2013-524 Arts - Friends of Carrboro Branch Librry Fall 2013 Art Grant Agreement $1,500

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In 2014 the Library Arts Program has decided to take as its theme"Passion and Possibility: Understanding our community through the eyes of our youth". During the year we intend to stage four exhibitions of youth art along with that of some of their mentors. The first exhibit from mid January through mid March 2014 is entitled"Life is a beautiful thing-a tribute to Sophie Steiner and her peers". Sophie Steiner, a sophomore at East Chapel Hill High School was a gifted young photographer who,at the age 14, died of cancer on August 30`''this year.The exhibition will showcase Sophie's work and a number of photographic collages by her peers-a group of multiracial/multicultural young people at the United Church of Christ,Chapel Hill,of which she was a member. Sophie was bi-cultural and learned to juggle her two cultures, Swiss and American,(as she did her terminal illness with living her life)with both interest and grace.The exhibition is curated by Library Art Committee member David Otto and United Church's Youth Coordinator Jenny Schultz. Exhibition related information is available in the relevant envelope attached to this application. We are requesting funding to assist with preparing, hanging and publicizing this exhibition. Our second exhibit from late March through mid June 2014 will feature the work of young Karen refugee artists.This project is a joint venture between the Friends of the Carrboro Branch Library, the Orange County Partnership for Young Children's Karen farm project--Transplanting Traditions,FRANK Gallery and Chapel Hill High School.All groups will be involved in:- 1. Working along side young Karen refugees doing plein air painting and photographic art work on the Karen farm and wherever else the young people chose to document, 2.Participating in studio classes in painting,drawing and photography at the FRANK Gallery taught by FRANK artists,Barbara Tyroler,Mary Lamb,Nerys Levy,Library Art Committee members Nerys Levy and David Taylor and at Chapel Hill High School by clay teacher Hollie Taylor Novak. This multi group project will begin in November 2013 with the purpose of producing art work to exhibit at the Carrboro Branch Library in late March 2014. Exhibition related materials including work by two Karen students can be found in the relevant envelope attached to this application We are requesting funding to assist with preparing,hanging and publicizing this exhibition. Exhibition related information is available in the relevant envelope attached to this application. Our third exhibit from mid June to mid October 2014"We are Chapel Hill High"will feature work by young artists from the Chapel Hill High School along with a few pieces by their mentor art teacher Hollie Taylor Novak. Over 50%of Ms. Taylor Novak's pupils are children of color and some of her students are Karen's two of whom will be participating in the Library's earlier show We are seeking funding for hanging, assembling and publicizing this exhibition.Exhibition related information,resumes, images etc are in the relevant envelope attached to this application. Our fourth exhibition from late October 2014 through early January 2015 will showcase the work of art students from A&T University in Greensboro.Entitled"Place:Real and imagined"this exhibition by predominantly minority students is a continuation of Professor of Art History Janet Seiz's enthusiasm for her students to think out of their cultural boxes while underscoring their own identities as they do so, Professor Seiz's students have worked with Venetian Paintings at the Biltmore estate and have shown great enthusiasm for working and showing in places other than