The Orange County Arts Commission (OCAC) is pleased to announce recipients of the 2022-23 Grassroots Arts Program and Artist Project Grants. The OCAC awarded thirty-five grants to fifteen artists or artist-groups, fifteen nonprofit organizations, and four schools, totaling $123,407.00
2022-23 Grassroots Art Program Grant Recipients
- Ackland Art Museum: Enlivening Ackland F.A.M. (Families at the Museum)
- Art Therapy Institute of NC: Operations support
- The ArtsCenter: Arts in Education Partnership
- Attic 506: Operations support
- Carrboro Elementary School: Cultural programming
- Chapel Hill-Carrboro Public Schools Foundation: A Celebration of Black Excellence; The Hobbit presentation
- Chapel Hill Philharmonia: Operational support
- Chelsea Theater: Operating support
- Ephesus Elementary School PTA: Cultural arts
- Estes Hills PTA: Cultural enrichment programming
- FRANK Gallery: Operational support
- Grow Your World: Programming support for INKounter Project
- Hillsborough Arts Council: Support for Poetry & Spoken Word programming; operational support
- McDougle Elementary School PTA: Poetry Residence with Phillip Shabazz
- Musical Empowerment: Operations support
- North Carolina Arts in Action: NCAIA at Rashkis Elementary School
- Odyssey Stage: Staged: New Play readings
- Sisters’ Voices: Operations support
- Voices the Chapel Hill Chorus: Operations support
2021-22 Artist Project Grant Recipients
- Jason Abide: Hillsborough Tile Mosaic project
- Bill Brown and Sabine Gruffat: 5th Cosmic Rays Film Festival
- Emily Cantaneo: Free fiction writing class for Orange County residents
- Skully Gustafson & Olivia Gone: Slug Space Art Gallery
- Carter Hubbard: “Unremembered: Untold Stories of Hillsborough Elders”
- Mayanthi Jayawardena: Women’s Empowerment mural and photoshoot
- Orlando “Mango” Martinez & Jessie Dib: Mural on Nash Street Tavern
- Susan Mykalcio, Andrés Hincapié, and Melissa Villdas: Mix(ed)tape Podcast – Season 2: Afro-Latin Rhythms
- Sage Pivirotto: Present Day on Main mural
- Marie Rossettie and BJ Warshaw: Visiting artist Caroline Kern at LEVEL Retreat
- Soteria Shepperson: Marketing Your Talents & TEDex tips
- Arshia Simkin: Free Memoir II writing class for Orange County residents
- Joe Troop: Joe Troop’s musical plea for Leonard Peltier’s clemency
- Phil Venable: North Carolina Jazz Composition recording
- Sia Yazdanfar: Polychronicon exhibit
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.
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