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Organization <br />Description <br />Franklin Street Arts Collective ( dba FRANK Gallery is a 501(c) 3 non profit <br />organization and contemporary fine arts gallery with a mission to feature work by <br />local artists and to enrich our community through exhibitions, events and arts <br />education. The organization comprises 20 member artists, one emerging artist, a <br />board of Directors, one paid living wage full-time employee, gallery director <br />Natalie Knox and one part time book keeper. FRANK displays and sells the work <br />of more than 100 local artists and its members support the Gallery's financial <br />viability through membership dues and fundraising events. Member artists also <br />help staff the gallery, serve on various gallery committees and help plan our fund <br />raising events. Over the past fourteen years the gallery has presented both visual <br />and performing artists free to the public. In March 2023 we moved from University <br />Place, Chapel Hill, to downtown Carrboro a move necessitated by the <br />redevelopment of University Place. Since this move we have been able to <br />recover our pre-Covid audience numbers with additional visitors from our new <br />location’s radius. W e are also, once again, on the Second Friday Art W alk which <br />we try to combine with new exhibition openings-we stage eight new exhibitions a <br />year now as opposed to six at University Place, Our outreach activities continue <br />through our FRANK Youth Art Group, Coffee with FRANK artist and arts education <br />talks, a new refugee education initiative re engaging with Kidzu Children's <br />Museum, in-gallery Chapel enrichment art sessions for Carrboro/ Chapel Hill City <br />Schools teachers and reasonably priced digital art and mosaic workshops led by <br />FRANK artists at the gallery. For the time being our partnership with Boomerang <br />Youth's Bounce Back After School Program is on hold but we are still in touch with <br />that organization as it regroups to achieve greater sustainability and hope to re <br />engage with its fall intake. Our member artists are teaching in many local <br />retirement communities providing our community's older residents with artistic <br />stimulation and contact with the gallery and its various activities. <br />How many Orange <br />County residents does <br />the organization <br />serve? <br />Pre COVID we were serving over 7500 Orange County residents a year/ Post <br />COVID we struggled to regain that number of local visitors throughout University <br />Place's development. Now in Carrboro we are back to out Pre Covid attendance <br />levels at events <br />Docusign Envelope ID: CBE41939-719A-4696-9DEF-A5A8E3BD2E8B