Rebecca requested support to build a professional website. Creating this online home will allow a larger group of people to access her performance work and history, the classes, workshops and trainings she provides, and get information for her work in…
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Gwylene Gallimard – South Carolina
Gwylene requested travel support to go the 2014 National Performance Network (NPN) Annual Meeting that includes a Visual Artists Network (VAN) of Partners and Artists in Tulsa, Oklahoma November 16-20. Attendance to the meeting is by invitation only; Gwylene will…
Soraya Jean-Louis McElroy – Louisiana
ROOTS is supporting Soraya in the purchase of a new computer which will allow her to archive, catalog, share and reproduce her work.
Daniel Johnson – Mississippi
Alternate ROOTS is supporting daniel’s travel and lodging accommodations as he attends the Open Engagement conference in Pittsburgh in April 2015. Open Engagement is an international conference and platform to support socially engaged art. The three-day conference will explore the…
Facing Race Spotlight: Southern Artist Carlton Turner
Check out this fantastic new article about our Executive Director, Carlton Turner. Click here. Thanks, Colorlines, for your leadership of the field.
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Camille Shafer – North Carolina
Camille has requested funding to continue mosaic work in several locations on the Azule property and hold an inauguration event when the work is complete. The mosaics will be done with many people that want to be there and help…
Katina Parker – North Carolina
Katina requested funding to re-print and re-frame 125 images from the One Million Strong exhibit for upcoming exhibit dates in 2015, that will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March.
Rodrigo Dorfman – North Carolina
Rodrigo requested funds to create promotional and educational materials for the Durham Civil Rights Mural, the first public art funded by the city of Durham, NC.
Lorna Shelton-Beck – South Carolina
Lorna requested funding to design, build, parade and display a Caribbean Carnival King/Queen costume. The costume will go on display in the library at the end of the Carnival year, and during June 2016 for Caribbean American Heritage Month. …
ArtSpot Productions – Louisiana
ArtSpot Productions will partner in an international exchange lab directed by Emily Mendelsohn to mount a complete production of Erik Ehn’s play “Maria Kizito” and host conversations in New Orleans, Kampala, and Kigali on genocide, faith, and art’s capacity to…
Rend Smith – North Carolina
ROOTS is supporting the development phase of “Black Man, Running” (BMR) a public art and organizing project that addresses issues of race, public space, health, surveillance culture and democracy.
Rachel Lee – Louisiana
The Alternate ROOTS Project Development grant will support LOUD in hosting its second queer theater production. Funding will allow the production to be performed in a true theater space and pay stipends to their youth artists.
La’Sheia Oubré – South Carolina
La’Sheia is leading The Charleston Rhizome of Alternate ROOTS to initiate the “conNECKted” project. She will lead five Porch Conversations in five neighborhoods in Charleston, South Carolina where community gentrification is starting to occur. An inter-generational public presentation with an…
Kesha McKey – Louisiana
KM Dance Project will produce an evening length Dance Theatre Production featuring the works of three emerging African American choreographers in New Orleans. In addition to providing an artistic platform as well as the opportunity for choreography development of local…
Bonnie Gabel – Louisiana
LAST CALL is a project that seeks to document and creatively interrogate the neglected history of lesbian bars in New Orleans.
Chris James – Arkansas
Funding from Alternate ROOTS will cover 4 ½ months rent at The Roots Art Connection, a Gallery/Youth Hub/Studio that will serve as a platform for poets, performance arts, visual artists, and will offer healthy living activities and youth programming…
Story Tapestries (Arianna Ross) – Maryland
In an ongoing partnership with the Gaithersburg Elementary School Community in Montgomery County, Maryland, Story Tapestries is working to build a foundation for improved communication and greater family engagement through Dialogue Circle and arts-based multi-literacy training. The proposed events will provide a means…
NET’s Exchange Grants “Intent to Apply” now OPEN!
October 27th, 2014 The intent to apply period for 2014-15 NET/TEN Exchange Grants is now OPEN! Log-in HERE using your NET member username and password to access the online application Lead applicants must be NET members in the Ensemble category in good standing You will be asked…
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José Torres-Tama Sightings in California
IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: José Torres-Tama October 13, 2014 504.232.2968 José Torres-Tama National Projects & Residencies ALIENS, IMMIGRANTS & OTHER EVILDOERS Sci-fi Latino Noir Performance Sightings in California for Fall 2014…
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Appalachian Community Fund Announces 2014-2015 RFP
Dear Allies, We are pleased to announce the release of our 2014-2015 request for proposals (RFP) for our General Fund. Thanks to the partnership with the New York Community Fund’s Alexander Fund and generous support from our community…