Executive Ronayne names 2 new members to RTA board
Source: Cleveland.com
Date: July 25, 2023
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CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne on Tuesday recommended reappointing one member and adding two new members to the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority Board of Trustees. He nominated Deidre McPherson and Stephen Love to serve and recommended reappointing lifelong board member Karen Moss to keep her seat.
Assembly for the Arts awards grants for art in redlined communities
Source: ideastream
Date: July 17, 2023
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Assembly For the Arts has announced 16 artists are receiving grants to create work in Cleveland and East Cleveland. Each award of $6,250 is for projects in redlined communities which traditionally lack arts investment. Artists will also receive professional development opportunities and support from Assembly for the Arts, an advocacy group for arts and culture in the region.
Some of the projects receiving support include an ice cream truck that’s been converted into a portable recording studio and an elderly visual artist whose work focuses on the impact of domestic violence. The grants are drawn from $140,000 in Cuyahoga Arts & Culture funding.
“You’re going to see neighborhoods that we don’t always associate with arts and culture,” said Assembly President Jeremy Johnson. Calling the areas “potential-bound,” he said that many of the artists have been living and working in the neighborhoods for years.
“I don’t want to say we’re bringing arts to communities,” he said. “We are ‘surfacing’ arts and culture that’s already there and helping it blossom even more.”
16 Local Artists Selected to Bring Transformational Projects to Redlined Communities in Cleveland
PRESS RELEASE: July 14, 2023
Media Contact: Malissa Bodmann; 216-536-7517
16 Local Artists Selected to Bring Transformational Projects to Redlined Communities in Cleveland
Assembly’s Creative Impact Fund Artists will work in 11 Cleveland neighborhoods and East Cleveland
CLEVELAND, OHIO — Assembly for the Arts has selected 16 local artists to create transformational arts projects in redlined communities that lack arts investment.
The Creative Impact Fund, funded by Cuyahoga County taxpayers through a $140,000 grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, will help to develop areas of significant arts activity in Cleveland and East Cleveland. This is the first grant program for artists in Cuyahoga County that is specifically focused on investing in historically redlined neighborhoods.
Jeremy V. Johnson, president and CEO of Assembly for the Arts, said the organization is excited to launch another artist funding opportunity. “The Creative Impact Fund is in line with Assembly’s mission of expanding resources and increasing the equity in Cleveland’s arts and culture scene, translating into 16 meaningful programs and experiences for both artists and residents. We are excited to welcome the first cohort of artists and get dollars into their hands so they, in turn, can hone their practice and help the redlined communities in which they create,” he said. “Arts are a powerful tool in creating community.”
The 16 artists, their projects and neighborhood location are listed below. The artists were selected through an application and panel review process.
- Shadi Ayoub
Let’s Print Together! (Visual Arts, Graphic Design, and Craft; St. Clair Superior, Clark Fulton, or Asiatown) - Alexander Corona
Raíces: Danzas de México (Dance; St. Clair Superior) - Moises De Freitas
Afro Brazilian Cultural Appreciation Initiative (Dance, Music, Writing/Literature; East Cleveland) - Dale Goode
Domestic Violence is Not Pretty (Visual Arts, East Cleveland) - Natasha Herbert
The Avenue Cleveland Youth Photography Program (Film/Media; Midtown, St. Clair Superior; Central-Kinsman; or East Cleveland) - Baba Jubal Harris
Heart Beat Drum Circle (Music; East Cleveland) - Stephanie Lassiter
The Girl (Film/Media; Mt. Pleasant) - Josh Maxwell
ROOTED (Visual Arts; Broadway-Slavic Village) - Adenike Harper
A Peace of Cake (Visual Arts; Central-Kinsman; North & South Collinwood) - Robin Robinson
Recapture the Spirit of Our Community Park (Visual Arts; Glenville) - Georgio Sabino
Artistic Jungle Series (Visual Arts, Fashion; Fairfax) - Julie Schabel
Wave Space Summer Camps (Visual Arts; North & South Collinwood; Hough; Central-Kinsman; Union Miles; or St. Clair Superior) - Ben Smith
The Splice Cream Spliced Team Dream Concert Series (Music & Visual Arts; Buckeye-Woodhill) - Julia Sosa
El Romantico (Theater, Writing/Literature; Clark Fulton) - Mary Thomas
U & I of Euclid Avenue (Visual Art; East Cleveland) - Linda Zolten Wood
Sustainable Arts with Zolten Wood Design & Collinwood Painted Rain Barrel Project (Visual Arts, Craft; East Cleveland and North Collinwood)
The Creative Impact Fund artists receive:
- $6,250, of which up to $2,500 is unrestricted support and $3,750 in project support
- Professional development opportunities, valued at $2,075, supported by the Entrepreneur in Residence powered by Huntington
- Support from Assembly’s staff who will advise project leads in attaining their project goals via marketing and professional development support and connections to institutional partners, potential collaborators or thought partners
- Assembly for the Arts membership
Learn more at www.assemblycle.org/creativeimpactfund. Assembly for the Arts’ Creative Impact Fund is supported in part by the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.
ABOUT
Assembly for the Arts is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization with a focus on advocacy, cultural policy, racial equity initiatives, research, marketing that elevates the region, and services for nonprofits, artists, and creative businesses. It is governed by a volunteer board with a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion. Assembly by design operates in close partnership with Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, a government agency, and Assembly for Action, a 501(c)4 political action nonprofit to serve the entire creative sector. Assembly is supported through major funding from: The Cleveland Foundation, The George Gund Foundation, The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation, Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, Ohio Arts Council, Huntington, KeyBank, The George W. Codrington Charitable Foundation, Fred & Laura Beth Bidwell, and Barbara S. Robinson. www.assemblycle.org
Cleveland Institute of Art student’s mural selected for Cleveland Foundation’s MidTown Collaboration Center
CLEVELAND—Cleveland Institute of Art student Aniyah King’s “Growth From Within,” a mural that symbolizes growth and progress in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood and represents Hough residents’ pride and passion, will be installed at the Cleveland Foundation’s MidTown Collaboration Center when it opens in 2025.
In fall 2022, Cleveland Foundation asked CIA and Assembly for the Arts to lead a collaborative design project for a mural that would benefit the Hough community, CIA students and MidTown Collaboration Center stakeholders.
CIA devised a faculty-led project within an existing class taken by students representing multiple majors, and Assembly for the Arts organized a committee that would choose the final mural design through a transparent selection process.
Cleveland names Rhonda K. Brown its first arts czar
Source: ideastream
Date: June 15, 2023
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Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb announced Thursday the city’s first senior strategist for arts, culture and the creative economy.
Shaker Heights native Rhonda K. Brown most recently served as president at the City Colleges of Chicago Foundation. The Ohio State University graduate previously held development roles at Chicago’s Joffrey Ballet and Museum of Science and Industry. An artist herself, her parents founded the first for-profit, Black-owned fine art gallery in the country in 1980 in Shaker Heights.