The North Carolina Arts Council has awarded the Wake Forest Renaissance Centre for the Arts $7,500 for the center’s Healing Arts program which provides photography, drawing, painting and writing classes for local veterans, active duty military and their families in the larger Wake Forest community.
From January through April, the Renaissance Centre partnered with the Joel Fund to provide the classes for veterans, active duty military and their families, and on June 24 hosted an exhibit for participants to showcase their art work.
This grant will help cover expenses for the Renaissance Centre Arts for All series, which offers Wake Forest and its surrounding communities the opportunity to experience live performances, exhibits, workshops and films at no cost. The July 27 Storytelling Pajama Night and the May 11 Puppets in the Plaza are recent examples of free community performances supported by the UAC of Raleigh and Wake County.
The grant brings the total of grant funding the Renaissance Centre has received so far in 2018 to $19,750. Earlier this year, the Renaissance Centre received a $10,000 Arts Engagement in American Communities Grant from the National Endowment of the Arts and a $2,250 Arts for Municipalities Grant from the United Arts Council of Raleigh & Wake County.
Arts Engagement in American Communities supports arts projects in all artistic disciplines, extending the NEA reach to communities across the Unites States. These grants are designed to engage the public in diverse and excellent art in underrepresented geographic areas.
The NEA grant will help cover the artist fees, as well as administrative, marketing and promotional costs for the Renaissance Centre’s Shades of Gospel Concert on Saturday, Nov. 3. Thanks to the NEA grant, the Renaissance Centre will sell tickets to the performance at a discounted rate. Additional details about the concert will be announced in the coming days.
The UAC’s Arts for Municipalities grants are intended to help Wake County municipalities outside of Raleigh develop their cultural and artistic resources to create vibrant communities and to ensure broad access to the arts.
