2023-2024 Grantees
Our Grants
Within the grant program, we have adopted an open and supportive approach: Mentor, coach, and assist so we can fund the best projects, artists with promise and drive, and organizations that are impactful in our community.
Current Grants
- ARPA Sustainability & Resiliency Grants / $240,000
- ARPA Grassroots / $100,000
- Artist Support
- Community Elevation
- Grassroots Multicultural / $166,605
- Festival Support
- Organizations of Color Cohort Grants /$50,000
- Sponsorships / $7,500
Prior to March 2023
- ArtsGreensboro Relief Grants (CARES) / $68,498
- Artist Emergency Relief / $95,040
- Artist Support / $126,022
- ArtsGreensboro Relief / $301,000
- ArtsGreensboro Reentry / $192,824
- Community Elevation / $43,060
- Sponsorships / $28,764
- Grassroots Multicultural / $108,371
- Mission Support / $224,573
- NCAC CARES / $330,031
- Other Grant Awards / $17,500
- Project Support / $37,250
- Guilford County CARES / $700,000 (Guilford County paid groups directly)
ARPA Project Grants
- Carolina Theater and local multi cultural artists host a community engagement of middle school students to seniors -multicultural artist using the tools of spoken word, writing, to performance will work to engage Activism for Change in Art.
- African American Atelier in collaboration with We Got Us Now and local BIPOC artist to create an outreach program to broaden cultural awareness through art.
- Piedmont Blues Preservation Society and Blues Groove Beat Battle with Underground Collective and Hip Hop Caucus
- The Art Gallery at Congdon Yards, Peter Daye (Cut The Music Prints), and Josephus Thompson (The Poetry Project) to create screen printing messages on t-shirts. In 2024, Triad Playwrights Theatre to link words with visual art.
- Casa Azul and Greensboro Literary Organization are partnering with Guilford County Schools for a mentorship program to reach Latinx authors and literature.
- North Carolina Folk Festival is partnering with Piedmont Blues Preservation Society to present Urban Artistry, Inc., a social and Urban Dance during Blues Week 2023-24.
- Triad International Ballet, East Greensboro NOW; YMCA; GIDE (Guiding Institute of Developmental Education); CSEM (Center for Social & Economic Mobility at WSSU) will create Greensboro 23/24 offering professional ballet to pro-bono to students in East Greensboro.
- Creative Aging Network-NC and Montagnard Dega Association are preserving culture through Backstrap weaving, by creating looms and teaching historical techniques.
- GreenHill Center for NC Art developed NC Art Market for local emerging and established artists.
- Triad Pride Performing Arts and Guilford Green Foundation and 1st Triad Pride Youth Chorus.
- Dance Project , Inc. and TAB Nonprofit is hosting a Creative Collaboration Exchange.
- Greensboro Opera and Charlotte Hawkins Brown, NC A&T, UNCG, and Mount Zion Baptist Church are developing projects for the preservation and appreciation of African American Heritage.
Grassroots Multicultural Grants in Partnership with HPAC and NCAC
- Casa Azul of Greensboro
- African American Atelier
- iAlign Dance Company
- Piedmont Blues Preservation Society hired their first paid employee.
- TAB Arts Center
- JOYEMOVEMENT Dance Company
- Strange Fruit Foundation
- The Art Gallery at Congdon Yards presents a clay club.
- Kid’s Poetry presents an after-school program for youth
- Women in Motion presents Healing Arts Program for Women
- Poetry Project expands field trips in Guilford County Schools.
- Gant School of Music provides private music lessons
- In Tune presents a new performance
- Creative Dance spotlights Street Circus in conjunction with Roots performance at Carolina Theatre
- Vinmark Dance presents a performance of Yvelise – Latino musical
- The Mind Group presents the Home Grown Music Series
- MAD presents after-school STEAM
- High Point Arts Council presents Summer Splash
Community Elevation Grant
- African American Atelier
The Artistic Roots program: Artistic workshops, a community art project, artistic mentorship, and presentation at the community festival. - Creative Aging Network
Heritage Cookbook to highlight the rich culture and traditions of the families in Greensboro’s first Heritage Community. - Gant School of Music
Assemble an ensemble of young musicians aged 8-18 from the Warnersville community to perform a drumline. - Shared Radiance
Capturing and preserving the oral history and memories of those who have lived in or knew individuals from the vibrant Warnersville Community. - TAB Arts Center
Building an ancestral garden and collaborating with a local sculptor who will create a three-dimensional piece to commemorate Warnersville.
Artist Support Grant Recipients
- Alexander Day – Flight of Icarus comic book
- Alexei Mejouev – Post production for Underground Everywhere : Jamaica film
- Andy Eversole -Banjo Earth Mexico music album and documentory film
- Audrey Smith – Podcast launch
- Christina Hare -GSO Glassworks mosaic workshop
- Cortni Witherspoon – Poster design celebrating African American Jazz Greats of North Carolina
- George Frederick Hall II – Participating in the International Spring High Point Market
- Jade Donnell – Alvin Ailey Horton Teaching Training for dance in NYC
- Jennida Chase – Photogrammetry workshop in Turkey
- Jiwon Ha – Roots: Dance project blending Korean and modern dance forms
- Joanna Blitch – Participate in 2024 Clay Cohorts Mentorship Program
- Joanne Rich – Mixed media art class John C. Campbell Folk School
- John York; Rachel York – Record and publish “The Charge”, featuring poems and songs from Appalachian tradition
- Kylah Guion – Sticks and Stones song project
- Maggie Murphy – Craft letterpress and zine-making supplies
- Michael Clapp – Positionality in the Metaterrestrial: 2D and 3D Artwork
- Mike Valle – Exposure for artwork at art fairs, exhibits, and cultural events
- Rachael Keplin – Equipment for Viola Loops performance tour
- Sabrina Tillman – Completion, presentation and marketing of two series of artwork
- Sam Wade – Solo Show at CVA in 2024
- Steve Mitchell – Body of Trust, a novel with three-part design and original art.
- Taylor Williams – 70s soul inspired music
