Neighborhood Connections, with additional funding from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, announces $293,118 in funding for 101 projects in Cleveland and East Cleveland neighborhoods

21. May 2018 Staff In The News, News Release
CLEVELAND (May 15, 2018) – Neighborhood Connections has approved $293,118 in grants to support 101 projects in Cleveland and East Cleveland. Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, the local public funder for arts and culture, will co-fund 15 of the resident-led arts and culture projects through a partnership with Neighborhood Connections. More...

What We Heard: Takeaways from CAC’s January 31 Forum for Cultural Partners

8. March 2018 Karen Gahl-Mills In The News
At our November 2017 board meeting, we announced that we would add a series of community meetings to our calendar of six board meetings in 2018. We know that our board meetings don’t provide for informal dialog on important topics, and so we hope that these meetings will create additional opportunities for conversation and to hear from those that we fund and from county residents. More...

Neighborhood Connections, with additional funding from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, announces $195,660 in funding for 65 projects in Cleveland and East Cleveland neighborhoods

6. December 2017 Staff In The News, News Release
CLEVELAND (November 30, 2017) – Neighborhood Connections has approved $195,660 in grants to support 65 projects in Cleveland and East Cleveland. Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, the local public funder for arts and culture, will co-fund 15 of the resident-led arts and culture projects through a partnership with Neighborhood Connections. More...

November Board Meeting Recap

16. November 2017 Staff In The News, News Release
If you couldn’t attend our November Board meeting, here’s what you missed:

Record-Number General Operating Support and Project Support Grants Announced
Cuyahoga Arts & Culture’s Board of Trustees approved its largest slate of grants totaling more than $12 million to 257 organizations at its November 13 meeting at the Cleveland History Center. After the meeting, an informal reception was held to celebrate the newest grant recipients. More...

Cuyahoga Arts & Culture Announces More Than $12 Million in Grants to 258 Cuyahoga County Nonprofits to Support Thousands of Arts & Cultural Experiences in 2018

13. November 2017 Staff In The News, In The Spotlight, News Release
CLEVELAND (November 13, 2017) – Cuyahoga Arts & Culture (CAC) will invest $12,032,910 in grants to a record-number 258 nonprofit organizations in Cuyahoga County through its 2018 grant programs. The grants, which will support arts and cultural organizations and projects of all sizes throughout Cuyahoga County in 2018, were approved by CAC’s Board of Trustees during its public meeting on Monday. More...

Support for Artists Planning Team Update – October 19

31. October 2017 Staff
On Thursday October 19th the Support for Artists Planning Team met at Julia de Burgos for a four-hour working session to continue developing their recommendations. They spent their time planning for the Town Hall Meeting, and discussing how funding to individual artists could support artists needs, including monetary and non-monetary support, space, mentorship and apprenticeships, and professional development. The next working session will be held on Wednesday November 8.

Know the Facts: How Cuyahoga Arts & Culture Invests in the Arts

25. October 2017 Staff In The News, News Release

Last week, Cuyahoga Arts & Culture’s Board of Trustees unanimously approved spending $10.2 million for the General Operating Support (GOS) grant program in 2018-2019. That vote was taken at a public meeting, and it followed months of discussions with arts groups and public pronouncements signaling the funding level. Since then, we’ve contacted each of the 61 organizations that will receive funding through that program and shared this news. More...

Support for Artists Planning Team Update – September 25

11. October 2017 Staff
On Monday September 25th, the Support for Artists Planning Team met at Karamu House for a two-hour working session to continue developing their recommendations. They spent their time reviewing and discussing the results of the Artists World Cafe, discussing practices from national models of support to individual artists, discussing ways to address issues of inequity in their recommendations, and developed a list of issues and solutions they want to address in their recommendations. Finally, the group agreed to send their ideas of an ideal model to support individual artists before the next working session, which will be held on Tuesday October 10.

Support for Artists Planning Team Update – September 11

26. September 2017 Staff
On Monday September 11th the Support for Artists Planning Team met at SPACES for a three-hour working session to continue planning their community engagement efforts. They spent their time preparing for the September 11th update to CAC's board and the September 16 World Cafe for individual artists. The world cafe will be an opportunity for the community to learn about the Planning Team's work and provide input as they develop a set of recommendations for the new approach to funding local artists.  Finally, the group agreed on a method to review several national models for funding to individual artists before the next working session, which will be held on Monday September 25.

Two Trustees Appointed to Cuyahoga Arts & Culture’s Board

12. September 2017 Staff In The News, News Release
CLEVELAND (September 12, 2017) – Gwendolyn Garth has been reappointed and Kenneth Miller has been appointed by County Executive Armond Budish to serve three-year terms on the Cuyahoga Arts & Culture (CAC) Board of Trustees. Cuyahoga County Councilman Pernel Jones, Jr. was present at the board’s September 11, 2017 meeting to swear in the trustees. More...

Arts & Culture in the Square: Jason Estremera

11. August 2017 Staff

Jason Estremera, Director of Business Services with the Hispanic Business Center, knows from first-hand experience how important diversity in arts & culture is for a community. As owner of Trunk Collective clothing store in Gordon Square, board member of Cleveland Public Theatre, and an actor in Teatro Publico de Cleveland in Gordon Square, he has witnessed how theater has the power to comfort people and challenge conventional thought. More...

Arts & Culture in the Square: Kamla Lewis

3. August 2017 Staff

Kamla Lewis, Director of Neighborhood Revitalization for the City of Shaker Heights, is a long-time fan of Public Square, and since the renovated Square reopened in 2016, she’s visited many times. She’s also a big fan of the arts and culture scene in Cleveland, and finds herself participating in some arts and culture activity nearly every weekend. More...

Support for Artists Planning Team Update

15. June 2017 Administrator
By Joe Gibbons, Board President, Cuyahoga Arts & Culture Board of Trustees

As the Support for Artists Planning Team begins its important work this month, Cuyahoga Arts & Culture’s Board of Trustees and staff feel it is critically important to provide our volunteer planning team with the resources they will need to incorporate broad public input as they develop recommendations on how CAC can support individual artists and creative people in the county. More...