 1st.

Saturday, November 4th, bring your friends, neighbors and family for an evening of art, music and home baked goods at TrueNorth Cultural Arts. TrueNorth is located at 33491 Lake Road, just west of Moore Road, in the Old Saddle Inn. Visit us at www.TNCArts.org or call 440-933-7771 for more information on current events and educational opportunities at TrueNorth Cultural Arts.