Cleveland has a new arts alliance with a new leader
Jeremy V. Johnson
A new nonprofit organization launching in June that aims to build a model to serve all of Cleveland s arts community has named the person who will lead the effort.
The group is called Assembly for the Arts, and on Monday morning, May 10, it announced it has selected Jeremy V. Johnson, a Cleveland native and most recently executive director of Newark Arts in New Jersey, as its leader. Johnson was chosen after a national search.
Assembly for the Arts is the result of more than a year of planning by Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, Arts Cleveland, and the Arts and Culture Action Committee, with support from the Cleveland Foundation and the George Gund Foundation. In a news release, the groups said their goal was the create an organization that would serve the entire creative sector: artists, nonprofits and creative businesses. On its website, Assembly for the Arts describes itself as having a focus on advocacy and cu
$3 million Mandel Foundation gift will support Western Reserve Historical Society library renovation
The library of the Western Reserve Historical Society.
WRHS in a news release on Wednesday, Jan. 13, said the gift will enable the organization to continue the physical and cultural transformation of the Cleveland History Center, which is its main campus and headquarters. The library, a 64,000-square-foot, four-story building completed in 1983, houses an expansive collection of published materials, including 250,000 books, 25,000 newspapers, and numerous maps, sheet music, broadsides and printed ephemera, WRHS said in the release. The organization s unpublished manuscript collections of personal papers and records, photographs, and audio and video recordings are available for research to students, scholars and the general public.