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Tag: Arts Equity Reimagined

NSR awards over $2 million to grantees through Arts | Equity | Reimagined fund

Posted on July 29, 2021 by Alyse Horn

With the fourth and final round of Collective Action for Re-imagining (CAR) grants released, New Sun Rising has awarded a total of $2,090,190 to 23 collaborations between 97 arts organizations.

Under the Arts | Equity | Reimagined (AER) fund, the Collective Action for Re-imaging program was created to employ new, novel, and innovative ways of working together to address the dramatic shifts that have been instigated by the COVID-19 crisis, and that also addressed opportunities and solutions to reposition the arts sector for a more sustainable and equitable future. 

Twenty-six review panelists participated in recommending funding for 45%, or 23 out of 51, proposals submitted to the program. Out of the funded proposals, 52% were led by BIPOC. The Covid-19 Arts Working Group (CAWG) ultimately approved the recommendations at the end of each grant cycle.

New Sun Rising believes that the AER-CAR grantees represent the largest investment focused on collective action and equity ever made into the Pittsburgh metro area’s arts ecosystem.

The locations of the funded projects include: City of Pittsburgh (14), Allegheny County (5), Beaver County (2), Westmoreland County (1), Cambria County (1).

The nonprofits that received funding in the final round include:

  • Lead Organization: The Legacy Arts Project
    • Funded: $100,000
    • Hotline Ring is a shared, virtual fundraiser presented on July 15 that brings together the aligned missions of seven arts and culture organizations led by and/or in community with Queer, Trans, and/or People of Color to create an opportunity for giving thsat has an enourmous impact in our region.
  • Lead Organization: Block Chronicles
    • Funded: $100,000
    • Block Chronicles and Casa San Jose are collaborating to develop the PGH Latinx Artist Residency (P-LAR), a 10-month opportunity for emerging Latinx artists in Allegheny County, who will receive support in career development and sustainability.
  • Lead Organization: Bloomfield/Garfield Corporation / BOOM Concepts
    • Funded: $100,000
    • BOOM Concepts and Black Unicorn Library & Archives Project will formalize their 7 year partnership by identifying ways to uplift, overlap, and assimilate best practice of both entities in efforts to present a stronger unified program and production portfolio.
  • Lead Organization: Touchstone Center for Crafts
    • Funded: $100,000
    • The Alliance for Creative Rural Economies (ACRE Project) will be a scalable model to bring creativity-driven, COVID-19 responsive, economic development to rural areas across western Pennsylvania and beyond; meeting creatives where they are in their artistic career journeys and offering multiple levels of support and resources to achieve business stability.
  • Lead Organization: Pittsburgh School for the Choral Arts (dba Pittsburgh Girls Choir)
    • Funded: $75,000
    • The establishment of a formal and permanent affiliation between Pittsburgh Girls Choir and the Pittsburgh Camerata for the purpose of sharing administrative leadership, staff and other resources in order to enhance community connections, programming and outreach. 
  • Lead Organization: Neighborhood North Museum of Play
    • Funded: $74,325
    • Playful Learning Initiative will strengthen the community by connecting the arts and education ecosystems to benefit both artists and students. They will activate a group of Teaching Artists and install educational art to make learning through the arts accessible to all, especially in communities of color heavily impacted by COVID-19.

For more information about AER, click here.

Posted in ProgramsTagged Arts Equity Reimagined, culture, equity, opportunity, sustainability, Vibrant Communities

Second round of AER grantees receive $590,000, next application deadline March 18, 2021

Posted on March 16, 2021 by Alyse Horn

Last month, six organizations were chosen to receive funding from the Collective Action for Re-Imagining grant program. The initiative, managed by New Sun Rising (NSR), has distributed over $700,000 to eight collaboratives since September 2020.

This funding opportunity is for innovative projects in the arts sector that address structural challenges instigated or exacerbated by the COVID-19 crisis, and other needs that cultivate a stronger, healthier, and more equitable arts sector.

The upcoming deadlines for funding are Thursday, March 18 and Thursday, May 6.

The nonprofits that received funding last month include:

  • Lead Org: Hill Dance Academy Theater
    Project: Space and Place
    Funded Amount: $100,000
    Description:This project develops a Black-led and owned cultural arts facility located in the Hill community to provide space and place for Black dance, Africana visual creative arts, and the art of Photography and Media Production.
  • Lead Org: Silver Eye Center for Photography
    Project: SPACE
    Funded Amount: $100,000
    Description: The Small Pittsburgh Arts Coalition for Equity (SPACE), will work to make Pittsburgh’s small visual arts organizations more equitable, by creating the SPACE Fellowship, a leadership development program focused on supporting marginalized people who have not been historically welcomed into the field with mentorship, network building, and leadership training.
  • Lead Org: The Tull Family Theater
    Project: Arthouse + STEM
    Funded Amount: $100,000
    Description: This arts-led effort will connect BIPOC/underrepresented artists and arts organizations with Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematical fields, seeking to boost a hurting sector with fields differently impacted by COVID.
  • Lead Org: The Genesis Collective
    Project: The Genesis Collective
    Funded Amount: $100,000
    Description: The Genesis Collective (TGC) exists to create a thriving and supportive arts ecosystem in Beaver County. TGC connects regional artists to one another, to the community, and to those resources required for making art an indispensable feature of Beaver County’s identity.
  • Lead Org: Shana Simmons Dance
    Project: Virtual Dance Exchange
    Funded Amount: $100,000
    Description:The Virtual Dance Exchange Project will generate discussion about race and age diversity in dance through creating choreographic works filmed in 360 degree formats, researching the future of dance and the cross section of virtual reality, and creating more accessible programming that addresses diversity in dance specific to Pittsburgh communities.

  • Lead Org: Drinking Partners
    Project: FreshFest
    Funded Amount: $90,000
    Description: The project will provide a Covid-friendly environment for Black artists to thrive creatively and economically through digital media and the craft beer industry.

Made possible through the Arts | Equity | Reimagined Fund, proposed projects must include partnerships or networks composed of two or more 501(c)3 arts organizations, artist-driven projects, and/or unincorporated arts collectives. This program has an upper budget limit of $100,000 for activities that can be completed within 12 months. . 

For more information on the grant funding guidelines and application process, visit https://www.newsunrising.org/arts-equity-reimagined-fund/. 

Posted in ProgramsTagged Arts Equity Reimagined, Collective Action for Re-Imagining, covid-19, New Sun Rising

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