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Family FUNday: Mini Parade
with | Michelle Littlejohn
Tags For: Family Funday: Mini Parade
- Special Event
- Off-Site
Sunday, June 7, 2026, 1:00–4:00 p.m.
Location: Community Arts Center
Centro de Artes Comunitarias
Free; All Ages; No Reservation Required | Gratis; Todas Edades; Sin Cita Previa
About The Event
Join us at the Community Arts Center for Family FUNday as we launch our first mini -Parade with Michelle Littlejohn! Parades are special events that highlight culture, identity, and community voice through the creation of floats, costumes, displays, and often marches. We invite you to join us in the fun as we parade around the PIVOT building in anticipation of Parade the Circle!— the Cleveland Museum of Arts annual celebration that speaks to the innovation and collaboration that shapes creative communities.
Michelle Littlejohn is an independent artist and illustrator based in Cleveland, Ohio. She creates illustrations and products inspired by the little moments, big emotions, and everyday adventures of life as a mom of five, where inspiration is never in short supply. Vanilla Star Art & Café is her online shop featuring stickers, miniatures, and other charming finds. The name is deeply personal: the vanilla flower’s five petals represent her children, and the “star” represents her, Starrelish. It’s inspired by her story Kat Daycare, which follows a college student running a cat daycare and Mr. Wal, a squirrel who owns a magical tree café, where their worlds meet in cozy, adventurous ways.
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Sponsors
The Community Arts Center was made possible with principal support from Chuck and Char Fowler and the Eric and Jane Nord Family Fund. Major annual support for the Community Arts Center is provided by the Edwin D. Northrup II Fund and the Reinberger Foundation. Generous annual support is provided by the Giant Eagle Foundation.
All education programs at the Cleveland Museum of Art are underwritten by the CMA Fund for Education. Principal support is provided by the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation, Dieter and Susan M. Kaesgen, and Gail C. and Elliott L. Schlang. Major annual support is provided by Brenda and Marshall Brown, Mrs. Martine Kowal, Eva and Rudolf Linnebach, Medical Mutual of Ohio, the Edwin D. Northrup II Fund, the Reinberger Foundation, Shurtape Technologies, and the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation. Generous annual support is provided by an anonymous donor, Gini and Randy Barbato, the M. E. and F. J. Callahan Foundation, Dr. William A. Chilcote Jr. and Dr. Barbara S. Kaplan, Char and Chuck Fowler, the Giant Eagle Foundation, Linda Harper, the late Marta and the late Donald M. Jack Jr., Susan LaPine, Bill and Joyce Litzler, the Logsdon Family Fund for Education, Sarah Nash, Courtney and Michael Novak, William J. and Katherine T. O’Neill, the Pickering Foundation, William Roj and Mary Lynn Durham, Suzanne Cushwa Rusnak and Jeff Rusnak, Ellen and Lowell Satre, in memory of Dee Schafer, Betty T. and David M. Schneider, the Sally and Larry Sears Fund for Education Endowment, Roy Smith, Paula and Eugene Stevens, the Trilling Family Foundation, Jack and Jeanette Walton, and the Womens Council of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
The Cleveland Museum of Art is funded in part by residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.
Education programs are supported in part by the Ohio Arts Council, which receives support from the State of Ohio and the National Endowment for the Arts.
