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Provide a brief <br />description of your <br />pre-pandemic core <br />arts-related <br />programming or <br />offerings. <br />Since its inception in 2010 FRANK audiences hav e been racially, <br />economically and ethnically div erse. Programming has addressed <br />Caucasian, African American, Hispanic, Asian and Nativ e American <br />audiences. People of v arious ages, ethnic backgrounds and religions <br />exhibited art, participated in programs and attended ev ents. All <br />FRANK ev ents except fund raisers were free and open to the public. <br />The FRANK Univ ersity Place Community Gallery hosted numerous <br />exhibitions mounted by non-profit partners including Chapel Hill- <br />Carrboro’s PTA "Reflections" exhibition for all local schools; Arts for <br />Life, an art program for Duke Hospital patients and their families; <br />W omen’s International W eekend with poetry, artwork and writings; a <br />joint exhibition of the FRANK Karen Youth Art Group and students <br />from the UNC Chapel Hill’s Art Department; a prev iew exhibition for <br />the Orange County Artists Guild Studio Tour followed by an OCAG <br />holiday show. Unfortunately, the Community Gallery was lost to <br />redev elopment in May 2020. (FRANK is currently exploring other <br />cost-effectiv e v enues to enable it to continue to exhibit community <br />artwork.) Since 2012 FRANK members hav e successfully led the <br />Karen Youth (Burmese refugees) Art Group helping the youth <br />dev elop arts and language skills. This year the program saw its first <br />Karen student graduate from Guilford College. Another will graduate <br />from the UNC Greensboro BFA program in 2022. This student <br />currently has a one man show in a downtown Greensboro gallery. In <br />2019, as part of the CLICK! National Photography Festiv al, FRANK <br />mounted an educational exhibit of work by professional <br />photographers and their students with 20 associated workshops. <br />FRANK’s monthly Coffee & Donuts program prov ided a v enue for <br />local artists to discuss their work and demonstrate their techniques <br />to the community in a relaxed coffee shop atmosphere at the Gallery. <br />The Gallery continued to offer a slate of art classes including iPhone <br />photography, plein air drawing and painting, partnering with <br />organizations such as the Triangle Land Conserv ancy and sev eral <br />local retirement communities. FRANK has also partnered with many <br />area groups to bring art to the underserv ed members of the <br />community: the NC Autism Society, Art Therapy Institute, Brushes <br />with Life, Institute for Dev elopmental Disabilities, Chapel Hill Parks <br />and Recreation's Adapted Recreation and Inclusion Program, Kidzu <br />Children's Museum, UNC Lineberger Comprehensiv e Cancer Center, <br />UNC Hospital Expressiv e Arts Programs, NCMA, Nasher and Ackland <br />Art Museums, Chapel Hill and Carrboro libraries; Elon Univ ersity, <br />UNC-CHn and UNC-Greensboro. <br />DocuSign Envelope ID: 0BAB6BC4-2F5C-4DEE-9934-F018F0E57AEC