2007 Highlights
Expanding our reach into the communityIntroduction
A Message from our PresidentA Word from our Board Chair
Strategic Plan
Mission & VisionOverview of the planning process
Grants & Services
Operating SupportProject Support
Grants to Individual Artists
Community Arts Education
Artists-in-SchoolsArt in the House & TRANSIT ARTS
Children of the Future
Franklin County Neighborhood Arts grants
Professional Development in Arts Integration
Columbus Arts Festival
About the 2007 Festival2007 Sponsors
Coordinating Committee & Volunteers
New for 2008
Marketing, Communications & Outreach
Business Arts Partnership AwardsArtistic Excellence Award
ArtZine
ColumbusArts.com & gcac.org
ColumbusArts Card
Executive Office
Board of TrusteesStaff
GCAC Financials
Statement of Financial PositionStatement of Activities
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Strategic Thinking
In July, GCAC released a five-year strategic plan that gives us a road map for the organization through the city’s bicentennial in 2012. Along with its strategic plan, GCAC released a new logo and brand.
2007 Grants
GCAC granted $2.2 million in Operating Support grants and $450,602 in Project Support grants to 88 organizations and projects in 2007.
Focusing
on Individual Artists
In November, GCAC conducted four artist roundtable meetings to get feedback on our plans to expand services to individual artists. In January, we began OPPArt (Opportunities for Artists), a series of workshops, networking events and social opportunities for artists in the community.
New
educational partnership
In January, we received funding from the Franklin County Board of Commissioners for a cutting-edge educational initiative called Art in the House & TRANSIT ARTS that will focus on out-of-school arts programming for under-served youth ages 5 to 19.
Another Emmy for ArtZine
ArtZine - a partnership between GCAC and WOSU - took home two regional Emmys this summer.
Live/Work Spaces for Artists
GCAC and Columbus City Council collaborated to bring Artspace Projects, Inc., a national organization dedicated to affordable live/work spaces for artists, to Columbus to conduct a feasibility study for a potential space in the area. Since the August visit, Artspace has determined that Columbus is an excellent market for a potential live/work location. This March, GCAC, Artspace and our partners – the City of Columbus, JPMorgan Chase, the Columbus Downtown Development Corporation and Capitol South – will work with the community to begin the process of determining where that building should be and what it should look like.
Educating children
More than 70,000 students and adults participated in our Artists-in-Schools or Children of the Future programs.
The Columbus Arts Festival
Presented by Chase
More than 400,000 people gathered along the riverfront for the 2007 Columbus Arts Festival presented by Chase. June 6, 7 and 8, 2008, the Festival will move to its new location in the Discovery District with new lead sponsor Time Warner Cable.
Reaching new audiences
In an effort to reach younger audiences for the arts, we debuted the ColumbusArts Card, a discount membership program for young professionals to arts and cultural organizations across the city.
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