The Community Partnership for Arts and Culture has announced the
winners of the first cycle of Cuyahoga Arts and Culture’s
Creative Workforce Fellowship grants. The $20,000 grants, funded
by the cigarette tax and made to artists living in Cuyahoga County, are
among the largest annual grants awarded to support the work of
individual artists in the U.S., which ought to make Cuyahoga County an
attractive place for artists to live and work. The first round was
targeted at artists who make visual things: painters, photographers,
woodworkers, fiber artists, filmmakers, etc.
The winners for painting are: Amy Casey, Donald E. Harvey, Michelle
Anne Muldrow and Seth Rosenberg; for drawing: Laurence Channing and
Andrea Joki; for photography: Bruce Checefsky, Lori Kella, Douglas
Lucak, Julius Lyles and Nancy M. McEntee; for woodworking, James Jubal
Harris; for fiber art: Nina Vivian Huryn; for film: Laura Paglin; for
sculpture, Olga Ziemska and Charmaine Spencer; for glass: Michael
Mikula and Mark Sudduth; for fashion design: Valerie Mayén; and
for mixed media work: Angela Oster.
The second cycle of $20,000 grants will go to writers and to artists
who perform or make work for performance. Categories include dancers,
interdisciplinary artists, musicians, literary artists and theater
artists. Watch for details on informational workshops, which begin in
late July, or go to cpacbiz.org.
Meanwhile, Cuyahoga Arts and Culture is still searching for
an executive director to replace Cathy Boyle, who was appointed to the
then-new post in 2007, after having served as executive assistant to
Cuyahoga County Commissioner Tim Hagan. She is also the daughter of
former commissioner Mary Boyle. True to her word, Boyle resigned from
Cuyahoga Arts and Culture after getting the agency up and running. Meg
Harris, the agency’s director of administration, is currently serving
as interim executive director and is not a candidate for the position.
CAC makes its first report to the community at a meeting followed by a
reception from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Monday, June 22, at Severance Hall. To
RSVP, call 216.325.0920.
Management Consultants for the Arts, Inc., a
Connecticut-based consulting company specializing in executive-level
head-hunting for arts organizations big enough to employ consultants to
hire their people, is conducting the search. To see what they’re
looking for in a new executive director, go to cuyahogaartsandculture.org.
This article appears in Jun 10-16, 2009.