Are you an Orange County nonprofit with a great idea for an arts or cultural project within Chapel Hill Town limits? Want to collaborate with a local artist to create something amazing for our community? This program’s for you!
Apply for funding for the following types of projects:
Town Arts & Culture Program awards may not be used to subsidize ongoing organizational operations.
Second photo above by Guanyan Chen
Project summary: Award will fund the ArtSchool adult education program at the Seymour Senior Center. This program will offer art classes led by local artists, free of charge. A painting class, a mixed media collage class, and a print making class will be offered over the course of six to seven weeks, with each class lasting two or three hours.
Project summary: Award will fund the program, Black Girls Are Beautiful and Dope, featuring full-day art and identity workshops held at the Chapel Hill Public Library. Each session will blend visual arts, photography, oral history, natural skincare science, storytelling, and intergenerational engagement. The program will culminate in a portrait exhibit and documentary film screening.
Project summary: Award will fund a community-centered mural on the exterior of the Midway Business Center, EMPOWERment Inc.’s historic headquarters for more than 20 years, as well as accompanying community design sessions, artist talk, documentary photo/video series, and an unveiling event. This project will highlight the long and often overlooked history of success and joy in Black Midway and the role EMPOWERment has played since 1996 in preserving affordable housing and economic opportunity for marginalized individuals in Chapel Hill.
Project summary: Award will fund a trauma-informed creative writing program, Writing as Healing: Community Workshops for Survivors, designed to support survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Chapel Hill through guided storytelling, poetry, and reflective writing. The program will provide writing workshops, a community showcase, participant writing packets, and a facilitated discussion with grounding practices embedded in each session.
Project summary: Award will fund hands-on art workshops led by award-winning sculptor, muralist, and illustrator Dare Coulter to bring the transformative experience of art-making to young people at three Title I Chapel Hill elementary schools: Northside Elementary, Ephesus Elementary, and Frank Porter Graham Elementary. Each visit will include a presentation of Dare’s work, interactive art activities, and a collective artwork that remains at each school.
