Cleveland Arts Prize Eyes A Comeback

“The Cleveland Arts Prize took a powder and is coming back strong. Or so the organization hopes: After a year’s hiatus in which leaders rethought the award’s mission and approach, the 45-year-old prize will return in 2006 with an emphasis on emerging artists and public input… Created in 1960 as a project of the Women’s Club of Cleveland and now an independent nonprofit organization, the prize has for decades recognized the achievements of established, often renowned, Northeast Ohio artists and arts leaders… Established artists will continue to be saluted with two prizes of $2,500 each. But the organization’s largest award now will be a $5,000 prize for an emerging Northeast Ohio artist.”