The 65-year-old Cleveland Arts Price, which recognizes Northeast Ohio artists and people contributing to the support of the Northeast Ohio arts and culture scene has announced the winners of its 2025 prizes. It will formally recognize the winners at the CAP Awards Ceremony on October 22 at Tri-C East’s Mandel Theatre. (Go here for tickets.)
Artist prizes include multimedia artist Mark E. Howard, with the Lifetime Achievement Award for Visual Art; Grammy-winning classical guitarist, Jason Vieaux, who built an international career while based in Cleveland with the Mid-Career Artist prize for music; and writer/poet Ali Black with the Emerging Artist Award for Literature.
Special prizes include a Board of Trustees Special Citation for noted architectural photographer Jennie Jones, who captures the changes in Cleveland’s built landscape over 50 years; the Barbara S. Robinson Prize for the Advancement of the Arts to the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation for leadership and philanthropic support of arts and culture institutions; the Robert P. Bergman Prize to Greg Peckham, a longtime champion of public art and urban design who served as executive director of LAND studio for two decades and currently works for the Cuyahoga Valley Land Conservancy; and the Martha Joseph Prize for Distinguished Service to the Arts to playwright/actor/educator Robin Pease, a member of the Mohawk Nation and founding artistic director of Kulture Kids, focusing on culturally diverse storytelling.
For more information on the winners go to clevelandartsprize.org.