Tag: Placemaking

Ohio Shakespeare Festival is celebrating its 25th anniversary season. For 25 years, Ohio Shakes has hired local artists to create classic theatre live under the stars in partnership with Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens and more recently, indoors at Greystone Hall.

By Grace Carter Peter B. Jones is the internationally-renowned Onondaga artist who created a statue that many Akronites know fondly. The bronze-cast Native American man hoisting a canoe, located on the corner of Merriman Road and North Portage Path, helps engage passers[...]

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[...]

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[...]