HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda - 09-21-2010 - 3aORANGE COUNTY
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT
Meeting Date: September 21, 2010
Action Agenda
Item No. 3 - q
SUBJECT: Orange County Arts Grant Recipients
DEPARTMENT: Orange County Arts
Commission
PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No
ATTACHMENT(S):
List of Grant Award Recipients
"Specific Attendee List to Follow"
INFORMATION CONTACT:
Martha Shannon, Arts Commission
968-2011
PURPOSE: To present checks to local artists and nonprofit organizations receiving Orange
County Arts Grants.
BACKGROUND: In the spring, the Orange County Arts Commission recommends grants to
local nonprofit organizations sponsoring art projects using funds received from state
government through the Grassroots Arts Program, of .the NC Arts Council. In 1985 the Orange
County Arts Commission was designated by the BOCC -and approved by the NC Arts Council
- as the Local Distributing Agent (now called Designated County Partner) to award state
Grassroots Arts Program funds to nonprofit agencies in Orange County.
All grants awarded to individual artists are paid via County funds. Grants are awarded in all arts
disciplines for artistic merit and benefits to the residents of Orange County. Each recipient must
match the grant amount in order to receive funding.
FINANCIAL IMPACT: The $34,423 in state funds awarded to the Arts Commission in FY2010-
11 -for Arts Commission purposes and for granting to outside nonprofit agencies sponsoring
arts projects -represents apass-through of state funds. An additional $1,000 awarded to
individual artists is taken from Orange County money already approved in the FY2010-11
budget for arts grants.
RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board approve the
recommendations for the local recipients of the awards during the September 21, 2010 meeting
with the presentation of checks by the Board Chair.
Arts Grant Recipients
Orange County Arts Commission
September 21, 2010
Grant Recipient:
ArtsCenter
Cameron Park Elementary School
Chapel Hill Carrboro Children's Museum (dba Kidzu Children's Museum)
Central Elementary School
Deep Dish Theater Company
Estes Hills Elementary School PTA
Family Violence Prevention Center of Orange County
Footnotes Tap Ensemble
Gravelly Hill Middle School
Hillsborough Arts Council
Hillsborough Elementary School
McDougle Elementary School PTA
Music Maker Relief Foundation
North Carolina Arts in Action
Orange Charter School
A.L. Stanback Middle School
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Shelly Hehenberger