Arts + Culture
As businesses depart the street and pedestrian traffic wanes, Cleveland Heights' iconic street is gearing up to get its groove back.
Heath Gmucs sees his world in living color. As pressing operations supervisor for Tyler Village-based record pressing plant Gotta Groove Records, Gmucs started to see a more colorful potential behind the traditional black vinyl records he's been turning out since 2010.
March is Women’s History Month—a time to celebrate the achievements and contributions of women through the years. Many Cuyahoga Arts and Culture (CAC) partners are taking the month to heart with meaningful projects that spotlight iconic women through drama, music, and historical recreations. Find out how Women in History, Dobama Theatre, and Burning River Baroque are making Women's History Month 2019 one to remember.
The "People's University" will enter its next era with an ambitious, library-wide revitalization project and a yearlong CPL150 celebration, along with the announcement that it will now be fine-free.
See the DayGloSho through the eyes of our managing photographer Bob Perkoski, who captured this Cleveland tradition in all its neon glory.
As Cleveland gears up for CIFF43—Ohio’s largest film festival—moviegoers have many other opportunities to see the work of Northeast Ohio filmmakers on the silver screen in March. From adrenaline-fueled adventure films to shorts by local artists to Oscar-winning documentaries on the Black experience, these three events will fuel Clevelanders’ creativity and inspiration over the coming weeks.
With February drawing to a close and Cleveland weather set to warm up for a few days, there’s no excuse not to get out and enjoy the many Cuyahoga Arts & Culture (CAC) activities that focus on the outdoors—from a Slovenian-inspired Mardi Gras to a one-of-a-kind music and art festival to close encounters with birds and owls. Check out these family-friendly events that are sure to seal the deal for an unforgettable winter weekend, Cleveland-style.
Fresh Water's monthly "Free Stamp" feature rounds up the freshest free events in Cleveland. This month's installment includes events at Terrestrial Brewing Company, Asian Town Center, Visible Voice Books, and more. Give it a read here!
Fresh Water's monthly "Free Stamp" feature rounds up the freshest free events in Cleveland.
Whether your holiday shopping was done in November or you’re still working your way down the list, chances are you may have overlooked the stocking stuffers. Enter this handy-dandy list of ideas perfect as stocking stuffers (or for however you celebrate the season of giving). Even better—each one was made right here in Cleveland.
If you haven't tuned into the Hamilton Collaborative yet, it's time to find out what's "happening at the Ham."
When Mark and Bill Corcoran laid eyes on an elegant ballroom stage in their new senior living community at Judson Manor, Bill got a glimpse of the retired couple’s "second act"—bringing professional theatre to University Circle.
Fresh Water's monthly "Free Stamp" feature rounds up the freshest free events in Cleveland.
If the word “craft” brings to mind Pinterest projects or hot glue guns, you’re not alone. “For people who don’t know that much about the art world, they have a notion of Michael’s or Hobby Lobby, or going to outdoor craft fairs,” says Jessica Calderwood, a 2001 Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) alumna. Enter “ThinkCraft: Fresh Takes," an exhibition running at CIA's Reinberger Gallery through next Friday, December 14 that aims to broaden that perspective.
Let there be art! Cuyahoga Arts & Culture (CAC) announced on Monday, November 13, that it will invest $12,077,556 in 282 Cuyahoga County nonprofit organizations through its general operating support and project support grant programs in 2019. Of those grants, 29 organizations are first-time CAC grant recipients; for many of them, 2019 marks the first year they even applied. Meet four of CAC's first-time grantees and learn about the colorful work they're doing in Cleveland.
Refresh Collective has long been hanging out at the intersection of cool, creativity, and community, but now it has an actual brick-and-mortar storefront to call all its own.
Plain Dealer arts and entertainment reporter Laura DeMarco was so pleased with the reactions to her book Lost Cleveland—a chronological look at beloved city landmarks and institutions that no longer exist—that she decided to write a second book on Cleveland’s living landmarks.
Fifty “strong, stylish and successful women of Northeast Ohio” gathered inside the Heyday Collective (a sprawling lofted sanctuary of self-care nestled above Forest City Shuffleboard) on Sunday, November 4, to toast the launch of Modern CLE—the new digital magazine created by award-winning journalist Jillian Kramer.
Networking, nosh, and great beer? Yes, please! Join FreshWater editor Jen Jones Donatelli, TJ Carrie of the Cleveland Browns, Vicki Kotris of CLE Cookie Dough Co., Tony Sias of Karamu House, Greg Carlin of Play: CLE, and Danielle Rini Uva of Agnes Studio for a "Movers & Shakers" panel at Goldhorn Brewery this Thursday, November 8.
Fresh Water's monthly "Free Stamp" feature rounds up the freshest free events in Cleveland.