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  • Press Release / June 12, 2024

    Greater Columbus Arts Council Awards Six Filmmakers $25,000 Grants

    […] grants. Since Film Columbus officially became part of GCAC in 2020, the visibility and support of filmmakers has increased dramatically. “After the pandemic and writer’s and ac tor’s strikes, Film Columbus awarded $50,000 in Pitch Cbus awards and GCAC provided more than $145,000 in grants and fellowships to filmmakers in 2023,” says John Daugherty, […]

  • Press Release / May 15, 2024

    Warith Taha Awarded 2024 Aminah Robinson Residency

    […] focused on African American professional visual artists residing in Franklin County. Past residents have included Johnathan Payne (2020), Anthony Peyton Young (2022) and Marla McLeod (2023). For questions about the residency, contact Vice President for Grants & Community Engagement Alison Barret at abarret@gcac.org, or Director of the Aminah Robinson Legacy Project at the Columbus […]

  • History

    About GCAC GCAC's His tory The year was 1960, 13 years before the founding of the Greater Columbus Arts Council. The Columbus Symphony was only nine years old; the Ohio and Palace Theaters were still movie houses, and the Southern Theater was a venue for live performances of country music. The Columbus skyline consisted […]

  • Zakia Sultana

    Art has been my passion and I always wanted to paint nature on a canvas since the beauty of nature makes me wonder and be grateful to the creator. When we got this opportunity to represent our country, Bangladesh, under the guidance of Bangladeshi artist, Dina Zaman, I did not want to miss this […]

  • New Beginnings: From There to Here

    The exhibition, New Beginnings: From There to Here, was curated and installed by Janet George and Creative Women of Color, a collective of African American women artists whose mission is to educate, encourage, inspire and provide a creative connection with the community. The exhibition and the murals on the front of the office that were […]

  • Brittoney Roane

    Britt oney J. Roane is a freelance photographer specializing in portraiture and family photography. Originally from Mansfield, Roane has lived in greater Columbus since 2013. Her love for photography is generational, starting early on with her mother being her first real inspiration as a photographer. My work is an outward expression of the inherited […]

  • Ngabo Mutenda

    Ngabo Mutenda is a Columbus-based pho tographer whose work has been featured in (614) Magazine. He grew up in the aftermath of the genocide in Rwanda, and had an interest in photography from early on in life, eventually buying his first camera when he moved to the U.S. in 2017. I'm African (Rwandese) by […]

  • John Landry

    John Landry is a self-taught pho tographer who first picked up the joy of photography during high school, turning that interest into a serious hobby in 2006. He owns Top5ive Photography, capturing sports, lifestyle images and life's most precious moments such as weddings, babies and early childhood sessions. Nationwide unrest erupted after the death […]

  • Rashunda Holloway

    Rashunda Holloway has worked as a professional pho tographer for 10 years. She first took photography classes at the Fort Hayes Career Center, then got her BFA at Columbus College of Art and Design. She works as a staff photographer for Premier Health, and is the owner of Purple Star Photography. We are living […]

  • Asia Glenn

    Asia Glenn is a Columbus-based pho tographer whose experience includes portrait, real estate, event, sports, food and wedding photography. Her work has been featured in several exhibitions, with the most recent being Midwest Photo’s Migration Mania in 2019. The provided photos are a subset of images that I captured during the Black Lives Matter […]