REQUIREMENTS

One nomination is adequate for an individual

Additional letters of support should be sent in the form of emails to info@clevelandartsprize.org or via postal mail to:
Cleveland Arts Prize, PO Box 21126, Cleveland, Ohio 44121

Visual Arts / Music & Dance / Literature / Design / Martha Joseph Prize / Robert P. Bergman Prize / NOMINATE

 

Discipline-specific Requirements

Visual Arts:

  • Work includes painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, photography, crafts, film, multi-media
  • 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, gallery and museum exhibitions, reviewed in major art periodicals, result of public commissions
  • Artists 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 exhibitions or commissions
  • Nominations will be accompanied by a resume, photographs, no more than 30 slides or digital files 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
  • Letters of support (no more than 3)

Music & Dance:

  • Work includes contemporary art, music, jazz, rock, opera, musical theatre, choreography
  • 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, audio tapes, CDs or digital files that include title, dates of creation and first performances, scores
  • Dance nominations will be accompanied by resume, videos or digital files 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
  • Letters of support (no more than 3)

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
  • Writers 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 readings
  • 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
  • Letters of support (no more than 3)

Design:

  • Work includes but is not limited to architecture, landscape architecture, industrial design, city and urban planning, graphic design
  • 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
  • Designers 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 commissions
  • Type and scope of completed work is unrestricted
  • Nomination will be accompanied by resume, digital files or photographs of the nominee's work with each project identified as to name, location, date of completion
  • Copies of reviews, feature articles
  • Letters of support (no more than 3)

Special Prizes

Nominators will be required to send no more than 10 letters of support on behalf of the nominee.

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

The Cleveland Arts Prize Committee created the Robert P. Bergman Prize to acknowledge and applaud those rare leaders whose life and work are illuminated by an energetic and inspiring dedication to a democratic vision of the arts. Thus, the Bergman Prize is given, from time to time, to an individual whose life and activities communicate the joys, excitement and deep human relevance of the arts to broad segments of the Greater Cleveland community. The Bergman Prize recognizes the highest possible expression of arts stewardship, in such achievements as:

          • Using innovative means, personal suasion and example to break down real or perceived barriers to appreciation of the arts
          • Effectively communicating the relevance of the arts to the daily lives of people
          • Forging new, meaningful and mutually beneficial partnerships between artists, arts organizations and community members and groups
          • Transforming people’s experience of the arts from unfamiliarity and absence of interest to knowledgeability and delight.

Because of the exceptional nature of such achievements, the Robert P. Bergman Prize will be awarded only from time to time, at the discretion of the Cleveland Arts Prize Committee, for truly outstanding merit.

Cleveland Arts Prize
P.O. Box 21126 • Cleveland, OH 44121 • 216-321-0012 • info@clevelandartsprize.org

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