“Long-term transformative change has to start locally,” Ariel Vergez says. He’s the lead artist for the Storer Avenue Phoenix Project, a Transformative Art Fund awardee working in the Clark-Fulton neighborhood. The project was awarded $393,700. After a series of workshops and studio sessions, the project takes flight from 11 am to 6 pm Saturday, September 6, in The Art Garden […]
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Artist Jordan Wong’s proposal, For Those Who Call Here Home, was awarded one of the Transformative Art Fund grants, which will enable him to design an eye-catching and engaging outdoor community space at the heart of AsiaTown in downtown Cleveland. By the time he and his team of artists throw a debut celebration event at the completion of their TAF […]
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“When I moved to Cleveland in 1979 or ’80, the mural program was just an anti-graffiti program, so it wasn’t nearly the murals that they have now,” says Impart 216 lead artist Robin Robinson. She had frequently visited Cleveland as a child of Philadelphia because she had family here. “It was just people painting over the graffiti, making that community […]
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After a little more than three months of deliberation, the City of Cleveland announced winners of Transformative Art Fund grants–seven awards ranging from $312,000 to $482,000, which together at nearly $3 million represent one of the city’s largest-ever investments directly into the local arts community. Money for the grants came from the City’s allocation of American Rescue Plan funds from […]
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When Rhonda Brown returned to Cleveland to serve as Chief Strategist for the Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy in the administration of Mayor Justin Bibb, it was not entirely clear what the role would mean. It was a new position. Cleveland is a city with enormous depth of arts activity in the shadow of its famous major institutions, and […]
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