Photography

Portraits of Cleveland Public Schools students were created by Judith Joy Ross, a visiting critic at Yale university and a former Guggenheim Fellow, for the 1992 annual report. Her striking and evocative images have been displayed at the Museum of Modern Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the James Danziger Gallery among other distinguished venues. The Foundation commissioned the photographs in this report as a reflection of its commitment to the children of the Cleveland Public Schools.

Lois Conner’s photographs, completed for the 1991 annual report, underscore the development of new priorities for our environmental grantmaking which focused locally on urban environmental problems, regionally on Great Lakes issues, and nationally on policy related to the mitigation of global climate change. Conner’s photography has been exhibited and published throughout the world. She is the recipient of a grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

The series of images used in the 1990 annual report confronted Cleveland’s residential distress while at the same time reflecting the city’s diversity and resilience. These photographs were not from the portfolio of the so-called “comeback city” which focused mainly on the renewal of downtown Cleveland. Instead, these images are photographer Michael Book’s portrayal of city neighborhoods that were struggling to adapt to significant ongoing demographic and economic dislocation. Book’s photographs have been exhibited internationally and he is the recipient of a grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.