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

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DocuSign Envelope ID:6FBOD2B6-B8D3-4136-A376-20FDC2D04FC7 We are proposing a project timeline of 8 months,with a start date of July and culmination of the project by February 2016—leaving 2 months for unforeseen delays. We have a list of sites and structures, and will be ready to start taking photographs in July,and will continue through October.Thomas Watson and Jackie Bradsher Liggins are life-long members of the Orange County community and will take the lead in identifying places to photograph and people to interview. Based on past experience,we expect that our list of places and people will grow as this proposed project progresses,while we are out in the field.In autumn,we will consult with Peter Sandbeck,Cultural Resources Specialist for Orange County,and other local historians to document our findings. Once we finalize the pieces for the exhibition and the narratives,we will prepare for the artists' opening and storytelling event in February 2016, on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon. If we are successful in receiving a grant from the Hillsborough Tourism Board,this program will follow a January program on minority-owned businesses of Hillsborough, and we may be able to have a combined exhibition. In March, FSF will recap,analyze and assess our yearlong activities, compile a photo album for the website,and prepare the final grant report. Our goal is to install our exhibit in February in commemoration of Black History Month. Because Free Spirit Freedom is an HAC project,we will publicize our events through the HAC website, Facebook page and listserv,and the Alliance for Historic Hillsborough website and its listserv. Laurie Paolicelli of the Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau will post on the Bureau's website, Facebook page and listserv.We will post the event as prescribed by OCAC, prepare a release for WCHL Radio, and place an announcement in the News of Orange County, the News and Observer and the Orange County website. Local community organizations, chambers of commerce and faith assemblies will receive "save the date" cards and invitations. • information concerning whether you have undertaken similar activities in the past. Free Spirit Freedom has undertaken similar activities in the past, and with overwhelming success. In January and February 2015,we had two exhibitions and accompanying storytelling events—one on the Black Church and the other on Schools for Colored Children.We were pleased to have audiences that were diverse with respect to age, ethnicity, interest and residency.Attendees and visitors stated that we should organize and host more events of this nature.We otherwise have had exhibits and displays using old photographs at various community events,and our mission and content have been well-received. • number audience per program; geography of audience; mix of ethnicity, age, and gender. Our intended audience is a multi-generational and culturally-diverse group,a cross-section of the Orange County community,inclusive of people from the urban centers,rural townships and surrounds. Our participants are respected local residents who have"their own following" and will attract others. Based on attendance at our previous events,we hope to have 200+visitors and audience participants for the Sunday afternoon exhibition and storytelling event. We plan to use the Richard E.Whitted Building in Hillsborough. The exhibitions will remain for the duration of the two months,so that many more visitors will have opportunities to view them. • Discuss how the arts program will be integrated into the curriculum. n/a