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George Nemeth · Artists vs. Blight – WSJ.com
April 17th, 2009
Exciting coverage in the Weekend Journal section of the WSJ today:
Last month, artists Michael Di Liberto and Sunia Boneham moved into a two-story, three-bedroom house in Clevelands Collinwood neighborhood, where about 220 homes out of 5,000 sit vacant and boarded up. They lined their walls with Ms. Bonehams large, neon-hued canvases, turned a spare bedroom into a graphic-design studio and made the attic a rehearsal space for their band, Arte Povera.
The couple used to live in New York, but they were drawn to Cleveland by cheap rent and the creative possibilities of a city in transition. “It seemed real alive and cool,” said Mr. Di Liberto….
via Artists vs. Blight – WSJ.com.
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April 17th, 2009 at 9:11 am
very cool… Cleveland Style!
i like the positive press.
but in a strange way – i kinda want to keep this ‘our little secret’.
it must be the cleveland inside of me…
April 17th, 2009 at 10:18 am
very cool! doesn’t gloss things over, rather objective – but does create a much needed buzz!
i still want it to be our little secret though.
April 17th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
Spent a little time this evening at the Studios on 78th Street in the Gordon Square District…a terrific example of a sustained effort to use the arts as a magnet for economic development…all being pursued by individual entrepreneurs risking their own money in a block-by-block, building-by-building campaign to breathe life back into a once-languishing neighborhood…
As with Collinwood, it’s a “gardening” effort being led by residents with real “skin in the game,” and with little institutional support.
Of course, once activity like this draws the Journal’s attention, our institutional leaders will undoubtedly be lining up to take credit and try to cut themselves in…Success, after all, has many (improbable) fathers…