Cuyahoga Arts & Culture awards grants to Heights organizations

Heights Music Hop is one of several local projects that will be funded in 2014 through a Cuyahoga Arts & Culture project support grant. Photo by Robert Mueller.

On Nov. 18, Cuyahoga Arts & Culture (CAC) announced that it will invest $1,891,902 in grants to 139 arts and culture organizations in Cuyahoga County next year. The grant awards include $110,623 to eight Heights-based organizations. 

“Cuyahoga County residents demonstrated extraordinary support for our county’s arts and cultural heritage in 2006 when they approved a dedicated source of public funds for creative activities in our community,” said Sari Feldman, president of the CAC Board of Trustees. “Cuyahoga Arts & Culture takes our responsibility to invest those dollars in exceptional arts and cultural organizations very seriously. Our goal is to support the regional economy through strategic investment in a vibrant arts community.”

CAC made the grants through its 2014 Project Support (PSI and PSII) and its 2014 Project Support for Units of Government programs. These project-specific awards go to organizations that conduct specific arts or cultural programs to benefit the community.

Larger organizations received PSI grants. Among them were three Heights-based organizations: ChamberFest Cleveland, which received $20,154 for its Summer Chamber Music Festival; CityMusic Cleveland, which received $48,000 for its project "Fleeing"; and Ensemble Theatre, which received $20,517 to present “A Harlem Renaissance in Cleveland.”

Five Heights organizations received PSII grants of up to $5,000. They are the Cedar Fairmount Special Improvement District, which received $4,072 for its Discover Cedar Fairmount Festival; FutureHeights, which received $4,515 for the 2014 Heights Music Hop; Lake Erie Ink, which received $4,400 for its Creativity Express program; Reaching Heights, which received $4,550 for the Heights Summer Music Camp; and Western Reserve Chorale, which received $4,415 for the presentation of Mozart’s Requiem.

The City of Cleveland Heights received $16,968 for the 2014 Cain Park Arts Festival.

The CAC was approved by Cuyahoga County voters in 2006 and, since 2007, it has invested more than $97 million dollars in 237 local organizations presenting arts and cultural activities in Cuyahoga County. For more information, visit www.cacgrants.org.

Deanna Bremer Fisher

Deanna Bremer Fisher is executive director of FutureHeights and publisher of the Heights Observer.

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Volume 6, Issue 12, Posted 11:20 AM, 11.26.2013