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
Jeremy Johnson returns to northeast Ohio to lead the new Assembly for the Arts.
Perhaps one of the best-kept secrets of greater Cleveland is the multi-billion dollar impact of arts and culture. A new organization, Assembly for the Arts, debuts next month and is looking to showcase that economic might by bringing local arts groups together to speak with one voice.
Assembly will be led by Jeremy Johnson, a former Northeast Ohio resident who’s returning home with some fresh ideas about the power of collaboration.
“We have all the right ingredients, but we need to sort of bust some silos, bring institutions together and make sure arts and culture are at the center of the conversations,” he said.
Cleveland artist Michelangelo Lovelace savored big-time art world success briefly before his death in April
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CLEVELAND, Ohio Big-time art world success came late for Cleveland painter Michelangelo Lovelace, and it was very sweet when it did. But he scarcely had time to savor it before his life was cut short last month by an illness.
One of the city’s most important artists of the past 35 years, and one of its leading African-American artists, Lovelace died April 26 at his home in Cleveland’s Cudell neighborhood at age 60 after a yearlong battle with pancreatic cancer, his widow, Shirley Lovelace, said. His funeral was held Wednesday.
2.3 million minutes of viewing and more: a by-the-numbers look at the 45th Cleveland International Film Festival
2,316,784 minutes.
That s how much time the audience for the 45th Cleveland International Film Festival known as CIFF45 Streams, because it took place virtually spent watching 117 feature films and 182 shorts films, representing 63 countries, over the festival s two-week online run from April 7-20.
CIFF said in a news release issued Wednesday morning, April 21, that viewers registered a total of 51,216 streams throughout the festival. CIFF assumes an average of two people watching any given stream, and therefore estimates there were more than 102,000 viewers for CIFF45 Streams. The festival says a stream is counted if at least 70% of the feature or short was viewed.