The Cleveland Arts Prize recognized artists in its 2022 awards November 2 at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Gartner Auditorium, in what is called a “ceremony,” though that word does not seem quite right. While the purpose of the event has held steady—to recognize artists doing great work in the city—and while it is indeed a ceremony, complete with speeches […]
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You don’t have to be around the Northeast Ohio art scene long to hear people bandy about the term Cleveland School. And in one sense, it’s a pretty easily defined group: The Cleveland School artists are those who studied or were on the faculty at the Cleveland School of Art—which of course became the Cleveland Institute of Art—in the first […]
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Sculptor Lauren Yeager and printmaker Corrie Slawson are winners, respectively, of the 2021 Cleveland Arts Prize for emerging and mid-career artists. Lauren Yeager, 2021 Winner of the Cleveland Arts Prize for an Emerging Artist Sculptor and photographer Lauren Yeager is recipient of a Cleveland Arts Prize for 2021, in the Emerging Artist category. Like the majority of fine arts […]
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Wednesday night at its annual awards ceremony, the Cleveland Arts Prize recognized 9 artists and advocates for their contributions to the arts in Cleveland. It was a joyous occasion, even if–as out-going CAP board chair Howard Freedman noted in comments–“Cleveland Arts Prize has been called “staid.” If the word “ceremony” or anything about this sounds stodgy, though, it might be […]
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Cleveland Arts Prize celebrated its sixtieth anniversary in 2020 with a new project—Past Masters: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants. On June 24, an outdoor garden party will kick off year-long programming designed to honor sixty legendary, and in some cases under-recognized, Cleveland artists of national and international stature, who made remarkable contributions in their arts disciplines years before CAP was […]
Read moreEach year after the Annual Awards Event, the Cleveland Arts Prize (CAP) Prize Committee reviews both the awards process and the feedback. In the coming year, 2021, the committee will introduce the most significant change to the artist awards in CAP’s history. The sixty-year process of nomination-based consideration will be replaced by an open call for applications. After extensive review and […]
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In the middle of the perfect storm that is the COVID crisis and the reckoning with our history of racism, a number of Cleveland art organizations are facing a crisis of another kind: No less than seven important Northeast Ohio, nonprofit visual arts institutions have recently seen their executive directors resign. Most have appointed interim directors. All of them confront […]
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Someone said, “One man’s junk is another man’s treasure.” So, what happens when it’s one person’s art? I’ve been collecting art since the 1980’s. Sometimes I rotate work, but too often I take down one piece and store it while I showcase another. Basically, I keep running out of wall! Over the years I have put together a personal collection […]
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Last night at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Gartner Auditorium, broadcasting icon Dee Perry (CAP 2016) presented the 59th Annual Cleveland Arts Prize Awards to some of the region’s finest. Winners included poets, writers, musicians, composers, visual artists, dancers, leaders, and visionaries at what was a truly uplifting night filled with powerful speeches, delightful music, and extraordinary performances. It was what […]
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It’s been said that a prophet has no honor in his own country. When it comes to professional appreciation, artists can experience a similar problem. Familiarity can encourage complacency and neglect, at least on the home front. That’s one reason why it makes good sense to establish a countervailing force in the community, celebrating the accomplishments of native daughters and […]
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