William Cleveland

Who is William Cleveland?

William Cleveland is an American author and the director of the Center for the Study of Art & Community in Minneapolis, which he co-founded in 1991. After studying psychology at the University of Maryland, College Park, Cleveland went on to an extensive history in leading arts programs, including the California State Summer School for the Arts and California's Arts-In-Corrections Program, where he spent 10 years building the largest residential arts program in the state of California. Cleveland also serves as an adviser or on the advisory boards of several organizations, including Partners for Livable Communities, the British American Art Association's International Arts and Education Initiative, the Urban Arts Institute and UCLA's Artsreach. He is on the board of several schools and performance companies and has worked with the National Endowment for the Arts as a panelist and consultant.

He is the author of Art and Upheaval: Artists on the World's Frontlines, Art in Other Places: Artists at Work in America's Community and Social Institutions and a former contributing editor of High Performance magazine. He is also a performing musician.