The George Gund Foundation’s 2025 Photography Commission, Bridges, features fine arts photographer Kristine Potter as she turns her lens on Cleveland’s bridges—structures that reveal both the weight of civic ambition and the quiet persistence of new life around them. The images sometimes stand as monuments and other times recede into the landscape. Potter notes, “The eras they represent are visible in their forms, in their wear, in the way the city now moves around them.”

The photographer’s association of time and bridges are echoed by Catherine Gund, chair of the Foundation. In her letter, she welcomes the fourth generation of Gund family members to the Board of Trustees and highlights the expansion of Cleveland community board members. Against the backdrop of tumultuous times, she identifies the strength of bridges “between generations, between despair and determination, between what we have inherited and what we dare to create.”

Foundation president, Tony Richardson, reflects on the importance of bridges as connectors in his own life and at the Foundation—metaphorically and literally. Bridges cannot stand without infrastructure, support, and care. The Foundation’s partners are no different. In the face of deep funding cuts to vital public services and programs, the Foundation increased its 2025 grantmaking payout. We remain constant and true to our values. We remain a bridge in our beloved community.