Board of Trustees Meeting and Grants Announcement November 13, 2018 Cuyahoga Arts & Culture’s mission is to inspire and strengthen the community by investing in arts and culture. Cuyahoga Arts & Culture is pleased to invest more than $1.8 million in public funds to 221 organizations through our 2019 Project Support grant programs, as well as $10.2 million to 61 organizations through the 2018-19 General Operating Support program. The following pages detail the grant amounts. To connect with our cultural partners and thousands of cultural experiences each month, we invite you to visit our website ClevelandArtsEvents.com, or connect with us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Next Steps for Cultural Partners At Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, we see today’s announcement as the beginning or continuation of an important partnership. We look forward to providing opportunities and resources to help you strengthen your organization and serve your community, including learning and professional development workshops, continued technical assistance, access to use our comprehensive events calendar and job board at ClevelandArtsEvents.com, as well as crediting and marketing tools. Please look out for an email from your program manager which outlines next steps based on your program. Congratulations to all of our cultural partners! We look forward to working together in the months ahead. Sincerely, Jill Paulsen, interim ceo + executive director Roshi Ahmadian, identity & systems manager Cinthea Fields, communications intern Luis Gomez, program manager Meg Harris, director of administration Heather Johnson-Banks, program manager Dan McLaughlin, program manager India Pierre-Ingram, associate – communications & grant programs Jake Sinatra, manager – special projects & communications 2019 Grants The following organizations will receive funding through Cuyahoga Arts & Culture’s 2019 grant programs. Organization Grant Achievement Centers for Children $5,000 African American Museum* $4,000 America SCORES Cleveland $13,780 American Asian Pacific Islander Organization* $5,000 American Hungarian Friends of Scouting $12,152 Apollo's Fire Baroque Orchestra $100,916 Aradhana Committee $5,000 Art House $22,691 Art Therapy Studio $27,120 Artists Archives of the Western Reserve $23,140 Arts Cleveland $67,574 Arts in Strongsville $4,000 Arts Renaissance Tremont (ART) $4,000 Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities $5,000 Baldwin Wallace University $24,000 Baseball Heritage Museum $4,000 Bay Village Community Band $3,200 BAYarts $48,825 Beachwood Arts Council $4,000 Beachwood Historical Society $3,600 Beck Center for the Arts $134,721 Bellaire Puritas Development Corporation $4,200 Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging $5,000 Berea Arts Fest $5,713 Big Creek Connects* $1,900 Blazing River Freedom Band $2,130 Blue Streak Ensemble $4,000 Cuyahoga Arts & Culture: 2019 Grant Amounts 2 Organization Grant BlueWater Chamber Orchestra $13,671 BorderLight* $4,000 Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland $26,940 Brecksville Center for the Arts $4,000 Brite Cleveland $26,400 Broadview Heights Spotlights $4,000 Broadway School of Music and the Arts $18,933 Brooklyn Heights Service Clubs $4,000 Building Bridges Murals $11,671 Burning River Baroque $5,000 Burten, Bell, Carr Development $4,000 Campus District Inc. $3,200 Carolyn L. Farrell Foundation $4,000 Cassidy Theatre $18,760 Catholic Charities Diocese of Cleveland $5,000 Cedar Fairmount Special Improvement District $5,000 Celebrate the Arts Performance Academy* $4,000 Center for Arts-Inspired Learning $95,254 Cesear's Forum $4,000 Chagrin Arts $11,301 Chagrin Documentary Film Festival $25,260 Chagrin Valley Little Theatre $33,216 ChamberFest Cleveland $23,880 Choral Arts Cleveland $5,000 City Ballet of Cleveland $4,000 CityMusic Cleveland $26,340 Cleveland Association of Black Storytellers* $4,000 Cleveland Ballet $16,280 Cleveland Blues Society $4,000 Cuyahoga Arts & Culture: 2019 Grant Amounts 3 Organization Grant Cleveland Botanical Garden $239,395 Cleveland Chamber Choir* $4,000 Cleveland Chamber Collective $2,000 Cleveland Chamber Music Society $9,200 Cleveland Chamber Symphony $4,000 Cleveland Classical Guitar Society $18,566 Cleveland Clinic Foundation $5,000 Cleveland Composers Guild $5,000 Cleveland Contemporary Chinese Culture Association $22,561 Cleveland Cultural Gardens Federation $11,395 Cleveland Grays Armory Museum $4,000 Cleveland Hearing & Speech Center $5,000 Cleveland Inner City Ballet $4,000 Cleveland Institute of Art $529,101 Cleveland Institute of Music $557,817 Cleveland International Film Festival $151,303 Cleveland International Piano Competition $56,669 Cleveland Jazz Orchestra $31,740 Cleveland Leadership Center $5,000 Cleveland Museum of Art $977,345 Cleveland Museum of Natural History $470,869 Cleveland Opera Theater $25,740 Cleveland Play House $295,362 Cleveland POPS Orchestra $65,899 Cleveland Print Room $25,680 Cleveland Public Theatre $93,804 Cleveland Rape Crisis Center $5,000 Cleveland Restoration Society $70,478 Cleveland Rocks: Past Present and Future $5,000 Cuyahoga Arts & Culture: 2019 Grant Amounts 4 Organization Grant Cleveland School of the Arts Board of Trustees $18,080 Cleveland Seed Bank $5,000 Cleveland Shakespeare Festival $4,000 Cleveland TOPS Swingband $5,000 Cleveland Treatment Center $20,124 Cleveland Vegan Society $5,000 Cleveland West Art League $4,000 Cleveland Women's Orchestra $4,000 Collective Arts Network $14,508 CollectivExpress* $4,000 Connecting for Kids of Westlake OH $5,000 Contemporary Youth Orchestra $27,459 convergence-continuum $20,816 Coventry Village Special Improvement District $4,000 Cuyahoga County Public Library Foundation* $5,000 Cuyahoga River Restoration $4,000 DANCECleveland $55,304 DANCEVERT $5,000 Dancing Classrooms Northeast Ohio $4,305 Dancing Wheels $38,408 Djapo Cultural Arts Insitute $5,000 Doan Brook Watershed Partnership $25,892 Dobama Theatre $37,954 Donauschwaben German-American Cultural Center $3,180 Downtown Cleveland Alliance $26,280 DuffyLit $11,366 Dyngus Day Cleveland $4,000 Edward E. Parker Museum of Art* $4,000 Eliza Bryant Village $5,000 Cuyahoga Arts & Culture: 2019 Grant Amounts 5 Organization Grant Ensemble Theatre $13,463 Environmental Health Watch $25,920 Errin Ministries $5,000 Euclid Beach Park Now $4,000 Far West Center $5,000 FOCUS ON EDUCATION $4,000 Folknet $4,000 Foluke Cultural Arts $6,217 Friends of Euclid Creek $3,000 Friends of the East Cleveland Public Library $4,000 Friends of the McGaffin Carillon* $5,000 From Me 2 U $4,000 Front Steps Housing and Services $5,000 FrontLine Service $4,380 FutureHeights $5,000 German Music Society $1,800 Golden Ciphers $5,000 Good Company: A Vocal Ensemble $4,000 Gordon Square Arts District $26,040 Great Lakes Science Center $284,437 Great Lakes Theater Festival $188,395 Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers Association $26,400 Greater Cleveland Urban Film Foundation $11,362 Greater Expectations Intercontinental Sacred Arts Society* $5,000 Green Triangle $4,000 GroundWorks DanceTheater $44,743 Harvard Community Services Center $5,000 Heights Youth Theatre $12,142 Heights Arts $24,303 Cuyahoga Arts & Culture: 2019 Grant Amounts 6 Organization Grant Hispanic Alliance* $5,000 Hispanic Business Center $5,287 Historic Gateway Neighborhood Corporation $5,000 Historic Warehouse District Development Corporation $8,232 Hospice of the Western Reserve $26,760 ICA -Art Conservation $81,182 ideastream $642,871 India Fest USA* $4,000 Ingenuity $25,860 Inlet Dance Theatre $22,754 International Community Council $5,000 International Women's Air & Space Museum $5,000 Italian Cultural Garden* $5,000 Jennings Center for Older Adults $9,366 Jewish Family Service Association of Cleveland Ohio $5,000 Jewish Federation of Cleveland $20,963 Jones Road Family Development Corporation $12,644 Joyful Noise Neighborhood Music School $5,000 Judson $26,400 Julia De Burgos Cultural Arts Center $4,000 Kamm's Corners Development Corporation $4,000 Karamu House $83,447 Kulture Kids $15,177 Lake Erie Ink $25,027 Lake Erie Native American Council $5,000 Lake Erie Nature & Science Center $78,723 Lake View Cemetery Foundation $25,080 LakewoodAlive $5,000 LAND studio Cuyahoga Arts & Culture: 2019 Grant Amounts $161,334 7 Organization Grant Larchmere PorchFest $5,000 LatinUS Theater Company* $5,000 Les Délices $14,699 Lexington-Bell Community Center $14,110 LGBT Community Center Greater Cleveland $5,000 Literary Cleveland $12,151 Little Italy Redevelopment Corporation $2,400 Local 4 Music Fund $11,608 LYLESART $4,945 M.U.S.i.C. $6,880 Maelstrom Collaborative Arts $8,573 Malachi Center $3,600 Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage $126,368 Mandel JCC $24,960 May Dugan Center $5,000 Merrick House $4,000 MidTown Cleveland $5,000 Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory and Educational Foundation $27,771 MorrisonDance $5,000 Mt. Pleasant NOW Development Corporation $4,000 Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland $148,714 Music and Art at Trinity $18,710 Naach Di Cleveland $5,000 NAMI Greater Cleveland $5,000 Nature Center at Shaker Lakes $73,262 Near West Theatre $53,943 Negative Space Gallery $5,000 New Avenues to Independence $3,473 NewBridge Cleveland Center for Arts & Technology $27,660 Cuyahoga Arts & Culture: 2019 Grant Amounts 8 Organization Grant NO EXIT $5,000 Northcoast Men's Chorus $23,899 North Union Farmers Market $5,000 Notes for Notes* $5,000 OCA Cleveland $5,000 OhioGuidestone* $1,543 Old Brooklyn Community Development Corporation $5,000 One World Shop $3,000 Open Doors Academy $27,360 Open Tone Music $5,000 PALS for Healing $5,000 Parma Area Fine Arts Council $2,020 Playhouse Square $1,164,989 Playwrights Local $4,000 Polish Village Parma* $4,000 Praxis Fiber Workshop $10,219 Progressive Arts Alliance $49,534 Quire Cleveland $4,000 Rainey Institute $80,807 Reaching Heights $5,000 Refresh Collective* $5,000 Restore Cleveland Hope $4,000 Rid-All Green Partnership $5,000 Roberto Ocasio Foundation $4,000 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum $702,063 Rollin' Buckeyez* $4,000 Roots of American Music $22,370 Sankofa $5,000 School of Cleveland Ballet $23,100 Cuyahoga Arts & Culture: 2019 Grant Amounts 9 Organization Grant Shaker Arts Council $4,000 Shaker Heights Development Corporation $5,000 Shaker Historical Society $15,363 Shore Cultural Centre $6,717 Sixth City Sounds* $2,500 Slavic Village Development $10,575 Slovenian Museum and Archives $5,000 Soulcraft* $5,000 SPACES $34,962 Stellar Acrobatic Dance Academy* $4,000 STV Bavaria $4,000 Suburban Symphony Orchestra $3,992 Symphony West Orchestra $5,000 Talespinner Children's Theatre $15,749 The Brecksville Theater $9,701 The Children's Museum of Cleveland $57,742 The City Club of Cleveland $26,640 The Cleveland Opera $18,527 The Cleveland Orchestra $1,118,231 The Gathering Place $5,000 The Harvard Square Center $4,000 The Movement Project $5,000 The Music Settlement $175,529 The Musical Theater Project $39,554 The Sculpture Center $18,452 Singing Angels $33,343 Thea Bowman Center $5,000 Transformer Station $4,000 Tremont West Development Corporation $7,615 Cuyahoga Arts & Culture: 2019 Grant Amounts 10 Organization Grant Twelve Literary Arts* $4,800 UCI $23,948 Ukrainian Museum-Archives $11,437 Underground Classical $5,000 Union Miles Development Corporation $4,000 University Hospitals (UH) $26,580 UpStage Players $5,000 Ursuline College $16,760 Valley Art Center $33,372 Verb Ballets $37,282 Wake Up and Live's Actor's Studio* $5,000 Waterloo Arts $14,634 West Shore Chorale $5,000 West Side Catholic Center $5,000 West Side Community House $22,650 Western Reserve Fire Museum & Education Center $4,000 Western Reserve Historical Society $222,126 Western Reserve Land Conservancy* $4,000 Westlake Chinese School $4,000 Westown Community Development Corporation $5,000 Women in History* $2,000 Youth Challenge $5,000 Zygote Press $28,967 *Denotes first time CAC grant recipient. 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