2015-266-E Arts - Hillsborough Arts Council Arts Grant

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DocuSign Envelope ID:6FBOD2B6-B8D3-4136-A376-20FDC2D04FC7 • Current Programs and Services — a brief list • Last Fridays,free concert series with arts,crafts,children's activities and nonprofit groups • Last Fridays Art Walks,when Hillsborough shops and businesses celebrate and present art; • Handmade Parade, featuring handmade puppets and has become a valued local tradition; • Parlor Concerts,showcasing traditional music in private homes; • Hillsborough Downtown Arts&Crafts Show, an annual spring event with regional artists; • Free Spirit Freedom, celebrating Orange County's diverse history and future through photography and narrative; • Orange Dog Poets Society,supporting the strong literary tradition of Hillsborough; • Hillsborough Arts Council Gallery and Gift Shop,a consistent venue for works by local artists; • Hillsborough Jazz Festival,bringing outdoor jazz performances to Hillsborough annually; • Hillsborough Sculpture Tour,a bi-annual exhibit of outdoor sculpture in Hillsborough; and •Arts Alive,a performance series combining multiple art forms such as music and literature. Proposed Uses of Grant Funds—description including location, date, artists involved. Free Spirit Freedom is requesting OCAC funds to support the expansion of the "Freedom through Business and Agriculture" collection of images,along with the installation of a photography exhibition and the production of a storytelling event.In decades past,people of color owned acres upon acres of farmland, and they supported their families and contributed to economic development in Orange County through crop production,growing tobacco and the like.They also sold value-added items and provided agriculture-related services. Other African American entrepreneurs,non-farmers, owned and operated businesses that served people and other enterprises throughout the region. Despite the laws of segregation, individuals advanced and businesses thrived,and remnants and vestiges of those days still exist...and we want to document that era through images and narratives. More specifically,we propose to use the grant funds to: • 1] contract with Jacquelin Liggins,local photographer,to photograph historic farm and business structures and sites owned and operated by people of color,thriving in Orange County at least 50 years ago,and that still may be in operation; contract with Joanie Alexander to enhance the images [$450]; • 2] contract with Renee Price to design and compose the publicity or promotional materials as well as the brochures or program materials [$150]; • 3] assist with marketing costs—producing posters,flyers [$50]; • 4] print and mount forty-five [45] new photographs/images and reprint and mount twenty-five [25] historic photographs on sintra,at A Better Image Printing, [$450]; • 5] purchase canvases and other materials to install a photography exhibition with the new images and reprinted photographs [$200]; • 6] provide stipends/honoraria to 4 featured Orange County community elders at the Storytelling,who will recount their experiences,memories and viewpoints [$200]. Activities that will be part of the overall project and supported with applicant cash,including in- kind contributions,are: • facility rental; • some marketing and publicity; • a catered reception for the exhibition-storytelling event.