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Organizational Goals As stated, FRANK Gallery is a contemporary fine arts gallery featuring <br />work by local artists enriching the community through exhibitions, <br />ev ents and arts education. W e are the only non profit fine arts gallery <br />in Chapel Hill-Carrboro and our community outreach mission has led <br />us to collaborate with a broad spectrum of arts and community <br />minded organizations. Until the end of June 2020 and in addition to <br />our main art gallery, we also ran the FRANK Community Gallery in <br />Univ ersity Place which gav e us an ideal space for teaching and <br />partnering with our many non-profit collaborators in our attempt to <br />fulfill that part of our mission. These organizations hav e included the <br />Orange County Artists Guild, Duke Center for Documentary Studies, <br />UNC-Chapel Hill Art Department and Arts For Life program at Duke <br />Hospital. W e no longer hav e the Community Gallery-the Mall has <br />plans to re purpose that space. Our main commitment now is <br />keeping FRANK Gallery as a high quality fine arts gallery, partnering <br />with other community groups at FRANK, maintaining an online shop <br />and our v irtual exhibits,sharing talks by artists and other community <br />leaders and to maintain our FRANK Karen Youth Art Group (Burmese <br />refugees) which, for the past eight years, has used the gallery as a <br />teaching v enue and a v aluable source of inspiration for youth art. <br />Our goal for this youth group is, through our art and enrichment <br />activ ities, to support them with real skills and v isions and future liv es <br />that schools and home cannot equate. W e are also aware of the need <br />to show the work of culturally div erse local artists and currently hav e <br />on display the work of our FRANK emerging artist (a one year <br />designation), Charlie Dupee, who is black and who also belongs to <br />the LGBTQ Community as well as the work of three other artists <br />featured for the first time at FRANK. W e are applying for operational <br />support to help us meet our current ov erhead expenses which will <br />enable us fulfill our organizational goals and ensure that FRANK <br />continues to stage high quality contemporary art exhibitions at its <br />current purpose built v enue. Like all arts organizations, we hav e <br />been impacted by COVID-19. Nev ertheless, our resilience, our ability <br />to attract a $10,200 PPP Cares Act loan and a $1,000 Orange County <br />Arts Commission emergency grant together with the continued <br />support of our membership and the public all indicate that FRANK <br />Gallery is an artistic force which the Chapel Hill/Carrboro and Orange <br />County communities v alue. <br />DocuSign Envelope ID: 060238A0-9372-4481-BC57-ECCBD1F06A8B