Music & Arts

 

Carlos Jones and the P.L.U.S. Band performing at Howe Meadow.

NPS / D.J. Reiser

Listen to Live Music

Conservancy Concerts

Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park hosts a variety of concerts throughout the year. Enjoy a family-friendly outdoor concert series, Rhythm on the River in the summer. Or Concerts at Happy Days Lodge in the winter.

Voices in the Valley

The Peninsula Foundation supports the arts community by presenting Voices in the Valley, a showcase of traditional roots music. Join them for a relaxing evening in the historic G.A.R. Hall.

Blossom Music Center

The summer home of the Cleveland Orchestra is nestled within Cuyahoga Valley. Catch their annual Blossom Festival. The iconic pavilion seats 5,700 people, with space for about 13,500 more on the lawn.

 

Photographer at Beaver Marsh.

NPS / Kris Brown

Photography and Visual Arts

Cuyahoga Valley Photographic Society

Part of the Conservancy, the Photo Society sponsors monthly presentations by locally and nationally recognized photographers as well as workshops, photo walks, and an annual contest.

Nature Includes You

The Nature Includes You traveling exhibit explores the rich relationships that people of color have with nature in Northeast Ohio. It opened in March 2025 and runs through 2026. Some venues offer gallery talks and other related programs.

Bees, Bugs, and Butterflies: Pollinating Along the Cuyahoga

Bees, Bugs, and Butterflies: Pollinating Along the Cuyahoga is a traveling exhibit presented by Community Life Collaborative and the National Park Service. It opened in May 2023 and will run through late 2025. Some venues offer gallery talks and other related programs.

The Gallery

Find information about the current exhibit at the Conservancy's gallery space in the village of Boston.

Online Photo Galleries

View a collection of photographs taken in Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

 

Lectures and Theater

Porthouse Theatre

Since its founding in 1968, Porthouse Theatre has entertained scores of Northeast Ohio audiences and provided training opportunities for countless developing theatre artists. Every summer, more than 20,000 guests enjoy the Porthouse experience, picnicking with friends and family on the surrounding grounds or in one of their pavilions before enjoying a professional production in their comfortable 500-seat covered outdoor theatre.

Creative Writing

CVNP Poetic Toolkit

The National Park Service and the Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park have a long standing partnership with the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University. Our current collaboration is a Poetic Inventory of the insects, birds, mammals, fish, fungi, flowering plants, and other forms of life that make the park their home. Watch this collection grow over time. Contact Wick if you want to participate. Online Emerge and Thread tools let you make a poem about park geology, prehistoric people, and the Ohio & Erie Canal.