BUILDING BRIDGES ARTS COLLABORATIVE
  • About
    • Programs
  • Collection
    • 2018 Facing Homelessness
    • 2018 Trades of the Duwamish
    • 2017-Slavic Village- Rose Window
    • 2017 Jackson Street >
      • 1850-1919
      • 1919 - 1960s
    • 2016
    • 2015- Migration Mural
    • It is Above that you and I shall Go
    • Beyond The Storm
    • 2013- Forsythias
    • 2012 >
      • Foreclosure in the Firelands
      • Simon
    • 2011 Waterworks
    • 2011 Applewood
    • 2010- Larchmere
    • 2009 >
      • Wish Museum
      • Settlers Landings
      • Honoring our Community Organizers
    • 2008 >
      • Virgie Ezelle Patton
      • Tents of Hope
    • 2007 >
      • The Interfaith Center
      • Fairmount Presbyterian Church
    • 2006- Turnstyle
    • 2004- St. Pauls Community Church
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 Serving our Community Through Public Art

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 For the past ten years Building Bridges has run three major programs, our Summer Mural Institute, our  Artist in Residence , and the Artist  Mentoring Program.  Our Summer Mural Institute has run every summer to involve large groups of community members, 15- 19 year old artists, professional artists and community groups in the mural making process.  Our Artist in Residence has brought artists to our hometown of Cleveland Ohio to be contributing artists to mural projects in our core neighborhoods.   Our Artists Mentoring brings  mural making practices into mental health facilities, juvenile detention centers, and public schools to provide at risk youth an opportunity to become creative leaders in socially engaged public art.  Our community partners with our Artists Mentoring Program are instrumental in bringing creative practices into environments of healing, recovery and reconciliation.

 Summer Mural Institute
​The Summer Mural Institute  each year builds teams of emerging artists ages 16-21 with professional mural artists. We work  in partnership with job placement agencies to open opportunities to youth for creative career options. Each of our projects are partnerships with our local community development corporations, neighborhood center, churches, and local schools. Our projects recreate  locations that were vacant into monumental works of public art.

Artist in Residence
Building Bridges was founded with the support of multiple church communities of the near west side in Cleveland Ohio.
Artists are often creating sacred spaces with their work,  no matter what their background may be.
Our practices of creating sacred spaces has been explored through several visiting artists.  Each artist creates temporary public art for sites in need of revitalization.



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Artist Mentoring Program
Restorative practices in the creative arts are necessary to reinvigorate and restore the lives of those who are suffering.  Artists naturally see the opportunity to engage fear and anger through making.  Building Bridges merged their mural making practices into residential treatment centers, juvenile detention facilities, and schools for behaviorally challenged youth over the past eight years. The youth we brought creative outlets to were hungry for alternative ways to express anger, pain and fear. The principals of peace building we practiced through the arts were aligned with conflict resolution trainings by pastor Doug Horner of the United Church of Christ.
We worked directly with our judges and probation officers to build strong adult networks for youth at risk of remaining in the systems of repercussions. We provided alternatives  through restorative peace building. Cleveland Christian home, Applewood Residential Center now house our murals.

Clients

Washington State Labor Council
Epilepsy Association 
Housing Network
Applewood Center
Larchmere Community Dev. Corp
Individual sites in your  neighborhood

Awards

Seattle Arts and Culture
Ohio Arts Council
Cuyahoga Arts and Culture
The Gund Foundation 
The Bruening Foundation
The Wean Foundation 
The Newman Foundation 
The Cleveland Foundation 
​ The United Church of Christ
​The Presbyterian Church USA

Publications

- Wall Street Journal
- New York Times
- Art News
-Art in American
-The Plain Dealer

Interviews

Applause Interview-NPR




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  • About
    • Programs
  • Collection
    • 2018 Facing Homelessness
    • 2018 Trades of the Duwamish
    • 2017-Slavic Village- Rose Window
    • 2017 Jackson Street >
      • 1850-1919
      • 1919 - 1960s
    • 2016
    • 2015- Migration Mural
    • It is Above that you and I shall Go
    • Beyond The Storm
    • 2013- Forsythias
    • 2012 >
      • Foreclosure in the Firelands
      • Simon
    • 2011 Waterworks
    • 2011 Applewood
    • 2010- Larchmere
    • 2009 >
      • Wish Museum
      • Settlers Landings
      • Honoring our Community Organizers
    • 2008 >
      • Virgie Ezelle Patton
      • Tents of Hope
    • 2007 >
      • The Interfaith Center
      • Fairmount Presbyterian Church
    • 2006- Turnstyle
    • 2004- St. Pauls Community Church
  • Get Involved
  • Contact Us
  • Donate