http://www.universitycircle.org/news en-us Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:06:19 UTC University Circle University Circle info@universitycircle.org http://www.universitycircle.org/news/2013/05/cleveland-institute-of-art-to-break-ground-on-final-phase-of-an-eight-year-635-million-expansion-and http://www.universitycircle.org/news/2013/05/cleveland-institute-of-art-to-break-ground-on-final-phase-of-an-eight-year-635-million-expansion-and#comments The Cleveland Institute of Art will soon go to bid on the final chunk of an eight-year, $63.5 million expansion and renovation in University Circle.   On Tuesday, trustees voted to go ahead with the $33.5 million second phase of the project, which started construction in 2009 with the $30 million Phase I renovation of the Joseph McCullough Center for the Visual Arts at 11610 Euclid Ave.   A groundbreaking for the second phase is scheduled for Wednesday, June 26, and construction is to be completed by September, 2015.   On Thursday, the Euclid Corridor Design Review Committee enthusiastically approved the Phase II... Thu, 16 May 2013 12:00:00 UTC University Circle http://www.universitycircle.org/news/2013/05/townhouse-project-in-clevelands-university-circle-bucks-recent-trend-toward-apartments http://www.universitycircle.org/news/2013/05/townhouse-project-in-clevelands-university-circle-bucks-recent-trend-toward-apartments#comments Bucking the apartment-building blitz, a Cleveland real estate investment group plans to construct and sell 20 townhouses on the eastern rim of University Circle. Between November and April, Bluewater Capital Partners LLC quietly bought 0.7 acres along East 118th Street. Now the investment group, led by executives at Allegro Realty Advisors of Cleveland, is preparing to clear the land and hopes to start construction this summer.   The project, called the University Place Townhomes, would be the fifth new residential development on the street since 2007.   "University Circle is a unique place on the globe," said Michael Cantor, a Bluewater principal. "The walk-ability... Wed, 15 May 2013 12:00:00 UTC University Circle http://www.universitycircle.org/news/2013/05/cleveland-museums-dome-headed-dinosaur-find-adds-insight-to-dinosaur-diversity http://www.universitycircle.org/news/2013/05/cleveland-museums-dome-headed-dinosaur-find-adds-insight-to-dinosaur-diversity#comments If the new dinosaur that paleontologists Michael Ryan of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and David Evans of Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum unveiled Tuesday hadn't been so hard-headed, they might never have found it.   Not that the animal was stubborn. Just dense up top. The crown of the 85 million-year-old animal's skull was as hefty as a Stephen King novel – a whopping two-inch-thick dome of bone.   The massive skull cap was all that remained of the otherwise slight, collie-sized dinosaur. The dome's robustness saved it from whatever ravages befell the rest of the skeleton. A graduate student working... Wed, 08 May 2013 12:00:00 UTC University Circle http://www.universitycircle.org/news/2013/05/restore-cleveland-hope-sponsors-walk-for-hope http://www.universitycircle.org/news/2013/05/restore-cleveland-hope-sponsors-walk-for-hope#comments Eighty-four-year-old community activist Joan Southgate is lacing up her walking shoes again 11 years after her inspiring trek across Ohio to raise awareness of the state's important role in the Underground Railroad. This time drummers of the Rainey Institute, Distinguished Gentlemen of the Spoken Word, The Hue People, schoolchildren, friends and supporters will join her on her journey. The Walk for Hope will be held May 18th in University Circle. The 3-mile walk is a fund-raiser to support Restore Cleveland Hope, a grass-roots organization Southgate founded. RCH, a non-profit group dedicated to celebrating Cleveland’s anti-slavery past, has been... Wed, 01 May 2013 12:00:00 UTC University Circle http://www.universitycircle.org/news/2013/04/music-settlement-offers-array-of-performances-and-introduces-a-priceless-violin-to-celebrate-centenn http://www.universitycircle.org/news/2013/04/music-settlement-offers-array-of-performances-and-introduces-a-priceless-violin-to-celebrate-centenn#comments Three of Cleveland's major cultural institutions began serving the public in the second decade of the 20th century, including two that would go on to become international titans: the Cleveland Museum of Art (1916) and the Cleveland Orchestra (1918).   But a more modest giant was first to race past the starting gate. Almeda Adams, a blind musician, came from New York to found the Cleveland Music School Settlement in 1912 and educate the masses.   The school, now the Music Settlement, continues to train musicians young and old, provide early childhood education and offer classes in music therapy.   The school also... Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:00:00 UTC University Circle http://www.universitycircle.org/news/2013/04/polish-your-inner-anglophile-at-new-cleveland-museum-of-art-exhibit-of-british-drawings http://www.universitycircle.org/news/2013/04/polish-your-inner-anglophile-at-new-cleveland-museum-of-art-exhibit-of-british-drawings#comments The Cleveland Museum of Art doesn't often behave like a butler at a country house bearing a calling card on a silver tray. But there's no mistaking the tenor of "British Drawings," the current exhibition that explores two centuries of watercolors, ink drawings and pencil sketches from the sceptered isle. The show is a cordial invitation to get in touch with your inner Anglophile, delivered with a punctilious bow. It has Charles Dickens, "Harry Potter" and "Downton Abbey" written all over it.  With images of gray skies, slender maidens, overstuffed Victorian drawing rooms and forests that seem ready to come... Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:00:00 UTC University Circle http://www.universitycircle.org/news/2013/03/cleveland-orchestra-receives-10-million-grant-from-cleveland-foundation http://www.universitycircle.org/news/2013/03/cleveland-orchestra-receives-10-million-grant-from-cleveland-foundation#comments The Cleveland Foundation has awarded the Cleveland Orchestra a grant of $10 million, the largest to an arts organization in the foundation's 99-year history. The grant is part of a record $26.6 million in Cleveland Foundation funding in the first quarter of 2013. It includes nearly $10 million for core neighborhood and youth initiatives.   The previous record of $21.6 million in the third quarter of 2012 included a $10 million centennial grant to Case Western Reserve University.   "We think this is a pivotal time for the orchestra, and we want to be there for them," Ronald B. Richard, the foundation's president... Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:00:00 UTC University Circle http://www.universitycircle.org/news/2013/03/can-university-circle-lure-the-rich-back-to-cleveland-acquire-a-skyline-and-share-the-wealth http://www.universitycircle.org/news/2013/03/can-university-circle-lure-the-rich-back-to-cleveland-acquire-a-skyline-and-share-the-wealth#comments All trend lines are down, down, down in the recent Census Bureau update on eight Northeast Ohio counties, including Cuyahoga County.   The latest estimates show that Cuyahoga lost 4,872 people from 2011 to 2012, the second-biggest loss in the country after Detroit’s Wayne County.   Nevertheless, Cleveland’s University Circle, the city’s cultural, educational and medical mecca, is looking up. It’s one of the brightest islands of growth in the entire state, raising the possibility that shrinking Ohio cities that are rich in cultural, educational and medical resources can grow again — at least in discrete locations. ... Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:00:00 UTC University Circle http://www.universitycircle.org/news/2013/03/technology-that-serves-to-enhance-not-distract http://www.universitycircle.org/news/2013/03/technology-that-serves-to-enhance-not-distract#comments “EVERY museum is searching for this holy grail, this blending of technology and art,” said David Franklin, the director of the Cleveland Museum of Art, in a tour of a ground-floor gallery in which touch screens loaded with interactive features offer new ways of viewing painting and sculpture. In recent weeks, he has been giving the tour to delegations from rival museums, and he expects, he said, to be “plagiarized, imitated and emulated.”   He may be right. “In the museum world, everyone’s watching Cleveland right now,” said Erin Coburn, a museum consultant who has worked at both the J. Paul... Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:00:00 UTC University Circle http://www.universitycircle.org/news/2013/03/cleveland-botanical-gardens-big-spring-celebration-welcomes-families-and-flower-fans http://www.universitycircle.org/news/2013/03/cleveland-botanical-gardens-big-spring-celebration-welcomes-families-and-flower-fans#comments Expect imagination-fueled fun and gorgeous blooms in Big Spring, Cleveland Botanical Garden's multisensory salute to the season of renewal. The garden's spring fling, happening Saturday, March 23, through Sunday, April 28, will appeal to families and people who love gardens. Not even spring showers can dampen the fun, because indoor as well as outdoor activities are planned.   The event's "Through the Looking Glass" vibe will be immediately apparent as you walk through a 12-foot-tall, tipped-over flowerpot to get to the Big Spring exhibits. A giant spade and 9-foot-tall fiberglass flowers add to the sensation that you are a bug in a... 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