GCAC 2007 Annual Report

2007 Highlights

Expanding our reach into the community

Introduction

A Message from our President
A Word from our Board Chair

Strategic Plan

Mission & Vision
Overview of the planning process

Grants & Services

Operating Support
Project Support
Grants to Individual Artists

Community Arts Education

Artists-in-Schools
Art 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 Festival
2007 Sponsors
Coordinating Committee & Volunteers
New for 2008

Marketing, Communications & Outreach

Business Arts Partnership Awards
Artistic Excellence Award
ArtZine
ColumbusArts.com & gcac.org
ColumbusArts Card

Executive Office

Board of Trustees
Staff

GCAC Financials

Statement of Financial Position
Statement of Activities supported by the city of columbus, franklin county, and the ohio arts council
Community Arts Education
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Franklin County Neighborhood Arts Program

The Franklin County Neighborhood Arts Program offers grants to amateur and avocational groups, traditional arts organizations, civic and neighborhood associations, guilds, social service, youth-centered and cultural organizations with arts projects in all disciplines, provided they are promoted and offered to the general public. The purpose of the program is to increase community participation in the arts throughout Franklin County. In 2007, the Franklin County Neighborhood Arts Program awarded a total of $71,910 to 48 organizations.

Organization Grant
Advance Party $1,500
ArtSafe $2,000
Arts Foundation of Old Towne $1,000
bacKspace $2,000
Bread & Circus Theatre Company $2,796
CK Productions $2,000
Columbus Gay Men’s Chorus $2,000
Community Arts & Mural Projects $1,000
Community Threads Inc. $1,500
Con Brio Children’s Choir $1,750
Djun ‘Kendafala $1,400
Directions for Youth and Families $1,600
Duxberry Park Arts IMPACT $2,000
Ecole Kenwood $2,000
First English Lutheran Church $1,600
Footsteps on Wings Dance Company $1,000
Fort Hayes PTA $2,000
Friends of Town Hall $1,460
Glass Axis $2,000
Global Gallery $1,980
Grove City Parks and Recreation $500
Hixon Dance and shove gently dance $2,000
Kaleidoscope Youth Coalition $1,050
Little Theatre off Broadway $1,000
Magpie Consort $1,097
Native American Indian Center of Central Ohio $2,000
Ohio Hispanic Coalition $1,000
Ohio Hispanic Fine Arts Association $600
Poets & Writers Guild $500
Reeb-Hosack (Steelton Village Committee) $440
R.O.O.T.S. Gallery and Cultural Center $1,500
Southeast Inc. $1,387
Southside Settlement House $2,000
St. Stephan’s Community House $1,700
The Spirituality Network, Inc. $2,000
Twin Rivers Chapters of Links $1,000
Rosebriar Shakespeare Company $1,000
Threshold Community Services $1,000
Tri-City Kodaly Educators $1,000
UCP of Central Ohio $1,800
Upper Arlington Community Orchestra $2,000
University Area Enrichment Association $1,250
Urban Cultural Arts Foundation $2,000
VSA Arts of Ohio $1,000
Vaud-Villities $2,000
Westerville Community Bands $1,500
Women Writers of Central Ohio $1,000
Worthington Arts Council $2,000
TOTAL $71,910

The Franklin County Board of Commissioners financially assists the Franklin County Neighborhood Arts program. The program is also supported by a generous donation from Ashland Inc. GCAC funds and administers the Franklin County Neighborhood Arts Program through its Community Arts Education Department.


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