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ALABAMA STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS

---------------{2018 Annual Report}

MEMBERSAlabama State Council on the Arts

JOEL T. DAVES IVCHAIRMAN

Mobile

JIM HARRISON IIIVICE CHAIRMAN

Tuscaloosa

DR. HENRY PANION IIISECRETARYBirmingham

JOHN C. COLEMANDothan

WARREN L. DUNCANTuskegee

DR. RACHEL BROWN FOWLERBirmingham

JULIE HALL FRIEDMANFairhope

KIM VICE MITCHELLDecatur

NEELY PORTERA Tuscaloosa

DOUG C. PURCELL

Eufaula

CEIL JENKINS SNOWBirmingham

SONTONIA T. K. STEPHENSNorthport

LYNNE B. VALLELYHuntsville

LISA BLACH WEILMontgomery

MARY WADSWORTH WHITEFlorence

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ALABAMA STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS 1

-------------[ mission ]-------------

The Mission of the Alabama State Council on the Arts is to

enhance the quality of life and economic vitality

for all Alabamians by providing support

for the state’s diverse and rich artistic resources.

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Message from the Director .......................... 3Message from the Chair .............................. 5Arts in Education Program ........................... 6Community Arts Program ............................ 10

Folklife Program ........................................ 14Literature Program ...................................... 18

Performing Arts Program ............................. 22Visual Arts Program ................................... 26

Grants ..................................................... 30Financial Report ......................................... 38Photo captions and credits .......................... 40

ALABAMA STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS

201 Monroe Street, Suite 110, Montgomery, Alabama 36130-1800

Phone: 334-242-4076 / Fax: 334-240-3269

www.arts.alabama.gov


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{Message from the Director}----------

Albert B. Head EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

The Fiscal Year 2018 (Oct 1, 2017 – Sept. 30th, 2018) can be profiled from a number of perspectives that include in-creased legislative appropriations, program planning focused on arts projects related to Alabama’s Bicentennial in 2019, new Council appointments and leadership, and the retirement of long-time staff members. On the legislative front, the $500,000 increase from FY-2017 for Bicentennial programming was continued. Of particular significance was a $400,000 increase for the Council’s arts education initiative connected to the formation of the Artistic Literacy Consortium. Three pilot sites in Huntsville, Birmingham and Tuscaloosa will serve as state models reflecting the initiative’s goals and process for integrating the arts in individual schools and school systems. The innovative plan utilizes partnerships between local arts organizations, artists, businesses, schools, teachers and students to demonstrate the positive impact the arts have on teaching and learning. This first year of actual plan implementation is the result of over four years of collaborative efforts between the State Council on the Arts, the State Department of Education, the Alabama Arts Alliance, the Institute for Education in the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and a host of individuals representing arts organizations and educational institutions. There is great optimism for the expansion of this initiative to impact all areas of the state touching students from both rural and urban school systems. In 2017-18 the Council was deeply involved in Bicenten-nial programming, planning and grant support to arts organizations statewide. Over one hundred and fifty grants to a hundred-plus organizations, totaling in excess of $500,000 was awarded dur-ing the lead-up year to the Bicentennial. The Council itself was directly involved in planning for a major Bicentennial park and sculpture project related to the history of the State on the west side of the Capitol. Artist Caleb O’Connor from Tuscaloosa will create sixteen bronze bas relief panels with Craig Wedderspoon,

also of Tuscaloosa, providing the design and installation for the mounting bases, as well as the supervision of the casting process. The Council will also be producing/editing a book published by the University of Alabama Press entitled Alabama Creates: 200 Years of Art and Artists. The coffee-table type book will be coming out August of 2019 and will be featured as a Bicentennial publication. Elliot Knight, ASCA’s Deputy Director, was the chief editor and

project director for Alabama Creates. As the Bicenten-nial approaches it has been obvious that our state’s artists have throughout the years been some of our best and most prolific story tellers. Clearly the arts and artists of Alabama will take a high profile position in celebrations statewide. The Alabama State Bicen-tennial Commission has done a great job in putting together both public and private funds to insure the state’s 200th birthday of statehood is recognized in grand style. Governor Ivey appointed three new members to the Council for six-year terms starting in January of 2018. The new members include: Mrs. Lynne Vallely

from Huntsville, Mr. Warren Duncan from Tuskegee and Mr. John Coleman from Dothan. Jim Harrison of Tuscaloosa and Dr. Rachel Brown Fowler of Birmingham were reappointed to the Council. Also beginning in January of 2018, the Council elected new officers for two-year terms. Mr. Joel Daves of Mobile will serve as Chairman, Jim Harrison – Vice Chairman and Dr. Henry Panion of Mobile – Secretary. All of these members have considerable experience on the board of ASCA and will provide outstanding leadership of the agency. Also of note, Dr. Panion will chair the Grants Review Committee and Lisa Weil of Montgomery will serve as Chair of the Long Range Planning Committee. Fiscal Year 2018 brought about several staff changes with ASCA. Barbara Edwards, Deputy Director and a thirty-nine year veteran with the agency retired in April 2018. She served the agency with great dedication and professionalism and is missed on many levels. Also retiring in FY2018 were Steve Grauberger,

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Director of the Arts Council in Louisiana, coming home to Alabama in February of 1985 was both a professional and personal decision for my wife and me. While having many friends and fond memories in Florida and Louisiana we have not regretted coming back to Alabama one minute and to say it has been fulfilling would be an understatement. The arts community in Alabama is “the best” and one that needs to be appreciated and supported for making the quality of life here uniquely southern. So, we look forward to seeing you all down the road and you should be confident the Alabama State Council on the Arts will remain strong and be guided with great leadership.

Folklife Program Manager and Alabama Arts Radio producer and Rita Allen, long-time grants office assistant. While technically not an FY2018 change, I announced my retirement, effective December 31st, 2018 concluding almost thirty-four years serving as Executive Director of the Council. This then will be my final annual report. There is not enough space or enough words to express my thanks to the outstanding ASCA staff over the years, the dedicated and generous Council members and the thousands of arts professionals and artists in Alabama who have made my job a joy and one of the best in America. I can’t think of anything else I would rather have been doing. After five years of state arts agency work in Florida and eight years as Executive

John C. Coleman Warren L. Duncan Lynne B. Vallely (Dothan) (Tuskegee) (Huntsville)

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{Message from the Chair}----------2018 marks my eleventh year serving on the Alabama State

Council on the Arts and my first year as Chairman. It has been a remarkable year in many ways. Through its two hard working com-mittees, Grants Review and Long Range Planning, the Council has continued to support arts organizations across the state and the arts experience for all Alabamians. During my thirty-year career in banking I had the great good fortune to live in the four largest cities in the state. In each of them I found a thriving arts community which enhanced the quality of life for the citizens. I also found that a community’s commitment to the arts can have positive effects on its economic health. People don’t stick in one place anymore. Many work from their homes. Today’s workers have greater flexibility with respect to where they work. Increasingly, today’s workers are seeking out communities where the cultural life is robust. Correspondingly, companies are much more interested in locating in communities where the cultural amenities are varied and abundant. I do not see this trend dissipating; rather I see it becoming more pronounced. Communities intending to be strong competitors in economic development will need to be in a position to tout the cultural experience, including most importantly the arts experience, available in that community. Education is also an important element in economic development. Because their employees are interested in it, employers are interested in the quality of the public education. The Alabama State Council on the Arts, by providing Arts in Education grants to arts organizations throughout the state, is ensuring that children have an opportunity to experience and develop an interest in the arts, enriching their lives and aiding in their education. 2018 also marked an important milestone in the life of the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the arts community in Alabama. After thirty-three years at the head of the Alabama State Council on the Arts, Al Head retired on December 31. Al, a native of Troy, Alabama, earned his undergraduate degree from Troy State University majoring in art history and aesthetics and was a star quar-

terback on Troy State’s 1968 NAIA national championship football team and received his Master of Liberal Arts with a concentration on Southern Literature from Auburn University at Montgomery. Af-ter serving in state arts councils in Florida and Louisiana he became Executive Director of the Alabama State Council on the Arts in 1985. As the only state arts director to start folk arts programs in

three states -- Florida, Louisiana, and Alabama -- he has striven to show how important the folk and traditional arts are to defining and giving life to a community. Al served two terms on the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA) board and in 1998 received the Gary Young Award from that organization for his leadership and achievements in promoting the arts na-tionally. He served as a member of the South Arts board for thirty-eight years, presiding as its chair 1983-85. In 1999 he received the Alumnus of the Year Award from the Troy University National Alumni Association and in 2008 received the Distinguished Leadership Award cre-

ated by Troy University to recognize an alumnus who has rendered outstanding service to the University and the public. In 2012 he received the National Heritage Fellowship Bess Lomax Hawes Award from the National Endowment for the Arts recognizing his significant contributions to the preservation and awareness of cultural heritage. During his thirty-three years as Executive Director of the Alabama State Council on the Arts Al developed a reputation as one of the foremost arts agency directors in the nation, led the Alabama State Council on the Arts through a period of tremendous growth and accomplishment and served as a mentor and champion for arts organizations and artists across the State of Alabama. We wish Al and his wife, Judy, all the best as they enter this new stage of their lives. After an exhaustive nationwide search, we are delighted to elevate Elliot Knight from Deputy Director to Executive Director. The Council looks forward to working with our new director in order to continue the advance of the arts in Alabama.


Joel Daves IVBOARD CHAIR


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--------------We are committed

to artistic and creative literacy for our students

to provide for better schools and a

better Alabama.--------------


The Arts in Education Program is committed to supporting efforts that

provide artistic literacy for all students. The Council enjoys a strong part-nership with the Alabama

State Department of Education, the Ala-bama Arts Alliance and the Alabama In-stitute for Education in the Arts. These four statewide partners align efforts to provide fully-funded high quality arts education that enlightens, inspires, and develops in every Alabama student the creative and innovative thinking neces-sary to ensure college and career readi-ness as part of a comprehensive plan, endorsed by all four partners and Con-sortium members. The purpose of this plan is to make collective impact using multiple resources provided by diverse stakeholders. Over 100 organizations and individuals have joined the Artistic Literacy Consortium since membership began in the spring of 2017.

The Alliance and the Institute provide summer workshops and ongo-ing embedded professional develop-ment throughout the year for Alabama teachers, artists and arts organizations. This training focuses on strategies for collaboration, assessment in the arts and standards-based arts integration.

Workshops have expanded as part of the plan for the Artistic Literacy Con-sortium to support local grass roots ef-forts with grant writing skills and artist training. The Alliance also held its an-nual arts advocacy conference in April. Many students traveled from across the state to showcase their artistic accom-plishments during the conference.

Arts in Education Grants The Council’s Arts in Educa-tion grants program focuses its support on projects in schools that serve pre-kindergarten through 12th grade stu-dents. Funding is available to schools and organization partners that engage in projects to advance the role of the arts as essential to student learning. Curriculum-Based Project Grants (maxi-mum $10,000) are awarded for efforts that focus on standards-based curricu-lum as established by the State Depart-ment of Education. Funding is typically

designated for activities such as arts in-struction, performances, exhibits, teach-er professional development, and artist residencies that promote learning in and through the arts. Smaller Enhancement Grants (maximum $3,000) are provided for schools and organizations providing arts exposure and arts enrichment ac-tivities to schools, such as performanc-es, field trips, or professional develop-ment workshops. Funds may be used for transportation, tickets, presenter fees, workshop fees, and other direct costs related to the enhancement ac-tivities.

Special Arts in Education Programs The Alabama Touring Artist Program provides opportunities for a

limited number of schools to book a perfor-mance by an Alabama per-

forming artist or group. These perfor-mances include study guides that help teachers connect the performance to on-going curriculum through prepara-tion and follow-up activities. This pro-gram is free to schools and does not re-quire matching funds, but is focused on those most in need. In FY2018, seven-teen schools from thirteen rural coun-ties booked performances by Debbie Bond, Dance Alabama, Wanda Johnson and the Birmingham Children’s Theatre.


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The Arts in Schools Program is an initiative to support arts in Alabama’s Black Belt. Grants between $1,000 and

$7,000 are avail-able by applica-tion to the fifteen Black Belt school systems including Bullock, Choctaw,

Dallas, Greene, Hale, Lowndes, Macon, Marengo, Perry, Pickens, Sumter, and Wilcox Counties as well as Demopo-lis City, Linden City, and Selma City. There is no match requirement, and pri-ority is given to proposals that commu-nicate activities of artistic excellence, and address the statewide goals of the Artistic Literacy Consortium. Grantees in FY2018 focused funding on profes-sional development for teachers, and artist residencies. The Collaborating Artist Pro-gram is for schools that decide to ex-

plore the pro-cess of working through the arts to increase stu-dent success in other subjects.

The program is designed to support schools that may have little or no arts programs by offering an innovative way to address a unique learning challenge identified by each school. The program provides intensive arts integration for

a target group of students, trains a lo-cal artist to collaborate with classroom teachers, and aligns with the third Ar-tistic Literacy Consortium goal to ad-vance arts education opportunities to facilitate college and career readiness. The Council provides planning facilita-tion for collaborating artists and teach-ers, on-going support in arts curricu-lum design, a program handbook, and fully paid artist fees. In FY2018 elev-en schools in the counties of Colbert, Fayette, Jefferson, Macon, Madison, Marengo, Monroe, Montgomery, Perry and Sumter participated in this pro-gram. Poetry Out Loud, a national ini-tiative founded by the National Endow-ment for the Arts and the Poetry Foun-

dation, celebrated its 13th season in 2018. Twenty-four schools, seventy-seven teach-ers, and 4,961 stu-dents participated in the program. Regional partners in Mobile, Montgomery, Tusca-

loosa and Huntsville held regional com-petitions and provided workshops for teachers and students. In FY2018, the winner of our state’s Original Poetry competition was Raina Verser, a se-nior at New Century Technology High School in Huntsville. Her teacher was

Rebecca Savage-Owens. Raina Verser also became the state champion in the national program for the third year in a row. Raina represented Alabama in Washington DC, where she competed with 52 other champions representing each state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. She took second place nationally in the Po-etry Ourselves competition for recita-tion of her original poetry. The Visual Arts Achievement Program provides local and state rec-ognition for student achievement in the visual arts. The program is designed to offer encouragement to school sys-tems, schools and teachers that provide quality instruction in the visual arts. Student artists, grades 6-12, showcase

their work in regional and state adjudi-cated exhibi-tions. Awards

are assigned by professional juries. In FY2018 over 1,500 students partici-pated within six districts statewide, with over 90 works exhibited in the Georgine Clarke Alabama Artists Gal-lery in Montgomery. Five high school seniors were awarded scholarships to higher education institutions.


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Community has been described as a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals. You can see community in festivals across the state like Kentuck in Northport and Arts Alive in Florence and with a group of folks gathered to create painted window insets in Selma led by “The Tin Man,” Char-lie Lucas. You can find community alive and well in The Black Box Theatre at the Shelby County Arts Council in Columbiana, in the mountains of Mentone at their sum-mer concert series, as well as in Gordo at a small but thriving after school arts program. We’re seeing communities come together for problem solving, reinvention and leader-ship at Creative Placemaking Summits. In all of these areas, the arts are front and center and the Community Arts program is actively involved in a concerted effort to enhance the lives of people across the state. General Operating Support grants enable eligible organizations to provide pro-gramming, planning and support for the arts and artists in their communities. One exam-ple is the Gadsden Cultural Arts Foundation which serves as a hub of community arts in the northeast region of the state. Their Chan Gallery hosted six nationally-traveling fine arts exhibitions, exposing both visitors and school children on field trips to new arts forms they would not have otherwise experienced. The Etowah Youth Orchestra grew by over 20 percent, expanding their in-school strings program to cover 17 classes in 14 schools and creating two ensembles to

form a second full orchestra. They provide over 600 students of all ages with quality instruction in visual arts, music and dance via the Gadsden Community School for the Arts. Their Downtown Dance Conservatory even performed their original production of Frida, celebrating the life of Frida Kahlo, outside the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy! Another General Operating Support grantee is Arts Huntsville, which serves over 240 member organizations, and individual artists which provides art education, public art and community events. They are in the midst of building the Moon Community and Per-forming Arts Complex on the former Gris-som High School campus, which ASCA is supporting under its Arts & Cultural Facilities grant program.

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and the design artsimpact the quality of lifein Alabama communities

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cilities grants, enable organizations to plan, design and construct new spaces for the arts or embark upon the adaptive reuse of an existing space into a vibrant cultural as-set for the community. Examples of Arts and Cultural Facilities funded projects in FY2018 include the Tennessee Valley Art Association’s plans to expand their Ritz The-

atre Complex and the Kentuck Museum As-sociation’s strategic planning design. Both of these organizations contribute great artis-tic vitality to their respective downtowns of Sheffield and Northport. Community Arts Program grants supported a varied range of events and activities around Alabama. Girls Rock Bir-mingham, a first time grant recipient, is an innovative summer camp program for girls aged 9-16 involving rock instrument instruc-tion, self-esteem building workshops, so-cial justice issue exploration, and culminat-ing with a recording session and concert. Another first time grantee is the Newbern Library which led a two-day photography workshop entitled Taking a Second Look. The title and premise was based on the works of acclaimed Alabama artist, William Christenberry, who elevated Newbern and Hale County landscapes to epic proportions in his photography and painting. The award-winning Alabama Prison Arts + Education Program continues to inspire the incarcer-ated population with visual arts classes, as well as creative writing, in several facilities around the state. Huntsville Community Drumline offers a free percussion program for 1st-9th grades. This organization pro-motes accountability, teamwork and leader-ship. Some graduates of the program have received collegiate performing arts scholar-ships. Theatrical performances are happen-ing in Union Springs, Winfield, Sheffield and Pell City, while international festivals are being held in Mobile and Birmingham. All il-


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lustrate the broad artistic diversity Alabama can lay claim to.

Cheryl Lewis, Director of Programs for Space One Eleven, a visual arts organiza-tion in Birmingham was the Arts Adminis-trative Fellowship recipient this year. With her award, Ms. Lewis was able to attend several workshops designed to enhance her role at Space One Eleven. She was particu-larly focused on addressing inclusiveness and issues of equity and how they can bet-ter serve the Greater Birmingham population accordingly. The Design Fellowship was awarded to Scott Fisk, a graphic designer and educator in Birmingham. The award money enabled Mr. Fisk to complete his chil-dren’s book, Fuzzy Finny Visits Alabama, which explores the state’s most popular landmarks. The publication ties in with the state’s Bicentennial as a fun and exciting way for children to learn about Alabama’s history, arts and natural beauty. ASCA expands its reach through partnerships with statewide organizations. The Black Belt Community Foundation is an important partner. The Black Belts Arts Initiative is the artistic arm of the Founda-tion and their goal is to advance the arts in the twelve counties of the Black Belt re-gion. Since 2004, BBCF has granted in ex-cess of $3 million to nonprofit organizations throughout the 12-county region it serves to bolster programs primarily in the arts, com-munity and economic development, educa-tion, and health and wellness through the Black Belt Arts Initiative. This year $80,000

was granted to almost 30 organizations throughout the region. Wilcox ArtWorks, an organization bringing musical performances and an art show highlighting local talent was one grantee. Another example is the Tuskegee Youth Safe Haven, teaching arts and craft skills to produce marketable prod-ucts using local resources and another was the Society of Folk Arts and Culture to sup-port the 2018 Black Belt Folk Roots Festival building community through visual, culinary and musical arts. These are just a few of the recipients who applied for and received money to launch ideas and projects. The Black Belt Community Foundation partnered with Black Belt Treasures and the University of West Alabama to host their First Annual Black Belt Arts Symposium, “Powering Up For The Arts,” on the University of West Alabama campus in Livingston. The sympo-sium was geared towards artists, educators and arts organizations, providing network-ing and resourcing opportunities. Some of the featured speakers were ASCA’S Joey Brackner and Diana Green, Donna Russell from the Alabama Arts Alliance and Ala-bama educator, actor and activist, Dr. Billie Jean Young. Plans are already underway for the 2019 symposium. Another important partner is DesignAlabama, which promotes the benefits of excellence in design to com-munities throughout the state. DesignPlace, in particular, is a program where design pro-fessionals associated with DesignAlabama visit communities selected to participate in the program after having completed the

Mayors Design Summit. This year the two towns chosen for DesignPlace were Elba and Troy, while Visioning Workshops were held in Camden and Florence. The Mayors Design Summit, held in Prattville, focused on the theme “river cities” and hosted the mayors of Decatur, Gadsden, Florence and Selma along with the one “railroad city” of York. DesignAlabama continues to promote their Guide to Alabama through ConnectLiv-ity, a guide of highly curated travel itineraries of the six regions of the state, based on vari-ous themes. Creative Placemaking continues to remain on the forefront of Community Arts in that artists imagine the possibilities to create change and can help people visual-ize possible futures for a place. That “place” could be an empty lot, an abandoned busi-ness district, a struggling neighborhood or an entire city or town. Art has a way of bridging different worlds and bringing an ar-ray of people to the conversation. This year, staff and Alabama constituents attended Creative Placemaking Leadership Summits in Chattanooga and in Charleston, West Vir-ginia to see how others are bringing new life into a place that invites livability. We must nurture the creative spirit that IS Alabama and continue to create the best places to do that: in our communities. The Community Arts Program strives to do just that.


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The Alabama Center for Traditional Culture and Folklife Grants Program

The Alabama Center for Tradi-tional Culture (ACTC) is the folklife di-vision of ASCA and is staffed by Joey Brackner, Deborah Boykin, Jackie Ely, and Anne Kimzey. The Center is both a grants-making office and research group working to identify, preserve, and present Alabama folk arts and tra-ditions. We work closely with the Ala-bama Folklife Association (AFA), our statewide non-profit partner in achiev-ing our goals. Alabama folklife consists of those aspects of our state’s culture that are traditional and are learned within communities from generation to generation. As a result, these cultural traditions reflect community values and aesthetics. Folklife includes folk arts such as traditional crafts, music and dance, as well as regional foodways, folk architecture, beliefs, storytelling, myths, and medicinal practices. Folklife is regional, reflecting the process of adaptation by various ethnic groups to a geographical area. Because it is a product of a historical and geographical process, Alabama folklife, in its many facets, uniquely reflects the personal-ity of our state and its communities. Through the staff of the Alabama Cen-ter for Traditional Culture, ASCA works to identify folk traditions and present them through educational products

such as television and radio programs, documentary CDs, traveling exhibits, lectures, and publications. Folklife rep-resents a large part of the content of the Alabama Arts radio series produced with WTSU Public Radio and Journey Proud produced with Alabama Public Television. The Center’s Folklife ProjectGrants Program supports non-profitorganizations in projects seeking to present and preserve the state’s folk culture. During FY2018, the Folklife Project Grants Program supported the after school and summer camps of the Alabama Blues Project, a nationally award-winning program in Tuscaloosa. The Sucarnochee Folklife Festival pro-duced by the University of West Ala-bama in Livingston and the sixth annual Wiregrass Blues Festival in Dothan

sponsored by Troy University were sup-ported by ASCA. Project grants were also made for a web-based presentation of Shoals musicians, the Jake Landers Bluegrass Festival at the Ritz Theater in Sheffield, the Johnny Shines Blues Fes-tival in Tuscaloosa, a performance of Indian Bharatanatyam dance in Mont-gomery, the Old Federal Road Storytell-ing Festival in Warrior Stand (Macon County) and a tribute to the Delmore Brothers at the Tennessee Valley Old Time Fiddlers Convention in Athens. In the Wiregrass, grants were made in support of the Pike Piddler’s Storytell-ing Festival sponsored by the Brundidge Historical Society, two festivals at the Pioneer Museum of Alabama in Troy, and a conference on hymn singing in Andalusia. Teaching workshops made possible by Folklife Projects Grants included the Lee County Gathering in Loachapoka, workshops on Korean tra-ditional arts in Montgomery, and two sessions of Camp Fasola held in Annis-ton and Nauvoo. Folk Arts Apprenticeship grantsare given to master folk artists for teaching their art forms. Prospective students who have entered into an agreement with a master folk artist may also apply for an Apprenticeship grant. Apprenticeships are one of the prima-ry preservation tools of the Alabama Folklife Program. They are designed to

--------------Alabama Folklife,in its many facets,uniquely reflects the personality

of our state and its

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ensure the transmission of a diversity of folk skills using the traditional mas-ter apprenticeship system. This year’s teaching grants were awarded to sev-eral quilt makers including a number of the celebrated quilters of Gee’s Bend as well as a acapella gospel singer, a traditional potter, two pine needle bas-ket makers, a luthier, an accomplished fiddler, chair weaver, a banjo instruc-tor, a maker of rag rugs and an instruc-tor of the traditional Vietnamese Lion Dance.

Accomplishments during FY 2018 include:

The Alabama Center for Tradi-tional Culture staff worked closely with Alabama Public Television in develop-ing, writing, shooting and editing the

fifth season of Journey Proud, a televi-sion series profiling a wide variety of Alabama community traditions. The series premiered on October 20, 2013. You can view programs at: journey-proudalabama.com. The Center staff worked close-ly with the AFA in hosting two state-wide Sacred Harp singings in Mont-gomery. The Rotunda Singing at the Alabama Department of Archives and History is held each winter and the Capitol City Shape Note Singing is held each July. The Alabama Arts radio series which Deb Boykin, folklorist for the Council produces, airs on the South-eastern Public Radio Network. Other public radio stations are also airing the

series across the state. You can listen to past programs at: www.alabam-aartsradio.com. The Archive of Alabama Folk Culture (AAFC) was founded in 2006 at the Alabama Department of Archives and History (ADAH) with the coopera-tion of the Center and the AFA. The Ar-chive houses field documentation gen-erated by the AFA, ACTC, and others. In 2011, Kevin Nutt was named folklife archivist at the AAFC. Since that time, Center staff has worked with him trans-ferring recordings, photographs and other documentary materials generated by ASCA’s public folklorists during the last 40 years. Some of these materials are already available on the ADAH web-site.


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The Alabama State Council on the Arts increases awareness of the state’s literary heritage through its support of contemporary Alabama writers, includ-ing creative nonfiction writers, novelists, poets, and writers for children. Many lit-erature programs for the general public featured diverse arts education compo-nents within schools and workshop set-tings. In FY2018, ASCA funded literary project grants and individual artist fellow-ship awards. It also supported a statewide partner organization, the Alabama Writers’ Forum. ASCA provided information and technical assistance to writers and organi-zations promoting the literary arts. To support ASCA’s mission for literary arts, the Alabama Writers’ Forum served constituents statewide and part-nered with nonprofit, educational and state government entities to provide pro-grams such as the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame, the annual Alabama Book Festi-val, the Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer of the Year, the High School Literary Arts Awards and extensive networking of writers and literary arts ven-ues through its digital communications. The Forum completed its twenty-first year of Writing Our Stories, an award-winning creative writing program for adjudicated youth in partnership with the Alabama Department of Youth Services. Conduct-ed on two Youth Services campuses and employing professional creative writers in

--------------The goal of the

Literary Arts Program is to increase public

awareness of and exposure to literature and the state’s literary heritage and to support contemporary Alabama

writers of creative non-fiction, fiction and

other literary genres --------------

classrooms, Writing Our Stories reached more than 150 youth and resulted in three publications of student work. Writing Our Stories was also conducted for a full se-mester in the Shelby County School Sys-tem with students at Columbiana Middle School, Montevallo Middle School, and Vincent Middle High School, and result-ed in three publications of student work. A unique Forum undertaking in FY2018 was the Bicentennial Poets Project which commissioned new historical persona po-etry on subjects related to Alabama from three poets – Jacqueline Allen Trimble, Kwoya F. Maples, and Susie Paul. Jeanie Thompson, executive director of the Ala-bama Writers’ Forum, and a poet whose own published work centers on historical

personal poetry, served as director. Pub-lic readings were held and the project will continue to have a life as part of Alabama 200 as the commissioned poems are pub-lished and performed. In FY2018, ASCA funded a num-ber of programs to promote an apprecia-tion of the literary arts among the general reading public and to benefit both estab-lished and emerging writers. In March, the University of North Alabama Writers Series brought prize-winning poet and memoir-ist Joy Harjo to their Florence, Alabama campus. Harjo, who is a member of the Muscogee Nation, read from her work and included flute interludes and storytelling between poems as she enthralled an audi-ence of more than 300 community mem-bers and students. Auburn’s Jule Collins Smith Mu-seum brought nationally known poets, such as Naomi Shihab Nye, and local poets together in the Auburn community once a month for a Third Thursday Poetry Series. Attendees heard the work of visiting art-ists and participated in open-mic readings. In addition, poet Kevin McIlvoy visited an Auburn high school creative writing class. Oakwood University in Huntsville initiated the J.L. Moran Arts and Lecture Series in October of 2017 with Mississippi poet Dr. Jerry Ward. The series contin-ued in March 2018 with novelist Anthony Grooms. Both authors gave public read-ings and taught creative writing work-


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shops to both university and high school students.

The National Hook Up of Black Women sponsored several performances of We a BaddDDD People: A Celebration of Sonia Sanchez. Alabama poets Pris-cilla Hancock and Georgette Norman gave powerful and uplifting readings of San-chez’s poems, presenting her themes of activism, justice, womanhood and cultural pride. The performances took place in April at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and at Alabama State University in Montgom-ery, where the event was co-sponsored by ASU’s Department of Languages and Lit-erature. Coastal Alabama Community College was the site of the 21st annual Al-abama Writers Symposium in Monroeville, April 19-20. Drawing audiences from across the state, the symposium featured author readings and panel discussions fa-cilitated by Alabama literary scholars. This year’s keynote speaker was Sean Dietrich, author of the popular blog Sean of the South. At the annual awards presentations during the symposium, the 2018 Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer was presented to poet Honorée Jef-fers, whose poetry collections include The Gospel of Barbecue and Red Clay Suite, and the Eugene Current-Garcia Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Literary Schol-ar was awarded to Dr. David Cowart of

the University of South Carolina. Michelle Richmond, who received the Truman Ca-pote Prize, read from her most recent book The Marriage Pact. The 13th Annual Alabama Book Festival took place April 21st in Mont-gomery’s downtown historic district at Old Alabama Town. The festival show-cased Anthony Ray Hinton, Eric Motley, Alexis Okeowo, P.F. Kluge, Warren Zanes,Michelle Richmond, Honorée Jeffers and nearly 50 other writers from a wide range of literary genres. The main event drew large crowds this year and associated workshops on fiction, poetry, podcasting and making audio books also proved to be highly popular. In conjunction with the fes-tival, Troy University presented Ace Atkins with the Hall-Waters Prize. On May 24th, eight distinguished authors were inducted into the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame in a gala ceremony at the University of Alabama’s Bryant Conference Center. The inductees were: Winston Groom, Gay Talese, Charles Gaines, Shirley Ann Grau, William Bradford Huie, Wayne Greenhaw, James Haskins and Joseph Glover Baldwin. The Hall of Fame was established in 2015 through a partnership of the Alabama Writers’ Forum and the Alabama Center for the Book. Based at the University of Ala-bama, the public radio program Alabama Bound featured 50 weekly book reviews

that reached a large audience of listen-ers, maximizing exposure for Alabama authors and Alabama-related books. Dr. Don Noble’s short reviews were aired on public radio stations across the state during Na-tional Public Radio’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered. Text versions of the reviews are posted on the Alabama Public Radio website at www.apr.org. The Alabama State Council on the Arts granted two Literary Arts Fellow-ships this year, recognizing individual writ-ers who have demonstrated artistic excel-lence and career achievement. Recipients for 2018 were: poet Patti White, professor of English at the University of Alabama and author of Pink Motel, her fourth book of poetry, and James Braziel, associate pro-fessor of English at the University of Ala-bama at Birmingham. Braziel has published two novels and is currently working on a collection of short stories.


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The performing arts generate a range of benefits for people and society, from bringing individuals enjoyment to helping communities build stronger social bonds. But, challenges to secure perpetual funding for deserving programs remain. In response to this ongoing challenge, the Alabama State Council on the Arts (ASCA) continues to offer Performing Arts Program grants designed to support presenting and producing activities that promote artistic excellence, employ equity, diversity and inclusion in its execution, and provide op-portunities for Alabamians to participate in the creative process, while developing an appreciation for cultural arts. Activities structured around the pursuit of these goals help make engagement more meaningful and build greater local participation in the art forms of dance, music and theatre. The Council’s strategically designed Criteria of Evaluation also allow the agency to insure the integrity of these vital goals making project funding an easier matter for arts organizations. ASCA has long worked to promote Artistic Excellence, which is the hallmark of the Performing Arts Program (PAP). This year there were exemplary project and presenting grants, which demonstrated exceptional artistic excellence in the three performing arts disciplines of dance, music and theatre. In dance, the Alabama Dance Council (Jefferson County) presented Ballet Memphis as the guest company-in-residence for the 2018 Alabama Dance Festival, co-

presented by the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center. Ballet Memphis, now in its 30th season, is recognized for its close ties to the region’s rich musical and literary heritage through dance, production and training. In music, the Mobile Symphony (Mobile County) presented “People’s Diva” Renee Fleming, whose noted honors include a Grammy Award for best classical vocal solo and the National Medal of Arts Award.

The Huntsville Literary Association (Madison County) presented the American Shake-speare Center on Tour in performances of Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, and a dramatic adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility. The Council also paid trib-ute to artistic excellence demonstrated by Alabamians through the prestigious Fellow-ship Award. 2018 recipients included James Atkinson (Montgomery County) in dance, and Kadisha Onalbayeva (Mobile County) in music. These two individual awards of

$5,000 are made based on quality of work, career achievement, career potential and service to the state. One of the founding precepts of ASCA is the deep belief that access to arts belongs to every Alabamian. Over the last few decades the policy to adopt equity, diversity and inclusion as a strategy to advance this belief has proven to be the proverbial silver bullet in addressing the dis-parity in access. The PAP routinely provides assistance to projects that promote equity, diversity and inclusion. Performing arts projects that model these values have strong educational components built into relevant artist residencies. The performing artists are involved in ongoing community engagement activities designed to address systemic dis-enfranchisement in access to the arts within targeted communities. These activities may manifest as school performances or master classes for aspiring dancers, musicians or actors. In dance, the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa) served as fiscal agent for Dominic Yeager’s individual artist project to mount a new dance theatre work titled Separate and Equal. Separate and Equal was inspired by compelling personal recollections from the Oral History Project at the Birming-ham Civil Rights Museum that explored the emotional violence of segregation through the playing of a forbidden basketball game between black and white teens in the pres-sure cooker of 1950’s Jim Crow Alabama. To provide the visceral experience that such a story demands, the movements of

--------------Presenting grants allow organizations to engageartists/companies from other parts of the state,

country, and world, thus bringing the best of per-forming arts to Alabama

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the “game” were told through a dynamic hybrid of basketball and modern dance to an original Jazz soundtrack. Educational benefits were designed to address equity, by the involvement of area high school students in the rehearsal process of this production, the post show discussions that focused on race relations moderated by a lo-cal member of the NAACP. Feedback about the production through an online forum con-tinued the conversation of the complicated issues brought up in the performance, and free performances were held for local high schools and historically black colleges and universities from across Alabama. In music, the Knox Concert Series, Inc. (Calhoun County) presented the renowned Helsing-bourg Symphony Orchestra in concert. This project showcasing diverse artistic/cultural expression scheduled audience engagement activities in area high schools, the local library, and Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind. A public master class was held for Jacksonville State University music majors, and free tickets were made available to local children’s performance groups and Jacksonville State students. In theatre, the Cloverdale Playhouse (Montgomery County) distinguished itself in the area of inclusion through the outreach component of the staged adaptation of J.R. R. Tolkin’s The Hobbit. The page-to-stage production and outreach activities of The Hobbit included the art of puppetry as a basic element of the performance, and the playhouse recruited

youth (ages 5-18) with varying levels of performance expertise to participate in the creative process. Through this interactive process, students from varying backgrounds found common ground for engagement as they collaborated to dramatize a work from classical literature. Performing arts projects that offer Alabamians the opportunity to participate in the creative process while developing an appreciation for cultural arts, is another benefit of the grants program. In dance, individual artist Joan Hamby Burroughs (Jefferson County) received funding for the Cooking Samba Project to preserve the legacy of Afro-Brazilian culture through the cultivation of dance and music. The project featured Viver Brasil (a Los Angeles, CA dance company) in concert. The outreach opportunities included in this two-week resi-dency entailed several bold dance theatre classes designed for beginners of all ages and included creative movement classes for pre-schoolers. Viver Brasil has toured throughout the U.S., South Africa, Mexico, and Canada and is dedicated to rigorous research and continuous lively dialogue with living masters, virtuoso musicians, and cho-reographers in Bahia and beyond, addressing 21st century African Diaspora issues of art, humanity, race, equity, memory, resistance and resilience. In music, the Huntsville Sym-phony Orchestra (Madison County) opened its doors for a free family concert, in which they presented a symphonic program tailor-

made for young folk of all ages. Recently highlighted in Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom, The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra by the English composer Benjamin Britten was a marvelous introduction to the symphony. The work is based on a noble tune by Henry Purcell. The Sprightly Over-ture to Candide by Leonard Bernstein was also performed as the finale, programmed in honor of Bernstein’s 100 birthday celebra-tion. The free family concert was preceded by educational fun and games in the concert hall lobby. There was something for the whole family! Over the last few decades ASCA and its grantees have developed a much bet-ter understanding of the reasons people at-tend, or not attend, arts performances. This understanding has prompted us to take the lead in supporting “participation-building” ventures mounted by individual artists and performing arts institutions. It remains our deep belief that the arts belong to everyone; therefore, we remain eager to award funding to Alabama’s producing and presenting per-forming arts organizations across the state who, like the aforementioned groups, seek to advance the mission of ASCA through innovative high caliber programming and projects with meaningful outreach activities that inextricably elevate artistic excellence and level the playing ground for access to the arts with quality creative engagement.


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The Visual Arts Program of the Alabama State Council on the Arts en-sures excellence in visual arts program-ming for diverse audiences by support-ing a wide range of programs across the state. Visual art includes the disciplines of painting, sculpture, crafts, printmak-ing, photography, and film.

Major art museums in Hunts-ville, Birmingham, Montgomery, and Mobile hold collections of significant art. They also maintain facilities and programming which brings to Alabama temporary exhibitions ranging from tra-ditional to contemporary expression and showcasing the cultural legacy of cul-tures from across Alabama and around the globe. These museums provide the highest level of artistic excellence for the people of Alabama, and ASCA sup-ported their activities with Operating Support grants totaling $419,600 in 2018. During the year, these institu-tions were visited by 174,011 individu-als and provided art programming for 142,675 students from 635 schools. They provided teachers’ resources and educational experiences for children as well as a range of classes for adults and families. Community art centers and ex-hibition spaces receive funding to bring art programming to all regions of Ala-bama. ASCA project funding assisted organizations across the state including

the Alabama Contemporary Arts Center in Mobile, the Wiregrass Museum of Art in Dothan, The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, and the Kentuck Museum As-sociation in Northport. Other commu-nity arts organizations like the Coleman Center for the Arts in York, PaperWork-ers Local and Bib and Tucker Sew-Op in Birmingham, and the Sarah Carlisle Towery Alabama Art Colony on Lake Martin received Council support to pro-vide a range of workshops and classes to youth and adults around Alabama. Art festivals bring visual arts experiences into community celebra-tions and can have significant econom-

ic impact on the communities where they are held. Council funds assisted with the Kentuck Festival of the Arts. Festivals like Kentuck offer unique edu-cational experiences for children and adults, as well as opportunities to inter-act with artists from around the coun-try. A different type of festival, the Magic of Marble Festival in Sylacauga, promotes the marble quarries in the area and the use of marble as a ma-terial for sculpture. Continuing the Ital-ian Culture Exchange program, which began in 2008, Sylacauga offered a two-week-long symposium in marble-carving in April. Master Italian sculp-tor Marcello Giorgi taught artists from around Alabama and the southeast re-gion and utilized the pure white marble found around Sylacauga. Conferences are another way to learn about arts and artists in Ala-bama and range from contemporary sculpture practices to historical and cultural studies. ASCA funding helped make possible the 2018 Alabama Clay Conference, hosted by the Alabama Craft Council. The Council also support-ed an exhibition mounted in conjunction with Auburn University at Montgom-ery’s Southern Studies Conference, which helped immerse attendees in the art and culture of the American South. Public art is becoming increasingly popular in Alabama and the Council has

--------------The Visual Arts Program refers artists to juried

exhibitions, festivals,

and teaching opportunities

and responds to public requests for artists with particular skills

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been able to support an ongoing project that brings sculpture into public spaces. With the assistance of ASCA funding, Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art was able to bring diverse art into public spaces for Alabamians to enjoy in out-door settings through their Out of the Box series.

The Council grants Individual Artist Fellowships in the amount of $5,000 that recognize merit of work, career achievement, career potential, and service to the state. These highly competitive fellowships help enable artists to expand their professional ca-reers. The six artists chosen to receive a fellowship in 2018 were Kami Wat-son and Miriam Norris Omura in Craft, Elaine Kinnaird in Visual Arts, Scott

Fisk in Design, and Charity Ponter and Jared Ragland in Media/Photography. These individuals have attended work-shops, taught, and created new award-winning work during the period of their fellowships. The Georgine Clarke Alabama Artists Gallery is located at the Council offices in the RSA Tower in downtown Montgomery. The gallery provides a showcase for artists from throughout the state and presents changing exhi-bitions year-round, including award-winning student work from the Visual Arts Achievement Program each April. In October of 2017, we hosted the 2017 Fellowship Showcase highlight-ing the work of artists Jenny Fine, Chris Greenman, Chad Burton Johnson, Jerry

Johnson, Branan Mercer, Carlton Nell Jr. and Jonathan Purvis. From January – March, the gallery presented Clay Takes Shape: Twenty Ceramic Artists in conjunction with the Alabama Clay Conference. Over the summer months, we exhibited the work of our 2018 visual arts fellow-ship recipients Scott Fisk, Elaine Farley Kinnaird, Miriam Norris Omura, Charity Ponter, Jared Ragland, and Kami Wat-son. To end the 2018 fiscal year, the Council hosted an exhibition of seven resident artists from the studio at the Kentuck Art Center and Museum; high-lighted art works ranged from raku-fired ceramics to large-scale metal sculp-tures.

Grants for fiscal year 2018 (by county)

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AUTAUGA Prattville Creative Performing Arts Council . Prattville ...........Community Arts .........Celebration of the Arts/Festival ...................$ . 10,000 Prattville Creative Performing Arts Council . Prattville ...........Community Arts .........Festival Coordinator Position .......................$ ...2,550 SUBTOTAL AUTAUGA COUNTY .......................................................................................................................................$ . 12,550BARBOUR Eufaula Heritage Association ..................... Eufaula .............Community Arts .........Music for The 53rd Eufaula Pilgrimage .........$ ...3,250 SUBTOTAL BARBOUR COUNTY ........................................................................................................................................$ ...3,250BIBB City of Brent ........................................... Brent ................Community Arts .........Jazz in the Park ........................................$ ...1,000 SUBTOTAL BIBB COUNTY ................................................................................................................................................$ ...1,000BLOUNT Braziel, James ......................................... Remlap .............Literary Arts ...............Literary Arts Fellowship..............................$ ...5,000 SUBTOTAL BLOUNT COUNTY ..........................................................................................................................................$ ...5,000BULLOCK Bullock Tourism Council-Red Door Theatre .. Union Springs ....Community Arts .........Present 3 plays at the Red Door Theatre. .....$ ...4,500 SUBTOTAL BULLOCK COUNTY .........................................................................................................................................$ ...4,500BUTLER Allison Upshaw ....................................... Forest Home .....Performing Arts ..........OPERAtunities in Marketing ........................$ ...1,000 SUBTOTAL BUTLER COUNTY ...........................................................................................................................................$ ...1,000CALHOUN Anniston Council on Arts & Humanities ...... Anniston ...........Design Arts ................Planning for an Arts Facility ........................$ ...5,000 Knox Concert Series ................................ Anniston ...........Performing Arts ..........Shakespeare Project ..................................$ ...5,000 Calhoun Chamber of Commerce ................ Anniston ...........Performing Arts ..........Heisingbourg Symphony Outreach ...............$ ...3,800 SUBTOTAL CALHOUN COUNTY .......................................................................................................................................$ . 13,800CHEROKEE Spring Garden High School ....................... Spring Garden ...Arts in Education ........ATAP: Birmingham Children’s Theatre ..........$ ...1,300 SUBTOTAL CHEROKEE COUNTY .......................................................................................................................................$ ...1,300CHILTON Chilton County Arts Council ...................... Clanton ............Community Arts .........March Gourd Madness Festival, 2018 ..........$ ...2,650 Jemison Intermediate ............................... Jemison ...........Arts in Education ........Touring Artist Program; Debbie Bond ...........$ ......900 SUBTOTAL CHILTON COUNTY .........................................................................................................................................$ ...3,550CLARKE Grove Hill Arts Council, Inc. ...................... Grove Hill .........Arts in Education ........Art Education Program ...............................$ ...2,160 SUBTOTAL CLARKE COUNTY ...........................................................................................................................................$ ...2,160CLEBURNE City of Heflin .......................................... Heflin ...............Community Arts .........“I Heart” Heflin Music Park Amphitheater .....$ ...5,500 Cleburne Elementary ................................ Heflin ...............Arts in Education ........Touring Artist Program: Dance Alabama .......$ ...1,300 Pleasant Grove Elementary ....................... Heflin ...............Arts in Education ........Touring Artist Program: Dance Alabama .......$ ...1,300 SUBTOTAL CLEBURNE COUNTY .......................................................................................................................................$ ...8,100COFFEE Foundation154 ........................................ Elba .................Design Arts ................Elba Theatre Phase I Renovation ..................$ . 50,000 Foundation154 ........................................ Elba .................Community Arts .........Artistic Director Salary ...............................$ ...2,400 SUBTOTAL COFFEE COUNTY ...........................................................................................................................................$ .52,400 COLBERT City of Sheffield ...................................... Sheffield ...........Community Arts .........SummerStock at the Ritz/Oklahoma .............$ ...5,000 City of Sheffield ...................................... Sheffield ...........Folklife ......................Bluegrass at the Ritz with Jake Landers .......$ ...3,500 Colbert County School District .................. Tuscumbia ........Arts in Education ........Collaborative Artist Program .......................$ ...8,400 Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area ........ Florence ...........Folklife ......................Muscle Shoals Music Makers .....................$ ...2,800 Oka Kapassa Festival, Inc. ....................... Tuscumbia ........Community Arts .........Oka Kapassa--Sharing the Legends ..............$ ...3,500 Tennessee Valley Art Association .............. Tuscumbia ........Community Arts .........SummerStock at the Ritz/OKLAHOMA Tech .$ ...5,000 Tennessee Valley Art Association .............. Tuscumbia ........Visual Arts .................So. Circuit Tour of Indie Filmmakers ............$ ...2,500 Tennessee Valley Art Association .............. Tuscumbia ........Visual Arts .................Aaron Tennessee Benson Ceramics .............$ ...3,000 Tennessee Valley Art Association .............. Tuscumbia ........Design Arts ................Ritz Theatre Complex ................................$ ...5,000 Tennessee Valley Art Association .............. Tuscumbia ........Community Arts .........Opal: the discovery of hope and home .........$ ...4,150 SUBTOTAL COLBERT COUNTY .........................................................................................................................................$ .42,850

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CONECUHRepton Junior High .................................. Repton .............Arts in Education ........Touring Artist Program: Dance Alabama .......$ ...1,300Thurgood Marshall Middle ......................... Evergreen .........Arts in Education ........Touring Artist Program: Dance Alabama .......$ ...1,300SUBTOTAL CONECUH COUNTY .......................................................................................................................................$ ...2,600

COVINGTONAndalusia Ballet Association ..................... Andalusia .........Performing Arts ..........Ballet Concert with Alabama Ballet ..............$ ...5,310Lurleen B. Wallace Community College ....... Andalusia .........Folklife ......................“Our Story, Our Song” ...............................$ ...3,500SUBTOTAL COVINGTON COUNTY ....................................................................................................................................$ ...8,810

DALEDale Co Council of Arts & Humanities ........ Ozark ...............Folklife ......................Quilts of Many Colors - Past and Present ......$ ...1,130SUBTOTAL DALE COUNTY ..............................................................................................................................................$ ...1,130

DALLASArts Revive-CDC ..................................... Selma...............Community Arts .........Alabama 39th Tale Tellin’ Festival ...............$ ...5,500Arts Revive-CDC ..................................... Selma...............Community Arts .........Administrative Support .............................$ ...5,000Blackbelt Benefit Group ............................ Selma...............Community Arts .........Play Selma Music in the Street ....................$ ...1,000Dallas County School System ................... Selma...............Black Arts ..................Arts In Schools 2018 .................................$ ...7,000

Main Street Selma ................................... Selma...............Community Arts .........Art in Downtown Windows ........................$ ...4,500 Selma Art Guild ....................................... Selma...............Visual Arts .................Part-time staff position ..............................$ ...1,100 Selma-Dallas Co Historic Preservation ....... Selma...............Design Arts ................Tremont School Renovation Phase 1............$ . 50,000 Soule, Angela ......................................... Valley Grande ....Performing Arts ..........Technical Assistance .................................$ ......750 SUBTOTAL DALLAS COUNTY .........................................................................................................................................$ .74,850 DEKALB Mentone Area Arts Council ...................... Mentone ...........Arts in Education ........Alabama Shakespeare Festival ....................$ ...1,000 Mentone Area Arts Council ...................... Mentone ...........Community Arts .........Summer Music Series 2018 ........................$ ...1,000 Mentone Arts and Cultural Center .............. Mentone ...........Arts in Education ........Public School Residency .............................$ ...1,000 Mentone Educational Resources Found ....... Mentone ...........Arts in Education ........Mentone Book created by students ..............$ ...1,080 Mentone Educational Resources Found ....... Mentone ...........Arts in Education ........Exposure to Professional Performances ........$ ...1,370 Waldrep, Gary ......................................... Albertville .........Folklife ......................Old-Time/Bluegrass Music Apprenticeship .....$ ...2,000 SUBTOTAL DEKALB COUNTY ..........................................................................................................................................$ ...7,450 ESCAMBIA Flomaton Elementary ............................... Flomaton ..........Arts in Education ........Touring Artist Program; Wanda Johnson ......$ ......900 SUBTOTAL ESCAMBIA COUNTY .......................................................................................................................................$ ......900ETOWAH Etowah County Board of Education ............ Gadsden ...........Arts in Education ........School String Orchestra Program .................$ ...5,000 Excel Institute ......................................... Gadsden ...........Community Arts .........Art Enrichment ..........................................$ ...1,900 Gadsden Cultural Arts Foundation, Inc. ...... Gadsden ...........Community Arts .........Operational Support ...................................$ .47,700 Gadsden Symphony Orchestra .................. Gadsden ...........Performing Arts ..........Winter Classics/Spring Pops Concerts ..........$ ...3,000 SUBTOTAL ETOWAH COUNTY ........................................................................................................................................$ . 57,600 FAYETTE Fayette County Board of Education ............ Fayette .............Arts in Education ........BES Arts in the School Project 2018 ............$ ...2,000 Fayette County Board of Education ............ Fayette .............Arts in Education ........Collaborative Artist Program .......................$ ...4,200 SUBTOTAL FAYETTE COUNTY ........................................................................................................................................$ ...6,200GENEVA Samson Elementary ................................. Samson ............Arts in Education ........Touring Artist Program; Wanda Johnson ......$ ......900 Slocomb Elementary ................................ Slocomb ...........Arts in Education ........Touring Artist Program; Wanda Johnson ......$ ......900 SUBTOTAL GENEVA COUNTY ..........................................................................................................................................$ ...1,800 GREENE Jordan, Annette ...................................... Eutaw ..............Folklife ......................Pine Needle Basketry Apprenticeship ...........$ ...1,000 Rice, Odessa S ........................................ Eutaw ..............Folklife ......................Pine Needle Basketry Apprenticeship ...........$ ...1,000 SUBTOTAL GREENE COUNTY ..........................................................................................................................................$ ...2,000HALE Hale County Board of Education ................ Greensboro .......Black Belt Arts ............Arts In Schools 2018 ................................$ ...5,000 The Newbern Library, Inc. ........................ Newbern...........Community Arts .........Taking a Second Look: Christenberry ...........$ ...2,600 SUBTOTAL HALE COUNTY .............................................................................................................................................$ ...7,600 HENRY Burkhalter, Sherry .................................... Newville ...........Folklife ......................Quilting Apprenticeship ..............................$ ...2,000 SUBTOTAL HENRY COUNTY ...........................................................................................................................................$ ...2,000HOUSTON Southeast Alabama Community Players ...... Dothan .............Performing Arts ..........The Miracle Worker Interpreted for ASL .......$ ...1,000 Southeast Alabama Dance Company .......... Dothan .............Performing Arts ..........SE AL Dance Company 17-18 Season..........$ ...7,000 Southeast Alabama Dance Company .......... Dothan .............Performing Arts ..........SE AL Dance Expo/Choreography Connect ...$ ...3,500

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Wiregrass Blues Society ........................... Dothan .............Folklife ......................2018 Wiregrass Blues Fest .........................$ ...6,000 Wiregrass Museum of Art, Inc. .................. Dothan .............Arts in Education ........Art Education Technology ..........................$ ...5,000 Wiregrass Museum of Art, Inc. .................. Dothan .............Visual Arts .................Annual Exhibitions and Programming ...........$ . 12,000 SUBTOTAL HOUSTON COUNTY ......................................................................................................................................$ . 33,500JACKSON Redemption Town Partners ....................... Scottsboro ........Community Arts .........Pictures of Hope ......................................$ ...4,000 Section High School ................................. Section .............Arts in Education ........ATAP: Birmingham Childrens Theatre ...........$ ...1,300 SUBTOTAL JACKSON COUNTY .......................................................................................................................................$ ...5,300

JEFFERSON Alabama Asian Cultures Foundation ........... Birmingham .......Community Arts .........Alabama Asian Cultures & Food Festival ......$ ...5,000 Alabama Dance Council, Inc. .................... Birmingham .......Performing Arts ..........Dance Across Birmingham 2018 .................$ ...6,000 Alabama Dance Council, Inc. .................... Birmingham .......Performing Arts ..........ADC Bicentennial Project: Phase Two ..........$ ...6,000 Alabama Dance Council, Inc. .................... Birmingham .......Performing Arts ..........Alabama Minority Choreographers Festival ...$ ...6,000 Alabama Folklife Association ..................... Birmingham .......Folklife ......................Common Threads: Sewing Our Stories ........$ ...1,400 Alabama Moving Image Association ........... Birmingham .......Visual Arts .................20th Anniversary Sidewalk Film Festival.......$ ...4,500 Alabama Moving Image Association ........... Birmingham .......Visual Arts .................Sidewalk ScreenTalk Monthly Film Series .....$ ...6,250 Alabama School of Fine Arts Foundation .... Birmingham .......Arts in Education ........Ron Casey Visiting Writer’s Series ...............$ ...1,440 Alabama School of Fine Arts Foundation .... Birmingham .......Arts in Education ........Germaul Barnes Choreographic Residency ....$ ...2,160 Alabama Symphonic Association, Inc. ........ Birmingham .......Performing Arts ..........Alabama Bicentennial with Bobby Horton .....$ ...6,000 Alabama Symphonic Association, Inc. ........ Birmingham .......Performing Arts ..........Operating Support .....................................$ 170,700 Ballard House Project, Inc ......................... Birmingham .......Performing Arts ..........Cooking Samba Project ..............................$ ...5,220 Bernard Lockhart ..................................... Birmingham .......Performing Arts ..........Attendance Support: South Arts PAE ...........$ ...1,000 Better Basics, Inc. ................................... Birmingham .......Arts in Education ........Ruth and the Green Book ...........................$ ...2,000 Bib & Tucker Sew-Op .............................. Birmingham .......Visual Arts .................The March Quilts: A Community Project .......$ ...3,000 Bib & Tucker Sew-Op .............................. Birmingham .......Visual Arts .................QUARK: Quilting Activity Resource Kit .........$ ...5,200 Birmingham Art Music Alliance .................. Birmingham .......Performing Arts ..........2017 Birmingham New Music Festival .........$ ...2,230 Birmingham Chamber Music Society ......... Mountain Brook .Performing Arts ..........American Chamber Players .........................$ ...4,300 Birmingham Chamber Music Society ......... Mountain Brook .Performing Arts ..........Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center .....$ ...4,000 Birmingham Chamber Music Society ......... Mountain Brook .Performing Arts ..........Percussion Concert & Outreach ...................$ ...3,870 Birmingham Children’s Theatre .................. Birmingham .......Rural School Touring ...Alabama Touring Artist Program ..................$ ...5,200 Birmingham Children’s Theatre .................. Birmingham .......Performing Arts ..........Operating Support .....................................$ . 29,500 Birmingham Civil Rights Institute ............... Birmingham .......Visual Arts .................Foot Soldiers Portraits Exhibition .................$ ...4,500 Birmingham Museum of Art ...................... Birmingham .......Visual Arts .................Operating Support .....................................$ 174,700 Brookville Elementary ............................... Graysville..........Arts in Education ........Touring Artist Program; Debbie Bond ...........$ ......900 Burns, Jason ........................................... Fultondale .........Folklife ......................Musical Instrument Making and Repair .........$ ...2,000 Children’s Dance Foundation ..................... Birmingham .......Community Arts .........Extensive dance education programs ...........$ . 18,900 Fisk, Scott .............................................. Homewood .......Community Arts .........Design Fellowship .....................................$ ...5,000 Foundation for Arts/Cultural Connections, .. Birmingham .......Community Arts .........Imagination Festival ...................................$ ...3,050 Friedman, Bob ......................................... Birmingham .......Folklife ......................Gospel Quartet Apprenticeship ....................$ ...1,000 Gardendale Manolia Festival, Inc. ............... Gardendale .......Community Arts .........Jugtown Pottery Demonstration and Class ...$ ...1,150 Girls Rock Birmingham ............................. Birmingham .......Community Arts .........Girls Rock Birmingham Camp/Workshops .....$ ...1,250 Inglenook K-8 School ............................... Birmingham .......Arts in Education ........Inglenook School Symphony Experience .......$ ...2,160 AROVA Contemporary Ballet .................... Vestavia ...........Performing Arts ..........AROVA 2017-2018 Performance Season .....$ ...9,000 Jefferson County Schools ......................... Birmingham .......Arts in Education ........Collaborative Artist Program .......................$ ...4,200 Kinnaird, Elaine Farley .............................. Birmingham .......Visual Arts .................Visual Arts Fellowship ...............................$ ...5,000 Magic City Smooth Jazz ........................... Birmingham .......Performing Arts ..........Jazz in the Park ........................................$ . 12,000 Metropolitan Arts Ctr/Virginia Samford ...... Birmingham .......Performing Arts ..........Theatre performances & arts education .......$ .24,000 Nathifa Dance Company ........................... Irondale ............Arts in Education ........Introduction to Basic African Dance II ..........$ ...5,000 Nathifa Dance Company ........................... Irondale ............Performing Arts ..........Dance Africa Birmingham RTV “Is It Ours” ...$ ...4,200 Nathifa Dance Company ........................... Irondale ............Performing Arts ..........NDC 25th Anniversary “The Journey” .........$ ...6,000 National Hook-Up of Black Women ............ Birmingham .......Literary Arts ...............A Celebration of Poet Sonia Sanchez ...........$ ...1,900 Norwood Resource Center ........................ Birmingham .......Community Arts .........“Oh Happy Day!” Celebrating 50 years ........$ ...2,800 Omura, Miriam Norris ............................... Birmingham .......Visual Arts .................Craft Fellowship ........................................$ ...5,000 Opera Birmingham ................................... Birmingham .......Performing Arts ..........2017-2018 Opera Birmingham Season .........$ . 18,700 Opera Birmingham ................................... Birmingham .......Performing Arts ..........Bicentennial Opera Workshop, Nov 2017 .....$ ...6,000 Oxmoor Valley K-8 School ........................ Birmingham .......Arts in Education ........Oxmoor Valley Goes to the Symphony .........$ ...2,160 PaperWorkers Local ................................. Birmingham .......Visual Arts .................Printmaking workshops and exhibitions ........$ ...6,500 Ragland, Jared ........................................ Birmingham .......Visual Arts .................Media/Photography Fellowship ....................$ ...5,000 Red Mountain Theatre Company ................ Birmingham .......Performing Arts ..........Operating Support .....................................$ . 65,500 Red Mountain Theatre Company ................ Birmingham .......Performing Arts ..........Human & Civil Rights New Works Festival ....$ ...6,000 Sanspointe Dance Company ..................... Birmingham .......Performing Arts ..........Summer Tour: Have Dance Will Travel .........$ ...3,780 Sanspointe Dance Company ..................... Birmingham .......Performing Arts ..........Movement Essays .....................................$ ...3,770 Rubin, Shelia ........................................... Birmingham .......Performing Arts ..........Ruby Jubilee: 40 years of Natyananda .........$ ...6,000 Sloss Furnaces Foundation ....................... Birmingham .......Visual Arts .................Summer Youth Apprenticeship ....................$ ...6,500 Sloss Furnaces Foundation ....................... Birmingham .......Visual Arts .................Open Studios & Workshops ........................$ ...6,000

ANNUAL REPORT 2018


Sloss Furnaces Foundation ....................... Birmingham .......Visual Arts .................Visiting Artist Residency ............................$ ...1,500Space One Eleven .................................... Birmingham .......Visual Arts .................Art Ed for Children and Older Adults ............$ ...6,000Space One Eleven .................................... Birmingham .......Visual Arts .................Summer Art Camps ...................................$ ...6,500Space One Eleven .................................... Birmingham .......Visual Arts .................Women’s Exhibition ...................................$ ...3,000Space One Eleven .................................... Birmingham .......Visual Arts .................Women’s Exhibition-Emerging Artists ...........$ ...4,550

State of Alabama Ballet, Inc. ..................... Birmingham .......Performing Arts ..........Operating Support .....................................$ . 48,600 Taylor, Barry ........................................... Birmingham .......Folklife ......................Gospel Quartet Apprenticeship ....................$ ...2,000 The Exceptional Foundation ...................... Homewood .......Community Arts .........Art Program Enhancement ..........................$ ...2,500 UAB’s Alys Stephens Center ..................... Birmingham .......Performing Arts ..........UAB’s ASC Presents Ronald K. Brown .........$ ...6,000 UAB’s Alys Stephens Center ..................... Birmingham .......Performing Arts ..........UAB’s ASC Presents ThirdCoastPercussion...$ ...6,000 Vulcan Park and Museum ......................... Birmingham .......Community Arts .........Washington & Du Bois: 2 Opinions, 1 Goal ...$ ...2,800 Vulcan Park and Museum ......................... Birmingham .......Arts in Education ........Birmingham History on the Road .................$ ...3,000 SUBTOTAL JEFFERSON COUNTY .....................................................................................................................................$ 807,140LAUDERDALE Kennedy-Douglass Ctr Arts Volunteers ....... Florence ...........Community Arts .........Arts Alive 2018 - Visual Arts Festival .........$ ...5,000 Shoals Symphony Orchestra ..................... Florence ...........Performing Arts ..........Tomb it May Concern - Shoals SO - Family ...$ ...3,500 Shoals Symphony Orchestra ..................... Florence ...........Performing Arts ..........Fortune and Fate - Shoals SO .....................$ ...3,500 Shoals Symphony Orchestra ..................... Florence ...........Performing Arts ..........Honor Orchestra for High School Players ......$ ...2,100 Shoals Symphony Orchestra ..................... Florence ...........Performing Arts ..........Disney Live: Ratatouille ..............................$ ...6,000 Univ of N Alabama -- Writer’s Series ......... Florence ...........Literary Arts ...............Performance by Joy Harjo .........................$ ...5,225

SUBTOTAL LAUDERDALE COUNTY ...................................................................................................................................$ . 25,325 LAWRENCE Community Information & Ed Radio, Inc. .... Moulton ............Community Arts .........Downtown Live! 2018 ...............................$ ...1,000

SUBTOTAL LAWRENCE COUNTY ......................................................................................................................................$ ...1,000LEE

Alabama Prison Arts+Ed Project ............... Auburn.............Community Arts .........Arts Grows Humanity: APAEP Visual Arts ....$ ...5,000 Alabama Conference of Theatre (ACT) ....... Jasper ..............Performing Arts ..........ACT State Theatre Festival .........................$ ...7,000 Jule Collins Smith Museum ....................... Auburn .............Community Arts .........Community Arts .......................................$ ...8,250 Jule Collins Smith Museum ....................... Auburn .............Visual Arts .................Spec. Exhibitions Celebrating Bicentennial ....$ . 18,000 Jule Collins Smith Museum ....................... Auburn .............Literary Arts ...............Third Thursday Poetry Series at JCSM .........$ ...3,800 Jule Collins Smith Museum ....................... Auburn .............Visual Arts .................Jean Shin Exhibition: MAiZE .......................$ ...5,700 Jule Collins Smith Museum ....................... Auburn .............Visual Arts .................Out of the Box Artist Lecture Series ............$ ...4,500 City of Auburn ........................................ Auburn .............Arts in Education ........Adventures in Art 2018 .............................$ ...4,000 Envision Opelika Foundation, Inc. .............. Opelika .............Design Arts ................Next Phase of Adaptive Re-use of School .....$ . 30,000 Iambk, Inc. ............................................. Auburn .............Community Arts .........IAMBK Performing and Visual Arts ..............$ ...3,000 Lee County Historical Society .................... Loachapoka ......Folklife ......................Lee County Gathering Old Time Music .........$ ...1,750 The Arts Association of East Alabama ....... Opelika .............Community Arts .........East Alabama Arts Performance Series .........$ ...7,500 SUBTOTAL LEE COUNTY .................................................................................................................................................$ . 93,500 LIMESTONE Alabama Center for the Arts ..................... Athens .............Special Projects ..........Special Appropriation .................................$ 475,000

Athens State University Foundation Inc. ..... Athens .............Folklife ......................90 Years of Delmore Brothers Music ............$ ...1,000SUBTOTAL LIMESTONE COUNTY .....................................................................................................................................$ 476,000

LOWNDESJackson-Steel Elementary ......................... Hayneville .........Arts in Education ........Touring Artist Program; Dance Alabama .......$ ...1,300SUBTOTAL LOWNDES COUNTY .......................................................................................................................................$ ...1,300

MACONMacon County School System .................. Tuskegee ..........Arts in Education ........Collaborative Artist Program .......................$ ...4,200Ridge Macon Co Archaeology Project ......... Union Springs ....Folklife ......................Old Federal Road Storytelling Festival ..........$ ...1,820Tuskegee Institute Middle ......................... Tuskegee ..........Arts in Education ........ATAP Birmingham Children’s Theatre ...........$ ...1,300Tuskegee Repertory Theatre, Inc. .............. Tuskegee ..........Performing Arts ..........“Booker T’s Towns” ..................................$ ...6,000Tuskegee University ................................. Tuskegee ..........Performing Arts ..........M.U.S.I.C. for the Masses ..........................$ ...3,000SUBTOTAL MACON COUNTY ...........................................................................................................................................$ . 16,320

MADISON Academy for Academics and Arts .............. Huntsville .........Arts in Education ........Sharing the Wealth: Artists for All ...............$ ...1,550

Alabama Educational Theatre Association ... Madison ...........Performing Arts ..........2018 Alabama Thespian Festival .................$ ...2,400Alabama Orchestra Association ................. Huntsville .........Performing Arts ..........Alabama All State Orchestra Festival ...........$ ...4,540Alabama Youth Ballet Theatre ................... Huntsville .........Performing Arts ..........The Dance Connection ...............................$ ...3,870Ars Nova Incorporated ............................. Huntsville .........Performing Arts ..........2018 Season of Operas, Recitals & Tours ....$ . 12,000

Bennett, Loretta ...................................... Huntsville .........Folklife ......................Quilting Apprenticeship ..............................$ ...2,000 Broadway Theatre League of Huntsville ...... Huntsville .........Performing Arts ..........Student Outreach Program .........................$ ...8,400 Community Ballet Association, Inc. ............ Huntsville .........Performing Arts ..........Consolidated Spring/Summer Performances ..$ ...6,000

ANNUAL REPORT 2018


Community Ballet Association, Inc. ............ Huntsville .........Performing Arts ..........Public Relations/Development .....................$ ...6,000 Community Ballet Association, Inc. ............ Huntsville .........Arts in Education ........Discover Dance Arts Integration Programs ....$ ...5,000 Dance All Productions, Inc ........................ Huntsville .........Performing Arts ..........Girls Like Us Outreach Through Dance .........$ ...6,000 Fantasy Playhouse Children’s Theater ........ Huntsville .........Performing Arts ..........After School Program ................................$ ...3,500 Fantasy Playhouse Children’s Theater ........ Huntsville .........Performing Arts ..........Support for 57th Season ............................$ . 12,000 Huntsville Chamber Music Guild ................ Huntsville .........Performing Arts ..........Presentation of chamber music concerts ......$ ...3,000 Huntsville City Schools ............................. Huntsville .........Arts in Education ........Collaborating Artist Program .......................$ ...4,200 Huntsville Community Chorus Assoc .......... Huntsville .........Performing Arts ..........Support of HCCA choral/theater events ........$ ...2,900 Huntsville Community Drumline ................. Huntsville .........Community Arts .........All Area Youth Drumline .............................$ ...5,500 Huntsville Community Drumline ................. Huntsville .........Community Arts .........Travelling Drums Percussion Program ...........$ ...5,000 Huntsville Literary Association .................. Huntsville .........Performing Arts ..........American Shakespeare Center on Tour .........$ ...3,000 Huntsville Museum of Art ......................... Huntsville .........Visual Arts .................Our Shared Heritage: Bicentennial Exhibit .....$ . 33,000 Huntsville Museum of Art ......................... Huntsville .........Visual Arts .................Operating Support .....................................$ . 58,600 Huntsville Symphony Orchestra ................. Huntsville .........Performing Arts ..........The 63rd Season of the HSO ......................$ .48,500 Huntsville Youth Orchestra ....................... Huntsville .........Performing Arts ..........Tennessee Valley Music Festival .................$ ...3,000 Huntsville Youth Orchestra ....................... Huntsville .........Performing Arts ..........A Series of Classical Music Concerts ...........$ ...6,790 Independent Musical Productions, Inc. ....... Huntsville .........Community Arts .........Cabarets on the Square ..............................$ ...2,500 Independent Musical Productions, Inc. ....... Huntsville .........Performing Arts ..........Shrek the Musical ......................................$ ...3,000 Lyrique Music Productions ....................... Madison ...........Performing Arts ..........Hunchback of Notre Dame ..........................$ ...3,000 Oakwood University ................................ Huntsville .........Literary Arts ...............Climacteric: Conversations on the South ......$ ...2,900 Sacred Harp Musical Heritage Assoc .......... Huntsville .........Folklife ......................1942 Alan Lomax Sacred Harp Recordings ...$ ...5,000 Sacred Harp Musical Heritage Assoc .......... Huntsville .........Folklife ......................Camp Fasola .............................................$ ...4,800 Tennessee Valley Jazz Society, Inc. ........... Huntsville .........Performing Arts ..........The Evolution of African-American Music ....$ ...6,000 The Arts Council dba Arts Huntsville .......... Huntsville .........Community Arts .........Operating Support .....................................$ . 23,100 Watson, Kami ......................................... New Market ......Visual Arts .................Craft Fellowship ........................................$ ...5,000 SUBTOTAL MADISON COUNTY ........................................................................................................................................$ 302,050 MARENG0 Jackson, Estelle ...................................... Demopolis.........Folklife ......................White Oak Basketry Apprenticeship .............$ ...2,000 Marengo Co. Board of Education ............... Linden ..............Black Belt Arts ............Arts In Schools 2018 .................................$ ...7,000 SUBTOTAL MARENGO COUNTY .......................................................................................................................................$ ...9,000 MARION City of Winfield Pastime Theatre ............... Winfield ............Community Arts .........Administrative Support ..............................$ ...5,000 City of Winfield Pastime Theatre ............... Winfield ............Community Arts .........2018 four-performance concert series..........$ ...6,000 Northwest Alabama Arts Council, Inc. ........ Hamilton ...........Folklife ......................Jerry Brown: In My Own Words ..................$ ...4,450 Wilburn, Jeff ........................................... Hamilton ...........Folklife ......................Folk Pottery Apprenticeship ........................$ ...1,000 SUBTOTAL MARION COUNTY ..........................................................................................................................................$ .16,450 MARSHALL Marshall Co Retired Senior Vol Program ...... Guntersville .......Community Arts .........Melodies and Musings - Our Appalachian......$ ...4,150 Mountain Valley Arts Council .................... Guntersville .......Community Arts .........Spring and Fall Concert Series 2018 ............$ ...1,750 SUBTOTAL MARSHALL COUNTY ......................................................................................................................................$ ...5,900 MOBILE Alabama Contemporary Art Center ............ Mobile ..............Visual Arts .................‘Cuba Premiers’ Film Series ........................$ ...2,900

Alabama Contemporary Art Center ............ Mobile ..............Visual Arts .................‘Back to Havana’ Exhibition & Programs .......$ ...6,000Coleman, Whitney ................................... Mobile ..............Arts in Education ........Arts In Education Internship ........................$ ...1,000Dauphin Island Heritage and Arts Council, .. Dauphin Island...Community Arts .........Executive administrator position ..................$ ...5,500Gulf Coast Ethnic/Heritage Jazz Festival, .... Mobile ..............Community Arts .........Jazz Music Appreciation .............................$ ...5,000History Museum of Mobile Board ............... Mobile ..............Community Arts .........African American Music Festival .................$ ...1,200Johnson, Wanda Aleace ........................... Prichard ............Rural School Touring ...Alabama Touring Artist Program ..................$ ...3,600Mobile ARC ............................................ Mobile ..............Visual Arts .................Art Education to Enhance Lives ...................$ ...3,250Mobile Ballet, Inc. .................................... Mobile ..............Performing Arts ..........Mobile Ballet Operating Support 2017-18 .....$ .24,600

Mobile Medical Museum ........................... Mobile ..............Visual Arts .................Commissioned works by April Livingston ......$ ...2,000 Mobile Museum of Art ............................. Mobile ..............Visual Arts .................Mobile Museum of Art Operating Support .....$ . 75,600 Mobile Museum of Art ............................. Mobile ..............Visual Arts .................Posing Beauty in African American Culture ...$ ...6,500 Mobile Opera. Inc. ................................... Mobile ..............Performing Arts ..........Art Without Limits .....................................$ ...9,000 Mobile Symphony, Inc. ............................. Mobile ..............Performing Arts ..........Mobile Symphony Concerts & Education ......$ .47,500 Onalbayeva, Kadisha ................................ Mobile ..............Performing Arts ..........Music Fellowship .......................................$ ...5,000 Tran, Charlie ........................................... Irvington ...........Folklife ......................Traditional Lion Dance Apprenticeship ..........$ ...2,000 Mobile Chamber Music ............................. Mobile ..............Performing Arts ..........3 chamber music concerts/3 outreach .........$ ...7,000 SUBTOTAL MOBILE COUNTY ...........................................................................................................................................$207,150

ANNUAL REPORT 2018


MONROECoastal Alabama Community College ......... Monroeville .......Literary Arts ...............21st Annual Alabama Writers Symposium ....$ ...3,950

Monroe County Board of Education ............ Monroeville .......Arts in Education ........Collaborative Artist Program .......................$ ...4,200 SUBTOTAL MONROE COUNTY .........................................................................................................................................$ ...8,150 MONTGOMERY Alabama Alliance for Arts Education .......... Montgomery .....Arts in Education ........Collaborative Ventures ...............................$ . 51,930 Alabama Alliance for Arts Education .......... Montgomery .....Arts in Education ........Bicentennial Youth Art: People ....................$ ...5,000 Alabama Craft Council ............................. Montgomery .....Visual Arts .................Alabama Clay Conference ..........................$ ...3,600 Alabama Dance Theatre ........................... Montgomery .....Performing Arts ..........Operating Support .....................................$ . 17,600 Alabama Dance Theatre ........................... Montgomery .....Performing Arts ..........RDA/SERBA Dance Festival ........................$ ...6,000 Alabama Institute for Ed in the Arts ........... Montgomery .....Arts in Education ........AIEA Institute 2018 ...................................$ . 22,000 Alabama Institute for Ed in the Arts ........... Montgomery .....Arts in Education ........ACES for Students,2: Arts Connections ......$ ...5,000 AL Korea Ed Economic Partnership ........... Montgomery .....Folklife ......................Korean Folk Arts Workshops .......................$ ...6,000 AL Korea Ed Economic Partnership ........... Montgomery .....Community Arts .........“The Fragrance of Spring” Performance .......$ ...5,500 Alabama Music Teachers Association ......... Montgomery .....Performing Arts ..........Alabama Music Educational Conference .......$ ...1,000 Alabama Shakespeare Festival .................. Montgomery .....Performing Arts ..........Operating Support .....................................$ 182,000 Alabama Shakespeare Festival .................. Montgomery .....Performing Arts ..........2018 Alabama Bicentennial Plays ................$ ...6,000 Alabama State Univ Theatre Arts .............. Montgomery .....Performing Arts ..........Strong Branches, Deep Roots .....................$ ...7,000 Alabama State Univ Theatre Arts .............. Montgomery .....Performing Arts ..........Community Dance Initiative at ASU .............$ . 12,000 Alabama Writers’ Forum, Inc ..................... Montgomery .....Literaty Arts ...............A collaborative project/Helen Keller..............$ ...1,000 Alabama Writers’ Forum, Inc ..................... Montgomery .....Literary Arts ...............Creation of Historical Persona Poems ..........$ ...5,900 Atkinson,Jr, James R. .............................. Montgomery .....Performing Arts ..........Dance Fellowship ......................................$ ...5,000 Auburn-Montgomery Southern Studies ....... Montgomery .....Visual Arts .................Southern Studies Artist Exhibition ...............$ ...1,000 Booker T. Washington Magnet H.S. ........... Montgomery .....Arts in Education ........Collaborative Residency .............................$ ...5,000 Capri Community Film Society, Inc ............ Montgomery .....Visual Arts .................First Lady of the Revolution Screenings .......$ ...2,650 Carver Elementary Arts Magnet School ...... Montgomery .....Arts in Education ........Strengthening Our Dance Roots ..................$ ...2,868 ClefWorks, Inc. ....................................... Montgomery .....Performing Arts ..........Westerlies Festival - Schools & Concerts ......$ ...3,000 DesignAlabama, Inc. ................................ Montgomery .....Community Arts .........DesignPlace ..............................................$ ...5,000 DesignAlabama, Inc. ................................ Montgomery .....Community Arts .........Attending the Creative Placemake Conf........$ ......750 Faith Crusade - I Am More Than ................ Montgomery .....Community Arts .........Art On the Square: More To The Story .........$ ...3,000 Friends of the Archives ............................ Montgomery .....Folklife ......................AL Quilts: Wilderness Through WWII ...........$ ...6,000 Jubilee Community Center ........................ Montgomery .....Folklife ......................Discover India through Dance .....................$ ...2,450 Landmarks Foundation ............................. Montgomery .....Literary Arts ...............Alabama Book Festival ...............................$ . 16,000 Montgomery Area Business Comm for Arts . Montgomery .....Visual Arts .................Annual Arts Award Program .......................$ ...1,000 Montgomery Civic Ballet ........................... Montgomery .....Performing Arts ..........2017-2018 Concert Season .......................$ ...6,400 Montgomery Civic Ballet ........................... Montgomery .....Performing Arts ..........Alabama Festival of Ballet (AFB) ..................$ ...3,500 Montgomery Civic Ballet ........................... Montgomery .....Performing Arts ..........Ballet Boot Camp (BBC)..............................$ ...3,500 Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Assoc ... Montgomery .....Visual Arts .................Operating Support .....................................$ 110,700 Montgomery Public Schools ...................... Montgomery .....Arts in Education ........Collaborative Artist Program .......................$ ...4,000 Montgomery Public Schools ...................... Montgomery .....Arts in Education ........Collaborative Artist Program-Davis Elem .......$ ...4,200 Montgomery Symphony Association .......... Montgomery .....Performing Arts ..........Alabama Bicentennial Jubilee Concert ..........$ ...6,000 Montgomery Symphony Association .......... Montgomery .....Performing Arts ..........MMP Summer Camp ..................................$ ...6,000 Montgomery Symphony Association .......... Montgomery .....Performing Arts ..........Operating Support .....................................$ . 22,500 Montgomery Symphony Association .......... Montgomery .....Performing Arts ..........The MMP 2017-2018 Academic Year ..........$ ...3,500 The Arts Council of Montgomery ............... Montgomery .....Community Arts .........Aces .......................................................$ ...3,550 The Arts Council of Montgomery ............... Montgomery .....Arts in Education ........Doing Our Own Thing (DOOT) ....................$ ...1,280 The Cloverdale Playhouse ......................... Montgomery .....Performing Arts ..........3 productions, 2018 Mainstage Season ......$ . 12,000 SUBTOTAL MONTGOMERY COUNTY ................................................................................................................................$ 578,378 MORGAN Carnegie Visual Arts Center ...................... Decatur ............Community Arts .........RAIL ........................................................$ ...1,000 Decatur Youth Symphony, Inc. .................. Decatur ............Performing Arts ..........Administrative Support ..............................$ ...6,000 Decatur Youth Symphony, Inc. .................. Decatur ............Performing Arts ..........Concert Series and Small Ensembles ............$ ...8,400 Princess Theatre ..................................... Decatur ............Performing Arts ..........Administrative Support for Programs............$ ...6,000 SUBTOTAL MORGAN COUNTY .........................................................................................................................................$ .21,400 PERRY Perry County Board of Education ............... Marion .............Black Belt Arts ............Arts In Schools 2018 ................................$ ...7,000 SUBTOTAL PERRY COUNTY .............................................................................................................................................$ ...7,000

ANNUAL REPORT 2018


PICKENS Pickens County Board of Education ............ Carrollton .........Black Belt Arts ............Arts In Schools 2018 ..............................$ .....4,000 Town of Gordo ........................................ Gordo ...............Community Arts .........Gordo 4-H House Arts Room ....................$ .....1,000 SUBTOTAL PICKENS COUNTY ........................................................................................................................................$ .....5,000 PIKE Brundidge Historical Society ...................... Brundidge .........Folklife ......................Pike Piddlers Storytelling Festival ...............$ .....2,800 Pike County High ..................................... Brundidge .........Arts in Education ........Touring Artist Program: Wanda Johnson ....$ ........900 Pioneer Museum of Alabama ........................... Troy .................Folklife ......................Spring Plantin’: New Beginnings, Old Ways $ .....2,080 Pioneer Museum of Alabama ..................... Troy .................Folklife ......................Pioneer Days ..........................................$ .....2,625 Troy Arts Council of Troy, Alabama ........... Troy .................Community Arts .........2018 Performing Arts Season ...................$ .....3,700 Troy-Pike Cultural Arts Center, Inc. ............ Troy .................Arts in Education ........ArtBridges Teacher Develop Workshop ......$ .....5,000 Troy-Pike Cultural Arts Center, Inc. ............ Troy .................Arts in Education ........ArtBridges In Schools ..............................$ .....2,500 SUBTOTAL PIKE COUNTY ..............................................................................................................................................$ ... 19,605 RANDOLPH Traylor, Deborah ..................................... Woodland .........Folklife ......................Rag Rug Apprenticeship ...........................$ .....2,000 SUBTOTAL RANDOLPH COUNTY ....................................................................................................................................$ .....2,000 RUSSELL Ladonia Elementary .................................. Phenix City .......Arts in Education ........Touring Artist Program: Debbie Bond .........$ .......900 Oliver Elementary .................................... Seale................Arts in Education ........Touring Artist Program: Debbie Bond .........$ ........900 SUBTOTAL RUSSELL COUNTY .......................................................................................................................................$ .....1,800 SHELBY Farish, Connie ......................................... Shelby ..............Visual Arts .................Replacement of tools and supplies .............$ .....1,000 Ponter, Charity ........................................ Chelsea ............Visual Arts .................Media/Photography Fellowship ..................$ .....5,000 Shelby County Arts Council ...................... Columbiana .......Community Arts .........Fine Folk Art Event and Exhibition .............$ .....1,900 Shelby County Arts Council ...................... Columbiana .......Community Arts .........Jazz in the Park, Alabaster ......................$ .....2,150 University of Montevallo Foundation .......... Montevallo ........Performing Arts ..........Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, an Opera .$ .....1,000 Walker, D. Jan ........................................ Alabaster ..........Folklife ......................Chair Weaving Apprenticeship...................$ .....1,500 SUBTOTAL SHELBY COUNTY .........................................................................................................................................$ ... 12,550 ST. CLAIR CEPA Management Corporation ................. Pell City ............Community Arts .........Production Support for Drama Clubs ..........$ .....2,000 CEPA Management Corporation ................. Pell City ............Community Arts .........Retention of Professional Arts Educator......$ .....5,500 SUBTOTAL ST. CLAIR COUNTY ......................................................................................................................................$ .....7,500 SUMTER Coleman Center for the Arts ..................... York .................Visual Arts .................Coleman Center Arts & Exhibition Series ....$ .....6,500 Coleman Center for the Arts ..................... York .................Community Arts .........Coleman Center Arts Education .................$ .....5,500 Sumter County Fine Arts Council ............... Livingston .........Community Arts .........Charles Lindbergh: The Lone Eagle ............$ .....1,000 Sumter County Fine Arts Council ............... Livingston .........Community Arts .........Legacy Concert: The Rhythm of Life ..........$ ........500 Sumter County Fine Arts Council ............... Livingston .........Community Arts .........Community Unity Concert ........................$ ........500 Sumter County Fine Arts Council ............... Livingston .........Community Arts .........“Much Ado about Nothing”ASF production .$ ........625 Sumter County School System .................. Livingston .........Arts in Education ........Collaborative Artist Program .....................$ .....4,200 The University of West Alabama ............... Livingston .........Folklife ......................The Sucarnochee Folklife Festival ..............$ .....2,220 Voices of Triumph, LBT ............................ Aliceville ...........Community Arts .........Voice of Triumph Celebration of the Arts ....$ .....4,000 SUBTOTAL SUMTER COUNTY ........................................................................................................................................$ ...25,045

TALLADEGA Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind .......... Talladega ..........Community Arts .........Deaf Blind Limitless: Art Unlimited .............$ .....5,000 Alabama Institutefor Deaf and Blind ........... Talladega ..........Arts in Education ........Touring Artist Program; Dance Alabama .....$ .....1,300 Jemison Carnegie Heritage Hall ........................ Talladega ..........Visual Arts .................“Sense of Place: Past” .............................$ .....5,200 Sylacauga Area Council on the Arts ........... Sylacauga .........Visual Arts .................Marble Symposium & Cultural Exchange ...$ .....6,000 Talladega First Inc. .................................. Talladega ..........Performing Arts ..........Presenting Tuesday with Morrie ................$ .....4,600 SUBTOTAL TALLADEGA COUNTY ..................................................................................................................................$ ... 22,100 TALLAPOOSA Alexander City Arts, Inc ........................... Alexander City ..Community Arts .........ACA Season 2017-2018 ..........................$ ..... 8,250 Alexander City Theatre II .......................... Alexander City ..Design Arts ................Theatre Renovation to a Fine Arts Center ...$ ... 25,000 Sarah Carlisle Towery - AL Art Colony ....... Alexander City ..Visual Arts .................5-Day workshop - Visual Arts Instruction ...$ ..... 1,000 SUBTOTAL TALLAPOOSA COUNTY ................................................................................................................................$ ... 34,250 TUSCALOOSA Alabama Blues Project .............................. Tuscaloosa .......Community Arts .........Support for Program Manager salary ..........$ ..... 5,500 Alabama Blues Project .............................. Tuscaloosa .......Folklife ......................After school and in school programs ..........$ ..... 6,000 Alabama Blues Project .............................. Tuscaloosa .......Folklife ......................Summer Blues Camp................................$ ..... 2,200 Arts and Humanities of Tuscaloosa Co ....... Tuscaloosa .......Community Arts .........Operating Support ...................................$ ... 17,600 Bond, Debbie .......................................... Northport ..........Rural School Touring ...Alabama Touring Artist Program ................$ ..... 4,500 Bounds, Sharon W. .................................. Northport ..........Folklife ......................Old-Time Fiddling Apprenticeship...............$ ..... 2,000 Jackson, Lawrence .................................. Tuscaloosa .......Rural School Touring ...Alabama Touring Artist Program ................$ ..... 6,500

ANNUAL REPORT 2018


Kentuck Museum Association ................... Northport ..........Visual Arts .................Kentuck Education and Events 2018 ..........$ ..... 3,500Kentuck Museum Association ................... Northport ..........Visual Arts .................46th Kentuck Festival of the Arts 2017 .....$ ..... 6,000Kentuck Museum Association ................... Northport ..........Community Arts .........46th Kentuck Festival of the Arts Music.....$ ..... 5,500

Kentuck Museum Association ................... Northport ..........Design Arts ................Kentuck Strategic Facilities Plan ................$ ..... 3,500 Shineman, Sky E. .................................... Tuscaloosa .......Visual Arts .................Short Documentary Film ...........................$ ........ 500 The University of Alabama ........................ Tuscaloosa .......Literary Arts ...............Alabama Bound - Book Reviews ................$ ..... 4,500 Theatre Tuscaloosa .................................. Tuscaloosa .......Performing Arts ..........Selected Performances of the Season ........$ ... 12,000 Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra Assoc ..... Tuscaloosa .......Performing Arts ..........Dancing Musical Characters ......................$ ..... 6,000 Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra Assoc ..... Tuscaloosa .......Performing Arts ..........Online Educational Materials, All-Levels ......$ ..... 1,000 UA Theatre and Dance ............................. Tuscaloosa .......Performing Arts ..........Separate and Equal ..................................$ ..... 6,000 University of Alabama .............................. Tuscaloosa .......Performing Arts ..........Tree Army: The CCC Project .....................$ ..... 3,000 University of Alabama Press ..................... Tuscaloosa .......Visual Arts .................Alabama Creates - Bicentennial Book .........$ ... 10,000 White, Patti ............................................ Tuscaloosa .......Literary Arts ...............Literary Arts Fellowship............................$ ..... 5,000 SUBTOTAL TUSCALOOSA COUNTY ................................................................................................................................$ ..110,800 WILCOX Charley, Claudia Pettway .......................... Boykin ..............Folklife ......................Quilting Apprenticeship ............................$ ..... 2,000 City of Camden ....................................... Camden ............Community Arts .........Camden: Assets-based Planning & Design ..$ ..... 3,000 Pettway, China ....................................... Boykin ..............Folklife ......................Quilting Apprenticeship ............................$ ..... 1,000 Pettway, Stella ........................................ Boykin ..............Folklife ......................Quilting Apprenticeship ............................$ ..... 2,000 SUBTOTAL WILCOX COUNTY ........................................................................................................................................$ ..... 8,000 WINSTON Camp McDowell ...................................... Nauvoo ............Community Arts .........Alabama Folk School Internship 2017 ........$ ..... 5,500 Camp McDowell ...................................... Nauvoo ............Community Arts .........AL Folk School/Kentuck Center Partnership $ ..... 5,500 Meek High School ................................... Arley ................Arts in Education ........Meek High Visits Shakespeare Festival .......$ ..... 1,700 SUBTOTAL WINSTON COUNTY ......................................................................................................................................$ ... 12,700

---------------------STATEWIDE IMPACT GRANTS Black Belt Community Foundation ........... Selma.................. Black Belt Arts ...........The Black Belt Arts Initiative (BBAI) ......... $ ..147,790 Alabama Dance Council, Inc. ................. Birmingham .......... Community Arts .........Bill Bates Arts Leadership Institute .......... $ ....15,000 Alabama Dance Council, Inc. ................. Birmingham .......... Special Projects ..........Grant Management ............................... $ ....10,000 Alabama Dance Council, Inc. ................. Birmingham .......... Performing Arts ..........Statewide Services ............................... $ ....62,000 Alabama Folklife Association .................. Birmingham .......... Folklife ......................Statewide Services ............................... $ ....46,000 Alabama Alliance for Arts Education ....... Montgomery ........ Arts in Education ........Statewide Services ............................... $ ....62,000 Alabama Writers’ Forum ........................ Montgomery ........ Literary Arts ...............Statewide Serives ................................. $ ....62,000 DesignAlabama, Inc. ............................. Montgomery ........ Community Arts .........DesignAlabama Operational Support ........ $ ....55,320 SUBTOTAL STATEWIDE GRANTS ................................................................................................................................. $ ..460,110 *The Black Belt Community Foundation funds organizations in 12 of Alabama’s Black Belt Counties including: Bullock, Choctaw, Dallas, Greene, Hale, Lowndes, Macon, Marengo, Perry, Pickens, Sumter, and Wilcox.

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{Financial Report}---------------REVENUES Education Trust Fund Appropriation .................... $4,848,710*

FEDERAL FUNDS National Endowment for the Arts ..........................$765,200 NEA Partnership Grant ................$ .565,200 Arts in Education ........................$ ...52,000 Poetry Out Loud .........................$ ...17,500 Arts in Underserved Communities .$ .110,500 Folk Arts Infrastructure ...............$ ...20,000 TOTAL ................................................................ $5,613,910 *Includes $500,000 for special Bicentennial projects.

EXPENDITURES

ARTS IN EDUCATION PROGRAMOrganizational Grants ....................................... $ ....252,958

Black Belt Arts Initiative/Schools ....................... $ ......30,000 Alabama Touring Artist Program ........................ $ .....20,000 Technical Assistance/Services to the field ........... $ ......88,414

COMMUNITY ARTS PROGRAM Organizational Grants ....................................... $ ....407,195 Arts Administration Fellowship .......................... $ ........5,000 Black Belt Arts Initiative/Communities ................ $ ....147,790 Art & Cultural Facilities .................................... $ ....168,500 Design Fellowship ............................................ $ ........5,000 Technical Assistance/Services to the Field .......... $ ......11,413

FOLKLIFE PROGRAM Organizational Grants ....................................... $ ....115,525 Apprenticeships .............................................. $ ......28,500 Folk Heritage Award ........................................ $ ........5,000 Technical Assistance/Services to the field/ Alabama Center for Traditional Culture ............... $ ....204,322

LITERATURE PROGRAM Organizational Grants ....................................... $ ....107,175 Fellowships to Individual Artists ........................ $ ......10,000

PERFORMING ARTS PROGRAM Organizational Grants ....................................... $ .1,169,080 Fellowships to Individual Artists ........................ $ ......10,000 Technical Assistance/Services to the field ........... $ ........1,720

VISUAL ARTS PROGRAM Organizational Grants ....................................... $ ....611,500 Fellowships to Individual Artists ........................ $ ......25,000 Technical Assistance/Services to the field ........... $ ......20,500 GRANTS MANAGEMENT STATE/INFO & COMM SYSTEMS/GENERAL ADMINISTRATION ............. $ .1,694,318

SPECIAL APPROPRIATION Alabama Center for the Arts ............................. $ ....475,000

TOTAL* ................................................................ $..5,613,910

*Includes $500,000 for special Bicentennial project grants provided across all program areas and distributed throughout the state.

{Council Staff}---------------ALBERT B. HEADExecutive Director

ELLIOT KNIGHT, PhDDeputy Director

JACQUELINE BERRYExecutive Assistant

WILLIAM CROMBLIN

Security

WANDA DEJARNETTEGrants Officer

DIANA F. GREENArts In Education Program Manager

KAY JACOBYCommunity Arts Program Manager and

Arts & Facilities Program Manager

YVETTE JONES-SMEDLEYPerforming Arts Program Manager

ANNE KIMZEYLiterature Program Manager

JOHN MEYERSGallery Assistant

BARBARA REEDPublic Information Officer

ROSALIND TUCKERPrograms Assistant

VINNIE WATSONGrants Assistant

AMY WILLIAMSONVisual Arts Program Manager

and Gallery Director

Alabama Center For Traditional Culture

JOEY BRACKNERDirector

DEBORAH BOYKINFolklife Specialist

JACKIE ELYAdministrative Secretary

ANNE KIMZEYFolklife Specialist

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Photos Captions & Credits

Cover: (Clockwise from top left) The Huntsville Symphony Orchestra horns section. Photo court-esty of HSO; Raggety Ann and Andy production at The Fantasy Playhouse Theatre in Huntsville; A student performer with Girls Rock Birmingham; Allen Hamm creating on the wheel. Page 3: Albert B. Head. Photo by Paul Robertson. Page 4: (Clockwise from top left) Al Head is sur-rounded by current and past Council members during his retirement celebration at the Mont-gomery Museum of Fine Arts. Dr. Elliot Knight (far left) joins the group to congratulate Al on his 33 years of service. On January 1, 2019, Dr. Knight becomes the Executive Director of the Council. Photo by Barbara Reed; Barbara Edwards, Deputy Director of the Council, shares her appreciation for a wonderful career during her retirement event in April 2018; Lynne B. Vallely, newly appointed Council member from Huntsville; Warren L. Duncan, newly appointed Council member from Tuskegee; John C. Cole-man, newly appointed Council member from Dothan. Page 5: Joel T. Daves IV. Photo courtesy of Joel Daves.

Page 6: (Left to right) A student in the Collaborat-ing Artists Program at Hatton Elementary in Col-bert County; Raggety Ann and Andy production at The Fantasy Playhouse Theatre in Huntsville.

Page 8: Raina Verser of Huntsville wins Poetry Ourselves Runner-Up at the Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Competition in Washington DC; 2018 Visual Arts Achievement Program’s Best of Show entitled Mask by Jordan Brazell, a 12th grade student at Booker T. Washington Magnet High School, Montgomery County; Wanda Johnson, a storyteller enraptures stu-dents with tales during an Alabama Touring Art-ists Program. This funded program provides for students in underserved counties; Two students

work on projects during a summer art camp at Space One Eleven in Birmingham.

Page 10: (From top left) A team of artists led by Charlie Lucas are shown in front of a painted window installation as part of their Main Street Selma project; Girls Rock Birmingham Camp, an intensive, five-day program for girls ages 9-16 featuring instrument instruction, workshops, songwriting, band practice, live performances and a showcase concert.

Page 12: (Clockwise from top left) Tennessee Valley Arts Summerstock at the Ritz’s production of Oklahoma; Karmilla Ali performs during the Gulf Coast Ethnic Heritage & Jazz Festival in Mobile; Bradley Hamilton on drums during the Gulf Coast Ethnic Heritage & Jazz Festival in Mobile.

Page 14: (Clockwise from top left) The Iron Horse band were featured performers during the Jake Landers Bluegrass Festival in Sheffield; Dot and the Silver Voices perform at Livingston; Beautiful hand-pieced quilts by Marlene Bennett. Page 16: (Clockwise from top left) Allen Hamm makes pottery at the Miller Pottery in Brent, Film crew of Journey Proud at Mobile Bay; Storyteller Norma Jackson at the Old Federal Road Storytelling Festival, Warrior’s Stand, Alabama.

Page 18: (Clockwise from top) Priscilla Cooper and Georgette Norman celebrate the life and work of poet Sonia Sanchez.; Charles Gaines is honored at the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame in Tuscaloosa; Author Alexis Okeowo speaks at the Alabama Book Festival in Old Alabama Town, Montgomery. Photo by Jonah Enfinger Photography; Writer Joy Harjo discusses her work at the University of North Alabama Writers Series in Florence. Photo by Shannon Wells.

Page 20: (Clockwise from top) Alabama Poet Laureate Jennifer Horne and poet Jacqueline Trimble speak to audiences at the Alabama Writ-

ers Symposium in Monroeville. Photo courtesy of Coastal Alabama Community College; Harper Lee Award winner Honorée Jeffers, Michelle Richmond, recipient of the Truman Capote Prize, and Eugene Current-Garcia Award winner Dr. David Cowart were honored at the Alabama Writers Symposium. Photo courtesy of Coastal Alabama Community College; A packed house with poet Ann Fisher-Wirth and photographer Maude Shuyler Clay during the third Thursday Poetry Series at Auburn’s Jule Collins Smith Museum. Photo by Ken Autry.

Page 22: (From top) Alabama Dance Theatre’s production of Still, Still, Still from Mistletoe featuring Virginia Perry, Karen Licari and Aure-lio Guimaraes. Photo by Richard Calmes; The Huntsville Symphony Orchestra horns section. Photo courtesty of HSO.

Page 24: (Clockwise from top) The Fantasy Playhouse‘s performance of The Watsons Go to Birmingham. Photo by Jeff White; Renee Fleming, a featured performing with the Mobile Symphony; Red Mountain Theatre’s production of Newsies. Photo by DeMarius Copes.

Page 26: (From top) Dr. Art Bacon during his open art studio classes at the Heritage Hall Museum in Talledega; Exhibit of The March Quilts at UAB Hospital. The quilt images were on display to shed light on environmental justice.

Page 28: (Clockwise from top left) An ASCA grant provided funding that enabled closed cap-tioning to be created for the film First Lady for the Revolution, making the film more accessible to all audiences; Photo courtesy of Spark Media; Children enjoying the visual arts at the Panoply Festival in Huntsville; Patrons getting a close-up view of textiles on display at an event at Old Ala-bama Town in Montgomery; A panoramic view of the Georgine Clarke Alabama Artists Gallery in the offices of the Alabama State Council on the Arts in downtown Montgomery.


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{Alabama State Council on the Arts} -----------------

201 Monroe Street, Suite 110 Montgomery, Alabama 36130-1800

Phone: 334.242.4076Fax: 334.240.3269www.arts.alabama.gov

Documents

2018 Annual Report} - Alabama State Council on the Arts...ALABAMA STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS 3 ANNUAL REPORT 2018 {Message from the Director}-----Albert B. Head EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The