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Please explain the <br />impact of your <br />organization on the <br />Orange County <br />community in a <br />typical year. <br />FRANK has been a v ital part of the Orange County arts community <br />for more than elev en years. Ev ery year the Gallery stages six major <br />exhibitions that attract thousands of Orange County v iewers. In 2019, <br />FRANK welcomed more than 8,100 v isitors. An additional 3,150 <br />attended ev ents. Sev enty percent of attendees were from the Chapel <br />Hill/Carrboro area. FRANK presents the work of 25 local artist- <br />members and more than 100 area guest artists. Before the forced <br />closure of its Community Gallery in April 2020 FRANK operated its <br />additional Univ ersity Place Gallery space for the use of Orange <br />County art groups to present their members' work to the public. The <br />Gallery was closed in 2020 due to the landlord's redev elopment <br />plans. W hile in operation, the Gallery was the only large space in <br />Orange County where art groups could present a substantial body of <br />their work to the community. FRANK introduced an Emerging Artist <br />Program in 2017 to help young artists enter the professional world. In <br />this program members mentor the young artists who work and <br />exhibit in the Gallery for one year. In 2019 Charlie Dupee, who <br />represented both the African American and LGBQT communities, <br />participated in the Emerging Artist program. He is currently a fine arts <br />graduate student at UNC-CH and continues to show his work at <br />FRANK. A Youth Mentorship Program, based on the Karen Youth Art <br />Group's model, is scheduled to launch in the fall of 2021. In this new <br />program, fifteen FRANK artists will mentor fifty young people from the <br />local Boomerang project for underserv ed youth who show <br />exceptional promise in the v isual arts. The Gallery continually striv es <br />to include Orange County’s ov erlooked people and communities in <br />both its membership and in its exhibitions. <br />Please explain your <br />intended use of a <br />Restart the Arts <br />Grant, if awarded. <br />FRANK is requesting $9,000 to restart and expand its programming <br />efforts in the coming year. Funding would be used to prov ide <br />programs for the local community, particularly its underserv ed <br />populations. <br />•. $1,500 would support the Karen (refugee) Youth Art Group, i.e. <br />$500 to cov er art supplies for the students for one year, $750 for <br />educational enrichment such as museum and gallery v isits, art <br />books and books to support their language enrichment experiences, <br />college v isits and $250 for transportation expenses. <br />•. $1,000 would be used for the future arts related Mentorship <br />Program for fifty underserv ed youths from grades 8-12 to cov er the <br />cost of arts supplies, educational enrichment programs and <br />transportation fees. <br />•. In January 2022 FRANK is staging an exhibition of art by Nativ e <br />American artists and $750 in funding would help defray the expenses <br />of those artists participating in that exhibition, including v isual <br />artists, poets, musicians and dancers. <br />•. $1,500 would allow the popular monthly Coffee & Donuts program <br />to continue for another year. This funding would support the ev ent <br />and prov ide guest artists with a modest honorarium to help cov er <br />their expenses. <br />•. $750 dollars is needed to support FRANK's participation in the <br />October 2021 CLICK! National Photography Festiv al. The Gallery <br />created the FRANK:inFocus Photo Festiv al 8 years ago to promote <br />DocuSign Envelope ID: 0BAB6BC4-2F5C-4DEE-9934-F018F0E57AEC