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Oct 07 2020

2020-21 Arts Grants Recipients Announced


The Orange County Arts Commission (OCAC) is pleased to announce recipients of the 2020-21 Grassroots Arts Program and Artist Project Grants. The OCAC awarded thirty-four grants to eighteen artists and fifteen nonprofit organizations totaling $45,033.

Due to the impact of COVID-19 on local school systems, Grassroots Arts Program Grants for schools were postponed and will open in early November.

2020-21 Grassroots Art Program Grant Recipients

  • Ackland Art Museum: Operational support
  • Art Therapy Institute: Operational support
  • Chapel Hill-Carrboro Public Schools Foundation: NC Jazz Ensemble for Fifth Graders; Ceramics with Delores Hayes
  • Chelsea Theater: Operating support
  • Daylight Community Arts Foundation: Operational Support
  • FRANK Gallery: Operational Support
  • Hillsborough Arts Council: Operational Support
  • ISLA: Support for Actividades Extra Escolares
  • North Carolina Arts in Action: NCAIA at Rashkis Elementary School
  • Orange County Historical Museum: Yesah, Journeys of the Occaneechi Lecture Series
  • Puppet Show Incorporated: Folk Tales Around the World
  • Playmakers Repertory Company: Support for Edges of Time
  • Town of Chapel Hill Community Arts & Culture / Chapel Hill/Carrboro NAACP Youth Council: NAACP Youth Council-Designed Art Bus
  • Voices Chapel Hill: Operational support
  • Women’s Voices Chorus: Operational support

2020-21 Artist Project Grant Recipients

  • Amanda Boyd: Colonial Inn Book Project
  • Milbre Burch: Sometimes I Sing Community Performances/Screenings Project
  • Emily Cantaneo/Arshia Simkin: Creative Writing Project for Orange County Residents
  • Iris Chapman: Documentary film Saving Central: A Legacy to Behold
  • Jo Leslie Eimers/Russel Knop: Ceramic Sculpture Class at Passmore Senior Center
  • Meredith Haggerty/Erin McCluskey Wheeler: Collage Stop Mail: Collage in the time of Corona
  • George Jenne and Amanda Barr: My Room at Attic 506
  • Tinka Jordy: Art in the Garden Sculpture Exhibition 2021
  • LEVEL retreat (Marie Rossetti & BJ Warshaw): Local artist residencies at LEVEL Retreat
  • Chieko Murasugi/Sarah Elizabeth Cornejo/Laura Little: BASEMENT Art Space
  • Emma Nadeau: Audio plays about women for young audiences
  • Kelly Oakes: To See and Be Seen. To Know and Be Known.
  • Soteria Shepperson: I AM SOTERIA & FRIENDS: Turning the Tables
  • Marcela Slade: Funds for sladesign Fashion Show 2020, ROOTS
  • Gage Tarlton: Virtual performance of play, Sons that Wear Dresses and Mothers that Love Sweet Potatoes 
  • Barbara Tyroler: Seeing Trees: Portraits of Memory Inspired through Connections with the Natural World
  • Ginger Wagg/CJ Suitt: The Dig In Art and Community Space
  • Donn Young/Renee Price/Fred Joiner/Mike Ogle: Creating [Comm]unity

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.

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