Saturday, June 9, 2018
Historic Karamu House marks the latest stage in a 3-year turnaround from fiscal and administrative problems by completing the $1.8 million renovation of its Jelliffe Theatre.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:00AMWednesday, May 2, 2018
Raymond Bobgan, executive artistic director of the Cleveland Public Theatre (CPT), with its 2018 Homer C. Wadsworth Award
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:56AMFriday, March 24, 2017
Five Northeast Ohio visual arts leaders released a joint letter decrying Trump's plan to kill the national endowments for the arts and humanities.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 10:52AMThursday, March 16, 2017
President Trump's budget proposal to wipe out the national endowments for the arts and humanities, though expected, sends a shock through Cleveland cultural institutions.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 03:00PMSaturday, August 20, 2016
Public Square has launched its new website and announced a more detailed schedule of events through September 30.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 11:10AMThursday, May 19, 2016
Playhouse Square finished and unveils a spectacular re-creation of the long-lost lobby of the Ohio Theatre, which burned in 1964 and whose charred remains were covered for years behind drywa…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 08:07PMFriday, May 13, 2016
A first look inside the construction fences at the nearly finished Public Square renovation shows that the $50 million project should live up to its billing as a terrific new unified civic s…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 02:33PMWednesday, April 27, 2016
Carrie Carpenter, formerly a senior vice president at Citizens Bank, has been named the new president and executive director of the Gordon Square Arts District.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 10:38PMTuesday, April 19, 2016
Cleveland lawyer and musician Mark Avsec and artist and activist Gwendolyn Garth have been appointed to serve on the five-member board of Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 08:30PMWednesday, November 25, 2015
The board of Cuyahoga Arts and Culture distributed $1.65 million in special project grants to 152 organizations in the county at its Monday meeting in Olmsted Falls.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:37PMFriday, October 23, 2015
Playhouse Square has become the biggest individual donor to the Issue 8 campaign to renew the county cigarette tax that supports Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:54PMWednesday, July 1, 2015
The new state budget holds good and bad news for local arts funding in Cuyahoga County. Arts funding will increase statewide, but a new state cigarette tax could eat into arts revenues creat…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 10:54PMTuesday, June 23, 2015
The Greater Cleveland Partnership endorsed renewal of Cuyahoga County's cigarette tax for the arts, hours ahead of County Council's scheduled vote to put the renewal on the fall ballot.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 07:31PMWednesday, May 27, 2015
Jane Chu, the 11th chairperson of the National Endowment for the Arts, described her ethnic Chinese and Midwest roots Wednesday to an appreciative audience at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 04:58PMMonday, April 13, 2015
The latest annual report from Cuyahoga Arts and Culture touts the organization's accomplishments hours ahead of a vote by its board on whether a cigarette tax for the arts should be renewed.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 11:48AMWednesday, April 8, 2015
Should a 10-year, 30-cents-a-pack tax on cigarettes for the arts in Cuyahoga County be placed on the November ballot for renewal? A critical debate over the future of the arts in the county …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 02:42PMWednesday, February 11, 2015
Indians CEO and Chairman Paul Dolan joined the leadership of a campaign to renew Cuyahoga County's cigarette tax for arts and culture because he views it as a way to stimulate growth of the …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 03:00PMWednesday, December 10, 2014
The Cleveland Institute of Art is nearing completion of a six-year, $75 million expansion and renovation that will unify its operations in University Circle for the first time since 1976.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 08:20AMTuesday, December 2, 2014
The new Near West Theatre nears completion in the Gordon Square Arts District of Cleveland's Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood after conclusion of a $30 million campaign aimed at creating a West…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 01:26PMMonday, November 24, 2014
Cuyahoga Arts and Culture announced nearly $27.2 million in operating and special project grants to local arts organizations for 2015-16 in one of the nation's largest local public-funding p…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 04:30PMWednesday, October 8, 2014
Cuyahoga County's cigarette tax for the arts plays an increasing role in the financial stability of cultural organizations as other government sources dry up, a new report says.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:27AMTuesday, September 16, 2014
Cuyahoga Arts and Culture is moving toward renewing individual artist fellowships, but with budget cuts and new requirements that artists show how their work benefits county residents.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:30PMTuesday, September 2, 2014
Cleveland's Gordon Square Arts District has completed a $30 million campaign that has transformed a West Side neighborhood into a mecca for the arts. Now it's planning for an encore with a m…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 02:38PMFriday, July 25, 2014
Cuyahoga County may resume giving $20,000 grants to individual artists in 2015, but only after giving the program a thorough re-evaluation, the leader of the county's arts funding agency sai…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 08:15AMMonday, July 7, 2014
Cleveland's cultural organizations pulled in nearly one third of the $9.36 million in Ohio Arts Council grants announced on Monday, and nearly 11 percent of the statewide total went to five …
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 05:00PMThursday, July 3, 2014
The City Club of Cleveland will hold a free public forum on July 24 on the suspension of individual Creative Workforce Fellowship grants in Cuyahoga County.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 11:45AMFriday, June 20, 2014
A $9 million gift from Sherwin-Williams CEO Chris Connor and family has given a big boost to Playhouse Square's newly announced $100 million capital campaign, the theater district said Frida…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 04:05PMSunday, May 11, 2014
Despite an aesthetic approach that veers toward kitsch and glitz, the new outdoor chandelier at Playhouse Square and other streetscape improvements work beautifully to frame Cleveland's thea…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:05AMWednesday, April 30, 2014
PlayhouseSquare and its contractors subjected the district's new outdoor chandelier - scheduled for a ceremonial lighting on Friday - to numerous tests during its design and fabrication to m…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:00PMFriday, April 25, 2014
Rebirth: The revival of Playhouse Square's theaters helped save downtown Cleveland and launched a national movement to preserve historic silent movie palaces and vaudeville houses.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 10:55AMThursday, April 24, 2014
PlayhouseSquare will light its new chandelier -- a symbolic centerpiece -- on Friday, May 2, in a rain-or-shine ceremony intended to highlight $16 million worth of new outdoor amenities, gat…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:05AM 
