Recent Franklin County Neighborhood Arts Grants Awards
Recent Franklin County Neighborhood Arts Grants:
Click here for 2008 Grants.
Click here for 2007 Grants.
2010 Grants:
Organization: Arts Council of Westerville
Amount Awarded: $2000
Project Description: 4th Fridays Celebrations: Music performances for monthly summer street fair in uptown Westerville
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: Columbus Early Learning Centers
Amount Awarded: $1000
Project Description: Magic In Movement IISix-week dance residency with BalletMet
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: Dr. Grimaldi Circus School
Amount Awarded: $700
Project Description: Dr. Danga Grimaldi Circus Kids, site-specific outdoor performance
Organization: Friends of the Topiary Park
Amount Awarded: $1500
Project Description: PBJ & Jazz At the Topiary Park Family summer concert series
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: 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: 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
Organization: Westerville Symphony at Otterbein College
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Series of two outdoor community concerts
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: Grimaldi Circus Kids
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Children in circus class will perform in full length work with professional dancers
Organization: Hanby Arts Magnet School
Amount Awarded: $1,200
Project Description: Arts learning project about the history of the school's namesake, and Westerville's historical connections and contributions to the Underground Railroad
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
Amount Awarded: $2,000
Project Description: Music Can Heal: A Latin Orchestra and Dance Experience, an interactive workshop on the music and dance of Cuba.
Amount Awarded: $2,000
Project Description: Free summer concert series, each Tuesday evening in July, at Rhodes Park.
Organization: Native American Indian Center of Central Ohio
Amount Awarded: $2,000
Project Description: The 2008 Memorial Day PowWow
Organization: New Albany Symphony Orchestra
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: The inaugural classical concert of the New Albany Symphony Orchestra.
Organization: No Strings Attached Chamber Music Society
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Series of three chamber music concerts at Covenant Presbyterian Church
Organization: Ohio Alliance for Arts Education
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Professional development workshops for young people interested in theater design
Organization: Ohio Hispanic Fine Arts Association
Amount Awarded: $750
Project Description: A concert of music and dance from Latin America
Organization: Ohio Poetry Association
Amount Awarded: $675
Project Description: Public reading and workshop with poet, Angie Estes
Organization: OSU Multicultural Association
Amount Awarded: $2,000
Project Description: The Story Box Project, a traveling, community-based storytelling collection, culminating in a local Storytelling Festival in June
Organization: Phoenix Rising Printmaking Cooperative
Amount Awarded: $2,000
Project Description: An exhibition entitled Ten Years Soaring: Phoenix Rising Celebrates a Decade of Printmaking
Organization: Prevention Council of Central Ohio
Amount Awarded: $400
Project Description: Planting Seeds of Musics
Organization: Rock on Sullivant
Amount Awarded: $1,500
Project Description: Puppets on Parade at ROCK
Organization: Rosebriar Shakespeare Company
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: A production of King Lear
Organization: Scioto Valley Chorus
Amount Awarded: $500
Project Description: To support preparations to send SVC to a regional competition, including a locally produced concert
Organization: Shiloh Family Institute
Amount Awarded: $950
Project Description: College Choir Concert Series, concert by Tuskegee University Choir
Organization: The Singing Buckeyes
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: A vocal music camp for eighth to12th graders
Organization: Special Events League "AH"'leluia
Amount Awarded: $1,400
Project Description: Two-day dance seminar, Chocolate and Vanilla with Strawberries on Top: Celebrating Life that Connects Us, concluding with a community performance
Organization: The Spirituality Network, Inc.
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Ninth Annual Artigras, day-long event of mini-arts-workshops celebrating spirituality and creativity
Amount Awarded: $2,000
Project Description: An Indian classical Kathak dance concert
Organization: Thiossane Institute, Inc.
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Intensive youth dance workshops in preparation for the annual Thiossane Institute Dance & Drum concert
Organization: TUPACO Dance
Amount Awarded: $2,000
Project Description: Crystalline Continuence Between Earth and Infinity, a dance concert
Organization: United Cerebral Palsy of Central Ohio
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Collaborative mural project with the artists of UCP and 6th grade students at Imagine Great Western Academy
Organization: Upper Arlington Cultural Arts Commission
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: A fine arts exhibition and day of festivities celebrating the diversity of work by Latin artists in Ohio.
Organization: Very Special Arts Ohio
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Funding for opening of Accessible Expressions Ohio, a statewide, juried visual arts exhibition
Organization: Westerville Community Bands
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: World Premiere of commissioned work by James Swearingen, to be performed for the 20th anniversary season
Organization: Westerville Symphonyy at Otterbein College
Amount Awarded: $1,000
Project Description: Free outdoor concert, culminating event of the year-long celebration of the Westerville Sesquicentennial
Organization: Worthington Arts Council
Amount Awarded: $500
Project Description: Showcase of Worthington: annual self-guided walking tour of Worthington galleries and artist studios
Organization: Worthington Chorus
Amount Awarded: $340
Project Description: A Park of Roses choral concert
Organization: YMCA of Central Ohio
Amount Awarded: $1,200
Project Description: Art to Go
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
