Akron Beacon Journal/Ohio.com
By Kerry Clawson
Published: March 20, 2019
As in previous years, the Knight Foundation’s mission is to foster informed and engaged communities, using the transformative power of the arts as a means to that end.
Ganuza cited Akron arts challenge winner the Curated Storefront as an example of an Akron project that created a larger impact downtown. Empty storefronts were transformed temporarily into art installation spaces, beautifying the streetscape, encouraging people to come downtown to patronize nearby businesses and casting the storefronts in a different light.
“It was a very pinpointed intervention that has these bigger impacts,″ he said.