annual GOS grant award Grantee amount URL Organization Description Apollo's Fire $88,183 http://www.apollosfire.org/ Apollo’s Fire is dedicated to the performance of 17th- and 18th-century music on the period instruments for which it was written. The ensemble unites a select pool of early-music specialists from throughout North America and Europe, and has been praised internationally for stylistic freshness and buoyancy, technical excellence, and for the creativity of programming.
Art House $32,034 http://www.arthouseinc.org/ Art House is a community-based arts center that provides visual and cultural arts programming for all ages. It is located in located in historic Brooklyn Centre, between the Ohio City and Old Brooklyn neighborhoods of Cleveland, Ohio
Artists Archives of the $19,491 www.artistsarchives.org The mission of Artists Archives of the Western Reserve is to preserve representative bodies of Western Reserve work created by Northeast Ohio visual artists and, through ongoing research, exhibition and educational programs, actively documents and promotes this cultural heritage for the benefit of the public
Arts Collinwood $10,690 www.artscollinwood.org Arts Collinwood, founded in 2002, is a community-based arts organization that provides arts programming, runs a community arts street festival and operates an art gallery.
BayArts (formerly $23,359 www.baycrafters.com Baycrafters is a community-based arts organization located on the western suburb of Bay Village Baycrafters) that provides an array of arts programming for all ages and operates a gallery.
Beck Center for the Arts $180,794 www.beckcenter.org The Beck Center is a community-based full service arts organization that offers a variety of cultural programming including, theater, education, creative arts therapies, education outreach, and art galleries. Brecksville Theater on $11,221 http://www.btots.org/ Brecksville Theater on the Square is a teaching theater, offering educational theater workshops to Square all ages, preschool – adult, as well as offering three seasonal productions a year.
Broadway School of $21,663 www.broadwayschool.org The Broadway School of Music & the Arts is a community school of the arts that offers diverse arts Music & the Arts classes including individual music instruction for all ages.
Chagrin Valley Little $29,277 www.cvlt.org The Chagrin Valley Little Theatre produces and performs plays, musicals, experimental shows, Theatre orchestral works, youth and young adult theatre.
Children's Museum of $86,826 www.clevelandchildrensmuseum.org The Children’s Museum of Cleveland provides young children and their families a variety of age- Cleveland appropriate exhibits and interpretive/educational programs.
Cleveland Artists $26,784 www.clevelandartists.org The Cleveland Artists Foundation preserves and collects the most significant visual art of Northeast Foundation Ohio. They exhibit this work, produce catalogs and publications, and serve as a scholarly resource on the art history of the region
Cleveland Botanical $513,811 www.cbgarden.org The Cleveland Botanical Garden is located in University Circle and includes the on-site gardens and Garden horticultural collection as well as off-site urban learning gardens and outdoor classrooms at Cleveland schools to provide life-long learning and an appreciation of the positive role plants play in every day life.
Cleveland Institute of Art $902,673 www.cia.edu The Cleveland Institute of Art is an independent college of art and design considered one of the top ten professional colleges of arts and design in the country. CIA is committed to leadership and vision in all forms of visual arts education as well as encouraging the importance of the visual arts in culture and the potential for the artist to contribute to the needs of society Cleveland Institute of $924,664 www.cim.edu The Cleveland Institute of Music, a leading international conservatory, provides a music degree Music program and serves as a resource for the community with music instruction and lessons for individuals of all ages and abilities as well as offering many public performance programs.
The Cleveland $136,829 www.clevelandfilm.org The Cleveland International Film Festival is Ohio’s premier film event, featuring approximately 125 International Film feature films and 110 short subjects from nearly 60 countries over 11 days each spring and Festival includes visiting filmmakers, panel discussions and student screenings. CIFF’s mission is to promote artistically and culturally significant film arts to educate, entertain and celebrate the human experience and enrich the life of the community
Cleveland International $90,679 www.clevelandpiano.org The Cleveland International Piano Competition presents a world-renowned biennial piano Piano Competition competition, where young pianists from all over the world are selected to come to Cleveland to compete for the opportunity to win major cash prizes and other professional opportunities. The Cleveland International Piano Competition also features PIANO/OHIO, a competition open to Ohio high school students that is juried by young pianists from all over the world.
Cleveland Museum of Art $1,506,553 www.clevelandart.org The Cleveland Museum of Art is one of the world’s most distinguished comprehensive art museums and one of northeast Ohio’s principal civic and cultural institutions. Including collections of nearly 45,000 objects that represent more than 6,000 years of achievement in the arts, CMA exhibits, collects and fosters public understanding of this collection as well as offering other special exhibitions, performing arts, lectures, and film programs.
Cleveland Museum of $620,104 www.cmnh.org The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, founded in 1890, emphasizes scientific research, Natural History conservation and education. The museum features exhibits, a planetarium, observatory, discovery center and a wildlife center and woods garden featuring native Ohio flora and fauna. Traveling exhibitions, lectures and public and educational programs are offered in the field of natural history
Cleveland Music School $256,385 www.thecmss.org The Cleveland Music School Settlement, founded in 1912, is a music arts education organization Settlement that operates three primary programs, music instruction, music therapy, and early childhood education for primarily school aged children. Its mission is to provide arts experiences that promote creativity, inspire success and impart positive cultural values for the development of a healthy community.
The Cleveland Orchestra $1,824,202 www.clevelandorchestra.com The Cleveland Orchestra, founded in 1918, is among the world’s most revered orchestras. In addition to performing concerts at its two landmark venues, Severance Hall and Blossom Music Center, the Cleveland Orchestra serves the community through a broad range of educational programs, community performances, and free public events. The Cleveland Playhouse $495,276 www.clevelandplayhouse.com Founded in 1915, The Cleveland Play House is America's first permanently established professional theatre company and continues to be a national leader in the development and production of new work. It produces eight plays each season with at least one new play produced on the Mainstage as well as providing extensive theatre education programming to students in the Cleveland area.
Cleveland POPS $83,718 www.clevelandpops.com The Cleveland POPS Orchestra presents entertaining and exciting pops music for audiences of all Orchestra ages. Featuring unique and innovative concerts that appeal to all musical tastes such as Broadway tunes, movie themes, jazz, big band, Disney songs, and the soul-stirring music of America's military might.
Cleveland Public Art $72,833 www.clevelandpublicart.org Cleveland Public Art creates permanent and temporary public art engaging a wide variety of organizations in private/public partnerships to enhance the urban experience in our region.
Cleveland Public Theatre $86,972 www.cptonline.org Cleveland Public Theatre is an established center for contemporary performance, new plays, and work that is explorative and socially progressive. Known as one of the nation’s leading experimental and political performance venues, sponsoring dance, music, poetry and performance art as well as theatre. CPT also functions as an artistic home for many self-producing artists.
Cleveland Restoration $124,392 www.clevelandrestoration.org The Cleveland Restoration Society works to develop economically-viable solutions to preservation Society challenges in order to preserve and enhance the architectural heritage of our region. CRS provides technical assistance, educational programs and publications to individuals and organizations pursuing historic preservation opportunities
Cleveland Women's $8,614 www.clevelandwomensorchestra.org The Cleveland Women’s Orchestra was founded in 1935 to give women musicians performance Orchestra opportunities. One annual concert is held at Severance Hall and other community locations as arranged, as well as providing internship opportunities
Contemporary Youth $32,854 www.cyorchestra.org The Contemporary Youth Orchestra is the first and only youth orchestra of its kind in the country. Orchestra Founded in 1995, CYO engages young musicians ages 13-19, to work with living composers and performers to perform contemporary orchestral literature. A Cultural Exchange $69,751 A Cultural Exchange designs and implements literacy programs, professional development seminars, events, book fairs and exhibits that provide children, and the extended community with access to affordable, multicultural materials.
DANCECleveland $44,937 www.dancecleveland.org DANCECleveland, founded in 1956, presents performances by national and international modern dance companies to audiences in NE Ohio. Dance performances are accompanied by educational programming and residencies.
Dancing Wheels $68,284 www.dancingwheels.org Dancing Wheels is a professional dance company that uses the medium of dance to integrate dancers with and without disabilities. Dancing Wheels performs nationally and internationally performing works by well-known choreographers.
Great Lakes Science $581,889 http://www.greatscience.com/ The Great Lakes Science Center is one of America's largest interactive science museums. More than Center 400 exciting "hands-on" exhibits, breathtaking OMNIMAX® films, daily demonstrations and exciting educational programs show visitors the interdependency of science, environment and technology, particularly in the Great Lakes Region.
Great Lakes Theater $255,521 www.greatlakestheater.org The mission of Great Lakes Theater Festival is to bring the pleasure, power and relevance of classic Festival theater to the widest possible audience in northern Ohio. Since the company’s inception in 1962, programming has been rooted in Shakespeare, but the Festival’s commitment to great plays spans the breadth of all cultures, forms of theater and time periods including the 20th century, and provides for the occasional mounting of new works that compliment the classical repertoire.
GroundWorks $42,275 www.notsoobvious.com GroundWorks Dancetheater is a ballet-based contemporary dance company that is dedicated to Dancetheater the development and presentation of new choreography that encourages collaboration with other art disciplines and cultural organizations. Groundworks is committed to producing new work, performing to live music, and collaborating with composers of exciting new music and performing in non traditional locations.
Heights Arts $24,972 www.heightsarts.org Heights Arts is a community arts organization located in Cleveland Heights that is comprised of members and provides a wide variety of arts programming, facilitates public art projects, supports arts in education, offers art classes and provides venues throughout the year for local performers and artists. Heights Youth Theatre $18,767 www.heightsyouththeatre.com Heights Youth Theatre committed to providing quality children’s theater for youth, ages 6-18, in the east side inner ring suburbs of Cleveland.
Ideastream $1,022,791 www.ideastream.org Ideastream, formed in 2001, from the merger of WVIZ/PBS and WCPN, is a public media broadcasting company that provides content and programming in art, drama, music, culture, history, science, news, current events and other areas of public service through public radio, public television, Internet, print and other forms of communication services.
Ingenuity: Cleveland $109,931 www.ingenuitycleveland.org Ingenuity: The Cleveland Festival of Art and Technology, founded in 2004, is a festival held in Festival of Art and downtown Cleveland that fosters and showcases collaborations between art-based and Technology technology-based sources.
Intermuseum $104,049 www.ica-artconservation.org The Intermuseum Conservation Association is the oldest non-profit regional conservation center in Conservation Association the United State, dedicated to the preservation of works of art and objects of cultural significance. ICA provides professional, high quality and cost-effective services to collecting institutions, corporations, governments and the general public.
International Women's $18,425 www.iwasm.org International Women’s Air & Space Museum is located in at Burke Lakefront Airport and exhibits Air & Space Museum and educates about the role of women in aviation and space history, past, present and future.
Joyful Noise $5,954 www.joyfulnoisemusicschool.org Established in 2004, Joyful Noise is a neighborhood based music school that provides free music lessons, use of instruments and opportunities to perform to elementary-aged children in the city of Cleveland.
Karamu House $153,838 www.karamu.com Karamu House is a multi-cultural arts institution that operates a performing arts theatre dedicated to showcasing African-American productions and provides arts education instruction in the community. Lakewood Historical $17,699 http://www.lakewoodhistorical.org/ The Lakewood Historical Society, founded in 1952, promotes, preserves and educates the Society community about the history of Lakewood, Ohio.
Maltz Museum of Jewish $170,024 http://www.maltzjewishmuseum.org/ Opened in 2005, The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage preserves the history and achievements of Heritage Cleveland’s Jewish community. The stories of individuals and families - past and present – are told through state-of-the-art exhibitions, interactives and films, oral histories, photographs and artifacts.
Museum of $155,495 www.mocacleveland.org The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA) is a contemporary art institution showcasing Contemporary Art nationally and internationally emerging art and educating the public about contemporary art. Cleveland MOCA also showcases established and emerging artists living in the Cleveland area through continuing exhibition programs.
Music & Performing Arts $17,532 http://www.mandpa.org/ Music and Performing Arts at Trinity Cathedral is dedicated to building community and enhancing at Trinity Cathedral the quality of life in Metropolitan Cleveland through the Arts. It presents arts programming through their Brownbag Concert series and operating an art gallery at Trinity Commons.
Nature Center at Shaker $86,162 http://www.shakerlakes.org/ The Nature Center at Shaker Lakes was founded in 1966 as the results of a grassroots community Lakes effort to preserve the Shaker Parklands from becoming the route for a new freeway connecting Cleveland’s east side to downtown. The Nature Center offers innovative programs on environmental education and preservation for all ages and in particular school-age children with early childhood and school programs for east side school districts and the Cleveland Public Schools.
Near West Theater $60,624 http://nearwesttheatre.org/ Near West Theatre, through the theatre arts, delivers an inclusive, self-esteem building process that results in high-quality theatre productions and programming that help build Cleveland's Near West Side and surrounding neighborhoods; educates and raises awareness around issues of social justice, discrimination, and stigma; and provides people of all ages with the ability to nurture their sense of identity and strengthen their purpose as individuals and as a community.
North Coast Men's $26,443 http://www.ncmchorus.org Entering it’s 20th season, The North Coast Men’s Chorus performs a series of concerts each season Chorus in diverse venues across Cuyahoga County. Its mission is to affirm the gay experience by presenting entertaining, quality performances for diverse audiences; provide a supportive environment for its members; and promote a positive presence in the gay community and beyond. Opera Circle $20,412 www.operacircle.org Headquartered in the Slavic Village neighborhood of Cleveland and founded in 1995, Opera Circle appears throughout Cleveland producing opera productions of less well-known opera pieces. These productions bring together soloists, chorus, orchestra, staging, costumes, props, set elements, dance, & audience at affordable prices and in non-traditional venues
Opera Cleveland $300,241 www.operacleveland.org Opera Cleveland, formed in 2006 as the result of a merger between Cleveland Opera (1976) and Lyric Opera (1974), presents a broad spectrum of opera and musical theatre pieces to audiences in northeast Ohio. Opera Cleveland also engages in opera education, significant collaborations and outreach to the community.
Orange Arts Center $22,478 www.orangeartcenter.org The Orange Arts Center is a community-based arts center that offers fine arts classes for all ages and sponsors exhibitions, educational opportunities, and social events for residents of the Orange City School District and surrounding areas.
Passport Project $18,147 www.passportproject.org Passport Project operates a community cultural arts center in the Buckeye Woodland Neighborhood of Cleveland, and offers a diverse array of classes and performances of multicultural dance forms, music, poetry and the visual arts.
Playhouse Square $1,536,891 www.playhousesquare.org Playhouse Square Foundation is a not-for-profit performing arts center that presents a wide variety Foundation of quality performing arts productions and arts educational programming.
Progressive Arts Alliance $21,134 www.paalive.org Progressive Arts Alliance is an arts-in-education organization that utilizes forms of popular culture as an educational tool. PAA is a collective of contemporary artists with a commitment to dynamic arts education. Programs include performances, workshops, assemblies, lectures, conferences, residencies and camps focused on the contemporary arts.
Rainey Institute $43,219 www.raineyinstitute.org The Rainey Institute is a community-based arts center for children aged 4 -18 operating in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood. Classes range from visual arts instruction to creative writing and drama and are presented as a tool to help young minds with reading, writing and math. Red {an orchestra} $72,097 www.redanorchestra.org Red {an orchestra} seeks to redefine, redesign and rediscover the classical music concert experience through innovative programming that merges classical music with other art forms and developing new audiences by presenting music in light of contemporary culture and breaking down traditional concert hall barriers
Rock and Roll Hall of $880,825 www.rockhall.com Since its opening in 1995, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum has established itself as the Fame and Museum preeminent home for the celebration and study of rock and roll music. Its exhibits, educational programs and performance events have made the Museum a popular cultural tourism driver in northeast Ohio.
Roots of American Music $40,110 www.rootsofamericanmusic.org Roots of American Music employs more than 30 musicians/educators who collectively deliver diversity-themed music education programming to a wide variety of schools and institutions in northeast Ohio that would otherwise not be able to offer students any music education or performance. ROAM strives to create roots-music-based assembly and residency programs that connect to state and district standards in the arts, social studies and other subjects.
The Sculpture Center $16,557 www.sculpturecenter.org The Sculpture Center was founded in 1989 by David E. Davis and Bernice S. Davis to support Ohio sculptors and preserve Ohio outdoor sculpture. It has exhibited the work of over 200 early career Ohio artists and spearheaded the preservation of 36 outdoor sculptures.
Shaker Historical Society $19,847 www.shakerhistory.org The Shaker Historical Society and Museum preserves and promotes the history of the North Union and Museum Shaker Community and Shaker Heights through operation of a museum and a library and engages the community through relevant educational programming.
Singing Angels $56,926 www.singingangels.org Singing Angels, founded in 1964, is dedicated to youth development through the highest level of artistic achievement in the performing arts. The Singing Angels operates two children’s choruses: a Training chorus; and a Performing chorus that has traveled the world, visiting 31 countries on three continents as well as throughout the United States.
SPACES $64,920 www.spacesgallery.org SPACES, founded in 1978, is a non-profit artist run alternative space that provides local, national and international artists the opportunity to present challenging exhibits, experimentation and to engage in public dialogue about the work. SPACES offers public programs, residencies and publications. Ukrainian Museum- $20,442 www.umacleveland.org Located in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland, where Ukrainians first settled in the 1880’s, Archives the Ukrainian Museum-Archives collects, preserves cultural and historical artifacts and documents that illuminate the history and culture of the Ukraine and the immigrant experience through the operation of a museum and archives and a commitment to the neighborhood.
Valley Art Center $35,571 www.valleyartcenter.org The Valley Art Center, located in Chagrin Falls, provides high quality educational programs, a broad-based and diverse venue for exhibiting artists, and maintaining a viable community arts organization by offering classes, gallery shows, and an annual outdoor art fair.
Verb Ballets $48,435 www.verbballets.org Verb Ballets discovers, collects, interprets, and stages choreography that matters to the region and to the world of dance. As a curator of expressive movement that is globally connected and nationally respected, Verb Ballets has a mandate to support and foster emerging talent, present excellence in contemporary choreographers, and revive and honor modern dance classics.
Verlezza Dance $12,597 http://www.verlezzadance.com/ With a dance school located in Shaker Heights, Verlezza Dance is a company of professional dancers rooted in the classical modern dance traditions of the May O’Donnell Technique. Through performance and education, Verlezza Dance strives to include all who wish to learn about dance including those with physical, mental, or developmental disabilities
Western Reserve $358,522 www.wrhs.org The Western Reserve Historical Society, founded in 1867, is the principal repository for collections Historical Society related to the growth and development of Cleveland and the area of Northeast Ohio once known as “Western Reserve.” WRHS also provides educational programming, research, and exhibits.
Young Audiences of $144,385 www.yaneo.org Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio is an affiliate of Young Audiences, Inc, founded in 1953, an Northeast Ohio arts-in-education program that provides an array of activities designed to support arts education instruction in schools and the community.