Fri 3/4 @ 5:15PM
Cleveland’s Collinwood neighborhood is in the middle of something called the Ballot Box Project. It’s a grant program that is offering artists awards of up to $15,000 to create neighborhood art projects in the areas of health eating, youth engagement, vacancy and Collinwood history – and the winners are voted on by people who live and work in Collinwood.
The projects have been submitted and their creators have been out campaigning for the last month. Voting takes place Fri 3/4-Sun 3/6 and it all kicks off with a parade called Democracy on the Move to encourage residents to come out and participate. The parade kicks off at 5:15pm at the Collinwood Recreation Center of Lakeshore Boulevard and ends up at the Slovenian Workman’s Home on Waterloo Road where voting with begin.
Participants who have submitted projects will be looking to draw attention to themselves so you should see some really splashy creative things. For instance, we already know (because he’s told us) that Loren Naji of the Satellite Gallery designed and built a seven-foot diameter spherical drum set called “Global Beat” which will be on a traveling trailer. He’ll be playing it from the inside while other drummers play on the outside.
It’s also the evening of the monthly Walk All Over Waterloo, which will also mark the opening of the long-awaited Six Shooter Coffee and Brick Ceramics‘ gallery space. The Maria Neil Art Project will be opening a show of new work by Darius Steward which you can read about here.
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