The arts play an important
role in creating vibrant communities. The Franklin County Neighborhood Arts Program
is designed to encourage community participation in the arts by supporting local organizations that provide opportunities
for people to get out and get involved.
The Franklin County
Neighborhood Arts Program awards grants three times a year. The following groups received funding during the final round of 2008. For 2009 funding opportunities,
please visit gcac.org.
African American and African Studies Community Extension Center
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Title: Agents
for Change Through Creative Talents
Project Description:
Six month arts-based civic engagement program for teens of Columbus
Africentric School
Alton Darby ES
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Title: From
the Ground Up
Project Description:
Creation of outdoor amphitheatre and garden classroom
City of Columbus Community Relations Commission
Amount Awarded: $425
Project Title: Martin Luther King
Jr. Middle School Arts Contest
Project Description:
MLK Jr. Day art contest, open to Franklin County
middle school students
Columbus Blues Alliance
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Title: TradFest
2009
Project Description: Day-long blues festival, focusing on acoustic and traditional forms of blues music
Columbus Civic Theatre
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Title: The
Fantasticks
Project Description:
Production of the musical The Fantasticks
Communities in Schools
Amount Awarded: $1,500
Project Title: World
Beats
Project Description:
Drumming class for afterschool program at Etna Road
Elementary School in Whitehall
First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Amount Awarded: $2,000
Project Title: Storytelling Circle
Project Description:
Series of family storytelling and drumming performances for the Olde Towne East community
First Unitarian Universalist Church
Amount Awarded: $2,000
Project Title: Universe:
Diverse Music You Want To Hear
Project Description:
Concert series and community outreach events for Northland area neighborhoods
Foreground Dance
Amount Awarded: $1,500
Project Title: Between Eye and I
Project Description: Site-specific contemporary dance performance taking place in Franklin
Park
Fort Hayes PTA
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Title: Fort
Fest 2009
Project Description:
Annual art and music festival on the Fort
Hayes campus
Friends of Art for Community Enrichment
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Title: Celebrating African-American Performing Arts
Project Description: Funding will support the African-American Chautauqua, and an instrumental music program
for K-12 students
Friends of Doo Dah
Amount Awarded: $2,000
Project Title: Doo Dah Parade
Project Description: Annual 4th of July Parade in the Short North
Grace New Covenant Apostolic Church
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Title: TEACH
(Together Educating and Advocating Community Health) Arts Project
Project Description: Production of "A Wing and a Prayer" - a community theatre piece designed to raise
awareness of health issues
Hanby Arts Magnet School
Amount Awarded: $1,200
Project Title: Learning
About Our Legacy
Project Description: Arts learning project about the history
of the school's namesake, and Westerville’s historical
connections and contributions to the Underground Railroad
No Strings Attached Chamber Music Society
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Title: Chamber
Concert Series
Project Description: Series of three educational chamber music concerts at Covenant Presbyterian Church
Ohio Poetry Association
Amount Awarded: $675
Project Title: Readings and Workshops
Project Description: Public reading and workshop with poet Angie Estes
OSU Multicultural Center
Amount Awarded: $2,000
Project Title: The Story Box Project
Project Description: Traveling, community-based, storytelling collection;
project culminates in a Storytelling
Festival in May
Scioto Valley Chorus
Amount Awarded: $500
Project Title: The Road to Regional
Project Description: To support preparations to send the SVC to a regional competition, including a locally
produced concert
Shiloh Family Institute
Amount Awarded: $950
Project Title: College Choir Concert Series
Project Description: Concert by Tuskegee
University choir
Special Events League "AH"leluia
Amount Awarded: $1,400
Project Title: Chocolate
and Vanilla with Strawberries on Top: Celebrating Life That Connects Us
Project Description: Two-day dance seminar, concluding with a community performance
The Spirituality Network, Inc
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Title: Ninth Annual Arti Gras
Project Description: Day long event of mini-workshops in a variety of art forms, celebrating spirituality
and creativity
United Cerebral Palsy of Central Ohio
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Title: The Art of Building Character
Project Description: Collaborative mural project with the artists of UCP and 6th grade students at Imagine Great Western
Academy
Very Special Arts of Ohio
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Title: Accessible
Expressions Ohio
Project Description: Funding for opening event of statewide juried visual arts exhibition
Worthington Arts Council
Amount Awarded: $500
Project Title: Showcase
of Worthington: Tour of Artists' Studios
Project Description: Annual self-guided walking tour of Worthington
galleries and artist studios
