Clevelanders ranging from cutting-edge musicians to theatrical innovators are amid this year’s winners of the 2021 Cleveland Arts Prize.
For more than 60 yrs, the Cleveland Arts Prize has emphasised the importance of community creative achievement by celebrating both equally all those who develop artwork and individuals who function to sustain a lively arts scene.
Ideastream Community Media has a rundown of the honorees.
Rising ARTISTS
Mourning [A] BLKstar (tunes)
This eclectic assortment of musicians and multimedia artists has won nearby acclaim for their phase reveals, which element a mix of soul, hip hop and Afrofuturism. Their performances have also been praised by The Wire, a British music magazine and NPR’s “All Music Deemed.”
Lauren Yeager (Visual Arts)
The Nashville native relocated to Cleveland the place she functions as a photographer and sculptor, typically applying identified objects. Between her numerous nearby exhibitions, Yeager was featured in the 2018 Entrance International Triennial for Modern Artwork.
MID-Profession
Alice Ripley (Theater and Dance)
The Kent Point out graduate is a Tony award-winning actor who has appeared in quite a few Broadway productions. She’s also a mixed-media artist, a songwriter and performs in her eponymous band, RIPLEY.
Corrie Slawson (Visible Arts)
Making use of inspirations from her everyday commute and journeys abroad, Slawson combines her have photographic visuals with spray paint and pencil to make other worldly landscapes. Her work has been exhibited in the U.S. and internationally.
Lifetime Accomplishment
Raymond McNiece
McNiece has put in a long time undertaking on local and worldwide levels, from time to time with his band Tongue-in-Groove, often doing work solo with his dynamic poetry. He’s toured with these types of literary lights as Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and he acted as Woody Guthrie in a particular Ideastream output.
Robert P. Bergman Prize
Dr. Joseph Garry, Jr.
Garry’s extended-jogging, 1970s production of the cabaret-design musical “Jacques Brel is Alive and Perfectly and Dwelling in Paris” has lengthy been cited as helping convey new lifetime to Playhouse Square at a time when the theater elaborate was on the brink of turning out to be a parking large amount. Garry subsequently staged several productions across the town and internationally. He’s also lectured at intercontinental theater conferences and hosted the “Broadway Buzz” lectures at Playhouse Square.
The Martha Joseph Prize
Sean Waterson
Watterson was heading in the direction of a career as a attorney, but his lifetime took an unforeseen change 13 many years ago when he grew to become a co-founder and co-operator of the Pleased Canine on Cleveland’s West Facet. He assisted convert a traditional bar into a dwell tunes venue and community accumulating place. But his eyesight has expanded from operating a one club to starting to be an advocate for impartial venues across Cleveland and all around the place.
The Barbara S. Robinson Prize
Clara Rankin
Philanthropist Clara Rankin is a longtime benefactor of legacy establishments, this sort of as the Cleveland Orchestra, the Cleveland Institute of New music and the Cleveland Museum of Artwork, where by the Galleries of Chinese Artwork are named in her honor. At 104, Rankin remains active in her advocacy for the arts.
Special Quotation
Franz Welser-Möst
Welser-Möst 1st lifted his baton as the Cleveland Orchestra’s music director in the 2002-03 time. Over the future 20 several years, the Austrian indigenous has established himself as a winner as an advocate for new musical operates and creative programming. Regardless of his quite a few several years as the chief of a planet-popular orchestra, he refuses to be referred to as “Maestro,” by colleagues and fans. He’d rather be known as Franz.
All of the 2021 Cleveland Arts Prize winners are due to get their awards at a special ceremony at the Cleveland Museum of Artwork in Oct.