Thursday, October 24, 2024 · Cuyahoga Community College
Eastern Campus, Highland Hills
The Cleveland Arts Prize celebrated Northeast Ohio artistic talent, skill and dedication at the 64th Annual Awards Event on Thursday, October 24, 2024 at Cuyahoga Community College Eastern Campus in Highland Hills. CAP honors artists for artistic excellence and recognizes the community leaders who help regional arts flourish.
The evening was hosted by Kabir Bhatia, WKSU senior reporter at Ideastream Public Media.
Recipients are selected by a distinguished jury of experts, previous winners, and prominent figures in the arts and culture community.
One of the country’s foremost landscape photographers, and for decades a professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Her work is held by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art.
A composer who started on a school trumpet in Texas. His music has been played by the Minnesota Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony and members of The Cleveland Orchestra, alongside collaborations with Akron Symphony and Mourning [A] BLKstar.
A photographer whose work is people-based, whether or not a person is in the frame. Her pictures have run in The Washington Post, on NPR and in The Wall Street Journal, and she has stayed in Cleveland to make them.
Founding executive director of ARTFUL Cleveland, the collective she started in 2015 so artists across a range of talent and experience could learn from one another.
Forty years of impact on music, dance, theatre and arts education in Cleveland, and the founders of CityMusic Cleveland, which has given free concerts across the region for two decades.
Chair of the board of the Cleveland Museum of Art, a museum she first explored as a child while her mother volunteered at the front desk. She opened the city’s first decorative arts gallery in 1984.
Their support funds the awards that go straight to Northeast Ohio artists.
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Paul and Suzanne Westlake / DLR Group
Case Western Reserve University
David Krakowski
Kenn Karakul and James Held
Party411 | Sherri Foxman
Janet and Mark Smith
Dr. Hiroyuki and Mikiko Fujita
The Cleveland Orchestra
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Kathleen and Tom Futey
Huntington Bank
Michael and Meredith Weil
Key Private Bank Family Wealth
Hawken School
TRG Multimedia
Cynthia and Jim Gascoigne
Cuyahoga Community College
Cleveland Magazine
Thursday, October 29, 2026 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Every recipient since 1961 is listed in the Past Recipients archive.
Enquiries: info@clevelandartsprize.org
