About

Mission Statement

To encourage the development and appreciation of the visual and performing arts and provide access to quality art reflecting the diversity of Beachwood and Northeast Ohio

     History


Beachwood Arts Council's (BAC) inception was a 1964 Arts Festival to benefit the Beachwood High School PTA.  Incorporated as a non profit in 1968, for over twenty years BAC has hosted the Beachwood K-12 Art Show and the Ileen Kelner Juried High School Art Show, in which over twenty-five high schools participate for cash prizes. In addition, BAC has celebrated Cleveland's ethnic diversity by sponsoring a "DiversityFEST," featuring the artwork, food, music and dance of a local cultural group, including the Asian, African-American, Hungarian, Irish and Italian communities.

BAC presents the Si and Shirley Wachsberger Arts Scholarship Award , a $500 scholarship, to a graduating high school senior who will pursue the arts at college. In recent years, BAC initiated the popular Sunday Sounds Series and the community hands-on art workshops ranging from glass blowing to painting to monoprinting.
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Past home of BAC
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Present home of BAC

Board of Trustees & Officers

Paula Rollins President
Ellen Hacker Vice-President
Joe Kalk Vice-President
Doug Firman Treasurer
Laura Beytas Corresponding Secretary
Sandi Horwitz Recording Secretary
Marla Keilin Recording Secretary
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Marlene Benjamin
Linda Boardman
Arlyne Bochnek
Hazel Brown
Barbara Flowerman
Martin Flowerman
Carolyn Frankel-Krieger
Leah Gilbert
Harriet Gorden
Stephanie Jacobs
Phyllis Kalk
Tobi Mattes
Rosemary Nemeth
Debby Rapoport
Sharon Schlesinger
Abbie Sender
Ellen Winer
Shari Wolf
Laura Zuckerman

Honorary Life Trustees
Lee Ann Holstein
Shirley Wachsberger