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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 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

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 

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Guaranteed Income

Thursday October 12 / 6:00 - 7:30PM | Zoom

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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

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.