2025 Creative Impact Fund Panelists
A national panel of artist experts.
The Creative Impact Fund Panel is responsible for reviewing and scoring every grant submission and making all funding recommendations to Assembly for thirty (30) Cuyahoga County artists in 2025.
This year’s CIF Panel is comprised of twelve (12) accomplished artistic practitioners curated from across the country, representing 12 states, 10 cities and 11 creative disciplines. Panelists were recommended to Assembly by previous CIF grantees and are selected based on our Panel Composition Criteria. Please welcome this incredible cohort to Cleveland!
The Creative Impact Fund is a program of Assembly for the Arts, made possible by the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture. This individual artist grant program is designed to support and sustain the growth of Cuyahoga County artists and their creative practices, which enhances their ability to positively impact our regional communities.
Boost Fund Artist Grantees
Meet the 2025 Boost Fund Artists!
All 2025 Boost Fund artists will receive $1,500 to support their creative practice and creative needs.
Grantees were selected using a nationally modeled random selection process.
Cycle 2 Artists
Cathrine Avila, Visual Art
Karen Beckwith, Visual Art
Patricia Brett, Visual Art
Elisa Byrd, Theatre & Performance
Carla Carpenter, Craft
Timothy J. Collingwood, Theatre & Performance
Jeffrey Curtis, Music
Clark DeCapite, Visual Art
Levaille, Eitzman, Craft
Esteban Eysaman, Music
Elijah Gilmore, Music
Jon Gott, Interdisciplinary
Tiara Grayson, Visual Art
Raven Grice, Visual Art
Alexander Guzman, Dance & Choreography
David Haddon, Visual Art
Eriana Hargrove, Craft
Ryan Jaenke, Visual Art
Mick Jones, Film
Julian Khan, Music
Charlie Malta, Visual Art
Jake Mangini, Film
Jacqueline Mantey, Visual Art
Ray McNiece, Literary
Cycle 1 Artists
Zach Angeloni, Music
Ewuresi Archer, Visual Art
Dyrell Barnett, Film
Gideon Berry, Visual Art
Robin Blake, Music
Mike Bruckman, Film
Brittany DeMudd, Design
Shaun Doyle, Visual Art
Sharon M. Dundee, Visual Art
Suhaylah Hamzah “Qnowher Earth”, Interdisciplinary
Lisa Edwards, Visual Art
Brianna Fairbrother, Visual Art
Dante Foley, Media
Tyrone Fontaine, Media
Gwendolyn Garth, Visual Art
Regan Gray, Music
Fern Haught, Literary Arts / Writing
John O. Horton, Jr., Music
Wade Howard, Music
Mark Howard, Visual Art
Sidney Im, Dance & Choreography
Erin Johnson, Interdisciplinary
Saralila Kalafat, Music
Marissa Kehres, Visual Art
Billi Kribbs, Visual Art
Jeffery Melton, Music
Destiny Moore, Visual Art
Stephanie Nunn, Design
Nahomy Ortiz-Garcia, Literary
Sarah Paul, Visual Art
Byron “Ronny Knight” Phillips, Media
Elizabeth Pollert, Dance & Choreography
Leonte Reed, Visual Art
Conrad Relitz, Visual Art
Julie Reminick, Interdisciplinary
Isaac Richter, Film
Raymond Robinson, Visual Art
Dylan Rundle, Design
Brian Sarama, Craft
Martha Shiverick, Film
Aaron Smith, Music
Sujatha Srinivasan, Dance & Choreography
Bethany Svoboda, Music
DeNavya Tolbert, Music
Josh Usmani, Visual Art
Vickie Verlie, Musi
Laura Walter, Literary
Nikki Woods, Visual Art
Anna Wright, Film
Tess Young, Craft
Brandon Landrum, Music
Cecilia Li, Visual Art
Tanya Long, Craft
Casey Louis, Music
Tuck Mindrum, Music
Nancy Notarianni, Visual Art
Connor O’Brien, Music
Kristy Ockunzzi, Literary Arts / Writing
Arturo Orso-Giacone, Music
Dev Patel, Visual Art
Sarah Raban, Visual Art
Eric Rippert, Visual Art
Callum Sharkey, Visual Art
Randall, Slaughter, Visual Art
Edward Sotelo, Music
Harold Stallworth, Music
Darian Stitt, Media
Rachel Usmani, Media
Jurnee Weeams, Visual Art
Cyera Wilder, Dance & Choreography
Tracey Wiley, Literary Arts / Writing
McKinley Wiley, Visual Art
Charles Wilkerson, Visual Art
Anthony Yanick, Interdisciplinary
Rachel Yurkovich, Visual Art
Questions?
Please contact grants@assemblycle.org.
Boost Fund is supported by the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.
Guaranteed Income
Thursday October 12 / 6:00 - 7:30PM | Zoom
What would it look like if artists could work knowing they’d receive a guaranteed paycheck every month? And what would happen to our local economy if we placed this level of value and trust in artists? Other cities are already trying this.
In this session, we’ll hear from two of the country’s leading organizations in arts-based GI – Springboard for the Arts and Creatives Rebuild New York. Join the virtual conversation to learn about their Guaranteed Income programs, what guaranteed income is, how it works, the larger national GI movement and what it could mean for Cleveland’s creative industries. Artists, funders, city and county leadership and anyone interested is welcome to join this free virtual event.
Guest Speakers
- Ricardo Beaird, Community Development Director, Springboard for the Arts
- Wone Vang, Economic Opportunity Director, Springboard for the Arts
- Soley Esteves, Director of Programs and Operations, Creatives Rebuild New York
- Torri Hanna, Fiber Artist + Springboard GI Recipient
What is guaranteed income? Defined by Springboard for the Arts, an artist support organization in Minneapolis, “A guaranteed income is a monthly cash payment given directly to individuals. It’s unconditional with no strings attached and no work requirements and is meant to supplement, rather than replace, existing social safety nets and can be a tool for racial and gender equity.”
Learn more about Springboard’s Guaranteed Income program and Creatives Rebuild New York’s statewide Guaranteed Income program
Ricardo Beaird
Springboard for the Arts
Soley Esteves
Creatives Rebuild New York
Torri Hanna
Fiber Artist
Wone Vang
Springboard for the Arts
This conversation hosted as part of REvision, a series of free community discussions focused on reimagining and addressing key challenges faced by Greater Cleveland’s arts and culture industry.