ArtsBuild Annual Report 2019

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Message from Our Board Chair I am pleased to share with you this brief summary of the past year at ArtsBuild!

This was a landmark year for ArtsBuild – the organization’s 50th Anniversary. At this point of having served the communit y for five decades, it is natural to look back on all that has been accomplished and to reminisce on how our cit y – and our arts communit y – has grown and changed. More importantly, this moment in time gives us an opportunit y to look ahead, at all the potential that lies in the question: What can the arts do for the communit y?

At ArtsBuild we work each day toward a vision of More Arts in More Places for More People, investing your donations and communit y resources in three main areas – arts access, arts education and arts leadership. We expect the next 50 years to be full of exciting possibilities and unique ways that the arts can benefit each of us as individuals and as a societ y.

We thank you, our donors and friends. The support we are able to spread across Hamilton Count y relies on the generosit y and dedication of everyone to make the arts a thriving part of this communit y.

Sincerely,

Dr. Mary Poston Tanner

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FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Fiscal Year ending June 30, 2019

SOURCES OF FUNDS:

4%

21%

38%

37%

Arts Building Income

Government Grants

Endowment Income

Contributed Income

$80,858

$384,735

$707,966

$675,238

USE OF FUNDS:

56%

8%

28%

8%

Community Investments & Arts Education

ArtsBuild Operations

Arts Building Expense

$146,548

$520,899

Community Events & Leadership Programs

$1,015,272

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$146,871

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SPL ASH Youth Arts Workshop, an ArtsBuild Community Arts Partner organization

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Students in art class made possible by ArtsBuild Visual Artist Residency program

Ballet Tennessee’s Dance Alive summer dance program

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Community Arts Team of the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Ensuring the Arts for Any Given Child, an arts education initiative of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

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Members of the Chattanooga Boys Choir

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Visual Artist Alex Paul Loza, past grant recipient of Equity in the Arts

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Warren Barnett, recipient of the 2019 Ruth Holmberg Arts Leadership Award with Lillie Wills and former President of ArtsBuild Dan Bowers

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Students heading into the Tivoli Theatre for the Chattanooga Symphony & Opera’s Young People’s Concert.

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MISSION SUPPORT

ArtsBuild provides Mission Support grants to local arts organizations whose mission is to create and provide year-round arts programs and experiences that add to the cultural life of our community. Each of our Community Arts Partners (Mission Support grant recipients) have worked hard this past year to create access to the arts, making Chattanooga and Hamilton County a great place to live, work and visit.

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FY 2018/19 Community Arts Partners Art120

East Lake Expression Engine

Ballet Tennessee

H*ART Gallery

Bessie Smith Cultural Center

Hunter Museum of American Art

Chattanooga Ballet

Sculpture Fields at Montague Park

Chattanooga Boys Choir

Shaking Ray Levi Society

Chattanooga Symphony & Opera

SPLASH

Chattanooga Theatre Centre

SoundCorps

CoPAC

Southern LIT Alliance

Creative Discovery Museum

Unity Performing Arts Foundation of Chattanooga

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COMMUNITY CULTURAL CONNECTIONS

ArtsBuild provides grants available year-round to help make the arts more accessible to underserved populations, and spanning geographic area, ethnicity, and age. The Community Cultural Connections program touches all kinds of organizations and groups who serve the community in unique ways through the arts.

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FY 2018/19 CCC Grant Recipients Austin Hatcher Foundation for Pediatric Cancer

Jenison Owens Memo’s Grill

Ben Van Winkle

Northside Neighborhood House

Center for Mindful Living Chattanooga Neighborhoods Arts Partnership Chattanooga Chinese Dance Group Family Promise Friends of the Chattanooga Public Library Good Neighbors, Inc. Glass Street Collective The Helen Ross McNabb Center

Operation Song Chattanooga Pablo Mazariegos The Pop-up Project Scenic City Chamber Society Scenic City Clay Arts Spot Athletic Arts Venue University of Tennessee Chattanooga Chamber Singers Youth Shakespeare Chattanooga

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ARTS BUILD COMMUNITIES

The Tennessee General Assembly funds this grant program through the Tennessee Arts Commission, and ArtsBuild administers the grants awarded to arts programs in Hamilton County.

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FY 2018/19 ABC Grant Recipients Art 120

H*ART Gallery

Bessie Smith Cultural Center

Music Therapy Gateway in Communications, Inc.

Chattanooga State Community College

Scenic City Clay Arts

East Lake Expression Engine

SoundCorps

Friends of the Chattanooga Public Library

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ARTSBUILD BY THE NUMBERS

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880

12,500

Grant Recipients

Number of Donors

Students in Grades K-4 Participating in ArtsBuild’s Imagine!

Arts Education Initiative

$170,000

$560,000

Amount Invested by ArtsBuild in Hamilton County Schools

Total Raised from the Community for the 2018 Annual Campaign

950,000

$172 MILLION

Cumulative Number of People Impacted by ArtsBuild Funding

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Economic Impact of the Nonprofit Arts Organizations in Hamilton County

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Program Highlights

Ruth Holmberg Arts Leadership Award ArtsBuild honored Warren Barnett as the recipient of the 2019 Ruth Holmberg Arts Leadership Award.

We hosted a lovely reception at the Hunter Museum of American Art on March 12, 2019 to recognize his exemplary leadership and philanthropy for the arts in Chattanooga.

Speakers included Dan Bowers, President of ArtsBuild, Virginia Anne Sharber, Executive Director of the Hunter Museum of American Art, and ArtsBuild Board Chair Dr. Mary Poston Tanner. ArtsBuild Board Member Edna Varner presented the award. We enjoyed music performed by the Chattanooga Symphony & Opera Woodwind Quintet, a selection from Chattanooga Theatre Centre's production of Disney's Newsies, and a special performance by the Chattanooga Ballet.

Planning for Arts Education Chattanooga-Hamilton County has been chosen as the 26th site in the country for Ensuring the Arts for Any Given Child. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' Ensuring the Arts for Any Given Child program assists communities in developing and implementing a plan for expanded arts education while ensuring access and equity for all students in grades K-8.

A Community Arts Team of twenty-six individuals from the education, arts and business sectors met from September 2018 through May 2019 to develop the vision and goals for our local Any Given Child initiative. ArtsBuild will administer the Community Arts Team going forward, whose work will involve arts education visioning and orientation sessions, developing a roster of community arts education resources, and community-wide arts education engagement programs.

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THANK YOU!

Our Annual Campaign is vital to our mission to build a stronger community through the arts. Each year hundreds of donors – individuals, businesses, foundations, and our city and state governments – give generously to support the arts in Chattanooga and Hamilton County through ArtsBuild.

The campaign supports not only Mission Support and Community Cultural Connections grants invested back into the community, but also all of our education programs, trainings, and special initiatives that support the overall health of the arts community.

We appreciate every gift!

You can view our current list of donors at ArtsBuild.com.