Dennis (CAP 2012) and Kathy (CAP 1998) Barrie have cre- ated museums “out of thin air” for nearly two decades. Starting with the Rock Hall, they have worked on the In- ternational Spy Museum, The Woodstock Museum and the Mob Museum in Las Vegas. While diverse in topics, locations and funding, all of these museums share similar backgrounds in that they were merely a concept when the Barrie’s became involved. None of them had collections, curators or staff. They were just ideas. How do you turn an idea into a reality, especially when the museum topic is shrouded in secrecy? The Barrie’s will explain all and give you a tour of their studio/residence. arts prize CLEVELAND fall201 2 The photographs in Garie Waltzer’s (CAP 2012) project LIVING CITY examine the contemporary cultural land- scape of urban spaces – places made and lived in over time. Filled with intimate details of street life while sharing sweep- ing views of the gestalt, they examine the structures, collec- tive narrative, and temporal multiplicity of urban space in cities across the globe. Please join Garie as she shares her ap- proaches to image making in an informal discussion in her Cleveland Heights home/studio. Visitors will see and discuss the hybrid mix of analog and digital methods she employs to produce her highly detailed, large, and compelling images. Arts Prize Live Events for 2012-13 Check out this line-up! Can’t decide? Come to all! Zygote Press opens its doors for an evening of inky fun and tours of the print shop. Watch Amy Casey (CAP 2009) as she puts the finish- ing touches on her newest print and talks about her work. Learn about Zygote’s unique programming, facilities and outreach efforts from co-founders Liz Maugans (CAP 2012) and Bellamy Printz (CAP 2012). “Conversations from the Harp” Tuesday, 7:00-9:00PM Isabel Trautwein (CAP 2012) will present the El Sistema@Rain- ey String Orchestra program for 50 Cleveland students, ages 6-12. The Ensembles will present a special program honoring Martin Luther King Jr. at the Rainey Institute. You will not want to miss this very special event and opportunity to tour the facility, meet Isabel, the El Sistema teaching staff, the students and their families. Tickets for all Arts Prize Live Events are $20. Space at each event is limited; 20-40 people, depending on the venue. To purchase a ticket, please send a check to: Cleveland Arts Prize, PO Box 21126, Cleveland, OH 44121 To reserve a space for an event, please email [email protected]. It is not possible to purchase a ticket to these events on our website! 10.25.12 10.30.12 01.30.13 01.17.13 02.06.13 Zygote Press Printmaking Extravaganza Thursday, 6:00-8:30PM Yolanda Kondonassis (CAP 2011) will play and talk about the harp while you experience the space and see the beau- tiful vistas of Robert Maschke’s (CAP 2011) contemporary C-house, which he designed and built in 2008. (Only a few tickets left. Please email if you are interested!) Reception, Tour, and Concert at Rainey Institute Thursday, 5:00-6:30PM “How to Make a Museum” Wednesday, 7:00-9:00PM Photographing Cities— A Methodology Wednesday, 7:00-9:00PM
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Dennis (CAP 2012) and Kathy (CAP 1998) Barrie have cre-ated museums “out of thin air” for nearly two decades. Starting with the Rock Hall, they have worked on the In-ternational Spy Museum, The Woodstock Museum and the Mob Museum in Las Vegas. While diverse in topics, locations and funding, all of these museums share similar backgrounds in that they were merely a concept when the Barrie’s became involved. None of them had collections, curators or staff. They were just ideas. How do you turn an idea into a reality, especially when the museum topic is shrouded in secrecy? The Barrie’s will explain all and give you a tour of their studio/residence.
CONGRATULATIONS DENNIS!
WE ARE PROUD OF YOU AND ALL OUR CLEVELAND “CONNECTIONS”!
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The photographs in Garie Waltzer’s (CAP 2012) project LIVING CITY examine the contemporary cultural land-scape of urban spaces – places made and lived in over time. Filled with intimate details of street life while sharing sweep-ing views of the gestalt, they examine the structures, collec-tive narrative, and temporal multiplicity of urban space in cities across the globe. Please join Garie as she shares her ap-proaches to image making in an informal discussion in her Cleveland Heights home/studio. Visitors will see and discuss the hybrid mix of analog and digital methods she employs to produce her highly detailed, large, and compelling images.
arts Prize live events for 2012-13
Check out this line-up! Can’t decide? Come to all!
Zygote Press opens its doors for an evening of inky fun and tours of the print shop. Watch Amy Casey (CAP 2009) as she puts the finish-ing touches on her newest print and talks about her work. Learn about Zygote’s unique programming, facilities and outreach efforts from co-founders Liz Maugans (CAP 2012) and Bellamy Printz (CAP 2012).
“Conversations from the Harp” Tuesday, 7:00-9:00PM
Isabel Trautwein (CAP 2012) will present the El Sistema@Rain-ey String Orchestra program for 50 Cleveland students, ages 6-12. The Ensembles will present a special program honoring Martin Luther King Jr. at the Rainey Institute. You will not want to miss this very special event and opportunity to tour the facility, meet Isabel, the El Sistema teaching staff, the students and their families.
Tickets for all Arts Prize Live Events are $20. Space at each event is limited; 20-40 people, depending on the venue. To purchase a ticket, please send a check to:Cleveland Arts Prize, PO Box 21126, Cleveland, OH 44121To reserve a space for an event, please email [email protected]. It is not possible to purchase a ticket to these events on our website!
Yolanda Kondonassis (CAP 2011) will play and talk about the harp while you experience the space and see the beau-tiful vistas of Robert Maschke’s (CAP 2011) contemporary C-house, which he designed and built in 2008. (Only a few tickets left. Please email if you are interested!)
Reception, Tour, and Concert at Rainey InstituteThursday, 5:00-6:30PM
Jonathan Kurtz, AIA, is a Principal and Project Designer at Westlake Reed Leskosky. He joined the firm in 2004, and he now leads the cre-ative process for competitions and commissioned work. His work on the Bertram & Judith Kohl Build-ing in Oberlin received several AIA design awards. Kurtz has been recognized by Building Design + Construction magazine in their annual “40 under 40” competition. He earned his Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Architecture with Honors, winning the Bachelor of Architecture Award, at Kent State University, and his Master in Archi-tecture with Distinction at the Har-vard University Graduate School of Design.
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Literature: With the publication of Lulu in the Sky in April, loung Ung completed her compelling trilogy built around the heart-wrenching experiences of her childhood, after the Khmer Rouge stormed her na-tive city of Phnom Penh. Ung lost both her parents, two sisters and 20 other relatives. The first two books of the trilogy are First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (2000) and Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind (2005). She graduated from Saint Michael’s College in Vermont with a BA in Political Science in 1993.
Design: steven Kordalski, AIA, is president of Kordalski Architects Inc., a boutique architectural studio that specializes in corporate inte-riors, commercial and residential projects. Kordalski has won numer-ous design awards for his firm’s work. Two of his most recent awards demonstrate the range of spaces he is comfortable designing: an Ameri-can Institute of Architects Cleve-land Chapter Design Merit Award for the Amin Turocy & Calvin LLP law firm offices and an AIA Cleve-land Chapter Design Merit Award for the elegant Battuto Ristorante. He graduated from Kent State Uni-versity’s School of Architecture and Environmental Design with a Bach-elor of Architecture in 1976.
Music & Dance: Bill Wade is the Founder and Executive/Artistic Director of Inlet Dance Theatre. The innovative, high-energy dance troupe grew out of his previous 11 years as an Artist in Residence at Cleveland School of the Arts, where he founded YARD (Youth At Risk Dancing), a nationally recognized after-school program. He has col-laborated on projects with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Ohio Ballet, and the Cleveland Center for Con-temporary Art. In 1998, he received the Coming Up Taller Award at the White House from the National En-dowment for the Arts and the Presi-dent’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities.
Visual Arts: Garie Waltzer has cre-ated extensively in various forms of photographic image making for the past 30 years, most notably using color electrostatic copiers to create large-scale collages. For the 2007 Gund Foundation Annual Report, she contributed 27 images of Uni-versity Circle. Waltzer’s work has appeared in exhibits at nu-merous galler-ies throughout the US, and in selected col-lections such as the Cleve-land Clinic, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Conti-nental Bank of Chicago, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. She earned her BFA in Painting and MFA in Photography at the State University of New York, Buffalo.
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Music and Dance: robert Kidney is a self-taught musician who be-gan performing as a folk singer and songwriter at 17. Later this year, he will release his first solo album, “Jackleg.” While stationed in Chica-go during his Navy service, he be-came interested in the Blues. When he returned to Akron, he launched his own band, 15 60 75, better known
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2012 Winnersas The Numbers Band. Their first album, “Jimmy Bell’s Still In Town,” was released in 1974. They released their most recent album, “The In-ward City,” in 2010. On September 27, 2000, The Numbers Band per-formed at the Royal Festival Hall in London.
Visual Arts: douglas sanderson recently installed his six-part, site-specific series of paintings, “Flower of Life Series,” at the Cleveland Clin-ic Jacobs Health Center in Avon, Ohio. His work has appeared in solo and group exhibitions throughout the US and in France, Germany, and Sweden. Additionally, his work is part of more than a dozen collec-tions, from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo and the Allen Memorial Art Museum in Oberlin to Stanford University in Palo Alto and J.P. Najar/Obregon Founda-tion in Barcelona, Spain. He earned his MFA at the University of Texas, Austin, and his BFA at CarnegieMellon University in Pittsburgh.
Special prize recipientS
Bergman Prize: James levin has augmented Northeast Ohio’s rich and diverse cultural landscape in a
way that celebrates diversity and ensures that art is avail-able to Cleveland’s vibrant, vigorous, urban neigh-borhoods. In 1982, Levin co-founded and served as founding Artistic Director of Cleveland Public The-atre. Through his leader-ship of the Gordon Square Arts District, he helped reinvent the neighborhood around the theater. He also founded the Ingenuity Fes-tival. Levin works as an at-torney and political activ-ist, and he deeply believes in justice, equality and grassroots efforts. Levin is a graduate of the Univer-
sity of Michigan, and Case Western Reserve University law school.
Martha JoSeph prize WinnerS
As Director of the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, dennis Barrie staunchly defended the First
Amendment by refusing to close a controversial Robert Mapplethorpe exhibit. Barrie went on to create the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, the Interna-tional Spy Museum in Washington, DC, and the Mob Museum in Las Vegas and helped curate the collec-tion of the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage in Beachwood. After grad-uating from Oberlin College, Bar-rie became the Midwest director of the Smithsonian Institution’s Ar-chives of American Art in Detroit and earned a doctorate in Ameri-can cultural history at Wayne State University.
isabel trautwein, a member of the internationally acclaimed Cleve-land Orchestra’s first violin sec-tion, has performed all over the globe. She recently established an El Sistema program for teaching music to underprivileged children in Cleveland. In 2010, after hear-ing about the program’s success in Venezuela, Trautwein took one-year off to research El Sistema. Housed in the Rainey Institute, the El Siste-ma@Rainey program has quickly achieved great success. Students have already performed during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day com-munity celebration. Impressed by the Youth Orchestra’s performance, Franz Welser-Most, Cleveland Or-chestra music director, has sched-uled them to perform again at Sev-erance Hall.
zygote Press, inc. was established in 1995 for artists to produce fine art prints and provide them with affordable work space and exhibi-tion opportunities. Recently, Zygote orchestrated the Collective Arts Network Journal (CAN) that brings together 28 arts organizations that created a publication to be distrib-uted throughout the region. Zygote Press Artist Share Space (ZPASS) is another initiative that provides living space for visiting artists. Zygote celebrated its 16th anniver-sary as a leader in the arts commu-nity largely through the diligent efforts of two of the co-founders: liz Mauga ns , managing d i rec -tor, and Bellamy Printz, chair of the Board.
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Barry UnderwoodJerry WarehamThomas D. WarrenJohn C. Williams
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Changes in the Board of the Cleveland Arts PrizeHeather Sherwin, President of the arts Prize Board, has stepped down from that post as of august 15, 2012. Heather has moved to Columbia, south Carolina to assume a new position as vice President of development at the Central Carolina foun-dation. We miss Heather, thank her for her years of service to the arts Prize and wish her well in her new position.
Congratulations to Robert Maschke (CaP 2011) who is our new Board President. He has a great deal of experience working on nonprofit boards and CaP is thrilled to have him step up to this position.
The Cleveland arTs Prize announCes a new ProjeCT:
the annual sale of a collectable work of art made by an arts prize winner.
Each year, an Arts Prize winner will be commissioned to make a limited edition work of art. This year, Amy Casey (CAP 2009) will make a lithograph at Zygote Press (CAP 2012) specifically for this project. It will be created and displayed by November 1st. It will be available for sale through the Cleveland Arts Prize, deliverable by
December 1st. Each lithograph will be signed and numbered by Amy. This project has been made possible by a grant from the Gund Foundation. For more information, please watch our website www.clevelandartsprize.org.
CAP Video program continues… Check out the latest videos of Arts Prize Winners Loung Ung, Jonathan Kurtz, Zygote Press, and Marcie Goodman. You can find them on our website, on the archive, on YouTube, on Vimeo and on our Facebook Page. Should you find yourself in the Cleveland Clinic, now you will be able to see the Arts Prize videos on the patient in-house channel.
Annual Fund Drive begins in October Why does the Cleveland Arts Prize ask for your support? · To create a strong environment for the arts in Cleveland which is critical to the health of the City· To help the Cleveland Arts Prize identify, select, honor and promote the creative artists who are Arts Prize winners, who enrich our lives, our neighborhoods and our schools· To help the Arts Prize increase the visibility of Arts Prize winners so everyone benefits from their creativity
Please give generously either by donating on our website, www.clevelandartsprize.org or by sending a check to Cleveland Arts Prize, PO Box 21126, Cleveland, OH 44121
save the date: eYes on The Prize February 16, 2013 at Beachland Ballroom!
