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GRANTS
& FUNDING
Arts
Council Announces Grants Recipients
Now
in its thirtieth year, the North Carolina Arts Council’s
Grassroots Arts Program will fund $2,739,500 in grants for
arts programs and projects in North Carolina counties during
2007–2008.
With
unprecedented support from the North Carolina General Assembly
an additional $2,000,000 in state support compared to last
year’s budget will provide $6,767,838 through 358 grants
to 280 grantees across North Carolina including funding for
the Grassroots Arts Program and general support organizations.
Fellowship
Winners
The
North Carolina Arts Council is delighted to announce the recipients
of the 2007–08 Arts Council Fellowship Awards, along
with some very good news about upcoming fellowships.
Fellowship
award recipients for this year are:
Miriam
Angress, Playwright ( Durham)
Erica Berkley, Fiction writer (Chatham)
Bethany E. Chaney, Non-fiction writer ( Orange)
Brian Crocker, Fiction writer ( Guilford)
Melanie Drane, Poet ( Durham)
Marc Faris, Classical composer ( Durham)
Jeffrey Dean Foster, Songwriter (Forsyth)
Roger Franks, Screenwriter (Johnston)
Nichole Gause, Playwright ( Mecklenburg)
Steve Haines, Jazz composer ( Guilford)
Laura Hope-Gill, Non-fiction writer (Buncombe)
Roy Jacobstein, Poet ( Orange)
Jennifer Mackenzie, Screenwriter (Pender)
Barbara Presnell, Poet (Davidson)
Sherry Shaw, Fiction writer (Gaston)
Baron Tymas, Jazz composer ( Durham)
Application
Changes
In
addition, with support from the North Carolina General Assembly,
the North Carolina Arts Council’s fellowship stipend
will increase from $8,000 to $10,000, beginning with the grants
awarded for the 2007–08 cycle. This is the first increase
in the fellowship award in more than 15 years.
The
fellowship application deadline for the 2008–09 cycle
for visual, craft, film/video artists and choreographers is
November 1. New guidelines for the current year categories
can be found at www.ncarts.org.
This
year, for the first time, craft artists will be able to apply
for the award in their own category. Interested applicants
should review the requirements at www.ncarts.org.
“Since
the inception of the program in 1980, craft artists have applied
in the visual arts category,” explained Jeff Pettus,
Visual Arts Director. “With the growing strength and
numbers of our craft artists in North Carolina, we felt it
was time to recognize craft specifically in the fellowship
awards.”
This
year also marks the first year for online fellowship applications.
The North Carolina Arts Council is currently working with
the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF) to complete the
NC Culture Grants Online system, which will be used for the
upcoming fellowship application submission process. The new
application system is scheduled to be available Sept. 17 and
will allow artist applicants to store images and work samples
in an online database, retrievable for various arts council
applications and opportunities. Artists may save a work-in-progress
application, accessible through any Web browser. Arts Council
staff will work closely with applicants during their process
to ensure a smooth transition from written to online applications.
Stay tuned to the Arts Council’s web site for more information.
Guidelines
will be posted on the Arts Council Web site, www.ncarts.org,
by early September to help artists get started with their
applications. For additional information about changes in
the upcoming fellowship cycle, contact Jeff Pettus at Jeff.Pettus@ncmail.net
or by telephone at (919) 807-6513.
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