Scholars, Students and Suits mingled with artists last evening at a reception hosted by Cleveland State University to welcome Turkish playwright and director Özen Yula. Mr. Yula is here through the auspices of the Cleveland Foundation’s Creative Fusion, a...
Read MoreI’ve been reading and writing a lot about sustainability in the arts recently. This includes the sustainability of Cleveland’s arts sector as a whole and of individual organizations. But what does sustainability mean? At face value it seems to imply...
Read MoreCleveland’s great jazz saxophonist, Ernie Krivda was eloquent in his acceptance remarks for his receipt of a Creative Workforce Fellowship this week. He was one of 20 artists who accepted their fellowship awards at the December board meeting of the...
Read MoreTwo weeks ago I logged in to a live webcast of a Cultural Workforce Forum held by the National Endowment for the Arts. (View the webcast here.) Its purpose was, broadly stated, to explore the condition and role of the artist in America’s real...
Read MoreMembers of the brand-new White House Office of Urban Affairs (there hasn’t been such an Office before!) came to Cleveland to learn from us and others in Ohio about what has worked and what is not working with the implementation of the American Recovery and...
Read MoreLast week a number of arts community members gathered to welcome Karen Gahl-Mills, the newly named executive director of Cuyahoga Arts and Culture (CAC) – our county funding agency for the arts. And for once we didn’t have to warn an incoming executive...
Read MoreI’m an avid, daily reader of ArtsJournal, Douglas McLennan’s one-stop electronic newsletter that collects news and blogs from worldwide media and keeps me informed on relevant issues in the arts. Today, the always interesting Andrew Taylor’s Artful...
Read MoreAmong the final sessions at this year’s Grantmakers in the Arts conference was a panel that included speakers from the Nonprofit Finance Fund, National Arts Strategies, and the Mellon, Boston and Doris Duke Foundations. The uncertainly titled “One Step...
Read MoreThis is a second posting from my experiences at this year’s Grantmakers in the Arts conference in Brooklyn, but I want to start it from an unusual place – a quote by our own Mayor Frank Jackson, overheard in a recent interview on Cleveland Public Radio...
Read MoreI just returned from the annual Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA) conference in Brooklyn. And as usual, I am so full of ideas and inspiration that it will probably take a couple of blog posts to get to all the stuff I want to share. But if you want a...
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