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
- Joe 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.