Wednesday, October 22, 2025 · Simon and Rose Mandel Theatre
Cuyahoga Community College Eastern Campus
The 65th Annual Cleveland Arts Prize Awards Ceremony took place on Wednesday, October 22, 2025 at the Simon and Rose Mandel Theatre at Cuyahoga Community College Eastern Campus, honoring the outstanding artists, leaders and visionaries of Northeast Ohio.
The evening was hosted by Dee Perry.
Recipients are selected by a distinguished jury of experts, previous winners, and prominent figures in the arts and culture community.
A poet whose work has appeared in Literary Hub, jubilat, The Offing and The Adroit Journal, and who won the Academy of American Poets University & College Poetry Prize for “Kinsman”.
A classical guitarist who gave his first full recital at twelve, pressed his debut album with money his parents fronted, and paid them back out of tour sales.
A painter who has been drawing since he was three, making figurative work with abstract qualities and drawing his subjects from his own neighbourhood.
An architectural and urban photographer whose commercial work between 1980 and 2003 documented most of the major building projects in Cleveland.
Co-founder in 1998 of Kulture Kids, the arts education organisation that takes cultural programmes into schools across the region.
Now President and CEO of the Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park, after years of public art work that treated artistic interventions as catalysts for civic pride.
Built on a business the three brothers started in 1940 with a $900 auto parts company. Their support has sustained The Cleveland Orchestra and created the Mandel Opera and Humanities Festival.
Their support funded the awards that went straight to Northeast Ohio artists.
This year’s event was generously sponsored by an anonymous donor.
Thursday, October 29, 2026 · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Every recipient since 1961 is listed in the Past Recipients archive.
Enquiries: info@clevelandartsprize.org
