The City Artists built
Helping Artists Navigate Their Way Home
Creative Compass
Cleveland, Ohio. While not everyone realizes it, the city is home to one of the largest concentrations of artists in the country. Greater Cleveland’s diverse group of over 100 arts and culture organizations, plentiful industrial warehouses, distinct neighborhoods, and low cost-of-living produce an extraordinary quality of life that has drawn a massive concentration of artists to live and work in Northeast Ohio.
At the same time, Cleveland has a nationally recognized network of high-quality community development professionals. Every day, these individuals are working to revitalize the neighborhoods that give our city and our region its unique character.
But CPAC believes that we can do even more to position the city as a national creative hub and an urban laboratory for reinventing “Rust Belt” cities through arts and culture. In 2007, we launched Creative Compass, a multi-year initiative to increase artists’ access to affordable home and business space and to make them more active partners in revitalizing our urban neighborhoods. In the coming years, Creative Compass will educate artists about obtaining affordable space and will educate community development professionals about the unique roles artists can play as neighborhood residents.
Through an innovative series of programming, in partnership with Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC), CPAC has launched a new conversation about how Cleveland, and other cities in the industrial Midwest, can serve their artist communities … and how artists can revolutionize how we think of industrial cities.
From Rust Belt to Artist Belt II
Thank you for making From Rust Belt to Artist Belt II a success!
On Sept. 17th and 18th, 2009, CPAC brought together a group of community developers, artists, arts administrators and policy makers to explore how formally industrial cities are using artist-based community development to change the stories being told about their communities.
The event was held in Cleveland's Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood, which gave attendees an opportunity to see artist-based community development firsthand and to visit neighborhood institutions, including Cleveland Public Theatre, 78th Street Studios, the historic Arcade and the newly renovated Capitol Theatre.
Below are available materials from the conference:
Morning Keynote
Speaker: Ralf Ebert
Ebert-PowerPoint Presentation
Ebert-Opening Keynote Audio
Engaging Artists and Harnessing Your Community's Creative Assets
Speaker: Judilee Reed
Reed-Handout 1-Space for Change Program Info
Reed-Handout 2-Overview of LINC
Stories from the Trenches: Artists and Homebuyer Readiness Speaker: Matthew Galluzzo
Galluzzo-PowerPoint Presentation
Blurring the Line: Zoning for Artists
Speakers: Robert Brown, Brian Fabo, and Cliff Hershman
Brown-PowerPoint Presentation
Fabo-PowerPoint Presentation
Dancing Under the Factory Light: Legal Issues of Performing in Non-Traditional Spaces
Speaker: Terry Schwarz
Schwarz-PowerPoint Presentation
Schwarz-Handout 1- Considering an Alternative Venue?
What's Behind the Walls?
Speakers: Alenka Banco, Michael Fleenor, and Marcia Nolan
Nolan-Handout 1
Working the Numbers for Retail and Industrial Spaces
Speaker: Greg Handberg
Handberg-Handout 1-Artspace Project Portfolio 2009
Working the Numbers for Residential and Small Spaces
Speaker: Esther Robinson
Robinson-Handout 1-Credit Basics
Robinson-Handout 2-Homebuying Overview
Robinson-Handout 3-Homebuying Resources
Charrette: Where do we go from here?
Charrette Audio
Secrets of Finding and Keeping Great Spaces
Speaker: Jeffrey Kipp
Kipp-PowerPoint Presentation
Reusing the Rust Belt
Speakers: Chris Kious, Jeff Krejci, and Roseann Weiss
Weiss-Handout 1-Plenty of Space for the Arts Article
Weiss-Handout 2-FactSheet
The Gentrification Paradox
Speaker: Dharmena Downey
Downey-Handout 1-HD-OD summary
Downey-Handout 2-Snapshot
We're All in it Together!
Speakers: Cindy Barber, Brian Friedman, and Sarah Gyorki
Gyorki-Handout 1-Brochure
Closing Panel: Reflections from Detroit-Shoreway
Speakers: Raymond Bobgan, Danielle DeBoe, Stephanie Hrbek, Jeffrey Ramsey, and Matt Zone
DeBoe-Handout 1-Room Service
Hrbek-Handout 1-Flyer
Closing Panel Audio
For information on the first From Rust Belt to Artist Belt summit, please click here.
To learn more about the strengths and challenges the industrial midwest faces with this creative compass initiative, please view the information presented in CPAC's white paper available here.
Brought to you with generous support from:
Charter One Bank, Continental Airlines, Dominion, Fifth Third Bank, Ford Foundation, Key Bank, Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC), & Ohio Arts Council (OAC).
Additional support from:
The Cleveland Foundation, Cuyahoga Arts and Culture, The George Gund Foundation, The John P. Murphy Foundation, The Kulas Foundation and The Thomas H. White Foundation.
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