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A good visit with the leadership team at Partnership for Equitable and Resilient Communities + Julian Khan with Neighbors Neighboring + Neighbor Up

We are looking forward to their positive impact in our community.

Community Based Archives.

📣 This week, Mellon released a new nationwide report on community-based archives.

Community-based archives are independent organizations that collect and care for the objects and stories of their local communities.

They preserve pieces of history that might otherwise go unsaved.

From tribal nations to neighborhood museums, these archives are rooted in the lives, people, and experiences of their locality.

Though community-based archives have had a long-standing presence in the U.S., there has been limited data about the field—from its characteristics to its evolving needs.

To address this gap, Mellon Foundation partnered with Engage R+D and a “Design Circle” of archival practitioners and field experts to conduct a comprehensive landscape study.

The report provides insight into:

• How these archives are defined across geography, focus areas, and governance models
• How community-based archives engage and serve their communities
• How funding sources for these archives are shifting over time
• What resources are needed to support long-term security and sustainability
• What structural barriers community-based archives face

_BOOK RECOMMENDATION: 𝘾𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝘼𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖

Mason, J., & Suehsdorf, A. (Eds.). (1962). Creative America. Ridge Press.

_ABSTRACT This book has been created for the National Cultural Center. The national center for the performing arts is about to be built in Washington. Creative America is conceived in its spirit. It is a book about creation in all the arts. It is not a survey or an encyclopedia. But it is an attempt to picture the circle of creation: It starts with the sources of inspiration. It shows work beginning - the first struggle with an idea and the attempt to put it on paper, or on canvas, or in stone, or on stage. Elation is there as the work advances. So is dejection. There is the finished work - and its audience. The circle continues as learning begins and youth reaches out for new aspirations. The circle comes full.

When man creates, he is affirming his individuality and his humanity. This book, like the National Cultural Center, is dedicated to that spirit. (p. 3)

CONTENTS
The arts in America by John F. Kennedy.
Sources of inspiration (photographs).
The creative process by James Baldwin.
Work (photographs).
The creative arts by Louis Kronenberger.
Accomplishment (photographs).
Stone steps by John Ciardi.
In a glass of c***r by Robert Frost.
The creative heritage by Mark Van Doren.
Learning (photographs).
The creative purpose:
Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Harry S. Truman.
Aspirations (photographs).
Creative America by Joseph Wood Krutch.
Photographs by Magnum.

The “National Cultural Center” would become a living memorial named 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 𝗙. 𝗞𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗱𝘆 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝘀

_𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙠 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙀𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙣𝙤𝙭 Today at 6:30pm EST
Join us by the fire to mark the shift from summer to the fall.

This experience will begin at 6:30 and end at 8pm.

Take a moment to hold space for change.

*How are you closing out your time from this past season? What have you learned?

*What needs to be shed?

*How do you want to enter this season?

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹? 𝗚𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗲.

_Dress for the weather + perhaps bring something warm to drink

Fall Equinox.

📷: Jean-Michel Basquiat, “Pez Dispenser”(1984) on view at PAAM

Join us in wishing Sookkyung Park good travels back to her home as she completes her time in our community in Cleveland.

We also look forward to when she returns.

The connections between papermaking, memory + creating space and breath for unknown possibility are potent in Sookkyung’s practice.

We are grateful to have hosted you + look forward to what emerges.

Join us in welcoming visiting artist Sookyung Park!

Park will be present in our community while in residency at Morgan Conservatory

_ABOUT THE ARTIST

“Paper is more than a material to me—it is a vessel of memory.

As a child, I made toys, cushions, and kites from recycled paper, and grew up in a house where paper was part of the windows and floors. These experiences have shaped the way I understand paper—as something that carries traces of childhood, culture, and lived experience.

Through my practice, I seek to transform these memories into new forms, exploring the emotional and material possibilities of paper. At the Morgan Paper Residency, I hope to experiment with diverse papers and processes, expanding my practice and discovering new ways to express memory, identity, and the traces of life through this ever-evolving material.” —S.P.

Follow Sookyung at Sookkyung Park to learn more about her practice.

Welcome to Cleveland + to our arts and culture community!

Histories.

What does Cleveland have to do with Labor Day? More than you might think…

Labor Day has a surprising connection to Cleveland—and to John Patterson Green, a Black lawyer, politician, and judge who helped make the holiday a reality in Ohio.

In 1890, Green introduced legislation in the Ohio Senate calling for a Labor Day holiday. His efforts helped establish September 1 as Ohio’s first official Labor Day in 1890, years before the federal holiday was established.

So as we celebrate Labor Day, remember that this national tradition has some very local roots.

Want to learn more? Signal Cleveland recently explored Green’s story and his place in the history of Labor Day.

Read the full story from Signal Cleveland: https://signalcleveland.org/father-of-labor-day-was-black-lawmaker-from-cleveland-john-patterson-green/

Credit: Courtesy of Cleveland Public Library Photograph Collection

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