CEZ Elects New Board Chair
Renee Spillum succeeds current Chair and CEZ Founder, Catherine Reid Day, who will remain with the organization as Chair Emerita.
"Dreaming to making": A tour of the Zone
National convention-goers from Americans for the Arts visited the Zone in June, from single studios to Can Can Wonderland and Vandalia Tower.
CEZ Xchange: planning for people and places
How can the CEZ build on its pluses and perhaps avoid the minuses that can come with fast growth? Who can we partner with to enhance our public realm as well as our entrepreneurial spirit?
CEZ Happy Hour celebrates a “chamber of dreams come true”
On November 8, 2018, some 80 people gathered for a CEZ Happy Hour. The venue this time: the soaring atrium of University Enterprise Labs on Westgate—another kind of maker space, where life scientists find a collaborative setting for tackling human problems.
The conundrum of creative space
Five years ago, the building now occupied by C&E Lofts was home to dozens of artists and makers from a variety of disciplines—many of whom were well-regarded in their fields. When the building was sold to a developer who planned to turn it into high-end housing, it became clear that the conundrum that often faces creative communities would soon challenge this area, as well.