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Recent Franklin County Neighborhood Arts Grants:

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2011 Grants:

Round 1:

Organization: Center of Vocational Alternatives for Mental Health
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: PhotoVoice II: Mental Health Recovery Through the Lens and Pen - COVA clients will create photographs reflecting the issues of their recovery, progress, areas of strength, aspirations and vision for their lives. Participants will also write narratives for their photos.

Organization: Columbus Area Inc.
Amount Awarded: $800
Project Description: Snapshots of Healing - Adult male residents of the Columbus Area Inc. Bell Center Africentric Therapeutic Community will create and exhibit mixed media artworks under the instruction and mentorship of Columbus artist John Joseph McCutcheon.

Organization: Footsteps Dance Company
Amount Awarded: $500
Project Description: Love in the City - Educational dance theater production highlighting the work of area social service agencies.

Organization: Franklinton Gardens
Amount Awarded: $800
Project Description: The Garden Mural Project - Two large community murals to provide a backdrop for Franklinton's first community garden.

Organization: Friends of the Cultural Arts Center
Amount Awarded: $750
Project Description: Picnic with the Pots - Open house event to coincide with the grand opening of the Scioto Mile Park.

Organization: Heart of Ohio Family Health Centers
Amount Awarded: $500
Project Description: The Art of Healthy Lifestyles - Artwork to decorate the waiting room of a new health center; to include a community mural and framed children's artwork.

Organization: Hilliard Arts Council
Amount Awarded: $750
Project Description: Old Hilliard Fest Performing Arts Stage.

Organization: Magpie Consort
Amount Awarded: $750
Project Description: The Garden Series of performances featuring music about the natural world.

Organization: Main Street Canal Winchester
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Canal Winchester Blues & Ribfest showcasing the work of local musicians.

Organization: No Strings Attached Chamber Music Society
Amount Awarded: $400
Project Description: Chamber Music Series - Educational concert presenting the artists Nuevo Mundo and Flautango Columbus.

Organization: Somali Women and Children's Alliance
Amount Awarded: $750
Project Description: Summer Arts Program - Multidisciplinary summer arts camp.

Organization: Wild Goose Creative
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: SoHud Neighborhood Mural Project Neighborhood - residents will create a colorful mural to cover a wall that is routinely subject to graffiti vandalism.

Organization: Xclaim
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Dance of Redemption – Dance presentation that draws attention to the issues of sexual abuse and human trafficking, produced for residents of Scioto Juvenile Correctional Facility, many of whom have had traumatic experiences surrounding these issues.

Round 2

Organization: Art Party Columbus
Amount Awarded: $750
Project Description: Creative Evolution, a group art exhibition.

Organization: Columbus International High School
Amount Awarded: $1000
Project Description: Columbus Artmobile, a semester-long after-school arts Enrichment Program for 9th and 10th grade students.

Organization: Dance Artists in Columbus
Amount Awarded: $1000
Project Description: Summer Sanctuary, a short dance piece to be presented as a part of the Ohio Statehouse Summer Fridays Performing Arts Series.

Organization: Dublin Arts Council
Amount Awarded: $1500
Project Description: Shifting Perspectives, a presentation of a touring photography exhibit providing insight into the lives of individuals with Down Syndrome.

Organization: Friends of the Ravines
Amount Awarded: $1200
Project Description: Franklin County Ravine Art Contest for Franklin County K-12 students.

Organization: Growing Hearts and Hands Community Garden
Amount Awarded: $500
Project Description: Art in the Garden, a community garden project that will teach area residents the value of plants beyond their value as food, including their functional use as materials in making art.

Organization: New Albany Symphony Orchestra
Amount Awarded: $600
Project Description: Bernstein, Beethoven & Brahms, a concert performance featuring violinist Karen Gomyo.

Organization: Pull the String Productions
Amount Awarded: $1500
Project Description: Taste of Improv, a two-day performance festival that will offer educational opportunities for school-age children and professional performers.

Round 3:

Organization: Arts and College Preparatory Academy
Amount Awarded: $500
Project Description: Transformation Collaboration, students from ACPA and Indianola MS will collaborate in creating artwork for ACPA's campus.

Organization: Bread and Circus Theatre Company
Amount Awarded: $1,500
Project Description: A production of Shakespeare’s play, Anthony & Cleopatra.

Organization: Haven of Hope Cancer Foundation
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Create…Express…Restore With Art and Music, a series of music and visual art workshops for cancer survivors.

Organization: Heritage Day Health Centers
Amount Awarded: $1,400
Project Description: From Service To Stage, a co-production of the musical Grease in collaboration with National Church Residencies.

Organization: Rock on the Hill
Amount Awarded: $550
Project Description: The Tale of Three Threes, a children's musical.

Organization: Saints Drumline Inc.
Amount Awarded: $2,000
Project Description: Put it on the Drum Showcase III, symposium featuring workshops and performances.

Organization: Skylab
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: The 6/6 Series: Six Artists, Six Shows, exhibition series displaying the work of visiting artists in Skylab's residency program.

Organization: The Spirituality Network
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Twelfth Annual Arti Gras! Celebration of Art and Spirit, a day-long event designed to help people recognize their creative ability through hands-on exploration of the arts.

Organization: Summit on 16th United Methodist Church
Amount Awarded: $600
Project Description: Winter Solstice Celebration 2011, a drum-making workshop and public event.

2010 Grants:

Organization: The ADDvantage Center
Amount Awarded: $500
Project Description: ADDvantage of Art: month-long visual arts exhibit designed to display the thoughts, feelings, humanity and worldviews of people with developmental disabilities

Organization: All THAT - Teens Hopeful About Tomorrow
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Find Your Art - Series of creative arts workshops for youth

Organization: ARTillery
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: EarthFest: Love Your Mother featuring local artists,music, performers and activities

Organization: Arts Council of Westerville
Amount Awarded: $2000
Project Description: 4th Fridays Celebrations:  Music performances for monthly summer street fair in uptown Westerville

Organization:  Bread and Circus Theatre Company
Amount Awarded: $1,750
Project Description: Production of Shakespeare's  Richard III

Organization: Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association
Amount Awarded:$800
Project Description:Horn of Africa Community Garden Arts Project and Celebration

Organization: Central Ohio Brass Band
Amount Awarded: $1,750
Project Description: The Ohio Brass Arts Festival, annual event for area brass and percussion groups to showcase musicianship and diverse repertoire

Organization: Changing Pathways
Amount Awarded: $1000
Project Description: 13th Annual Day of Hope Public event celebrating individuals' recovery from alcohol, drug addiction, and mental illness

Organization: Chinese Culture Link, Inc.
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: 2011 Chinese Festival - celebration of Chinese cultures through art, music, dance, martial arts and more

Organization: Columbus Early Learning Centers
Amount Awarded: $1000
Project Description: Magic In Movement IISix-week dance residency with BalletMet

Organization: Columbus Urban League
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Achievement Matters: The Best Ever City-Wide Talent Showcase (youth)

Organization: Columbus Women's Chorus
Amount Awarded: $1500
Project Description: The Dance of Life - A concert program reflecting on the experience of breast cancer survivors and their families and friends

Organization: Community Development for All People Corporation
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Series of free arts workshops, presented in collaboration with community artists and arts organizations

Organization: Creative Culture, Inc.
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Bring Your Flava!  Art enrichment workshops for the Jake Young Summer Youth Development program

Organization: Directions for Youth and Families
Amount Awarded: $1,200
Project Description: Short/Roy Community Art Day, community-building event that partners teens with professional artists to design and paint doors rescued from neighborhood buildings

Organization: Dr. Grimaldi Circus School
Amount Awarded: $700
Project Description: Dr. Danga Grimaldi Circus Kids, site-specific outdoor performance

Organization: Dublin Arts Council
Amount Awarded: $1,500
Project Description:  Gravity's Ripple II, Site-specific contemporary dance project, including master classes for students and a community performance

Organization: Excel Preparatory Schools
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Mansion Day School International Cultural Fair - focusing on China, Hong Kong, Mexico, Spain, Puerto Rico

Organization: Foreground Dance
Amount Awarded: $1,500
Project Description: In Other Words - contemporary dance installation

Organization: Franklinton Development Association
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: FTON House Project - contemporary art exhibition using a house in Franklinton to showcase the art work

Organization: Friends of the Ravines
Amount Awarded: $1,500
Project Description: Nature's Impressions, ravine-related art contest open to Columbus Public Schools students

Organization: Friends of the Topiary Park
Amount Awarded: $1500
Project Description: PBJ & Jazz At the Topiary Park Family summer concert series

Organization: Gladdis Foundation for KIDS
Amount Awarded: $900
Project Description:Vivian A. Gaddis Creative Arts Workshop for Children

Organization: Good Grapes Illustration
Amount Awarded: $500
Project Description: 2010 Cultivating Growth Group Show promoting work of new artists

Organization: Grandview Heights Public Library
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: 2011 Music in the Atrium concert series featuring contemporary, classic and world music

Organization: Hilltop YMCA
Amount Awarded: $800
Project Description: Music Madness, summer music workshop for teens

Organization: Interfaith Association of Central Ohio
Amount Awarded: $1,200
Project Description: Faith in Motion: Sacred Dances from East and West,Interfaith luncheon exploring the role of dance in spiritual life, as understood by different religious traditions

Organization: Kaleidoscope Youth Coalition
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Strong and Proud Through the Arts, weekly arts classes for LGBT youth program

Organization: Magpie Consort
Amount Awarded: $1500
Project Description: Gypsies & Sailors, series of choral performances on the theme of "Gypsies & Sailors"

Organization: Main Street Canal Winchester
Amount Awarded: $2000
Project Description: Canal Winchester Blues & Ribfest, outdoor festival featuring performances by local blues musicians

Organization: Merge Dance
Amount Awarded: $1500
Project Description: DOUBLE/TAKE: an evening of duets and dances

Organization: New Albany Symphony Orchestra
Amount Awarded: $1,500
Project Description: Mahler Unplugged, concert and master classes with violinist Chee Yun

Organization: Ohio Dominican University
Amount Awarded: $1,400
Project Description: The Centennial Celebration Story Box Project:" Transforming Lives: Sharing ODU's Stories" - project focused on collecting stories of ODU and surrounding communities

Organization: Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition
Amount Awarded: $1,200
Project Description: Community Street Art Project, area artists,teams of youth from community summer programs facilitate design of street paintings to execute during the Ohio State Fair

Organization: Perinatal Outreach and Encouragement for Moms
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description:Momologues 2011 - play about motherhood, increasing public awareness of Perinatal Mood Disorders (including postpartum depression) and POEM resources

Organization:  Rock on the Hill
Amount Awarded: $800
Project Description:The World Around Me - Children in ROCK's afterschool program photography workshop

Organization: Skylab
Amount Awarded: $1,500
Project Description: Nourishing Sounds - monthly presentation of experimental music and sound art

Organization: Spirituality Network, Inc.
Amount Awarded: $1,200
Project Description: Artigras!  Celebration of Art and Spirit, and event with mini-workshops offering hands-on art projects and creativity

Organization: St. Joseph Montessori School
Amount Awarded: $1,800
Project Description: Banjo-making service learning project

Organization: St. Stephen's Community House
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: St. Stephen's Community Art Day, will engage Linden residents with the arts through community mural and photography projects

Organization: Summit on 16th United Methodist Church
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Winter Solstice Celebration

Organization: The Children Shall Lead Them
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: 2011 Kwanzaa Celebration

Organization: Upper Arlington Cultural Arts Commission
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Art, Documentary and Propaganda in Wartime China: The Photography of Sha Fei (one of the most influential photojournalists in 2oth century China)

Organization: Urban Cultural Arts Foundation
Amount Awarded: $1500
Project Description: Larry Collins Show, exhibit and workshop directed by sculpture and mixed media artist Larry Collins

Organization: Westgate Neighbors Association
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Westgate Identity Neighborhood Film Workshop

Organization: Wild Goose Creative
Amount Awarded: $500
Project Description: Piecing for Cover, 24-hour event to create awareness of homeless, construction of large fiber piece by a selection of artists

2009 Grants:

Organization: Arts Council of Westerville
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: 4th Fridays Celebrations:  Series of street fairs held the fourth Friday of each month, April through September

Organization: bacKspace
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Dance performance entitled Rave

Organization:  Bread and Circus Theatre Company    
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: A production of the play Major Barbara

Organization: Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association
Amount Awarded: $500
Project Description: Garden project titled, Eat the Rainbow, for Capital Park Head Start Preschool

Organization: Center of Vocational Alternatives for Mental Health
Amount Awarded: $1,500
Project Description:  Mental Health Recovery:  Through Our Lens and Pen, art therapy photography project

Organization: City of Upper Arlington Cultural Arts Foundation
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Residency and exhibition with kite-master, Jingfei Li

Organization: Columbus Early Learning Centers
Amount Awarded: $500
Project Description: Magic in Movement, 12-week dance residency with BalletMet Columbus

Organization: Columbus Housing Partnership
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description:  Mosaic sculpture centerpiece for North of Broad Community Garden

Organization: Columbus Landmarks Foundation
Amount Awarded: $750
Project Description: It Takes Many Villages to Make a City, brochure series on Columbus neighborhoods

Organization: Columbus Women's Chorus
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: The Seven Ages of Woman, two full-length performances of music and narration adapted from Shakespeare's "seven ages of man" speech from As You Like It

Organization: Community Development for All People Corporation
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Summer Concert Series, three outdoor community concert picneics on the Southside

Organization: Eva Ball and Company
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Art exhibit/event exploring the link between Nazi sex slave camps known as joy divisions and the English post-punk band, Joy Division

Organization:  F.E.A.T.
Amount Awarded: $500
Project Description: Community garden mural project

Organization:  Franklinton Arts District
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Go West!  The Franklinton Art Hop, neighborhood gallery show

Organization: Godman Guild
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: An Evening of Arts in the Garden, final event for year-long gardening/photography project

Organization: KingPenn Productions
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Production of play, Invisible Scars

Organization:  Magpie Consort
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Two concerts of Celtic choral music and a "Celtic Festival," including other music and dance groups

Organization: Music Loves Ohio
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Holiday concert featuring local and national acts

Organization: New Albany Symphony Orchestra
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Concert featuring winners of the Student Concerto Competition

Organization: Ohio Hispanic Coalition
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Annual Children's Day event, Dia De Los Ninos

Organization: Reeb-Hosack/Steelton Village Committee
Amount Awarded: $800
Project Description: Fat Tuesdays, community entertainment on the first and third Tuesdays of the month during summer

Organization: The Singing Buckeyes
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description:Choral camp for Ohio teens

Organization: St. Vincent Family Centers
Amount Awarded: $1,500
Project Description: Community children's picnic

Organization: Thiossane Institute, Inc.
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Cultural Threads, 9th Annual Dance and Drum Conference and Concert

Organization: Urban Cultural Arts Foundation
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description:  Explorations, series of visual arts workshops for all ages

2008 Grants:

Organization: African American and African Studies Community Extension Center
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Six month arts-based civic engagement program for teens of Africentric School, entitled Agents for Change through Creative Talents

Organization: Alton Darby ES
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description:  Creation of outdoor amphitheatre and garden classroom

Organization: bacKspace
Amount Awarded: $2,000
Project Description: Dance performance entitled Top That

Organization:  Bread and Circus Theatre Company    
Amount Awarded: $1,161
Project Description: A production of the play Tobacco Road.

Organization: Changing Pathways 
Amount Awarded: $1,500
Project Description: 11th Annual Day of Hope

Organization: City of Columbus Community Relations Commission
Amount Awarded: $425
Project Description: Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School Arts Contest, open to Franklin County middle school students

Organization: Columbus Blues Alliance
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Day-long blues festival, TradFest 2009, focusing on acoustic and traditional forms of blues music

Organization: Columbus Camerata 
Amount Awarded: $1,500
Project Description: Discover Chamber Music with Columbus Camerata  

Organization: Columbus Children's Choir 
Amount Awarded: $2,000
Project Description: Creation of a middle school honors chorus 

Organization: Columbus Civic Theatre
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Production of the musical, The Fantasticks

Organization: Columbus Women's Chorus
Amount Awarded: $600
Project Description: An arts festival gala concert

Organization: Communities in Schools
Amount Awarded: $1,500
Project Description: World Beats, a drumming class for afterschool program at Etna Road Elementary School in Whitehall

Organization: Community Development for All People Corporation
Amount Awarded: $2,000
Project Description: Concerts for Neighborhood Pride events.  

Organization: Djun'Kendafala Dance Company 
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: An annual Multi-Cultural Dance Conference

Organization: Emerald City Players 
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: A production of The Full Monty  

Organization: Evolution Theatre Company
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: A production of The Little Dog Laughed 

Organization: First African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Amount Awarded: $2,000
Project Description: Series of family storytelling and drumming performances for Olde Towne East community

Organization: First Unitarian Universalist Church
Amount Awarded: $2,000
Project Description: Diverse Music You Want to Hear, concert series and community outreach events for Northland area neighborhoods

Organization: Foreground Dance
Amount Awarded: $1,500
Project Description: Between Eye and I, a site-specific contemporary dance performance taking place at Franklin Park

Organization: Fort Hayes PTA
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Fort Fest 2009, annual art and music festival on Fort Hayes campus

Organization: Friends of Art for Community Enrichment
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Performance of the African-American, Chautauqua, and an instrumental music program for K-12 students celebrating African-American perform

Organization: Friends of Doo Dah
Amount Awarded: $2,000
Project Description: Annual 4th of July Doo Dah Parade in the Short North

Organization: Friends of Town Hall
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Summer art camp for students ages 6-11

Organization: Goodwill Columbus 
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Creation of a mosaic mural

Organization: Gowens Music 
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: A Children's Music Ministry Workers Conference

Organization: Grace New Covenant Apostolic Church
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Production of A Wing and a Prayer, a community theatre piece designed to raise awareness of health issue in a non-traditional environment.

Organization: Greater Hilltop Community Theater
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description:  Production of the musical, Hello Dolly

Organization: Haven of Hope Cancer Foundation
Amount Awarded: $1,620
Project Description: Two half-day workshops and a two hour, six week arts class for cancer survivors

Organization: Hillard Arts Council 
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: An elementary school drama camp 

Organization: Inner City Performing Arts Center 
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: A production of Dorothy's Journey 

Organization: Interfaith Association of Central Ohio 
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Illuminating Tradition: Understanding Religion Through Art  

2007 Grants:

Organization: Advance Party         
Amount Awarded: $1,500
Project Description: Theater performance on the outdoor patio of a neighborhood church in the Linden area.

Organization: Arts Foundation of Olde Towne
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Art and music festival for the community.

Organization: ArtSafe
Amount Awarded: $2,000
Project Description: Arts camp for senior residents of Cambridge Arms.           

Organization: bacKspace
Amount Awarded: $2,000
Project Description: A dance production.

Organization: Bread and Circus Theatre Company
Amount Awarded: $1,500
Project Description: Production of the musical Groucho, A Life in Review

Organization: Bread and Circus Theatre Company
Amount Awarded: $1,296
Project Description: A production of Little Women.     

Organization: CAMP (Community Arts & Mural Projects)
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: A series of workshops on mobile building for patients at Children's Hospital.

Organization: CK Productions
Amount awarded: $2,000
Project Description: A stage adaptation of the book Tears of a Tiger by Sharon Draper.

Organization: Columbus Gay Men's Chorus
Amount Awarded: $2,000
Project Description: An annual performance series by the CGMC’s Illuminati ensemble.

Organization: Community Threads Inc.
Amount Awarded: $1,500
Project Description: Creation of a mural inside the Community Threads building.

Organization: Con Brio Children's Choir
Amount Awarded: $1,750
Project Description: A weekend honor choir for selected Columbus City School music students.

Organization: Directions for Youth and Families
Amount Awarded: $1,600
Project Description: Youth of the Short Stop Youth Center worked with community artists to creatively paint doors, which were on display during the May 2007 Gallery Hop.

Organization: Djun'Kendafala Dance Company
Amount Awarded: $1,400
Project Description: West African dance conference.

Organization: Duxberry Park Arts IMPACT     
Amount Awarded: $2,000
Project Description: An artist residency in partnership with Phoenix Theatre for Children.

Organization: Ecole Kenwood
Amount Awarded: $2,000
Project Description: A production of La Cenerentola with Opera Columbus.

Organization: First English Lutheran Church      
Amount Awarded: $1,600
Project Description: Visual and performing arts classes for youth in grades kindergarten through 12.

Organization: Footsteps on Wings Dance Company
Amount Awarded: $1,000.00
Project Description: A theatrical dance production.       

Organization: Fort Hayes PTA
Amount Awarded: $2,000.00
Project Description: Second annual arts and music festival on the Fort Hayes campus.

Organization: Friends of Town Hall
Amount Awarded: $1,460
Project Description: A week-long art camp for students ages 6-11, with a focus on Ohio artists.

Organization: Glass Axis 
Amount Awarded: $2,000
Project Description: Eighth grade students from Columbus City School's 29 middle schools spent a day at Glass Axis learning about glass art and creating a final piece. The project culminated at an exhibit at the Ohio Craft Museum.

Organization: Global Gallery
Amount Awarded: $1,980
Project Description: A performance by Many Voices, of Dayton, along with demonstrations of Lakota crafts.

Organization: Grove City Parks and Recreation          
Amount Awarded: $500
Project Description: A six-week summer art camp for kids.      

Organization: Hixon Dance
Amount Awarded: $2,000
Project Description: A modern dance concert by Hixon Dance and shove gently dance.

Organization: Kaleidoscope Youth Coalition
Amount Awarded: $1,050
Project Description: An exhibition of Kaleidoscope artists in collaboration with artist Paul Richmond, held during June 2007 Gallery Hop and June 2007 Pride March.

Organization: Little Theater Off Broadway
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: A production of the musical Godspell

Organization: Magpie Consort 
Amount Awarded: $1,097
Project Description: A program of diverse American choral music, including African-American spirituals, hymnody, folk songs and contemporary writing.

Organization: Native American Indian Center of Central Ohio         
Amount Awarded: $2,000
Project Description: An annual Powwow celebration

Organization: Ohio Hispanic Coalition
Amount Awarded: $1,500
Project Description: A children’s celebration of the Dia de los Muertos holiday.

Organization: Ohio Hispanic Fine Arts Association
Amount Awarded: $600
Project Description: Concert by flute & guitar duo, El Calido Viento.

Organization: Poets & Writers Guild     
Amount Awarded: $500
Project Description: Compilation of writing dealing with issues of peace, war and the earth.

Organization: R.O.O.T.S. Gallery and Cultural Center
Amount Awarded: $1,500
Project Description: An eight-week summer drum and dance class.       

Organization: Reeb-Hosack/Steelton Village Committee
Amount Awarded: $440
Project Description: A community arts celebration.       

Organization: Rosebriar Shakespeare Company
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: A production of Othello

Organization: Southeast Inc.
Amount Awarded: $1,387
Project Description: A gallery exhibition of work done in the HIP Photography Project.

Organization: Southside Settlement House
Amount Awarded: $2,000
Project Description: A series of five poetry workshops

Organization: St. Stephen's Community House
Amount Awarded: $1,700
Project Description: A fashion design program for youth at St. Stephen's Community Center 

Organization: The Spirituality Network, Inc.
Amount Awarded: $2,000
Project Description: A day-long event of mini-workshops in a variety of art forms

Organization: Threshold Community Services
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: A six-week summer arts camp serving children ages 8-10 in the Northland area

Organization: Tri-City Kodaly Educators 
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Children's choir performance for the closing of the TRIKE symposium after a week of rehearsal with world renowned conductor/composer Dr. Mary Goetze\

Organization: Twin Rivers Chapter of Links
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: An exhibition of artwork by African-American kindergarten through12th grade and college students

Organization: UCP of Central Ohio
Amount Awarded: $1,800
Project Description: A collaboration with Valleyview Elementary School to create benches in the shape of bugs.

Organization: University Area Enrichment Association
Amount Awarded: $1,250
Project Description: An anti-graffiti mural project with youth in diversion programs.

Organization: Upper Arlington Community Orchestra
Amount Awarded: $2,000
Project Description: A concert of a piece commissioned by the Upper Arlington Community Orchestra

Organization: Urban Cultural Arts Foundation
Amount Awarded: $2,000
Project Description: A series of five workshops for area teens

Organization: Vaud-Villities
Amount Awarded: $2,000
Project Description: Summer show camps

Organization: VSA Arts of Ohio
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: The fourth annual event honoring three young performers who excel in the musical arts

Organization: Westerville Community Bands
Amount Awarded: $1,500
Project Description: A summer arts festival held in Westerville 

Organization: Women Writers of Central Ohio
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: A one-day writing workshop

Organization: Worthington Arts Council
Amount Awarded: $2,000
Project Description: Installation project for the future Peggy R. McConnell Arts Center