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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.

Cleveland Foundation's Creative Fusion murals brighten Ohio City's Hingetown

February 9, 2018

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Large blank walls can smother a city's vitality, stifle the public realm and broadcast loneliness, danger and division. But to an artist, a blank wall can be a giant canvas and an irresistible challenge.

Those two realities constitute the vital ingredients behind this year's international Creative Fusion artists residency sponsored by the Cleveland Foundation.

Starting in September, six artists from around the world plus 10 Cleveland-based artists participated in conversations and educational projects with Ohio City residents, young and old.

The artists then channeled those experiences into lush, colorful, eye-catching murals installed throughout the up-and-coming Hingetown area.

Source: http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/20...