2015-654-E Arts - The ArtsCenter Arts Grant

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DocuSign Envelope ID:2DC91 B42-0BEB-408E-9CE4-9D1485667114 musicals and operas, stand-up comedy and film screenings, new works in development and theatre for younger and older audiences. ArtsCenter Stage is community-oriented theatre with a commitment to developing new artists and audiences. Concerts. The ArtsCenter presents approximately 60 concerts for adults each year, representing the spectrum of musical genres by touring artists including folk, blues, Celtic, rock, singer-songwriter, old-time, and bluegrass. Proposed Uses of Grant Funds Each summer, the ArtsCenter offers high-quality, skills based Summer ArtsCamps to area children every week of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools summer break. Summer ArtsCamp offerings include a wide variety of both visual and performing arts: painting and drawing techniques, hip hop dance, digital music production, improv and theater skills, mixed media, ceramics, sewing, knitting, and fiber arts. In the summer of 2015, The ArtsCenter served 787 individual children, many of whom attended multiple half-day, week-long sessions, learning a wide variety of artforms. ArtsCamp is a process-oriented camp, focusing on the importance of skills-building rather than creating a final product with rigid standards. ArtsCamp allows area students to find their artistic voice and learn to express themselves creatively with the help of local, professional teaching artists. Each summer, The ArtsCenter is able to provide full and partial scholarships to campers from low income families. With funding from Orange County Arts Commission, the ArtsCenter would be able to provide 10 full scholarships to area children to attend a half-day, week-long session of the ArtsCamp of their choosing. In order to qualify for a scholarship, families must prove significant financial need by providing past pay stubs, past tax documentation, proof of Medicaid assistance, or proof of free or reduced lunch for their child from the school system. In the summer of 2015, The ArtsCenter provided scholarships to students for 108 units (half-day, week long sessions) of ArtsCamp. From 2014 to 2015, we were able to raise the percentage of scholarship funded camp attendance from 5% to 6%. This is an exciting improvement, but we were still unable to provide scholarships to nearly 20 children who had to be waitlisted. Increasing the amount of scholarships awarded to campers at ArtsCamp each year is a key component of fulfilling our mission to educate and inspire artistic creativity for people of all ages. Through scholarships, The ArtsCenter is able to provide artistic opportunities to students primarily in Orange County, though we also serve students living in Durham, Chatham, and other surrounding counties. The racial and ethnic distribution of our campers is similar to that of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School System: 11.6% African-American, 0.2% Native American, 8.9%Asian, 5.1% Hispanic/ Latino, and 72.3% Caucasian students. In 2015, the