CURRENT WORK
Work developed with communities across Ward 8, Cleveland (2026)
“Even the smallest acts of imagining hold within them seeds of transformation.”
— Vlad Glăveanu, Possibilities Studies: A Manifesto (2022)
Making Room
Join workshops in St. Clair Superior, share stories, sound and images, and help shape the work.
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Making Room
Join workshops in Ward 8, Cleveland. Share stories, explore through sound and images, help shape future visions.
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Making Room is what happens when a community tells its own story. A conversation on a front porch. The people who make a place feel like home. A street you've walked a thousand times. A place everyone knows, but nobody else sees quite the same way. This is about Ward 8 as lived and imagined by the people who call it home.
This Summer, through storytelling, theatre, sound, music, and visual art, local artists AAwful Aaron, Kadijah Wingo, Ben Smith, Emanuel Wallace, Caramel, and Rebecca Groth invite residents to explore memories, everyday heroism, community histories, and future possibilities. Along the way, there will be food, conversation, making, listening and time well spent together.
Part storytelling, part mixtape, part public artwork, Making Room will come together in a community celebration in the Fall. It is a love letter to Ward 8, a chance to listen, imagine and create together, a reminder of the power that already exists within us, between us and throughout our neighborhoods.
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HEARD, SEEN & UNDERSTOOD.
Built from conversations, memories, artwork, music and performance created through the Making Room workshops, Heard, Seen & Understood brings community stories and visions of the future into public view.
Part exhibition, part album launch, part community performance and all parts celebration, Heard, Seen & Understood brings together the stories, artwork, music, sound and ideas developed through Making Room workshops.
Produced by Ward 8 residents alongside local artists, it offers a chance to gather, listen, connect and celebrate the voices, experiences and possibilities that already exist within the community.
Format: Exhibition · Community performance · Music & listening experience · Celebration
Presented at: Pop-up events across Ward 8, culminating in a community celebration at the end of Summer 2026.
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STORY-MAP: Take a moment to explore the creative prompts below — reflect on your city, then send us your thoughts using the form.
An open call to notice, reflect and respond to what lies beneath. Inspired by the Hopewell Culture and Greater Cleveland’s layered ground, The Hopewell Project invites you to choose one or more prompts and respond in your own way.
Choose your format – text, image, voice, or video.
Your submission will be added to a digital map and may be included in exhibitions, workshops and community archives.
Share your voice. Add to a living public record of place, memory, and connection.
Submit Your Response
An open call to notice, reflect, and respond to what lies beneath. Inspired by the Hopewell Culture and Greater Cleveland’s layered ground, The Hopewell Project invites you to choose one or more prompts and respond in your own way.
Choose your format – text, image, voice, or video.
Your submission will be added to a digital map and may be included in exhibitions, workshops and community archives.
Share your voice. Add to a living public record of place, memory, and connection.
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