Applause is an Emmy award-winning locally produced TV show that celebrates artists and cultural groups around Cleveland and Northeast Ohio. Each week this on-air arts magazine broadcasts a fresh half-hour of features, performances, on-location reports, and interviews from the studios of WVIZ/PBS ideastream. Special thanks to the Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College for the use of their Steinway Piano on Around Noon/Applause.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Topics: Arts, Economy
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On this week we focus our attention… and our cameras… on the Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood. Why? Well because this community, on Cleveland’s near west side, has used the arts to literally transform itself.

The cornerstone of the Detroit-Shoreway neighbor is something called the Gordon Square Arts District – a unique collaboration involving arts organizations that, collectively, have two primary goals… art and economic development. And get this: it’s working. The Gordon Square Arts District is helping to infuse more than $500 million dollars in economic development in the surrounding community.

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Production of Applause on WVIZ/PBS is made possible by grants from:

The Cleveland Foundation
The George Gund Foundation
The John P. Murphy Foundation
Kulas Foundation

United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland, Inc.

The Ohio Arts Council helped fund this program with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.