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Art Bomb Brigade Working to Give a Face Lift to Downtown Akron
Featured AudioA massive mural with an environmental theme was unveiled Thursday night on an old industrial wall in downtown Akron. It's the the fourth installment of an art program designed to deliver...
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Popular and Influential Arts Educator Franny Taft Dies
Featured AudioInfluential Northeast Ohio arts educator Frances Taft has died at the age of 95. Better known as "Franny" to her friends and colleagues, Taft gave several generations of artists a firm...
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Art by the Falls and Music Crawl in Chagrin Falls
Chagrin Arts continues its 2017 Performing Arts Series on Saturday June 10 from 6-10 pm with its 4th annual Music Crawl, presented in part by the Chagrin Valley Chamber of Commerce. This free event...
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Neighborhood Walks Are a Showcase of Urban Redesign Ideas
Featured AudioSome test cases in grassroots urban planning are on display in several Cleveland neighborhoods this week. It's part of a series of events sponsored by the American Planning Association....
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Clevelanders Line Up To Be Painted By 'Pretentious Artists'
Featured AudioIn a time when anyone can snap a picture on a smart phone some Northeast Ohioans are getting their pictures taken the old-fashioned way. Once a week for the past decade, the Pretentious...
View ArticleCommon Ground; SPAR Veteran; Chief of Staff Shakeup; Pretentious Artists
Body: We recap The Cleveland Foundation's Common Ground event; meet a 102-year-old Coast Guard SPAR veteran; discuss the White House's Chief of Staff shakeup and the possible impact on Richard...
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Who Maintains Aging Public Art?
Featured AudioNortheast Ohio is overflowing with public art, from bronze heroes on horses, to enormous murals on bridges, to an outsized rubber stamp. These eye-catching additions to the local...
View ArticleAkron Art Museum's Find A Face
Body: Have you ever heard the term "pareidolia"? It describes the tendency to see faces in inanimate objects like a teapot or an electrical outlet. The human brain, in fact, seeks to find patterns and...
View ArticleCuyahoga County Wants Libraries To Help Residents Get A Leg Up
Body: Fairly soon, you'll be able to get a lot more than books, CD's and DVD's at your local library.Following up on an idea floated by County Executive Armond Budish during this spring's state of the...
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Arts Access and Community Health
Featured AudioIf you live in Cleveland Heights, then you have access to dozens of arts events and nearby cultural institutions. But in many urban and suburban neighborhoods throughout Northeast Ohio,...
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Body: Bridges That Bridge aims to connect the Campus District to Cleveland's Central Neighborhood through art; residents on both sides of the bridge join together to paint a mural on the overpass and...
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Cuts in Cuyahoga Arts & Culture Funding Revealed
Featured AudioA record 257 arts and cultural organizations in Cuyahoga County will share nearly $12-million in funding from a cigarette tax, this coming year. Who gets what was announced in a public...
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Planning Group Proposes Changes in Public Funding of Artists
Featured AudioImagine the government paying you to be an artist. Since 2009, dozens of individual painters, poets and playwrights in Cuyahoga County have created art with the help of revenues from a...
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Stunning Paintings Show Threats to Great Lakes
By Dave RosenthalNew York artist Alexis Rockman describes his paintings of the Great Lakes as "natural history psychedelia." And just one look at the surreal, mural-size canvases -- bursting with color...
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Angry Cleveland Community Looks to Restore Popular Mural
Featured AudioEfforts are underway to restore a community mural that was vandalized on Cleveland's west side. The huge wall-painting which celebrates neighborhood residents was sprayed with graffiti...
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Proposals for Funding Cuyahoga County Artists Unveiled
Featured AudioCuyahoga County has won national acclaim for its system of supporting artists through a sales tax on cigarettes, but some critics are questioning just how that money gets distributed. In...
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FRONT Triennial Aims to Change Cleveland's Brand With Art
Featured AudioArtists from around the world are due to use Northeast Ohio as their gallery this summer. Photographers, painters, filmmakers and installation artists will create works that reflect on...
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Frank Oriti Paints His Generation
After artist Frank Oriti graduated from Bowling Green State University in 2007, he returned to his family home in Parma only to be greeted by the Great Recession."I really didn't have a plan or a clue...
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