The Orange County Arts Commission (OCAC) is pleased to announce recipients of the 2023-24 Grassroots Arts Program and Artist Project Grants. The OCAC awarded thirty-eight grants to fourteen artists or artist-groups, fifteen nonprofit organizations, and four schools, totaling $118,220.00
2023-24 Grassroots Art Program Grant Recipients
- Ackland Art Museum: Performance of “Step This Way,” a new commission by Mark Gabriel Little and Maura García
- The ArtsCenter: OCPS Title 1 Artist-in-Residence Program
- Carrboro Elementary School PTA: Cultural Arts Programming
- Chapel Hill-Carrboro Public Schools Foundation: School Performs The Lion King; Visiting Artist Donna Washington; Remarkable Rainforests
- Chapel Hill Wood Turners Inc.: Operations support
- Chelsea Art Theater Inc.: Operations support
- Cosmic Rays Foundation: Cosmic Rays Film Festival Programming Support
- Ephesus Road Elementary School PTA: Cultural Programming
- Estes Hills PTA: Cultural Enrichment Program 2023-24
- Footnotes Tap Ensemble: Commissioned Choreography, Performance, and Guest Artist Support
- Hillsborough Arts Council: 2024 Handmade Parade and Weekend of Art & Operations support
- The Marian Cheek Jackson Center: Cultural Performances at the Northside Festival
- McDougle Elementary School PTA: Cultural Programming
- Musical Empowerment: Operations support
- North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble: Operations support
- PlayMakers Repertory Company: Youth and Family Engagement Programs
- Sisters’ Voices: Operations support
- SKJAJA Fund: In-School Arts Field Trips
- Voices – The Chapel Hill Chorus: Operations ssupport
- Women’s Voices Chorus: Program Project Support for 30th Anniversary Season & Operations support
2023-24 Artist Project Grant Recipients
- Morrow Dowdle: Creative Writing Course at Orange Correctional Center
- Julia F. Green: Story Connection: A Storytelling Class and Performance at the Carrboro ArtsCenter
- Meredith Haggerty, Erin McCluskey Wheeler, Natalia Torres del Valle: No Mud, No Starlings installation
- Andrés Hincapié, Melissa Villodas, Susan Mykalcio: Mix(ed)tape Podcast – Were You Listening?
- Shady Kimzey: Bad Art Market & Expo
- John Paul Middlesworth, Sherry Appel, Pip Merrick: Performances of the Disrupted Divorce at the Historic Orange County Courthouse
- Chieko Murasugi, Jonh Blanco, Laura Little, Julianne Miao, Chloe RageR, Hồng-Ân Trương, Alexa Valez: BASEMENT’s Radicle Residencies
- Bridget Pemberton-Smith: Community Art Hive: An Art Making Collaborative
- Marcela Slade: sladesign Fashion Show 2024
- Kristin Trangsrud, Alma Coefman: Tango Love Story With Flute and Piano
- Barbara Tyroler: Regarding Courage
- Ruben Watson, Teli Shabu: Kuumba Kids: Kwanzaa Family Drum Circle & Class
- Liza Wolff-Francis, Cortland Gilliam, Nerys Levy: Eco-phrastic Earth: Addressing the Climate Crisis Through Poetry and Art
- Sia Yazdanfar: No Friends but the Mountains (photography exhibition)
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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