WHO WE ARE

Cleveland Arts Education Consortium is Northeast Ohio’s largest professional arts education member network and service organization. We bring all members, guests and presenters out of isolated silos, to one large table.

what we do

Our goal is to “sound the trumpet” in myriad ways to advocate for arts learning for young students through senior adults. We celebrate diverse heritages and share best practices to address real concerns and help strengthen members’ work. We create connective opportunities through professional development, programs, informal coffees and focused groups.

who we serve

We serve our diverse arts and non-arts community. We invest and serve our distinctive member network and their arts education work across Cleveland, NE Ohio and farther. We invite people at all stages of their lives to explore our resources and participate. We believe wholeheartedly in the value of the arts in teaching, learning and life.

CAEC is PROUD to be a ciff 50 community partner with

April 14, 2026

5:00 pm – 6:21 pm

Playhouse Square Ohio Theatre

"Tragedy, grief, faith, joy, and music build to a triumphant crescendo in this bittersweet emotional journey of a daughter's effort to orchestrate music to her late father's poems."

Produced by Obadiah Baker

Cinematographer Nikolai Berger

Cast : Michelle Johnson, Obadiah Baker, Alonzo Harris, Jamon Maple

After the sudden loss of her father, a respected Houston minister, to COVID-l9, opera soprano Michelle ''Missy" Johnson is left with unresolved grief and an unfinished relationship. When she discovers a poem her father wrote years earller, Missy joins longtime musical friends to transform the text into an orchestral work – a symbolic final conversation shaped through sound.

As the project unfolds, the film interweaves personal stories of loss, friendship, and collective trauma, culminating in a final performance that gives collective voice to grief.

Missy is an intimate documentary about how art, community, and shared presence help people endure loss – not by erasing grief, but by allowing it to be carried together.