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Shop Local: Visual Edje

Business can help bring out your inner artist

If you’re looking for unusual original artwork, you’ll find it at , 785 ½ Bishop Road, Highland Heights. If you’re looking for help making art of your own – unusual and otherwise – you’ll find that there, too.

Proprietor Edie Mullen uses the colorful shop, with walls of lime green and purple, as her own art studio, but also as a classroom for private art lessons offered to students from at  least age 4 and up. “I have one student in her 60s, and I’m going to try teaching a 2 ½-year-old this summer, too,” she said.

Mullen teaches drawing, painting, sculpting, and jewelry making, and plans to focus on art made from reclaimed materials – “recycled art” – for her version of summer camp.

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“It’s a place I would have liked as a child,” Mullen said. “Everyone who comes in here (for classes) loves art.”

Her day job is teaching 11th- and 12th-grade art at Euclid High School, where she’s head of the art department. She has a bachelor’s degree in ceramics and visual communication, and a master’s in printmaking.

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Mullen lives nearby with her family, including two teenage sons who she says are not at all artistic, despite her efforts. “I tried,” she said.

For information about instruction and summer school, call Mullen at 440- 646-8982.

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