Wed 11/15 @ 4PM
If you’re in the arts & culture community in northeast Ohio in any capacity, you should try to make it to the quarterly board meeting of Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, the organization tasked with distributing the money raised by the county arts tax.
If you’ve been reading our stories on CoolCleveland.com or read arts supporter/philanthropist Fred Bidwell’s editorial in The Plain Dealer Sunday 11/12, you know that the artist community has been accusing CAC of lack of transparency, putting out confusing information and neglecting the actual creators. With a renewal of the arts tax, which expires in 2027, looming, it’s become crucial that as many people as possibly following what’s going on and demand clear answers.
One way to show that you have your eyes on the situation is to show up at CAC’s board meeting, where they’ll also be announcing their 2024 grant recipients. These meetings are typically attended by only a handful of artists and people who work for arts organizations. Yes, they don’t make it easy, holding it in the middle of the week, during the workday, in the Stokes Wing of the downtown Cleveland Public Library, where you’ll have to pay for parking. But go anyway if you can get off work a little earlier. Questions will never be answered if people aren’t asking.
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