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The North Carolina Arts Council announced $16 million in grants for fiscal year 2023-24 including funds for Brevard Music Center and the Transylvania Community Arts Council.
The music center will get $82,500 and the arts council will get $15,568 for arts programs and administrative support. The total state funds includes an increase of $2.5 million in annual funding for the statewide Grassroots Arts Program, a cornerstone program which distributes funds to all 100 counties through an extensive network of local arts councils and other partners.
Five hundred and eighty-one nonprofit arts organizations, schools and municipalities will receive grants ranging from $1,000 to $500,000. Funding priorities for FY 2023-24 include:
•Arts in education. Grant recipients are working on a range of in-school and after-school programs, including Grammy nominated artist Pierce Freelon, who will have an artist residency at Greene County Intermediate School and will also work with artists from BlackSpace, a digital makerspace, on a “Beat Making Lab” for Chatham County students in grades 6-8.
•Capacity building. These investments focus on the improvement of overall capacity and professional development to strengthen nonprofit arts organizations like Black Mountain Swannanoa Center for the Arts, which is a community hub for exhibits, concerts, theater, special events, and a myriad of classes for all ages in music, theater, dance and visual arts.
•Audience reengagement and expansion. These grants support organizations working to diversify, regain, and attract audiences. One of these is Cape Fear Regional Theatre in Fayetteville, who will use grant funds to commission a new play and expand their community outreach to include more teens, young adults, and members of underserved communities.
•Grassroots Arts Program: This program provides funding to local arts councils and community arts partners in all 100 counties, to support arts programming that ensures all North Carolinians can experience the arts in their own communities.
This year’s funding includes the final allocation of federal COVID-19 relief funding from the American Rescue Plan Act.
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