Tag: Curated Storefronts

Curated Storefront Celebrates 10 Years in Akron

In 2016, Akron entrepreneur Rick Rogers secured a John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Arts Challenge grant to transform Akron’s vacant downtown windows into vibrant street-edge exhibitions. What began as a pilot project morphed into a full-fledged organizational effort. Curated Storefront deploys creative placemaking and public art to help the city reimagine itself, with special emphasis on Main Street […]

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Illuminating Akron: Curated Storefront

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For a city to be considered alive, a certain number of lights must be shining at night. I am sure there is an equation that factors in the size and population and spits out the number of watts necessary to achieve the appropriate lumens required for an “Alive” rating. Two years ago, Downtown Akron began shifting into that category when […]

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