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Should the Cleveland Arts Prize
Program Be Redesigned?

Challenge us!
Cleveland Arts Prize wants to do an even better job of identifying, recognizing and encouraging the region’s most outstanding artists.

Please join thought leaders throughout Cleveland in critiquing our 44-year-old program.

Won’t you please take a few moments right now to look over the questionnaire below. If you see issues about which you have strong opinions, won’t you please share them with us?

Your comments will be read and seriously considered.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
CLEVELAND ARTS PRIZE
Program Assessment Questionnaire

Thank you for taking the time to answer some or all of the following questions. Your answers may be of any length.

In order for your opinions to be considered by the Cleveland Arts Prize board, may we please hear from you by Tuesday, September 7?

1. Should Cleveland Arts Prize program continue unchanged and in its present form?
 Yes
No

2. If no, what changes would you most like to see?

3. What aspects of the present program should NOT be lost if changes are made?

4. When you hear that an artist has won the Cleveland Arts Prize, what does that make you think about that person? What should winning an arts prize make you think about the recipient?

5. Currently the Cleveland Arts Prize honors artists whose work has “brought distinction to themselves and Greater Cleveland.” Do you find “national recognition” a relevant measure of excellence? Are there other criteria by which to measure creativity that would be more interesting to you?

6. Cleveland Arts Prize recognizes outstanding achievement in architecture, dance, literature, visual arts and music. Are there disciplines we should add, drop or combine?

7. Cleveland Arts Prize recognizes only creators of original works of art, such as writers and painters and composers. Should interpretive artists, such as dancers and directors and musicians, also be recognized, or would that dilute the value of winning a prize?

8. Would it be appropriate for creators and interpreters to “compete” for the same prize (e.g, should composers and musicians be included in the same category and judged by the same criteria)?

9. The Cleveland Arts Prize typically recognizes a “body of work.” Is mid-career recognition especially beneficial to the artist and to the community, or would it be more beneficial to identify and recognize promising younger artists?

What about lifetime achievement?

10. According to what specific criteria would a young artist be judged “promising”?

11. What would be most beneficial to an artist: a meaningful cash prize or a high degree of public recognition?

12. If a cash prize, what is a meaningful amount?

13. If a high degree of recognition, what forms would that take?

14. In terms of providing a high degree of recognition, is it better to give more or fewer awards?

15. Is a public awards ceremony an important part of artist recognition?

16. How do you personally feel about attending awards ceremonies?

17. Have you attended Cleveland Arts Prize awards ceremony in past?
Yes
No

18. What is the most important thing an artist recognition program should have to ensure its credibility and prestige?

19. How does the presentation of annual awards to recognize outstanding artistic achievement by artists who have chosen to make Greater Cleveland their creative home benefit. . .

the community of artists?

the community at large?

you?

20. How should an artist recognition program be funded? That is, what are the most appropriate sources of financial support for such a program?

Thank you very much for your opinions. May we please have the following demographic information?

Your profession

Your age

The community in which you live

 

Why We Want to Hear from You

This summer Cleveland Arts Prize is conducting a comprehensive program assessment to ensure that our 44-year-old organization remains responsive to the needs of area artists and the changing cultural landscape.

With our 45th anniversary in view, the Arts Prize has decided to ask the Greater Cleveland community to help us re-envision how our mission of honoring outstanding artistic achievement might best be expressed in the 21st century.

“We intend to go on a listening tour,” chairperson Kathy Coakley Barrie explains. “We plan to engage artists, cultural and civic leaders, arts patrons, funding agencies and members of the public in a conversation about how we can strengthen the relevance and impact of the Cleveland Arts Prize. We want and expect to be challenged to do an even better job.”

Conceived and operated for many years as an all-volunteer project of the Women’s City Club of Cleveland, Cleveland Arts Prize annually identifies and honors artists in five disciplines whose original bodies of work have brought distinction to themselves and Greater Cleveland.

Cleveland Arts Prize winners historically have been mid-career artists in the fields of architecture, dance, literature, music and the visual arts whose work has achieved national recognition. At a traditional fall awards ceremony, the honorees receive an engraved medal, a certificate of recognition signed by the mayor of Cleveland and a $1,000 honorarium.

“We are now in position to think big about our programming,” says president Diana Tittle, who has guided the Arts Prize’s transformation into an independent not-for-profit and instituted a variety of improvements to its internal and decision-making processes. “We believe that significantly increasing the monetary value of the Prize is one way we might better support artistic endeavor. Does the community agree and want to help us make that happen?”

“We are also open to reconsidering the present categories of the Prize, the career points at which it is awarded, our nomination processes and selection criteria and our annual awards ceremony. In fact, we expect that the community will come up with fresh, outside-the-box ideas about how CAP might better nurture artists and help to retain the amazing wealth of creative talent in this region.”

Selection of the next class of Arts Prize recipients will await completion of the program assessment, and there will be no awards ceremony as usual this fall. All nominations received this year will be held for future consideration.


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