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This project has been generously funded by ArtPlaceAmerica and Northeast Shores Development Corporation, with added support by The Collinwood Painted Rain Barrel Project.

The artists proposing grant  project ideas were part of a greater community effort to decide what subjects the projects would tackle. Youth Engagement, Healthy Eating, Vacancy and Collinwood History were the four subjects voted for.

The game was proposed for Healthy Eating, and we were required to build 'science fair' types of displays to promote our ideas to the voters of our ward. We marched in a (chilly) parade all throughout the main streets, and the first 100 voters were given a 'Ballot Box' mug made by Brick Ceramic Studio. (I chose to make my own at the same studio so one more voter could have one). 

Voters ages 14 and up, residents of Ward 8, came out to 6 - 8 voting locations to cast ballots for their top 5 choices, and the top vote counts were awarded the grants, 9 total projects won.

Pictured at the bottom: Kevin Scheuring, director of Coit Road Farmer's Market and Margaret Craig, director of Grovewood Salvation Army's Learning Zone after school program and Summer camps, both won their projects and both of whom I'm lucky to partner with in my project.

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  Healthy Eating Just Got More FUN!

Created by 2016 Ballot Box Project Grantee Linda Zolten Wood. She engaged Collinwood children from 1st - 5th grades who attended workshops in Northeast Ohio's Memorial Nottingham Library (Mem/Nott), Grovewood Road Salvation Army Summer Camp and Collinwood Branch Library designing ‘Veggie Superheroes & Villains’.

 

Zolten Wood has been painting the newly planted vegetable garden box at Mem/Nott in the early morning hours before the sun bore down and scorched her face. The kids’ hilarious and varied characters are serving as inspiration to decorate box (and eventually the giant board game), positioned directly outside of the children’s section windows of the library, echoing the accent colors of Mem/Nott’s architecture and the painted rain barrel hand selected for the blues and greens designed by local architect Richard Fleischman.

Her progress is being recorded on her facebook page, “Operation Vegetables” on a regular basis and will continue as a giant board game begins to be assembled, designed and painted.

Memorial Nottingham Library‘s new Vegetable Garden box is for the families of the neighborhood to water, nurture and harvest while they enjoy their artwork and is NOW OPEN to anyone who wants to help throughout the Summer & Fall until the first frost. Children's Librarian Libby Hampton can be contacted at (216) 623-7038 to learn more about the garden and how to volunteer. The box will be replanted each Summer as long as there is support and interest.

 

This project has been generously funded by ArtPlaceAmerica and Northeast Shores Development Corporation, with added support by The Collinwood Painted Rain Barrel Project,  Neighborhood Connections, Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer DistrictCleveland Water and  Cleveland Climate Action Fund. 

                                               Contact:

Linda Zolten Wood
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