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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda - 01-04-1994 - VI-A 1 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Action Agenda Item No. 4 ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: January 4, 1994 SUBJECT: Orange County Arts Commission Presentation of Grants Awards and Report DEPARTMENT: PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No Recreation & Parks ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: Listing of Local Arts Grants Award Wilma K. Tinny, Ext. 2669 Recipients for 1993-94 TELEPHONE NUMBER: Hillsborough - 732-8181 Chapel Hill - 968-4501 Mebane - 227-2031 Durham - 688-7331 PURPOSE: 1. Presentation of .Orange County Arts Commission grant awards. 2. Informational report to the Board regarding activities and goals of the Arts Commission. BACKGROUND: The Orange County Arts Commission was created by a resolution of the Board of County Commissioners on February 4, 1985. The Arts Commission is the official county-wide advisory body on the arts. It's primary goals are: (1) to serve as the Local Distributing Agent of State Grassroots Grants and local (Orange County) funds; (2) to serve as a "clearing house" for information on the arts; (3) to facilitate the development of self-sustaining arts programs; and (4) to advise the Board of Commissioners on matters involving the arts. RECOMMENDATION(S) : The Manager recommends that the Board of Commissioners present the grant awards to the recipients and receive the status report for information only. 2 1993-94 ORANGE COUNTY ARTS GRANTS RECIPIENTS Grantee Project Award Abundant Life/Seeds of Sheba "History Alive" $ 500 ArtsCenter Kids Cabaret Series 1,000 ArtsCenter Kevin Locke, Comm. Res. 700 ArtsCenter Youth Council 500 Chapel Hill Ballet Company A Historical Ballet 350 CHHS PTSA Cult. Enr. Comm. Arts at Lunch 1,000 Chapel Hill High School Humanities Festival 400 CHHS Choral Program "Voices on the Hill" 800 CH Public Arts Commission "Buy a Frame" 900 Community Youth Theatre Marketing Summer Program 360 Estes Hill PTA Doug Berky Workshops 300 Friends of the CH Pub. Lib. Storyteller Grant 300 MUSICA Chamber Music Composition 500 NC Writers Network Multi-Ethnic Conference 1,000 Orange County 4-H Arts Program ISO Orange County Women's Center "Through Women's Eyes" 1,000 Phillips Middle School Connections 600 St. Mary's Friends of the Arts Theatre Arts K-12 200 Women's Voices of Chapel Hill Bennett College Spirituals 650 Hillsborough Arts Council Youth Creative Expressions 1.000 Total $12,210