Openfilm.com is an online video platform for discovering, distributing and financing independent films online. Through its various third-party distribution platforms, Openfilm offers independent filmmakers the opportunity to gain exposure and earn revenue for their work. Openfilm brings the best elements of the film industry together. With an innovative platform designed to change the process of discovering great independent film, Openfilm is dedicated to developing, marketing and distributing great works.

"Ox-Bow offers a wide range of opportunities for artists at all stages in their career. With year-round programs that cater to degree-seeking students, professional artists and those new to the field, Ox-Bow is a protected place where creative processes break-down, reform, and mature." Their mission is to serve as a haven for the creative process through instruction, example, and community. They offer residencies as well as core classes.

Address: 3435 Rupprecht Way, P.O. Box 216, Saugatuck, MI 49453
Phone: (269) 857-5811

This is a link to a calendar of literary events in the Cleveland area which can be accessed through the Poets & Writers magazine. Based on the the Clevelandpoetics blogspot calendar.

This website, sponsored by Poets & Writers Magazine, offers a wide range of resources for writers, including up-to-date databases to find markets, contests, competitions, conferences, workshops and residencies. Tools for writers include writing prompts, articles on craft, and information on literary agents.

A community based organization with a strong commitment to arts education. It offers workshops and lectures for individual artists, with a focus on contemporary art.

Address: 2310 Superior Avenue, Suite 280 Cleveland, Ohio 44114
Phone: (216) 772-4PAA

At Ragdale, visual artists, writers, composers, and interdisciplinary artists find what they need to create important new work: time and space. Throughout the year, Ragdale offers readings, artist lectures, workshops, and special events designed to connect artists and the community of Lake Forest, Chicago, and beyond. For their residency program, Ragdale welcomes artists at all stages of their careers and seeks to create a mix of various experience levels in each group of residents. Through a competitive application process, Ragdale offers residencies to visual artists, writers, composers, and interdisciplinary artists. Those working in sound, performance, choreography, or combinations of disciplines are also encouraged to apply under the Interdisciplinary category.

Address: 1260 North Green Bay Road, Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Phone: (847) 234-1063

A nonprofit organization dedicated tot eh education, preservation and distribution of fine ethnic art. Provides educational and professional development opportunities to visual artists. Operates the Cleveland Fine Arts Expo.

Address: 540 East 105th Street Suite 208. Cleveland, OH 44108
Phone: (216) 541 ARTS
E-mail: Info@sankofartineartplus.org

Skowhegan, an intensive nine-week summer residency program for emerging visual artists established in 1946, seeks each year to bring together a gifted and diverse group of individuals who have demonstrated a commitment to art-making and inquiry to create the most stimulating and rigorous environment possible for a concentrated period of artistic creation, interaction and growth.

Sparx in the City showcases street performances in downtown Cleveland throughout the summer, and also offers a gallery guide, as well as coordinating a city-wide gallery hop in September.

Phone: (216) 736-7799

The Authors Guild is the nation’s oldest and largest professional organization for writers. Since its beginnings over a century ago, we have served as the collective voice of American authors. Our members include novelists, historians, journalists, and poets—traditionally and independently published—as well as literary agents and representatives of writers’ estates.

Since its 1996 inception, theispot.com's goal has been to build an online hub for illustrators where they can effectively market their work for both direct assignments and rights-managed stock licensing. Our subscribers' latest projects and achievements are promoted to a wide audience of industry professionals through high profile advertising as well as the News / Blog feature, which instantly circulates across a full range of social media. We continually reshape the site to answer the changing needs of both our subscribing illustrators and the many art buyers that have made theispot.com their primary illustration web resource. Today theispot.com showcases the work of artists from dozens of countries and serves buyers throughout the world. Theispot.com is widely recognized as the premier illustration site.

Free and open to all, to use think[box], start by viewing an Orientation Presentation, which explains general lab policies as well as how to get started using machines at the lab.  If you would like to bring a group or class to think[box], please read the Information for Groups and Classes.

 

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

The Valley Art Center energizes and encourages art appreciation in people of all ages and backgrounds through education, inspiration, and opportunities to experience the visual arts. They support art students and artists through quality curriculum and programming along with exhibition space. They promote the growth of each individual’s potential and the advancement of the arts in the community. 

The Vermont Studio Center supports "artists and writers by providing studio residencies in an inclusive international community, honoring creative work as the communication of spirit through form."

Address: 80 Pearl Street P.O. Box 613, Johnson, Vermont 05656
Phone: (802) 635-272

A committee of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association; a pro bono program providing legal services to income-eligible artists and arts organizations in all disciplines, develops public law-related education programs for artists and arts organizations, and collaborates with area galleries to bring rotating art exhibits to the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Center.

Address: c/o Cleveland Bar Association, 1301 East 9th St., 3rd Level Cleveland, OH 44114
Phone: (216) 696-3525
Staff Contact: Jessica Paine: jpaine@clemetrobar.org

A community organization, rooted in the arts and using art as a tool for development. Artists have the opportunity to exhibit, teach, share studio space and attend professional development workshops

Address: 15605 Waterloo Road Cleveland, OH 44110
Phone: (216) 692-9500

Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild hosts the Byrdcliffe Art Colony. The colony was placed on the National Register of Historic Sites in 1979 for its architectural and historical significance. It is located in the Catskill Mountains, 1.5 miles from the center of Woodstock, New York. The residency is for artistic excellence of composers, playwrights, poets, screenwriters, visual artists and writers.

Founded in 1900 by the financier Spencer Trask and his wife Katrina, herself a poet, Yaddo is an artists' community located on a 400-acre estate in Saratoga Springs, New York. Its mission is to nurture the creative process by providing an opportunity for artists to work without interruption in a supportive environment.

A Northeast Ohio nonprofit fine art printmaking facility. Studios, equipment and technical assistance is available.

Address: 1410 East 30th Street Cleveland, OH 44114
Phone: (216) 621-2900
E-mail: info@zygotepress.com