December 14, 201113 yr Local furniture designer makes MSNBC list of gifts for the computer-tethered ... 10 gifts for people who sit in front of a computer all day Look like Bono, pet your cat and make office-supply weapons, all without leaving your desk ... Kickstand Desk In case you haven't heard, sitting can kill you. That's why a lot of office dwellers are moving to standing desks. If you happen to know a cyclist, it's also possible to get desks that are custom made to accommodate a bicycle. Kickstand Furniture designs adjustable desks that can do just that, making it possible to mount a bike on a trainer and cycle as you work. $1,499-$1,650 — Kickstand Furniture ... Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45344179/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/t/gifts-people-who-sit-front-computer-all-day/
January 13, 201213 yr New $100,000 artist grant program up and running as of today ... Artists in Residence grants CPAC Website Brought to you by Northeast Shores and the Community Partnership for Arts & Culture. Through this exciting new program, we'll be giving artists who live and work in North Shore Collinwood an opportunity to propose creative solutions to some of the issues the neighborhood cares about the most. Guidelines available at http://www.cpacbiz.org/ftp_file/11-12/Summer2012Guidelines.pdf Application available at http://www.cpacbiz.org/ftp_file/11-12/Summer2012ApplicationForm.pdf
April 25, 201213 yr Some updates on efforts to increase artist in-migration in Cleveland: - CPAC has launched a new one-stop website for artists who live here or are thinking of moving here, www.mycreativecompass.org. This is a single place where artists can find out all sorts of support programs in Cleveland ... art training, business training, networking, insurance, space, employment, calls for artists, grants, loans, etc. - Northeast Shores is busy converting vacant, foreclosed housing in North Collinwood into new ownership opportunities for artists. Artists can get fully renovated, modernized, energy-efficient houses for as little as $65,000. The rehab work is heavily subsidized, so in some cases, artists are able to pick up a house for $50,000 less than the cost of rehab. - For artists who want to take a vacant house that needs some minor repairs and do the work themselves, Northeast Shores is offering houses for $5,000. No typo there :) - If you refer an artist (or a buyer) to Northeast Shores and they ultimately buy a house, you get a $500 referral fee. Get crackin', UrbanOhio! - CPAC, Northeast Shores and NoteWorthy Federal Credit Union have launched a new $150,000 low-interest loan program for artists who are building out art space in North Collinwood. This is funding specifically for projects that a traditional lender would typically say no to because there's no perceived increase in resale value ... Like a musician soundproofing an attic so they can do recordings, a painter converting a garage into an art studio, a printmaker who needs to buy a printing press, etc. CPAC provides 25% collateral on every loan, which reduces the risk to the borrowing artist and knocks the interest rate down. This is a way to start funding art space that might not be commercial or "business-y" in nature. - CPAC and Northeast Shores launched the Artists in Residence grants program. Over the next two years, the program will provide $100,000 to artists living or working in North Collinwood to carry out community art projects in the neighborhood, addressing issues like public safety, youth engagement and vacancy through the arts. In the first round, the program's giving out $30,000 ... But 38 applications came in requesting $230,000! Kind of tells you how much interest there is among artists to get more engaged in neighborhood revitalization. - CPAC and Northeast Shores announced the winners of the 2012 Cleveland Arsenal award, a $1,000 award for people out their sharing their love of Cleveland and doing grassroots marketing of the city, particularly related to the arts (but not just the arts). The 2012 winners are Sam Allard, Daniel Brown, Valerie Mayen, Gina Prodan and Rick Stockburger. - Northeast Shores and CPAC are getting ready to launch a marketing campaign toward artists nationwide, letting them know about Artists in Residence, North Collinwood and Cleveland more generally, as a good place to move to. This will be everything from direct mail to social media to advertising to subsidizing visits to Cleveland to check it out. Stay tuned for a new website and more details :)
April 25, 201213 yr - CPAC and Northeast Shores launched the Artists in Residence grants program. Over the next two years, the program will provide $100,000 to artists living or working in North Collinwood to carry out community art projects in the neighborhood, addressing issues like public safety, youth engagement and vacancy through the arts. In the first round, the program's giving out $30,000 ... But 38 applications came in requesting $230,000! Kind of tells you how much interest there is among artists to get more engaged in neighborhood revitalization. Thanks for the report! There seem like a lot of good ideas here, but I'd especially like to see this one expanded to more neighborhoods.
July 19, 201212 yr Just to cross-reference some recent postings in other threads that show the traction our community is gaining on the national funding level around this concept ... detroit shoreway nabs $50k nea placemaking grant Thursday, July 19, 2012 The National Endowment for the Arts announced its 2012 Our Town Grant Recipients, with $5 million going out to creative placemaking in 80 communities across the country. Detroit Shoreway Community Development Organization received $50,000. "The Detroit Shoreway neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, is home to more than 14,300 residents. Revitalization efforts in the neighborhood focus around the Gordon Square Arts District, an emerging arts and entertainment destination" ... ... More available at http://freshwatercleveland.com/inthenews/placemakinggrant071912.aspx
July 19, 201212 yr "Collinwood Rising" program wins prestigious $500,000 grant from ArtPlace program of the National Endowment for the Arts Wednesday, June 13, 2012, 3:30 PM By Steven Litt, The Plain Dealer It was only nine months ago during a visit here that Rocco Landesman, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, threw down a challenge for Clevelanders to apply for a prestigious new ArtPlace grant. Today, Cleveland has one. The privately funded grant program, a collaboration among top federal agencies and 11 leading U.S. foundations, announced that the Northeast Shores Development Corp. in Collinwood has been awarded $500,000 to engage artists in community development ... ... More available at http://blog.cleveland.com/architecture/2012/06/clevelands_collinwood_neighbor.html
July 19, 201212 yr The first Artists in Residence grants have been made ... a graphic designer distributing posters of children's activities throughout the neighborhood, music classes for young children, a vacant lot converted into a sculpture garden along Waterloo Road, a short documentary about everyday heroes of Collinwood, a community printing press that anyone can use after training and a pop-up fashion incubator for neighborhood high schoolers. Good stuff :) The next $45,000 in grants is now up for grabs! http://www.cultureforward.org/Our-Programs/Residence/Grants First round of Artists in Residence grants is announced by Mariel Behnke Collinwood Observer Six artists who live or work in North Shore Collinwood were awarded a total of $30,000 to support their community art projects through the Artists in Residence grant program. This program, part of a special two-year neighborhood arts initiative of Northeast Shores and the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture, aims to support artists in the community and involve residents in making the neighborhood a better place to live. It will award another $95,000 in two more rounds of applications between now and fall of 2013 ... ... More available at http://collinwoodobserver.com/read/2012/07/14/first-round-of-artists-in-residence-grants-is-announced
July 19, 201212 yr The application process for the 2013 Creative Workforce Fellowship is now underway. The program will award 20 $20,000 awards to craft, design, media and other visual artists (and then dance, literature, music and theatre in 2014). Through 2012, the program has distributed more than $1.6 million to 86 local artists, making it one of the largest publicly funded artist support programs in the country. Go Cleve! http://www.cultureforward.org/Our-Programs/Fellowship
January 10, 201312 yr creative workforce grants support artists while transforming 'rust belt' into 'artist belt' LEE CHILCOTE, FRESH WATER THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 2013 Whether established or emerging, almost every artist struggles to find time for creative work, which necessarily trails behind responsibilities like work, family and paying the bills. Possessing an instinctive desire to fashion their experiences and ideas into art, artists scratch a few hours out of each day, savoring the time before they’re interrupted. All the while, they never stop hoping for that lucky break -- the moment when their work is recognized and rewarded with an opportunity that helps them reach the next level. Each year in Cuyahoga County, 20 talented artists get that lucky break. Thanks to the generosity of voters who approved a 2006 cigarette tax increase to fund arts and culture county-wide, a select group is picked to sit at the figurative head of the creative class. They’re bestowed with $20,000 Creative Workforce Fellowships to support their work ... ... More available at http://www.freshwatercleveland.com/features/creativeworkforcefellowship011013.aspx?utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=&utm_content=%7bEmail_Address%7d&utm_campaign=The+Gift+of+Art%2c+Time+and+Metamorphosis
August 8, 201311 yr creative placemaking reframes how residents and visitors experience neighborhoods SHEENA LYONNAIS AND DOUGLAS TRATTNER, Fresh Water Cleveland THURSDAY, AUGUST 08, 2013 Over the past year, the neighborhood of North Collinwood has hosted pop-up art exhibits, opened a new art gallery, created a practice studio for bands, funded a large portion of the popular Lottery League, and filmed a documentary about its efforts to improve the community through arts programming. All of that was made possible thanks to a $500,000 grant from ArtPlace America, a collaboration of national and regional funders that recently awarded $15.2 million in grants to creative placemaking projects across the U.S. "The ArtPlace funding takes creative placemaking ideas that are being considered and gives them the cash injection they need to go from concept to reality and, hopefully, exit velocity," explains Brian Friedman, Executive Director of Northeast Shores Development Corporation, a nonprofit that serves North Collinwood. ... More available at http://www.freshwatercleveland.com/features/creativeplacemaking080813.aspx
August 8, 201311 yr welcome weekend draws a dozen artists ready to sign leases, move here Lee Chilcote, Fresh Water Cleveland THURSDAY, AUGUST 08, 2013 Welcome to Cleveland, an artists' visitation weekend hosted by Northeast Shores CDC and the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture, drew about a dozen artists to Cleveland, many of whom have signed leases and are expected to move here. "The weekend exceeded our expectations by far," says Brian Friedman, Executive Director of Northeast Shores. "We didn't know they'd be so ready to go." The artists were impressed not only by Cleveland's affordability but also by the accessibility of the rich arts scene here, Friedman says. "For them it was really the connectedness -- there's a much stronger ability for artists to network and connect here than in many of the communities where they're from." ... More available at http://www.freshwatercleveland.com/devnews/welcometocleveland080813.aspx
May 30, 201411 yr Reaction to Naji Gallery raids: Cultural leaders urge Cleveland to develop proactive policies for the arts By Steven Litt, The Plain Dealer May 29, 2014 CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Galleries, theaters and music clubs have become powerful engines of revitalization across Cleveland. The impact is visible in neighborhoods from Collinwood and St. Clair Superior on the East Side to Tremont, Ohio City and Detroit Shoreway on the West. But does city government value the cultural revolution enough to nurture and sustain it? ... ... More available at http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2014/05/cultural_leaders_react_to_raid.html
June 1, 201411 yr Crain's had a blog post out a couple days ago highlighting a report from the University of Chicago's Cultural Policy Center that analyzes the "creative economy" in nine cities, including Cleveland. Since it gives a bunch of demographic data about the artists in these cities, I thought this would be a good thread to post it in. It's pretty long, but among the findings are: * Musicians make up a disproportionally high percentage of Cleveland's creative workers (the highest percentage of any of the nine cities, actually,) and a disproportionally low percentage of visual artists. * A larger proportion of Cleveland's artists work in printing or related manufacturing-oriented areas than other cities * Cleveland has a proportionally outsized concentration of chefs and head cooks * Cleveland has a higher concentration of creative class workers than the national average, and compared to the other cities from the study, we're below San Francisco, Denver, Boston, and Chicago, but above Philadelphia, Houston, Baltimore, and Phoenix. (Remember that this is a per-capita measure, not absolute numbers.) The report is pretty Chicago-centric for obvious reasons, but I thought it was an interesting read, and there are a lot more details than what I put here. Here's the pdf: http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/creative-economy/creative-economy.pdf And the Crain's article: http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20140529/BLOGS03/140529771/cultural-policy-center-report-shows-that-the-state-of-clevelands
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