Cleveland Heights' ARTFUL born again at former church

As Shannon Morris surveyed the bright, airy sanctuary at the former St. Alban Church, she had a thought about the future of her arts nonprofit.

"We have control over our destiny," she said.

ARTFUL, which supports artists with studio space, is moving into the building this month. It's the culmination of a year that saw Morris awarded a Cleveland Arts Prize even as her team members found themsevles "drained" after learning that they would have to vacate their former home, the Coventry PEACE campus.

“It's obviously a lot more responsibility to take care of a full building,” she said. “We were taking care of the old building, too. I will greatly miss the collaborative environment of all the organizations there. That's the part that hurts me.”

That old building was a former school, built