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...
The Support for Artists Planning Team (SFAPT) has been hard
at work during the summer months, holding a kickoff retreat on June 28-29 and
its first two working meetings on July 20 and August 3. More...
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...
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...
Throughout his professional career, Garry Regan has been
focused on bringing arts & culture experiences to the masses. More...
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...The President’s current budget proposal eliminates funding for the National Endowment for the Arts. NEA has said that is “business as usual” until the proposed budget is finalized.
Cuyahoga Arts & Culture has received a NEA grant to bring arts and culture to Public Square in Summer 2017, and that grant remains unchanged. We encourage you to learn more and submit ideas until March 29 at
www.cacgrants.org/square.
If you currently receive funding from the NEA, connect with your program officer and assess what, if any, impact the President’s proposal will have on your current grant. Learn more about
NEA’s work.
In 2017, Cuyahoga Arts & Culture is committed to ongoing support of our community’s artists. We want to continue talking with you about those plans, but we want to be clear: this issue is not on the agenda for CAC’s February 13 Board meeting. More...
Cuyahoga Arts & Culture is embarking on a year of celebration, reflection, and discovery. This year marks a decade of our agency’s work to strengthen organizations and inspire residents across Cuyahoga County through our investments in arts and culture. More...
CLEVELAND (November 14, 2016) – Cuyahoga Arts & Culture (CAC) will invest $14,573,833 in grants to 241 nonprofit organizations in Cuyahoga County through its 2017 grant programs. The grants, which will support arts and cultural organizations and projects of all sizes throughout Cuyahoga County in 2017, were approved by CAC’s Board of Trustees during its public meeting and celebration on Monday. More...
CLEVELAND (November 8, 2016) – Neighborhood Connections, the small-grants and grassroots community-building program affiliated with the Cleveland Foundation, has approved $200,269 in grants to support 72 projects throughout Cleveland and East Cleveland. Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, the county’s public funder for arts and culture, will co-fund 26 of the resident-led arts and culture projects through a partnership with Neighborhood Connections. More...
As the seasons begin to change here in Cuyahoga County, we at Cuyahoga Arts & Culture are shifting to the final phase of our organizational planning work. The new season marks the end of our community listening project: a summer full of conversations with residents, and work with community partners to hold deep-dive conversations with residents across the County. More...
CLEVELAND (August 3, 2016) – Cuyahoga Arts & Culture (CAC) released today its 2015 Report from the Community, which shares the stories of Cuyahoga County residents who have been impacted by cultural experiences supported by CAC. The Report from the Community is available at report.cacgrants.org. More...
As the Republican National Convention comes to Cleveland July 17-21, Cuyahoga Arts & Culture wants to share the following updates: More...
CLEVELAND (June 16, 2016) – For the ninth year in a row, Cuyahoga Arts & Culture (CAC) has received a “clean” audit report from the Ohio Auditor of State. Cuyahoga Arts & Culture’s complete financial audit report is now available on the Auditor of State’s website. More...
Thank you to the nearly 200 representatives from cultural organizations small and large who attended our planning kickoff event on May 19th. Planning for CAC’s future starts with understanding what the cultural life of our community looks like, and it was important for us to begin by hearing from the people who work to enhance that cultural life every day. More...
This July, 50,000 visitors will come to Cleveland for the Republican National Convention (RNC). More...
CLEVELAND (May 17, 2016) – Cuyahoga Arts & Culture (CAC) encourages 501c3 nonprofit organizations offering arts and cultural programs in Cuyahoga County to apply for funding in 2017 through its Project Support grant program. More...
CLEVELAND (May 17, 2016) – Neighborhood Connections, the small-grants and grassroots community-building program affiliated with the Cleveland Foundation, has approved $288,672 in grants to support 120 different projects in Cleveland and East Cleveland. Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, the county’s public funder for arts and culture, will co-fund 44 of the resident-led arts and culture projects through a partnership with Neighborhood Connections. More...
CLEVELAND (May 10, 2016) – The transformation of downtown Cleveland’s Public Square will include additional arts and cultural programming in 2016-2017, thanks to a grant to Cuyahoga Arts & Culture (CAC) from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). More...