[NEohioPAL] $20,000 Fellowships for Individual Artists Available

[Fran Storch]

January 15, 2009
Contact:  Valerie Schumacher

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
216.575.0331 x128; vls at cpacbiz.org

 


$20,000 Fellowships for Individual Artists Available


CPAC launches Creative Workforce Fellowship program


 

CLEVELAND - Professional artists who make their home in Cuyahoga Co.
will soon have a new prospect to further their careers through the
Creative Workforce Fellowship (CWF) program.  Artists who meet
eligibility requirements will have the opportunity to compete for
fellowships that each include:  a $20,000 financial award; membership in
the Council of Smaller Enterprises (COSE) Arts Network; a full tuition
waiver for Community Partnership for Arts and Culture (CPAC's) Artist as
an Entrepreneur Institute and inclusion in a publication of Fellows'
work. CPAC through the generous support from Cuyahoga Arts and Culture
will launch the newest of its artist-based programs beginning with a
series of five informational workshops to assist artists in learning
about the CWF's application process: The workshops are scheduled to be
held throughout the County on the following dates, times and locations: 

 

o   January 27, 2009 from 6:30-7:30pm at the Beck Center for the Arts in
Lakewood

o   January 31, 2009 from 9:30-10:30am at the East Cleveland Public
Library

o   February 7, 2009 from 9:30-10:30am at Pilgrim Congregational Church
in Tremont

o   February 10, 2009 from 6:30-7:30pm at the Cleveland Heights Public
Library

o   February 14, 2009 from 9:30-10:30am at Baldwin-Wallace College
Strosacker College Union, Berea

"The CWF purpose is to make a substantive investment in the workforce
that is central to the success of our community's creative and
idea-based economies and quality of life. Performing, visual, literary
and media artists are the professional workers that develop and drive
those types of 21st Century markets", said Tom Schorgl, president, CPAC.
"Our organization believes the more we can do to establish a supportive
environment that nurtures creativity and innovation the better it is for
Cleveland, Cuyahoga County and Northeast Ohio." 

CPAC will offer two cycles of the CWF program.  Each cycle is designed
to competitively award up to 20 fellowships. The current cycle is open
to visual, media, craft, design, and mixed-media artists who have lived
in Cuyahoga County for at least two years.  The second cycle to begin
this summer will be open to the County's music, theatre, dance,
literary, and interdisciplinary artists who have been residents for a
minimum of two years.  Detailed guidelines and application information
including all eligibility requirements can be found at:

 

http://www.cpacbiz.org/ftp_file/08-09/CreativeWorkforceFellowship.pdf

 

About CPAC

Community Partnership for Arts and Culture (CPAC) is a nonprofit arts
and culture service organization dedicated to the preservation and
advancement of Northeast Ohio's arts and culture sector.  CPAC is
focused on filling three functional gaps identified through Northeast
Ohio's Arts & Culture Plan:  capacity building, public policy and
research.  

 

For more information please visit http://www.cpacbiz.org/

 

Posted by:

Fran Storch

Beck Center for the Arts

Publications Manager

17801 Detroit Avenue

Lakewood, OH  44107

(216) 521-2540 x20

 

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