Source: ideastream
Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Abstract:
Assembly for the Arts is now accepting applications for the Boost Fund. About 40-50 Cuyahoga County artists will be chosen, completely at random, for $1,500 awards. The first round of applications closes April 7.
Deidre McPherson, Assembly’s chief community officer, said choosing randomly will “level the playing field” when administering funds from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, which distributes money raised from the county cigarette tax for the arts.
“Since these are public dollars, everyone has access and we realize that there are a number of artists that have never been awarded CAC dollars before,” she said. “They may have been intimidated by some of the application processes associated with completing a grant proposal. This program … doesn’t require presenting a proposal in a way that, oftentimes, grant programs do.”