Please review the nomination criteria to the right before proceeding to the nomination link below.
online nominations
Special
Prizes
Martha Joseph Prize for Distinguished Service to the Arts
Robert Bergman Prize |
Martha
Joseph Prize
for Distinguished Service to the Arts
This
prize will be awarded annually to an individual or an organization
that because of exceptional commitment, vision, leadership or philanthropy
has made a significant contribution to the vitality and stature
of the arts in Northeast Ohio. This contribution may be made
through the conception and implementation of innovative arts events
and programs; through the demonstration of visionary and/or strategic
arts leadership; through extraordinary acts of arts patronage or
arts advocacy; through dedicated and inspiring teaching; through
the sensitive and effective nurturing of artistic talent; or through
superb performance and/or mastery in an arts discipline.
Robert
P. Bergman Prize
This
prize will be awarded annually to an exceptional individual who
has shown passionate leadership and opened his/her field more broadly,
and whose life and activities communicate the joys, excitement,
and deep human relevance of the arts. This prize is open to
national/international candidates. Recipient must be present for
the awards event.
online nominations
Peter
B. Lewis
1990 Cleveland Arts Prize Recipient
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One nomination is adequate for an individual.
Additional letters of support should be sent in the form of
emails to info at clevelandartsprize.org
or via postal mail to
Cleveland Arts Prize
PO Box 21126
Cleveland, Ohio 44121
216-321-0012
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Discipline-specific
Requirements
Visual
Arts:
Work
includes painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, photography,
crafts, film, multi-media, graphic design.
A
body of work that may be crowned by a particular recent career achievement.
Work
that has been recognized nationally as well as locally and regionally
in one or more of the following ways: Included in catalogues, major
collections and museum exhibitions, reviewed in major art periodicals,
result of public commissions.
Nominations
will be accompanied by a resume, photographs or slides of the work
with each piece identified as to title, medium, dimensions and year
of creation.
Copies
of reviews, feature articles and other documentation that support
the nomination are helpful.
Music
& Dance:
Work
includes contemporary art music, jazz, rock, opera, musical theatre,
choreography (ballet, modern).
Composer
or choreographer whose work is distinctive, individual and of high
quality.
A
body of work marking continuing or cumulative achievement.
Work
that has been performed nationally as well as locally and regionally.
Work
that has been published, recorded, reviewed.
Work
that has been recognized/awarded by other prize organizations.
Composers
and choreographers who are residents of Greater Cleveland, through
birth, long residency or extensive education in area schools, universities,
or who have close and continuing affiliations with the area as evidenced
by frequent local performances or commissions.
Music
nominations will be accompanied by resume, video or audio tapes
or CDs that include title, dates of creation and first performances,
scores.
Dance
nominations will be accompanied by resume, videos of the work with
each dance identified as to title, number of dancers music and composer,
date and place of first performance.
Copies
of reviews, feature articles and other documentation.
Literature:
Work
includes fiction, non-fiction,
playwriting, screenwriting, poetry, criticism.
For
a particular major work: a novel rather than chapters, a collection
of short stories rather than a single story, a collection of poems
etc., a full-length play.
Work
must be published.
Work
that has received national as well as local and regional attention:
publication by a nationally known publisher, reviews in national
newspapers, journals or magazines, television or radio appearances
by the author; movie contracts.
Works
of literature include narrative, expository, analytical or critical,
including fiction, non-fiction, prose, poetry, plays Nominations
will be accompanied by resume, copy of the work, copies of reviews,
feature articles.
Design:
Work
includes but is not limited to architecture, landscape architecture,
industrial design, city and urban planning.
A
designer who has created a body of work of consistently high creative
achievement
Body
of work comprised of completed projects that have received national
as well as local and regional attention.
Type
and scope of completed work is unrestricted.
Nomination
will be accompanied by resume, 8x10 photographs of the nominee's
work with each project identified as to name, location, date of
completion.
Copies
of reviews, feature articles.
online nominations
Nusha
Martynuk,
Choreographer
1999 Cleveland Arts Prize Recipient |
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