Curt and Nancy Bohon met through their sisters when they were ten years old. The pair lived on the same street in Cuyahoga Falls when they were children, and today, they live in the house Curt’s parents owned on the very same street that they grew up on. They have bee[...]

Header Photo: Shane Wynn On Thursday, March 30 th , supporters of arts and culture convened at Summit Artspace for the Akron Mayoral Town Hall. Akron mayoral candidates Mark Greer (D), Shammas Malik (D), Keith Mills (D), Tara Mosley (D), Joshua Schaffer (D), Marco Somme[...]

Tiffany Peters is the Interim Executive Director at Barberton Community Foundation, whose mission is to strengthen the Barberton community for current and future generations by providing leadership, fostering collaboration, and creating a legacy of giving to do good. Sh[...]

Featured Image: Grace Carter Credit: CAN Journal One year ago, ArtsNow, the backbone arts organization of Summit County, convened arts professionals and communitarians at the Akron Roundtable to report on 2021’s highs—and lows. 2021 was a year most nonprofit ar[...]

Heads-up Summit County arts and culture culture organizations! Thanks to your voice, and voices from across the state of Ohio, our Legislature approved $50 million in arts economic relief- and we’re so close to the application opening! Here’s what you need to know: [...]

Sheldon Wrice is currently the Vice President for Inclusion and Equity /Chief Diversity Officer. In this critical position within the University administration, Wrice provides strategic leadership for campus diversity, program oversight, diversity advising and mentoring[...]

Winter has basically arrived, which means time for another note to you, our NE Ohio partners. In this update, the focus is on the Ohio Arts Council’s updated grantmaking Guidelines and the deadlines for our grant programs for fiscal year 2024. The big news is…our gr[...]

Georgia Nix Miller is a former business consultant, entrepreneur and community advocate for women, children, education, and the arts. Gary Miller is a long-time university faculty member and college administrator and currently serves as President at The University of Ak[...]

Photography by Shane WynnCredit: Ohio Arts Council’s Arts Impact event It’s been a while since I’ve attended a conference, and never have attended an arts conference before, but let me tell you about my attendance at the Ohio Arts Council’s ‘Arts Impact 20[...]

Alita Rogers was born in New Rochelle, New York and moved to Kent, Ohio in 1967 when her father became a professor at Kent State University. Naturally, she considers herself a Buckeye. She holds an M.ED in Education Technology (1986) and a BBA in Human Resource Manageme[...]