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STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

The Creative Fusion - Street Art Edition will be an urban-based community engagement residency, combining six international artists with local organizations and local artists to create a series of public-scale visual art pieces concentrated in Ohio City’s Hingetown and along Detroit Avenue. This work will be celebrated through a large event engaging the public.

Important tenets of this project are to:

* Ensure that the art produced during the three-month residency will have a lasting impact on the neighborhood

* Focus on outdoor visual art as a way to create coherence across the project

* Commit to the highest quality of produced work and facilitate a high bar of excellence from all artists

* Focus on inclusion in this rapidly changing neighborhood, and find ways to encourage interaction and participation from a wide-ranging group of local residents

* Plan a public event to highlight the work of the artists and create opportunities for interaction and festivity with the community

* Test out the structure of collaboration with local artists, where each international artist is paired with a local artist who will both act as guide and as collaborator – local artists will also be supported and encouraged to create a piece of their own

* Concentrate all artwork along the Detroit Ave. corridor, and plan out sites for artwork to ensure that there is sufficient density of art to be perceived as many unique parts of a single project, and to be impactful for the neighborhood

* Work together as host organizations to create exciting, enlightening and collaborative experiences for international and local artists.

* Build in administrative inefficiencies across all artists and host organizations.

Murals will adorn Ohio City's blank walls, through Cleveland Foundation program

October 27, 2016

Colorful murals will emerge from blank walls just west of downtown Cleveland this fall, as part of a collaboration between global artists, their local counterparts and nonprofit groups.

For three months starting in September, international artists will live and work in the Ohio City neighborhood, near West 25th Street and Detroit Avenue. They'll leave behind a handful of murals meant to liven up buildings and soften the forbidding walls of the Cleveland Memorial Shoreway near the Lakeview Tower and Lakeview Terrace public-housing communities.

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