Category: Community Connections

Photo: Christy Bolingbroke and NCCAkron Board, Photo credit: Julian Curet The National Center for Choreography–Akron (NCCAkron) has received a $500,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation in honor of Executive/Artistic Director Christy Bolingbroke’s decade of visionary[...]

Guest Blogger: Christy Bolingbroke, Executive & Artistic Director of NCCAkron As the second choreographic center of its kind in the country, NCCAkron often asks what does it mean to be a ‘national’ center that is neither in the physical center of the country nor[...]

Guest Blogger: Christy Bolingbroke, Executive & Artistic Director of NCCAkron Beyond affording an academic environment for artists to explore, the National Center for Choreography at The University of Akron (NCCAkron) partners with The University of Akron to enhance[...]

Guest Blogger: Christy Bolingbroke, Executive & Artistic Director of NCCAkron On the eve of NCCAkron’s fifth anniversary year, I cannot help but reflect because it feels like we are still just getting started.  Part of our origin story includes the [...]

Guest Blogger: Chelby Benson Social Distance. COVID Hours. Sanitize. Disinfect. Repeat. This is all we have heard for the last nine months. As artists, fine arts directors, art educators and every career path forge their way through the unknown, the arts have faced an e[...]

For the final blog post of this series we will learn about a few Creatives of All Things Tasty who also happen to be vendors at an entrepreneurial co-op located at 21 Furnace Street in Akron. Explore the products of two clever cooks who have invented products that will [...]

In 2015, the City of Cuyahoga Falls initiated a downtown transformation strategy to replace the failing 37 year old Front Street pedestrian mall.  At the first downtown circulation plan meeting, a PowerPoint slide was displayed that simply stated “A dream is just[...]

In this blog series we will continue to learn about some of the Creatives of All Things Tasty who also happen to be vendors at an entrepreneurial co-op located at 21 Furnace Street in Akron. Today, we revisit Sweets as we explore the culinary application of honey and th[...]

In this blog series we will continue to learn about some of the Creatives of All Things Tasty who also happen to be vendors at an entrepreneurial co-op located at 21 Furnace Street in Akron. Today, the focus is once again on beautifully blended beverages where you will [...]

In this blog series we will continue to learn about some of the Creatives of All Things Tasty who also happen to be vendors at an entrepreneurial co-op located at 21 Furnace Street in Akron. Today, the focus again is on some spectacular sweets, which you can find inside[...]