Grant Recipients

Supported by Guilford County and North Carolina Arts Council Grassroots Funding.

Spring 2025, January to June

• Strange Fruit Music Festival — April 2025
• ACE Spirit Week Festival — April 2025
• Greensboro Bound Literary Festival — May 2025
• Piedmont Blues Preservation Society — Blues and Foods Festival — May 2025
• Arts Unbound Festival at Creative Aging Network — May 2025
• Juneteenth GSO Festival — June 2025

Fall 2025, July to December

• North Carolina Folk Festival — September 2025
• National Dance Day and Dance Night with Greensboro Downtown Parks — September 2025
• A Day in the Park — September 2025
• GSO PrideFest — September 2025
• ArtStock Studio Tour — October 2025
• Chamber Crawl hosted by Eastern Music Festival — October 2025
• North Carolina Dance Festival by Dance Project — October 2025
• Festival of Lights by Downtown Greensboro, Inc. — December 2025

Facilitated in partnership with High Point Arts Council and the North Carolina Arts Council.

Project Support

• JOYEMOVEMENT Dance Company
• The Art Gallery at Congdon Yards
• Kid’s Poetry Basketball
• Women in Motion
• Poetry Project
• In Tune
• Vinmark International Dance
• The Mind Group
• M.A.D. Math Arts Design
• Zodwa Dance

Operational Support

• Casa Azul of Greensboro
• Piedmont Blues Preservation Society
• TAB Arts Center
• Royal Expressions
• Strange Fruit Foundation
• Gant School of Music

Community Partnerships

• African American Atelier and Leeville
• Greensboro Police Foundation and Shared Radiance
• Center for Visual Artists and Casa Azul
• The Peoples Market and Local Artists
• High Point Arts Council Summer Splash Series

African American Atelier. The Artistic Roots program: artistic workshops, a community art project, artistic mentorship, and presentation at the community festival.

Creative Aging Network. Heritage Cookbook to highlight the rich culture and traditions of the families in Greensboro’s first Heritage Community.

Gant School of Music. Assemble an ensemble of young musicians aged 8–18 from the Warnersville community to perform a drumline.

Shared Radiance. Capturing and preserving the oral history and memories of those who have lived in or knew individuals from the vibrant Warnersville Community.

TAB Arts Center. Building an ancestral garden and collaborating with a local sculptor who will create a three-dimensional piece to commemorate Warnersville.

Joe Grant. Craft: Requested funds to assist in the creation of aluminum frames and purchasing LED light panels to explore new ways of illuminating textile and glass sculptures.

Marcus Brathwaite. Craft: Requested funds to design and build a Windsor chair that will be the first piece in the Basil Furniture line.

Max Saunders. Craft: Requested funds to build a wood-firing “train kiln” just outside of Greensboro. This kiln will be communally fired to support multiple community members.

Sarah Harvell. Craft: Requested funds to elevate her artistic practice and effectively showcase her jewelry, as well as funding for a digital camera and computer to improve photography and website management.

Jen Guy Metcalf. Dance: Requested funds for career promotion and the development of professional materials.

Marielis Garcia. Dance: Requested funds to support an interdisciplinary performance work, Desirable Wait.

Ashley Virginia Buffa. Music: Requested funds to attend the Folk Alliance International in Montreal, Canada, in February 2025.

Daniel Quisol. Music: Requested funds to create The Music Annex, a converted storage shed for recording and rehearsal.

Karl Ronnevik. Music: Requested funds to grow as a professional cellist and pedagogue by learning the mandocello.

Mayia Warren. Music: Requested funds to create the Take Me Back EP.

Sam Fribush. Music: Requested funds to support The Sam Fribush Organ Trio’s album.

Vincent van Gelder. Music: Requested funds to upgrade the primary studio and grand piano.

Carrie K. Thomas. Performing Arts: Requested funds for the initiation fee for membership in SAG-AFTRA.

Brad Caviness. Visual Art: Requested funds to build models of coral reef cooling tower sculptures and test concrete that can be put into the ocean.

Iniobong Roberts. Visual Art: Requested funds to access a backstage look at LAFW.

Kasia Ozga. Visual Art: Requested funds to support her first solo exhibition in North Carolina.

Lawrence Feir. Visual Art: Requested funds to create a specialized metal-forming tool for stainless-steel kinetic wind sculptures.

Monica Hilario. Visual Art: Requested funds to create a series of paintings on the experience of being human as we approach the artificial intelligence era.

Olutomi Balogun Juarez. Visual Art: Requested funds to create a series of small ceramic planters, magnets, and beads.

Rodgers Dameron. Visual Art: Requested funds to create a series of surreal, mixed-media drawings.

Steven M. Cozart. Visual Art: Requested funds to create portraiture related to masculinity in the Black community, using chess as a metaphor.

Travis Hicks. Visual Art: Requested funds to assist with watercolors on the pediatric cancer family experience and on marginal places and spaces.

Kendra Aya. Writing/Literature: Requested funds to record, republish, and distribute poetry books as an audiobook.

• ArtsGreensboro Relief Grants (CARES) / $68,498
• Artist Emergency Relief / $95,040
• Artist Support / $126,022
• ArtsGreensboro Relief / $301,000
• ArtsGreensboro Reentry / $192,824
• Community Elevation / $43,060
• Sponsorships / $28,764
• Grassroots Multicultural / $108,371
• Mission Support / $224,573
• NCAC CARES / $330,031
• Other Grant Awards / $17,500
• Project Support / $37,250
• Guilford County CARES / $700,000 (Guilford County paid groups directly)