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6,500 Cuyahoga County residents participated in the public
voting process that was held February 1-20. “We are pleased to
see that so many residents of Cuyahoga County made their voice
heard by voting for the projects that they wanted to see happen
in our community,” said Karen Gahl-Mills, CAC’s executive
director. “The winning projects will engage the community in
creative ways, and we congratulate all of the organizations
involved for designing exciting cultural encounters that will
benefit all of us in Northeast Ohio.”
Arts and culture organizations based in Cuyahoga County proposed
many creative and diverse projects that were narrowed down to
the top six by an independent
panel of arts
and culture experts. Between February 1 and 20,
residents of Cuyahoga County were invited to vote to help decide
which two new creative projects would come to life in our
community. Cuyahoga Arts & Culture’s Board of Trustees approved
and announced the winning projects during its regular meeting on
February 25.
For more details about the grant program, visit
http://www.cacgrants.org/creative-culture-grants.php.
For more information about CAC, visit
www.cacgrants.org.
SUMMARY OF WINNERS:
Cuyahoga Arts & Culture
Creative Culture Grants Winning Projects
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DARING TO BE “DUMBO”
Lead Organization:
Dancing Wheels
Project Partners:
WKYC-TV Ch. 3, The Diversity Center of Cleveland, Girl Scouts of
America, and others.
Grant Award Amount:
$130,421
Led by Dancing Wheels, this project will expand on the dance
company’s world premiere performances of the multi-media ballet
“Dumbo” (May 6-11, 2013) to create an entertaining and
educational TV documentary based on the issues of bullying and
social injustice. Using the life stories of artists and
community figures, the documentary will explain how they rose
above the ridicule to become successful. The program will be
made into a school assembly program that will be performed at
schools and in the community throughout the county. The
documentary will premiere in March 2014 and will air on WKYC-TV
Ch. 3 in Northeast Ohio, and outreach programs will take place
April – August 2014.
Internet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2rJ0vwpRiPM
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• AHA! FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS
Lead Organization:
LAND
studio
Project Partners:
Cleveland Public Library, Positively Cleveland, Downtown
Cleveland Alliance, and others.
Grant Award Amount:
$150,000 |
LAND Studio
Photo Credit Lisa DeJong |
This project is a free, multi-day festival of lights in downtown
Cleveland’s public spaces to celebrate the recent development
boom and “illuminate” changes to our urban landscape. AHA will
bring together people from across the region in the spring or
summer of 2014 to highlight these beloved public spaces through
art installations using light, video projections and live
cultural performances by a combination of local, national and
international artists.
Internet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZXPJOaMQ_Oo
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