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• Press Release / November 15, 2022

  Greater Columbus Arts Council Announces 2022 Thrive Program Grant Recipients

  […] today the three recipients of the 2022 Thrive grant awards—Black Women Rising Poetry Collective, Columbus Cultural Orchestra and Latino Arts for Humanity. Launched in 2020, the three -year program addresses disparities in inequitable funding for arts and cultural organizations led by and serving BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) communities. The program acknowledges […]

• Press Release / September 8, 2022

  Arts Council Selects Neighborhood Arts Connection Fellows for Linden

  […] Connection fellowships for the Linden area. Lamarr will receive a $5,000 grant for the Coloring Linden Program, while Brown will receive a $10,000 grant for a multi -disciplinary fiber art and dance piece. The Linden fellowship is supported by The Crane Group. Launched in 2021, the fellowship is designed to celebrate a specific neighborhood […]

• Artists Elevated is an investment in people

  […] Linda Miller, film and TV producer; Carter Sickels, author and winner of the Southern Book Prize, Weatherford Award and Ohioana Book Award in fiction; Michael Mitchell, award -winning pianist, music director, composer and orchestrator who is an endorsed Yamaha Artist; Melissa Tayler, executive director of Reno Little Theater; and Nadiah Fellah, associate curator of […]

• Press Release / August 9, 2022

  Film Columbus Presents Pitch Cbus 22 – And a $10,000 Prize

  […] Ohio film industry supporters, including Gateway Film Center and Columbus Pictures,” says John Daugherty, Film Columbus director and film commissioner. “It’s important for us to support Columbus -based filmmakers. We work year-round on statewide issues like the Ohio Motion Picture Tax Credit, but this is something uniquely Columbus. We have given away more than […]

• The Columbus Arts Festival is back!

  After two years of having to announce the cancelation of the live, in -person Columbus Arts Festival, I am excited to be able to invite everyone back to the riverfront for my favorite event: the Columbus Arts Festival. AND we are celebrating its 60th Anniversary! To officially open the festival, we are partnering with […]

• Press Release / April 4, 2022

  Arts Council Selects 2022 Neighborhood Arts Connections Fellows for Near East Side

  […] own creative work, Harewood is a community advocate, helping organize food drives, protests, marches, campaigns, and performance projects throughout the Near East Side. Harewood’s project, a one -day community resource and performance event, mixes a community resource fair with a reading of a work-in-progress docudrama based on testimonies gathered during the first year of […]

• Press Release / December 8, 2021

  Richard Duarte Brown Selected for 2022 Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson Fellowship

  […] Brenda Lynn Robinson Fellowship, one of two programs created by the Greater Columbus Arts Council (Arts Council) and the Columbus Museum of Art (CMA), to support African -American, professional visual artists and honor the legacy of the beloved Columbus artist and MacArthur Fellow. Launched in 2019 along with a separate national artist residency, the […]

• Press Release / December 3, 2021

  Greater Columbus Arts Council Announces Recipients of 2022 Artist Exchange in Dresden, Germany

  […] Program. The 2022 Artist Exchange Program recipients are Christopher Burk and Nick Larsen. Christopher Burk (43215) is a painter living and working in Columbus, represented by Brandt -Roberts Galleries. He studied at Columbus College of Art & Design and the Myers School of Art at the University of Akron. His work has appeared in […]

• Quianna Simpson, 2021 Artist Elevated Winner

  […] through the room. She was already connected to movement at a young age. But her mom was uncertain if she would ever dance. Quianna was born bow -legged. Without reconstructive surgery, she would never walk — let alone dance. Thankfully, she had the surgery, and has been moving across stages ever since. Because for […]

• Press Release / November 1, 2021

  Greater Columbus Arts Council Announces 2021 Thrive Program Grant Recipients

  Three -year program provides sustainability for arts organizations led by and serving people of color COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Greater Columbus Arts Council (Arts Council) announced today the three recipients of the 2021 Thrive grant awards—Thiossane Institute, Two Scoops National Performing Arts Center and Urban Strings Columbus. Designed in 2019 and launched in 2020, […]

• Press Release / August 31, 2021

  Columbus Arts Organizations Celebrate Wil Haygood and the Release of “Colorization: 100 Years of Black Films in a White World”

  […] America” (2015); “In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr.” (2003) and “The Haygoods of Columbus” (1997), among others. In 2018, he published “TIGERLAND: 1968 -1969: A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart and a Magical Season of Healing” and curated the catalog for the Columbus Museum of Art’s “Harlem Renaissance: I, […]

• Press Release / July 28, 2021

  Wendy Kendrick Selected for 2021 Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson Fellowship

  COLUMBUS, Ohio — Columbus -based artist Wendy Kendrick was selected for the second Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson Fellowship, one of two programs created by the Greater Columbus Arts Council (Arts Council), in partnership with the Columbus Museum of Art (CMA), to support African-American, professional visual artists and honor the legacy of the beloved Columbus […]