As the Designated County Partner to the North Carolina Arts Council, the Arts Council of Wilmington & New Hanover County is pleased to announce the grantees for the Artist Support Grant (New Hanover, Brunswick, Pender, Bladen and Columbus counties and the Grassroots Arts Program grant (New Hanover County).
Following are links to photos taken at Jingle & Mingle, our annual reception honoring grantees, held this year at the Dreams Center for Arts Education, on December 11, 2024.
Photos from Jingle & Mingle 2024
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Artist Support Grantees FY 24-25
| Joseph | Bounds | New Hanover | Visual Arts | $1,000 | Travel expenses to join in a wood firing at Jackson County Green Energy Park in Dillsboro, NC | |
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Pender | Film/Podcast | $1,000 | Production of “Real Deal Divas”, an innovative audio and video podcast series hosted by two dynamic women—one a writer and the other a painter. | |
| Rayana | Briggs | New Hanover | Film | $1,000 | Purchase of camera and accessories and studio rental fees to expand Road to Representation consulting agency for the entertainment industry. | |
| Lesa | Broadhead | New Hanover | Dance | $750 | Choreography and costumes for “Visions and Revelations”, featuring dance, visual arts and music. | |
| Bradley | Carter | New Hanover | Visual Arts | $1,000 | Purchase of Pro-Panels, two wall bins, and a pro-panel table for use at art festivals. | |
| Carolyn | Colby Millis | New Hanover | Visual Arts | $1,000 | Creation of “Echoes of Time”, a series of mixed-media artworks that integrate historical photographs, personal stories, and modern visual techniques to form a dialogue between the past and present. | |
| Travis | Corpening | Brunswick | Film | $1,000 | Production of a short film/musical performance of an original piece titled Black Fire: The Unfinished Story of a Port City, combining hip-hop and film to engage young audiences about 1898. | |
| Carolyn | Faulkner | New Hanover | Visual Arts | $1,000 | Creation of eight to twelve large scale acrylic paintings of flowers that look like birds with a surreal and/or a fantasy twist to them. | |
| Shannon | Gehen | New Hanover | Visual Arts | $1,000 | Purchase of a new Skutt digital kiln | |
| Summer | Hammond | New Hanover | Literary | $1,000 | Funds to write a memoir titled “The Poison House” that explores her upbringing in rural Iowa and Missouri, one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, who suffered severe and unusual chronic illness due to high levels of formaldehyde in our trailer home. | |
| Amanda | Hoke | New Hanover | Music | $1,000 | KinderFlute and Colour Flute Training, group class and studio materials, pedagogical resources creation, and personal website and Flute Examiner website update | |
| Wells | Jackson | Brunswick | Dance | $1,000 | Production of ASPHYXIA. a contemporary ballet work about men’s mental health to be presented at Cucalorus Film Festival. |
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| Brian | Jones | New Hanover | Visual Arts | $1,000 | Equipment of equipment and tools for the creation of intricate and detailed metal sculpture | |
| Fleming | KaToya | Brunswick | Literary | $1,000 | Purchase of a computer and website to promote published works, including “Finding Frank”, a bibliomemoir about author Frank Yerby. | |
| Jessica | Landes | New Hanover | Music | $1,000 | Purchase of amplification equipment for musical gigs | |
| Rachel | Lewis Hilburn | Brunswick | Film | $1,000 | Production of “Speaking of Trees”, a series of cinematic hikes in accessible North Carolina forests. | |
| Sarah | Marcus | New Hanover | Visual Arts | $1,000 | Purchase a new tabletop kiln that will work for silver clay firing and also for kiln enameling. | |
| Elizabeth Claire | Nakamura | New Hanover | Visual Art | $1,000 | Printing, promotion, and travel for“Fin-tastic Shark Tooth Coloring”, a children’s coloring/activity book and companion illustrated book. | |
| Jack | O’Connell | New Hanover | Music | $1,000 | Funds to purchase traditional equipment to establish the Cape Fear Highlanders, a Bagpipe Band. | |
| Mary Christine | Parks | New Hanover | Literary | $1,000 | Editing services on a 46,000-word middle grade fiction manuscript, “The Stars Above Glow Ethereal,” highlighting the decline of mental health in children and adolescents. | |
| Susan | Polizzotto | Pender | Visual Arts | $666.27 | Purchase of materials and equipment to wet mount shodo, Japanese calligraphy | |
| Robin | Robertson | New Hanover | Film | $1,000 | Purchase of a camera to continue production of ‘Just Sayin’ Songs’, twelve videos/songs by Margaret Kerry (95 years) widely known for being the first ‘Tinkerbell’ human model for Walt Disney’s animated feature Peter Pan. |
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| Kathy | Sohar | New Hanover | Puppetry | $1,000 | Purchase equipment to produce web-based puppetry content for both children and adults. | |
| Sara | Sommers | New Hanover | Theater | $945 | Sara Sommers and Cathy Street are co-writing an original musical, INK’D, s about a tattoo parlor, its owner, and the unlikely collection of customers who find themselves united in a larger story when trapped by a snowstorm. | |
| Terrill | Williams | New Hanover | Theater/Costumer | $1,000 | Purchase of a sewing machine, serger, and supplies to create costumes for theater productions. | |
| LJ | Woodard | New Hanover | Theater | $1,000 | Participation in the Broadway Teachers Workshop, training sessions, workshops, and discussions led by Broadway professionals.to support youth theatre education at the Performance Club Theater Company. |
Grassroots Arts Program Grants FY 24-25
| $ 2,325.00 | Big Dawg Productions | Through the Playwright Project, Big Dawg will identify a full-length unproduced play in SENC |
| $ 4,000.00 | Black Arts Alliance, INC – The NC Black Film Festival | The North Carolina Black Film Festival |
| $ 2,500.00 | Brooklyn Arts Music Academy | Music is Life! |
| $ 1,200.00 | Cape Fear Chorale | Fall 2024/Spring 2025 Concerts |
| $ 2,000.00 | Cape Fear Cultural Association of India | Journey Through India’s Most Adored Festivals: Celebrating Colors, Culture and Tradition |
| $ 2,500.00 | Carolina Beach Mural Project | Get on Board with CB100 |
| $ 3,000.00 | Chamber Music Wilmington | Taking it to the Streets |
| $ 3,000.00 | Children’s Museum of Wilmington | Wall Mural for the Children’s Museum of Wilmington |
| $ 2,500.00 | Delta Foundation of the Cape Fear | A Celebration of African American Arts and Culture |
| $ 2,500.00 | Forward Motion Dance Company | Arts in Motion |
| $ 3,000.00 | Fried Fruit Art Space | Fried Fruit Art Space Exhibition Series |
| $ 1,000.00 | Harrington Repertory Theatre | Shakers Revised |
| $ 2,500.00 | Mouths of Babes Theatre | Scotopia: A New Works Theatre Festival |
| $ 4,000.00 | North Carolina Jazz Festival (NCJF) | North Carolina Jazz Festival Musical Workshops |
| $ 3,000.00 | Opera House Theatre Company | Access Theatre Program |
| $ 3,000.00 | Opera Wilmington | Tosca |
| $ 2,500.00 | Performance Club Theatre Company (PCTC) | Summer Stock Youth Productions 2024 PCTC Summer Stock |
| $ 3,000.00 | Port City Music Festival | 17th Annual Port City Music Festival 2025 |
| $ 1,200.00 | Port City Playwrights Project | Ten-Minute Miscellany |
| $ 1,000.00 | Society for the Enjoyment of Art | Cape Fear Youth Art Education Program |
| $ 2,500.00 | Techmoja Dance and Theatre Company | The Scottsboro Boys |
| $ 4,017.00 | Thalian Association Community Theatre | Youth Theatre is For Everyone |
| $ 4,000.00 | Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts, Inc | Gaspard & Dancers at Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts |
| $ 500.00 | The Dance Cooperative | Dance-a-lorus |
| $ 3,000.00 | Turning the Wheel Productions, Inc. | Fall and Spring Programming |
| $ 3,000.00 | University of North Carolina at Wilmington | Modern Warrior LIVE |
| $ 1,500.00 | WHQR | Special Arts Programming during Black History Month |
| $ 3,000.00 | Wilmington Jewish Film Festival | 11th Annual Wilmington Jewish Film Festival |
| $ 4,000.00 | Wilmington Symphonic Winds | 2024-2025 Season (3 Concerts) |
| $ 75,242.00 |