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Recent News19 Local Artists and Arts Organizations Receive $56K in Funding
05/18/2009Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester, and Georgetown Counties S.C. – May 18, 2009: Coastal Community Foundation has awarded nearly $56,000 to 19 local artists and arts organizations. The awards were made in two funding programs supported by Foundation endowments: The Expansion Arts Fund and the Griffith Visual Arts Fund. “Past awards from these endowments have helped launch programs and careers that today are established parts of the artistic wealth of the Lowcountry,” said Richard Hendry, Vice President of Programs for the Foundation. “This year’s recipients are going places artistically, and we hope their awards will help them know that they are valued and appreciated.” The Expansion Arts Fund was created in 1988 when local donors met the challenge issued by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to match $60,000 to create a local funding source to provide grants to “Expansion Artists.” Through this endowment, the Foundation seeks to promote and expand the works of new and emerging arts groups and individuals. In the years since, the fund has grown from $120,000 to a corpus of over $227,000. Since its inception, more than $355,000 in grants have been provided, with additional grant dollars provided by the John & Susan Bennett Memorial Arts Endowment, created in 2002 through a bequest from John Bennett to honor his grandparents. The program operates in alternate years, with a maximum award amount of $5,000. This year, applications were accepted from individual artists and arts organizations in Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester, and Georgetown Counties. In 2011, applications will be accepted from Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton, and Jasper Counties. In addition, a $5,000 grant from the Griffith Visual Arts Fund at the Foundation was recommended for Wadmalaw artist Bernadette Cali. Because of fund establishers Donna and Mike Griffiths’ love of the Lowcountry and its local artists, they created this fund in 2003 to give an annual grant to a single artist to produce a work of art reflecting “the look and feel of the Lowcountry,” which the artist may then keep or sell. The award will support Cali’s creation of an oil painting of the building and grounds of Johns Island’s historic Progressive Club. An exhibit of Cali’s new and past works is expected to be held at the City Gallery at Waterfront Park early in 2010. The following is a list of individuals and organizations receiving Expansion Arts grants: Charleston Academy of Music – Music Bill Carson – Musician & documentarian Fletcher Crossman - Painter Zelda Grant – Fabric artist Ashley Harwood – Sculptor in wood Molly Hayes – Photographer Joanna Jackson – Sculptor in wood Michael Moran – Wood sculpture New Music Collective - Music PURE Theatre – Theatre Redux – Exhibit and performance space Georgette Sanders – Pottery and sweetgrass basketry Samuel Sfirri - Composer Henrietta Snype – Sweetgrass basketry The Village Group – Producer, rural Georgetown arts festival Darryl Wellington – Writer Hunter Wentworth – Filmmaker Julian Williams - Ironworker |
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