It is deadline day for material that will go to the foundation's Grantmaking Committee this quarter – though this line is invisible to the community – and so my day and my desk are filled with a host of other things that have their own timing...

(EDITOR'S NOTE: The Cleveland Foundation's Kathleen Cerveny recently traveled to Istanbul, Turkey, as part of a contingent of Cleveland-area arts professionals. Their goal is to work with Turkish artists, teachers and others to develop arts programs for urban...

Originally posted to this blog: 3/4/08 While preparing a talk to faculty and students of the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University recently, I ran across a 2004 issue of the journal The READER. The journal is published by...

Originally posted on this blog: 2/20/08 In November, I first mentioned that the foundation was beginning to explore ways in which we might help expand the diversity of world culture in Cleveland. As part of our planning, I met recently with a small group of...

Originally posted to this blog: 1/25/08 I just had my socks knocked off by a report to the National Education Association by Lake Research Partners. The report centered on a nationwide survey of likely voters on the importance of imagination and the arts in...

Well, we’ve jumped with both feet into the 2008 presidential race, with Iowa and New Hampshire behind us and Super Tuesday, the conventions and the long march to November ahead. While Americans for the Arts has documented those candidates who have made...

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”  - Albert Einstein Imagination: visualizing new possibilities for human thought and action and the use of materials. Creativity: originality, flexibility and elaboration in making what was imagined. The...

I just returned from conferencing and vacationing in the Southwest. While there, I got a jolt when someone mentioned that Taos, N.M., had recently celebrated its TRI-centennial.  That’s 300 years to Cleveland’s 200-plus-a-few. We forget – or at least I...

Greetings, and welcome to what I intend to become a regular sharing of ideas and information from my world to yours. My world is complex and so the sharing may take many forms, but mostly I will focus on issues relating to the Cleveland Foundation and the arts...