2015 REPORT FROM THE COMMUNITY CONNECTION CREATIVITY & COMMUNITY DYNAMIC NEIGHBORHOODS. STRONG CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS. A DESTINATION FOR ARTISTS.

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ABOUT CUYAHOGA ARTS & CULTURE CAC is the region’s public arts and culture agency, helping hundreds 2015 Cuyahoga Arts & Culture Finances of organizations connect residents and visitors to millions of cultural REFLECTS AUDITED FINANCIALS FOR 2015 experiences each year – in museums and performance halls, in nature Revenues $16,133,646 and public spaces, in neighborhoods and online. Through grants, CAC supports the arts and culture organizations that give our community Expenses Arts and Cultural Grantmaking $15,666,393 a unique identity and make it an enjoyable place to work, live and visit. General and Administrative $596,461 CAC is a responsible steward of public funds, investing more than TOTAL EXPENSES $16,262,854 $140 million in more than 300 organizations since 2008. Change in Net Position ($129,208) Net Position Beginning of Year $21,941,100 ADDITIONAL BOARD OF TRUSTEES IMAGE CREDITS Mark Avsec Steven Minter NET POSITION END OF YEAR $21,811,892 Imagery courtesy of featured Gwendolyn Garth Charna Sherman institutions unless noted here. Joseph P. Gibbons

PAGE THREE About the Data STAFF Roger Mastroianni The fiscal year 2014 data used for this report was provided by DataArts The Orchestra Karen Gahl-Mills CEO + EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (previously known as the Cultural Data Project), a nonprofit organization Anita T. Orenick Great Lakes Science Center Roshi Ahmadian that empowers the arts and cultural sector with high-quality data and ASSOCIATE - COMMUNICATIONS & GRANT PROGRAMS Brian Fyfe resources in order to strengthen its vitality, performance, and public Doan Brook Watershed Partnership Meg Harris impact. Any interpretation of the data is that of Cuyahoga Arts & DIRECTOR OF ADMINISTRATION PAGE FOUR Culture, not DataArts. For more information, visit www.culturaldata.org. Jessica Kayse Wetzler Studios MANAGER - RESIDENT ENGAGEMENT Beck Center Additional data provided by grant recipients to Cuyahoga Arts & Culture. Dan McLaughlin Beth Segal MANAGER - PROJECT SUPPORT Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage Jill Paulsen PAGE SEVEN DEPUTY DIRECTOR COVER Omid Tavakoli, Waterloo Sculpture Garden, Cleveland. Elisha Cerino Jake Sinatra BACKGROUND Spoken word artist Donté Clark discusses his role in Verb Ballet MANAGER - SPECIAL PROJECTS & COMMUNICATIONS the filmRomeo is Bleeding with Cleveland Heights High students. Nicole Thomas MANAGER - GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT PHOTO COURTESY OF THE CLEVELAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL When 12-year-old Ata Farah, a student at Buhrer Dual Language Academy in Cleveland, heard he was going to a museum for a field trip, he had one thought: BORING! That was until he stepped foot into the

Crawford Auto-Aviation Collection Museum, with two floors of classic cars, planes and the Goodyear blimp.

DEAR RESIDENTS OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY, ARTS IN OUR COMMUNITY When we think of all of the attributes that make our community CONNECTIONS an attractive place to work, live and visit, our arts and culture KAREN GAHL-MILLS scene surely tops the list. Arts and culture experiences help us CEO + EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

form connections to people, places and things, and they help us My family moved to Westlake when I was in high define who we are, what we want to be, what we value, and what school, and from an early age, I got to experience the breadth of our region’s tremendous cultural memories we want to create for future generations. amenities. Whether through family visits to the 2015 Cuyahoga Arts & Culture Finances museums of , individual music For more than 100 years, our community We need to better understand how lessons at Baldwin Wallace, or school trips to REFLECTS AUDITED FINANCIALS FOR 2015 has made commitments to ensure we all can residents connect with arts and culture so experience live theater at , plug into arts and culture in that we can determine the my life was enriched by arts & culture nearly every ways that feel comfortable ISSUE 8 PASSES best way to serve you. day. Those early exposures led me to pursue the to us – or push us out of our Our connection to the arts as a career, and they built my expectation that comfort zones. THANK YOU, VOTERS! community and to each great cities are defined by the arts and cultural institutions – and artists – in their midst. I was drawn One of the largest other through arts and back to Cleveland to lead CAC so that I could give collective commitments to culture is undeniable, as Last year, Cuyahoga County something back to the community that helped mold arts in our community is again said “yes” to arts and you will see in the stories my understanding of what arts and culture mean to through Cuyahoga Arts & culture by overwhelmingly on the following pages. a community’s well-being. Culture (CAC). Since 2008, supporting Issue 8 – sending Through your support, we a clear message that our CAC has supported more are able to continue our region values creativity and JOSEPH P. GIBBONS than 300 organizations with connection. This renewal support of arts and culture PRESIDENT, BOARD OF TRUSTEES $140 million in tax dollars. provides CAC with 10 more organizations in Cuyahoga In November 2015, voters years to invest millions in the County so they can help I’ve been a resident of Cuyahoga County for roughly renewed that support for local arts community while individuals reconnect with 50 years, and part of what my family and I love about an additional 10 years — supporting thousands of their pasts, reimagine living here is the variety of arts and culture activities cultural events each year. that are available throughout the year. Whether it’s but our work isn’t done. their futures, discover enjoying our world-class orchestra, museums or the As we move forward, something new about many wonderful theaters at and we will focus our work on listening to themselves, and make the community a around the County; a gallery walk at the Studios residents throughout Cuyahoga County. better place for all of us. at 78th Street; or hearing children sing at a CAC Board meeting, the arts and culture experiences in Cuyahoga County are an important reason we have chosen to make our home in Lakewood.

PRESIDENT, BOARD OF TRUSTEES BACKGROUND A high school musician finds the groove at Cleveland School of the Arts.

PHOTO COURTESY OF CLEVELAND SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

CEO + EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

REPORT FROM THE COMMUNITY 1 IT WAS AN ALL-OUT AMAZING JOURNEY – I NEVER THOUGHT A MUSEUM WOULD BE LIKE THIS. Ata Farah CLEVELAND

When 12-year-old Ata Farah, a student at Buhrer Dual Language Academy in Cleveland, heard he was going to a museum for a field trip, he had one thought: BORING! That was until he stepped foot into the Crawford Auto-Aviation Collection Museum.

The Museum features two floors of red Chevy Chevelle for a ride. It will entrepreneurs. Ata became Theodore classic cars, planes, and the gondola become Ata’s when he’s old enough Kundtz, the first entrepreneur to from a Goodyear blimp. His favorite to drive, and the pair have worked make car bodies, and put together a vehicle? The 1981 DeLorean DMC-12, together to restore it. The Crawford plan for a company he invented called the first DeLorean model produced. Museum’s Youth Entrepreneurship “Autobots.” The program allowed Ata “It was an all-out amazing journey program, supported by CAC, naturally to connect his family’s love of cars through the cars,” Ata says. “I never appealed to Ata’s interests. with a possible future career. thought a museum would be like this.” During the program, Ata’s “Not all kids can have this Ata’s love of cars runs deep, class learned about the economy, experience. The whole thing was thanks to his dad, Rod Farah. On Cleveland-made classic cars, the amazing. Now I know how the old the weekends, they go to classic car roots of the industry in Northeast days were,” Ata says. “I’m going to shows or take Rod’s 1975 fire-engine , and role-played as industrial era collect cars when I get older.”

2 CUYAHOGA ARTS & CULTURE ARTS IN OUR CREATIVE LEARNING COMMUNITY Funding from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture supports education and learning opportunities for all ages. From field trips to museums to student programming and distance learning at senior centers, CAC helps connect Cuyahoga County residents with programs that offer education for everyone.

CHILDREN were served by CAC-supported 1,478,000 programming

CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS offered throughout the 19,426 county in the past year

INTERNSHIPS AND APPRENTICESHIPS made possible through support 647 from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture

RESIDENTS attended classes and workshops in Cuyahoga County GREAT LAKES 366,192 SCIENCE CENTER

CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART PICTURED ABOVE Ata’s letter to Jennifer Graham, a Museum Educator at the Western Reserve Historical Society. DOAN BROOK WATERSHED PHOTOS BY TIM HARRISON PARTNERSHIP

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REPORT FROM THE COMMUNITY 3 ARTS IN OUR I tell the ladies that drumming and dancing are not actually ENRICHING LIVES COMMUNITY what I teach. I teach life. I teach it through the drums. Each year, Cuyahoga Arts & Culture connects SISTER YVETTA ELEY residents to tens of thousands of events and programs that take place throughout Cuyahoga County. These offerings enrich our quality of life by bringing people together to celebrate the things that make Cuyahoga County a unique place to live. For all the latest, visit ClevelandArtsEvents.com.

PEOPLE SERVED by CAC-funded 6,866,305 organizations

MORE VISITORS AND RESIDENTS reached by CAC groups than in the previous year 926,624 On Thursdays, a group of women at Community Assessment and Treatment

FREE ADMISSION Services, Inc. (C.A.T.S.) in the Broadway / Slavic Village neighborhood gather in a FOR ATTENDEES of programming supported circle and drum. They drum to meditate. They drum to connect with their sisters. by Cuyahoga Arts & Culture 50% They drum to balance their bodies. They drum to focus on recovery.

VOLUNTEERS At the center is Sister Yvetta Eley tool to help in their recovery. it’s the sisterhood of the members CLEVELAND donated their time to help connect more of Shaker Heights, a statuesque “I teach them how to develop in the circle and Sister Yvetta’s MUSEUM people with the arts woman who wears flowing white themselves and their character,” she words that heal her soul. “I figured OF ART 25,000 clothes to match her flowing locks says. “I just happen to do it through out that I could love myself without of hair. A grandmother to 18, a great- drumming and dancing.” having anyone love me. The fact that grandmother to 11, and a mother Jessica Farrell, a member of the I could find happiness in something figure to the hundreds of women drum circle, says that it helps her as simple as a drum speaking to me who have participated in the “Rejoice focus on her recovery. “For me, it’s is awesome. She helps us be able to in Recovery” women’s drum circle, a form of meditation. It helps me better ourselves and our recovery. Sister Yvetta knows the power of relax my mind and think about what The emotions we have when we are music. She teaches the women that I need to think about,” she says. together are just awesome.” BECK CENTER when they’re playing the drums “Sister Yvetta teaches you to love As for Sister Yvetta, she gains just using their right and left hands, it yourself and not let other people as much as her students do through balances the synapses in the brain. get you down. It’s very helpful.” the drum circle, which is sponsored For women whose drug of choice Delilah Boudreau participates by the Broadway School of Music slowed their natural rhythm, playing because it makes her feel better. “It and Arts, a CAC cultural partner. CLEVELAND CULTURAL the drum forces them to keep up. For gives me a sense of peace, and it’s “I learn as much as I teach, if not MALTZ MUSEUM OF GARDENS those whose drug of choice sped a way of keeping me motivated,” more,” she says. “It makes me feel JEWISH HERITAGE FEDERATION them up, they have to slow to match Delilah says. While the synchronized good when I lay my head on my pillow the group’s rhythm. Drumming is a rhythms of the drum focus her mind, at night that I make a difference.”

4 CUYAHOGA ARTS & CULTURE ART MAKES YOUR LIFE SO MUCH BRIGHTER AND BIGGER — IT CONNECTS YOU TO YOUR PAST. Vera Yudovina SOLON

For the past 17 years, Vera Yudovina has lived in Solon, Ohio, but she grew up in St. Petersburg, Russia. Her grandfather, a professional artist named Solomon Iudovin, died before she was born, yet through his woodcut works, she got to know about him.

It was through “The Way We Were: 100-year-old images were misplaced Growing up in Russia, the arts Photographs of Shtetl Life,” a 2015 for decades, and neither Vera nor her were always important to Vera’s exhibit of Russian images presented family members had ever seen them. family, with her parents taking her to by the Jewish Federation’s Cleveland When she read that the visit the fine museums in Leningrad. It Israel Arts Connection and supported photographs were coming to North is a passion that has passed from her by CAC, that Vera made a connection America for the first time, Vera called grandfather to Vera, and from Vera to another part of Solomon’s life – the the Jewish Federation of Cleveland to her children and grandchildren. years he spent photographing the to tell them she, Solomon’s only “Art makes your life so much brighter daily social, educational, and cultural granddaughter, was living in Cleveland. and bigger,” she says. “In the case traditions in pre-Revolutionary She rushed to take her children and of my grandfather’s photography, it Russia’s Pale of Settlement. The grandchildren to see the exhibit. connects you to your past.”

PICTURED AT RIGHT SELECTIONS FROM SOLOMON IUDOVIN’S IMAGES FEATURED IN THE EXHIBIT

REPORT FROM THE COMMUNITY 5 WHEN PEOPLE COME HERE, THEY SHARE A COMMON THREAD. ARTS LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD. Steve Presser CLEVELAND HEIGHTS

The arts have been a big part of Steve Presser’s life. The owner of Big Fun toy store and a lifelong Cleveland Heights resident, Steve is married to an artist and loves to take in live music in Coventry Village and around the region.

The arts also enrich the lives of business benefits for local merchants. Through accessible to all,” Steve says. “If we owners and visitors to Coventry. its Summer Series, supported in have 10 people or 10,000, we make That’s why Steve works with other part by CAC, residents and visitors an impact through our programming.” businesses as part of the Coventry experience activities ranging from Steve says the series has an Village Special Improvement District live music and exhibitions to outdoor undeniable local economic benefit. “It to bring free cultural experiences to movies and yoga in the park. brings people out to appreciate what residents and guests each summer. “The series brings together people the business community has done to The Coventry Village Special who share a common belief that bring life to the commercial district. Improvement District enriches the life is better because of the arts. Our hope is that they will shop at a quality of life for residents, celebrates Not everyone can afford to go to a local business, grab a milkshake or a the community’s artistic talents, movie, see a band, or listen to poetry sandwich when they come out to a attracts visitors and creates economic reading. The key is for it to be free and movie or a performance.”

6 CUYAHOGA ARTS & CULTURE I like the feel of arts community here; you feel like you are part of something. People are doing cool things and you can be a part of it. VIBRANT COMMUNITIES Through grants, Cuyahoga Arts & Culture helps PATTY EDMONSON cultural institutions of all sizes become resilient so they can continue to adapt and change to the needs of residents – and make an impact on the local economy. Visitors from down the street and across the globe enjoy our world-class arts and culture. In fact, companies based in cite Cuyahoga County’s vibrant cultural offerings as key to attracting and retaining talented employees.

SPENT IN TOTAL by CAC-funded $383,789,115 organizations

IN TOTAL SALARY paid out by $158,565,415 these groups

Patty Edmonson is the Museum Advisory Council Curator of Costume and Textiles at the Cleveland History Center, EMPLOYEES IN which is supported by CAC. Patty has worked at some of the largest museums in the world, but her heart has always NORTHEAST OHIO work for organizations 10,000 that receive CAC funds been connected to Cleveland. She returned to give residents a glimpse into the fabric of Northeast Ohio’s history.

REGIONAL ARTISTS READ THE REST OF HER STORY AND SEE MORE AT REPORT.CACGRANTS.ORG Named Creative Workforce Fellows by the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture, with CAC support VERB 122 BALLET

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ARTS FOR ALL NORTHEAST OHIO

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REPORT FROM THE COMMUNITY 7 210 total

In 2016, Cuyahoga Arts & Culture Larchmere PorchFest Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra is funding 210 organizations Latino Arts and Culture Celebration Cleveland POPS Orchestra (Julia de Burgos Cultural Arts Center) based in Cuyahoga County. Cleveland TOPS Swingband 2016 CULTURAL PARTNERS Love the eARTh Festival Cleveland Women’s Orchestra (Arts for All Northeast Ohio) Contemporary Youth Orchestra Music at the Market (North Union Farmers Market) Arts Services Good Company: A Vocal Ensemble Ohio City Street Festival (Ohio City Inc.) Community Partnership for Arts and Culture Lake Erie Ink: a writing space for youth Heights Chamber Orchestra One World Day Foundation for New Creative Projects Lexington Bell Community Center (Cleveland Cultural Gardens Federation) Les Délices ICA - Art Conservation May Dugan Center Rooms to Let: CLE (Slavic Village Development) Local 4 Music Fund Northeast Shores Development Corp. Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory Shaker Heights Arts & Music Festival M.U.S.i.C. and Educational Foundation (Shaker Arts Council) Music and Art at Trinity Cathedral Dance Negative Space Gallery & Studio Southeast Cleveland Arts & Jazz NO EXIT DANCECleveland NewBridge Cleveland Center (Union Miles Development Corp.) North Coast Men’s Chorus for Arts & Technology Dancing Wheels Sparx City Hop ( Alliance) Opera Circle Notre Dame College DuffyLit Summer Arts & Entertainment Series Quire Cleveland Omega Psi Phi GroundWorks DanceTheater (Kamm’s Corners Development Corp.) Singing Angels Open Doors Academy Inlet Dance Theatre Thyagaraja Festival (Aradhana Committee) Suburban Symphony Orchestra Pink Tutu Outreach Company MorrisonDance Tremont Arts & Cultural Festival (Merrick House) Symphony West Orchestra Progressive Arts Alliance Verb Ballets Unity in the Community (St. Malachi Center) The Cleveland Orchestra Rainey Institute Ward 5 Community Family Festival The Singers’ Club of Cleveland Reaching Heights (Burten, Bell, Carr Development) Education The West Shore Chorale Roots of American Music Warehouse District Street Festival America SCORES Cleveland Scenarios USA (Historic Warehouse District Development Corp.) Art House Nature & Science Shore Cultural Centre WOW! Wade Oval Wednesdays Art Therapy Studio (University Circle Inc.) Cleveland Botanical Garden StandUP! For Change Artistic By Design Center Cleveland Museum of Natural History The Music Settlement Baldwin Wallace University History & Cultural Heritage Doan Brook Watershed Partnership The Musical Theater Project BAYarts Baseball Heritage Museum Great Lakes Science Center The Parma Area Fine Arts Council Beck Center for the Arts Beachwood Historical Society Green Triangle The Roberto Ocasio Foundation Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging Bedford Historical Society Lake Erie Nature & Science Center Thea Bowman Center Cleveland Contemporary Chinese Nature Center at Shaker Lakes Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland University Hospitals Health System Broadway School of Music and the Arts Culture Association Valley Art Center Cleveland Museum Theater Brooklyn Heights Service Clubs West Side Catholic Center Cleveland Restoration Society Brecksville Theater on the Square Building Bridges West Side Community House , Inc. Historic Gateway Neighborhood Corp. Cassidy Theatre Carolyn L. Farrell Foundation for Brain Health Fairs & Festivals Lakewood Historical Society Cesear’s Forum Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage Chagrin Valley Little Theatre Case Western Reserve University A Day at the Chalet (Arts In Strongsville) National Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame Cleveland Play House Catholic Charities, Fatima Center Art Walks (Little Italy Redevelopment Corp.) Center for Arts-Inspired Learning Community Artistic Journeys Concert Series (Berea Arts Fest) Development Corp. Chagrin Arts Cleveland Shakespeare Festival Arts in August Restore Cleveland Hope Chagrin Valley Rec Center convergence-continuum (Tremont West Development Corp.) Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Children’s Museum of Cleveland Dobama Theatre Brite Winter Festival Schuhplattler und Trachtenverein Bavaria City Ballet of Cleveland Ensemble Theatre Cedar Fairmount Summer Festival Shaker Historical Society School of Cleveland Ballet (Cedar Fairmount Business District) Ukrainian Museum-Archives Cleveland Comedy Festival Chagrin Documentary Film Festival Heights Youth Theatre Western Reserve Historical Society Cleveland Institute of Art Cleveland Asian Festival (OCA Cleveland) Mamai Theatre Company Westlake Chinese School Cleveland Institute of Music Cleveland International Film Festival Mercury Theatre Company Woodland Cemetery Foundation Cleveland Leadership Center Clifton Arts and MusicFest Plus Cleveland Print Room (Cudell Improvement) Music Playhouse Square Cleveland Rape Crisis Center Coventry Village Summer Series Talespinner Children’s Theatre (Coventry Village Special Improvement District) Apollo’s Fire Cleveland Treatment Center Theater Ninjas EarthFest (Earth Day Coalition) Arts Renaissance Tremont Cleveland UMADAOP UpStage Players Festival of New Works BlueWater Chamber Orchestra Dancing Classrooms Northeast Ohio (Friends of Cleveland School of the Arts) Cavani String Quartet Eliza Bryant Village Visual & Media Arts Front Porch Concert Series (LakewoodAlive) ChamberFest Cleveland Famicos Foundation Artists Archives of the Western Reserve Gordon Square Performing Arts Fest Choral Arts Society of Cleveland Family Connections (Detroit Shoreway Community Bellaire Puritas Development Corp. CityMusic Cleveland Foluke Cultural Arts Center Development Organization) Cleveland Blues Society Golden Ciphers Urban Film Festival HeightsArts Cleveland Chamber Collective Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers Halloran Park Summer Arts Series ideastream (Westown Community Development Corp.) Cleveland Chamber Music Society Hospice of the Western Reserve Jewish Federation of Cleveland Heights Music Hop (FutureHeights) Cleveland Chamber Symphony Jewish Family Service Association LAND studio Hungarian Scout Festival Cleveland Classical Guitar Society Jones Road Family Development Corp. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (American Hungarian Friends of Scouting) Cleveland International Piano Competition Joyful Noise Music School SPACES IngenuityFest (Ingenuity Cleveland) Cleveland Jazz Orchestra The Sculpture Center Jewish FilmFest Cleveland Opera Theater Kulture Kids (Mandel Jewish Community Center of Cleveland) Zygote Press

8 CUYAHOGA ARTS & CULTURE In 2015, Cuyahoga Arts & Culture funded 194 organizations based in Cuyahoga CREATIVITY County. Those organizations offered programs in nearly every community – helping to ensure that all residents have access to arts and culture IMPACTS OUR close to home. In 2015, these organizations offered activities in more than 1,200 unique locations in Cuyahoga County – COMMUNITY including schools, libraries, senior centers, theaters, parks, hospitals and neighborhood streets.

PICTURED BELOW The Cleveland Museum of Art’s 26th annual Chalk Festival draws a diverse array of residents to the sidewalks of University Circle.

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART COVER IMAGERY BY JANET CENTURY Bulkley Building I CAN’T TAKE CREDIT FOR 1501 Euclid Ave., Suite 407 Cleveland, Ohio 44115 THE IDEA, I ALWAYS KNEW 216.515.8303 [email protected] Omid Tavakoli VISUAL ARTIST AND cacgrants.org IT WAS HERE. GARDEN DIRECTOR CuyahogaArtsandCulture The Waterloo Sculpture Garden hosts a CuyArtsC wide range of community events in Cleveland’s neighborhood. From rain barrel CuyArtsC

painting to free yoga classes, each event brings CACgrants together area residents to create and connect. Cuyahoga Arts & Culture’s mission is to This project was co-funded by Cuyahoga Arts inspire and strengthen the community & Culture and Neighborhood Connections. by investing in arts and culture.

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