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• Press Release / August 12, 2022

  Columbus Museum of Art Selects Anthony Peyton Young for Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson Artist Residency

  COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Columbus Museum of Art (CMA) has awarded the Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson Artist Residency to Anthony Peyton Young, a Boston-based artist who specializes in painting, drawing, bleaching, ceramics and collage. Young draws inspiration from Black Americana, film and his native West Virginia to present themes of identity, ancestry and memorialization. Much […]

• Press Release / February 16, 2022

  Greater Columbus Arts Council Announces 2022 Neighborhood Arts Connection Fellowships

  COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Greater Columbus Arts Council (Arts Council) is pleased to announce that the Neighborhood Arts Connection fellowship will support two Columbus neighborhoods this year: the Near East Side and Linden communities, as defined on the Columbus Area Commission’s website. Applications for Near East Side residents will be open Feb. 15 through March 21; […]

• Press Release / December 8, 2021

  Richard Duarte Brown Selected for 2022 Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson Fellowship

  COLUMBUS, Ohio — Columbus artist Richard Duarte Brown was selected out of 26 applicants for the 2022 Aminah 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 […]

• GCAC-Annual-Report-2019-v13-ONLINE-NEW

  […] $500 Paisha Thomas $500 Lance Thompson $497 Andrew Thompson $500 Joseph Thompson $500 Michael Rene Torres $318 Gabrielle Travis $435 Lawrence Tuber $500 Annalisa Ventola $434 Patricia Von Niessen $500 Carol Wallenfelsz $500 Mary Ward $435 Nicholas Warndorf $500 Raymond Weaver $433 Nick Weckman $400 Karin Weston $495 Channing Wheaton $435 Maria Wheeler $435 […]

• Press Release / November 19, 2021

  Greater Columbus Arts Council Approves 2021 Operating Support: Phase Two Grants

  COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Greater Columbus Arts Council (Arts Council) board of trustees approved 25 grants totaling $3,308,601 in Operating Support: Phase Two. The Arts Council’s Operating Support is split into two rounds of funding; the first round was announced in June. These grants are made possible through funds the Arts Council receives from the […]

• Press Release / November 17, 2021

  Greater Columbus Arts Council Awards Third Cycle of Support for Professional Artists Grants and Final Cycle of Big Ideas Grants

  COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Greater Columbus Arts Council (Arts Council) approved the following grants: 65 Support for Professional Artists totaling $58,817 in November 2021 and eight Big Ideas grants totaling $20,000 since August. Support for Professional Artists: Support for Professional Artists (SPA) grants are intended to assist individual artists and groups of artists creating together […]

• Press Release / November 15, 2022

  Greater Columbus Arts Council Announces 2022 Thrive Program Grant Recipients

  COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Greater Columbus Arts Council (GCAC) announced 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 […]

• Press Release / November 14, 2022

  Film Columbus Presents an Advance Screening of “Bones and All” Starring Timothée Chalamet

  Filmed in Southeast Ohio and Downtown Columbus COLUMBUS, Ohio – Film Columbus has secured a free screening for Columbus of the highly anticipated new film “Bones and All” starring Timothée Chalamet. Described as a drama/horror/romance movie, “Bones and All” has seen multiple awards from prestigious festivals, including the Venice Film Festival. The film was shot […]

• Press Release / November 3, 2022

  Greater Columbus Arts Council Announces 2022 Community Arts Partnership Awards Nominees and Winners at Big Arts Night

  COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Greater Columbus Arts Council (GCAC) today announced the recipients of the 2022 Columbus Makes Art Excellence Awards. The awards were announced as part of GCAC’s Big Arts Night held at the Southern Theatre and Westin Great Southern Hotel, an adaptation of its annual Community Arts Partnership (CAP) Awards program. The Columbus […]

• Press Release / July 20, 2022

  Nominations Open for 2022 Community Arts Partnership Awards

  COLUMBUS, Ohio — Nominations are now open for the Greater Columbus Arts Council’s (Arts Council) 2022 Community Arts Partnership (CAP) awards, which recognize the community’s important contributions to the arts, including financial support, non-cash contributions, volunteer involvement and board participation. Strong partnerships between businesses, community members and the arts stimulate economic growth, promote the city’s […]

• 2020 taught us to adapt, persevere and breath

  We came into 2020 full of hope, energy and vision. We had fought and won to get additional arts funding, and we developed a host of new programs that we were excited to roll out. Life is what happens while you are making other plans. This year we have lived through challenges we could not […]

• A letter to the community about the Columbus Arts Festival

  April 2, 2020 Dear Columbus Community The decision we share with you today is one of the single most difficult and heartbreaking we’ve ever had to make at the Greater Columbus Arts Council. Early this morning the Arts Council board of trustees voted to cancel the 2020 Columbus Arts Festival, formerly scheduled for June 12-14. […]