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Larchmere launches 1st Cultural Arts Festival, to be held July 11-13

By Kevin McLaughlin ● Arts & Culture ● June 16, 2025

“This is about elevating and amplifying the voices of Cleveland artists,” said Vince Robinson, co-creator of the festival and founder of Larchmere Arts. “We wanted to create a space for our community to experience art in all its forms — from gallery walls to poetry slams, from African drumming to documentary film.”

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Culture, Community & Liberation: A Juneteenth Celebration

By Chris Mosby ● May 15, 2024

National writing directors visit Cleveland’s Lake Erie Ink, build community around elevating youth voices

By George Blake ● Arts & Culture ● September 6, 2023

The local youth writing nonprofit, which was founded in 2010, served 5,600 kids last year.

Fab House project brings together stories, visual art, and state-of-the-art tech in Glenville

By Christina Easter ● Arts & Culture ● October 27, 2022

The See Our Light project recruited residents to share stories and used digital fabrication technology to transform those stories into an art exhibit. The exhibit will eventually move to the neighborhood’s Fab House, a digital makerspace to come.

A Porous Place: An essay from Reflections of The Land

By Margaret Farrar ● Arts & Culture ● April 12, 2022

Cleveland’s vacant lots and industrial ruins aren’t just relics of the past — they actively shape the character of the city today.

Why write? How the pandemic reinvented Literary Cleveland

By Matt Weinkam ● Arts & Culture ● January 18, 2022

The pandemic put the future of Literary Cleveland in question. That was until its executive director Matt Weinkam started teaching online writing classes.