South Arts announces the most recent grant recipients for three of our programs — Presentation Grants, Individual Artist Career Opportunity Grants, and In These Mountains: Project Grants. With these awards, South Arts has invested $491,391 in the arts and culture of our region with funds going to artists, organizations, and communities across Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
67 Presentation Grant Recipients Awarded Totaling $381,391
Presentation Grants are an opportunity for organizations in South Arts’ nine-state region to receive fee support to present Southern guest film directors, visual and performing artists, or writers from inside or outside of the presenter’s state. These grants support artist fees for film (documentary, fiction, experimental and animation), performing arts (theater, music, opera, musical theater and dance), literary arts (fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry), traditional arts, and visual arts (crafts, drawing, experimental, painting, photography, sculpture and mixed media) presentations with awards of up to $9,500. Presentation Grants are made possible through support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Learn more about the latest Presentation Grant recipients and their projects:
- Alabama Dance Council, Inc., Birmingham, AL
- Alabama School of Fine Arts Foundation, Birmingham, AL
- American Dance Festival, Inc., Durham, NC
- Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL
- Art Prevails Project, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
- Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, Hilton Head Island, SC
- Ashe County Arts Council, West Jefferson, NC
- Asheville Art Museum Association, Inc., Asheville, NC
- Aurora Theatre, Inc, Lawrenceville, GA
- Beaches Fine Arts Series, Inc., Jacksonville Beach, FL
- Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, TN
- Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary's School, Memphis, TN
- Cape Fear Community College Foundation, Inc., Wilmington, NC
- Cape Fear Regional Theatre, Fayetteville, NC
- Chamber Music Raleigh, Inc., Raleigh, NC
- Charleston Jazz, North Charleston, SC
- Charlotte Center for Literary Arts, Inc., Charlotte, NC
- Chattanooga State Community College, Chattanooga, TN
- Children's Theatre of Charlotte, Inc., Charlotte, NC
- City of Charleston, Charleston, SC
- Click! Photography Festival, Raleigh, NC
- Coker University, Hartsville, SC
- College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
- Dance Project, Inc., Greensboro, NC
- Delta Resource Educational Association Mobile, Inc, Mobile, AL
- Georgia Mountain Storytelling Festival, Inc., Blairsville, GA
- Germantown Performing Arts Center, Germantown, TN
- Historic Tennessee Theatre Foundation, Knoxville, TN
- Jazz Education Community Coalition (JECC), Hollywood, FL
- Karen Peterson and Dancers, Inc., Miami, FL
- KMAC Museum, Louisville, KY
- Locate Arts TN/ Tri-Star Arts, Knoxville, TN
- Madisonville Community College, Madisonville, KY
- Meridian Symphony Association, Inc., Meridian, MS
- Miami Dade College, Miami, FL
- Miami Dade County, Miami, FL
- Miami Light Project, Miami Shores, FL
- Mid-South Sculpture Alliance, Chattanooga, TN
- Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Association, Montgomery, AL
- Museum of Art -DeLand, DeLand, FL
- Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
- Musicians for Music, New Orleans, LA
- Nashville Jazz Workshop, Nashville, TN
- Native Heritage Gathering, Inc., Merritt Island, FL
- NC Project LEAD, Inc., Sunset Beach, NC
- North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
- OZ Arts, Nashville, TN
- Pack Place Performing Arts, Inc., Asheville, NC
- Paint Memphis, Memphis, TN
- Save the Grand Theatre, Inc., Frankfort, KY
- Shelby County Arts Council, Columbiana, AL
- Shreveport Regional Arts Council, Shreveport, LA
- Tallahassee St. Maarten Foundation, Tallahassee, FL
- Thalian Hall Center for Performing Arts, Inc., Wilmington, NC
- The Arts Council of Wilson, Inc., Wilson, NC
- The Bakehouse Art Complex, Inc., Miami, FL
- The Festival of Words Cultural Arts Collective, Grand Coteau, LA
- The Florida Theatre Performing Arts Center, Jacksonville, FL
- The Huntsville Hospital Foundation, Inc., Huntsville, AL
- Trillium Arts, Mars Hill, NC
- Troy University, Troy, AL
- University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL
- University of Alabama-Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
- University of Georgia Research Foundation, Athens, GA
- University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS
- Walter Anderson Museum of Art, Ocean Springs, MS
- Yoknapatawpha Arts Council, Oxford, MS
Meet the 12 Individual Artist Career Opportunity Grant Awardees, Receiving a Total of $20,000
South Arts recognizes that an invitation to participate in a major, milestone opportunity is not always enough. Even with stipends or payments, overall expenses can make such an opportunity inaccessible. In order to ensure that artists from our region can take full advantage of major opportunities, South Arts offers Individual Artist Career Opportunity Grants.
The Individual Artist Career Opportunity Grants support a milestone opportunity in an individual artist’s career that is likely to lead to substantial and significant career advancement. Grants of up to $2,000 are supporting opportunities taking place between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023.
The latest Individual Artist Career Opportunity Grants recipients are:
- Antoine Williams, Greensboro, NC
- Eric Sherwood, Knoxville, TN
- Yanique Norman, Stonecrest, GA
- Constance Collier-Mercado, Atlanta, GA
- Sisavanh Houghton, Murfreesboro, TN
- Terry Galloway, Tallahassee, FL
- Lauren Bone Noble, Oxford, MS
- Ruth Owens, Metairie, LA
- Coralina Rodriguez Meyer, Miami, FL
- Sarah Mandell, Greer, SC
- Kristen Tordella-Williams, Opelika, AL
- Marilee Salvator, Bowling Green, KY
Announcing the 9 In These Mountains: Project Grant Recipients Receiving $90,000
The In These Mountains: Central Appalachian Folk Arts & Culture Project Grants advance the goals of the In These Mountains (ITM) initiative by supporting projects that promote sharing, teaching, learning, preserving, documenting, and supporting the continuity of the folk arts and traditional culture of Central Appalachia.
This funding program is open to a wide variety of organizations, including community cultural organizations, schools/colleges/universities, libraries, museums, performing arts presenters, community festival organizations, faith-based organizations, etc. Organizations must be located within and serve at least one Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) county in Kentucky, North Carolina, or Tennessee.
The In These Mountains: Project Grant recipients are:
- Alliance for American Quilts, Asheville, NC
- Ashe County Public Library, West Jefferson, NC
- Guardians of the Gap, a Non-Profit LLC, Cumberland Gap, TN
- Hiddenite Arts and Heritage Center, Hiddenite, NC
- Jubilee Community Arts, Knoxville, TN
- Olive Hill Historical Society (Olive Hill Center for Arts and Education), Olive Hill, KY
- Ramsey Center for Appalachian Studies, Mars Hill University, Mars Hill, NC
- The Center for Native Health INC, Whittier, NC
- Tryon Fine Arts Center, Tryon, NC