The Orange County Arts Commission (OCAC) is pleased to announce recipients of the 2018-19 Grassroots Arts Program and Artist Project Grants. The OCAC awarded twenty-four Grassroots Arts Program Grants and fourteen Artist Project Grants, totaling $61,394, to the following organizations and artists:
- The Art Therapy Institute: Operations support
- Boomerang Youth: The Citizen Artist
- Carrboro Elementary School PTA: In-school cultural arts performances
- Chapel Hill Philharmonia: Operations support
- Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Foundation: Artist-in-Residence program for Estes Hills Elementary School, Northside Elementary School, and Phillips Middle School
- Estes Hills Elementary School PTA: In-school cultural arts performances
- FRANK Gallery: Operations support
- Free Spirit Freedom: Annual Gospel Music Festival
- Hillsborough Arts Council: Operating support; Last Fridays Art Walk; Hillsborough Handmade Parade
- Hillsborough Elementary School PTA: Sounds of Drums Performance and Residency
- Mary Scroggs Elementary School PTA: Afterschool Arts Enrichment Program
- McDougle Elementary School PTA: In-school cultural arts performances
- Music Maker Relief Foundation: Margaret Lance Cemetery Day of Remembrance
- Musical Empowerment: Operations support
- 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
- Orange County Schools/Gravelly Hill Middle School: Cultural Explosion 2019
- Phillips Middle School PTSA: In-school cultural arts performances
- Seawell Elementary School: Number Drummer Residency
- Voices, the Chapel Hill Chorus: Operating support
- Women’s Voices Chorus: Fall 2018 retreat and Spring 2019 Performance
- The Women’s Theatre Festival: Production of These Shining Lives
- Pam Baggett: Project Poetry!
- Iris Chapman: Documentary: The Closing of a School
- Max Miller: Supplies for studio art classes
- Ben Hamburger: Pacific Northwest Plein Air Event travel support
- Kelly Johnston: Residencies at Penland School of Craft and The Torpedo Factory Art Center
- Tinka Jordy: Garden Arts Sculpture Show
- Juliet Kaplan: Development of a new play by Curious Theatre Collective
- Salome McNutt: The Last Conquistador performance by El Fuego Early Music Ensemble
- Renzo Ortega: Professional development support for exhibit, Más allá de las estrellas
- Sol Ramirez: 123 Puppetry Spring Production
- Marie Rossettie/Benjamin Warshaw: Fafnir Adamites sculpture installation at LEVEL Artist Retreat
- Nancy Smith: Women Speak 2019 exhibit
- Heather Tatreau: Dance-Theater Performance for UNC Process Series
- Kristin Trangsrud and Alma Coefman: Luna’s Magic Flute
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.
