The Cleveland Arts Prize identifies, selects and publicly honors accomplished Northeast Ohio artists and organizations and individuals who have contributed to the community’s participation in the arts.

Phone: (216) 321.0012
E-mail: info@clevelandartsprize.org

Neighborhood Connections is an innovative, nationally recognized community-building program established in 2003, with a mission to fuel the power of neighbors to create, together, an extraordinary world right where they live.

Northeast Shores is the community development organization serving North Collinwood, one of the strongest artist communities in the country. The community includes Waterloo Arts, an organization that creates a stimulating arts environment through quality exhibits, performances, special events and educational programming for people of all ages. Collinwood also has an Entertainment District which is home to an eclectic mix of indie music venues and art galleries. It is the perfect place for artists young and old to launch their career or expand their practice.

North Collinwood has a mix of artists in the craft (7.5%), design (7.5%), interdisciplinary (7.5%), literary (5.7%), music (5.7%) and theater arts (7.5%) – all between five and eight percent of the total. Visual artists are also well represented,, accounting for 55 % of artists in the neighborhood.

NoteWorthy Credit Union's mission is to serve the arts and entertainment community. Noteworthy provides many types of loans but specializes in providing loans for musical instruments. ATMs are located in Cleveland: in the Tower Press Building on 1900 Superior Avenue, Severance Hall and the Beachland Ballroom on Waterloo Road.

Address: 1900 Superior Ave, Suite 126 Cleveland, OH 44114
Phone: (216) 263-7034

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. was established in 1985 for the sole purpose of providing financial assistance to individual visual artists of established ability through the generosity of the late Lee Krasner, one of the leading abstract expressionist painters and the widow of Jackson Pollock.

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Thurber House (the home of humorist, author, and New Yorker cartoonist James Thurber) is a non-profit literary center and Thurber museum. Their mission is to celebrate the written word for the education and entertainment of the broadest possible audience and to continue Thurber’s legacy of humor. Programs include the Thurber Prize for Humor, the only such recognition of humor writing in the country; residencies; author readings; and writing classes.

Address: 7 Jefferson Ave, Columbus, OH 43215
Phone: (614) 464-1032