The Orange County Arts Commission (OCAC) is pleased to announce recipients of the 2017-18 Grassroots Arts Program and Artist Project Grants. The OCAC awarded twenty-five Grassroots Arts Program Grants and seven Artist Project Grants, totaling $57,713, to the following organizations and artists:
- Boomerang Youth: The Citizen Artist
- Carrboro Elementary School PTA: Cultural arts in-school performances
- Cedar Ridge High School: Orange County Public Schools’ 2018 Cultural Explosion
- Chapel Hill Philharmonia: The Composer is Dead free children’s concert; Anna Lamidis free concert
- Eno Publishers: Hidden Hillsborough
- Ephesus Elementary School PTA: Cultural arts in-school performances
- Estes Hills Elementary School PTA: Cultural arts in-school performances
- Hillsborough Arts Council: Operating support; Last Friday ArtWalk
- Hillsborough Elementary School PTA: 4th Grade Poetry Residency with Phillip Shabazz
- Kidzu Children’s Museum: Curating Creativity
- Mary Scroggs Elementary School PTA: Paperhand Puppet Extravaganza
- New Hope Elementary School: Title 1 Artist in Residence Program for New Hope, Efland-Cheeks Global, Central, and Grady Brown Elementary Schools
- North Carolina Arts in Action: NC Arts in Action at Rashkis Elementary School
- North Carolina Symphony: Concerts for Orange County/Chapel Hill-Carrboro elementary students
- Northside Elementary School PTA: Cultural arts in-school performances
- One Song Productions: 2017-18 fall, winter and spring productions
- Orange County Historical Museum: Art and History Community Partnership Program
- Pathways Elementary: Orange County Schools All-County Chorus
- Phillips Middle School PTSA: Cultural arts in-school performances
- Street Signs, Inc.: You Are Dead. You Are Here.
- Town of Chapel Hill Parks & Recreation Department: Shimmer: The Art of Light
- Voices, the Chapel Hill Chorus: Operating support
- Women’s Voices Chorus: Winter 2018 performance
- Pam Baggett: Project Poetry!
- Carter Hubbard: Floraffiti
- Dawn Hummer: Freeform Weaving for Seniors
- Jenks Miller: NC ArtsCast Podcast
- Renzo Ortega: Clases de Arte en Espanol
- Marie Rossettie: Nicholas Chatfield sculpture installation
- Donn Young: artist UNITED: The Walls We Build
OCAC Arts Grants are annually funded by the North Carolina Arts Council, a department of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, and the Orange County Board of County Commissioners.
For more information about OCAC’s Arts Grants, visit www.artsorange.org/grants or contact Katie Murray, director of the Orange County Arts Commission, at 919.245-2335 or kmurray@orangecountync.gov.
