2021 Project Grant Cycle Recap

Project Grant Cycle Recap

Explore Gwinnett and Gwinnett County reaffirm their commitment to the arts through the creation and growth of the Gwinnett Creativity Fund

Awarding almost $100,000 in project grants...

...to 10 Gwinnett County non-profit arts organizations...

...for Gwinnett County arts and cultural initiatives!

AUG 2021-Q1 2022

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We are so pleased to award $100,000 in project grants to organizations from Gwinnett’s smallest to largest arts organizations, with projects ranging from Shakespeare to hip hop to public art.”

Bard at the Barn

Lisa Anders Explore Gwinnett Tourism + Film Executive Director 3

2021 GRANT RECIPIENTS

$15,000 Grant Hudgens Center for Arts + Learning Grant awarded to create Hudgens’ first campus mural, created by celebrated Atlanta artist Jonesy

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2021 GRANT RECIPIENTS

$15,000 Grant Artworks! Gwinnett Grant awarded to support development of Gwinnett County’s first creative economy master plan

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2021 GRANT RECIPIENTS

$4,900 Grant Suwanee Performing Arts To support “Bard at the Barn,” a multi-day, outdoor Shakespeare production at Gwinnett’s bluegrass mecca, Everett Brothers Music Barn in Suwanee

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2021 GRANT RECIPIENTS

$15,000 Grant Gwinnett County Public Library Grant awarded to develop/support a firsttime, community-wide, juried photography exhibition, with curatorial support from High Museum of Art

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2021 GRANT RECIPIENTS

$15,000 Grant Suwanee Public Arts Commission Creation of “Amphitheater Stage Wings” at Town Center Park, a functional and accessible public art piece

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2021 GRANT RECIPIENTS

$15,000 Grant Aurora Theatre Grant supported production of “Song and Dance,” metro Atlanta’s first major post-COVID musical production

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2021 GRANT RECIPIENTS

$3,000 Grant Spectrum Autism Group Grant allowed created of monthly arts workshop for an extraordinarily underserved audience – adult women on the autism spectrum

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2021 GRANT RECIPIENTS

$10,000 Grant Atlanta International Night Market Grant awarded to support festival whose mission is to “build more inclusive Atlanta by creating festival, multicultural experiences and educational programming”

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I am pleased we could provide grant arts initiatives catering to not only to arts organizations, but to special needs adults, underserved audiences and veterans.”

Tannery Row

Lisa Anders Explore Gwinnett Tourism + Film Executive Director

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2021 GRANT RECIPIENTS

$2,000 Grant Live Arts Theatre Grant award to support “My Shot,” a dance workshop featuring a choreographer from the Hamilton touring show. The grant subsidized ticket costs for the audience, which was 100% attended by underserved students

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2021 GRANT RECIPIENTS

$2,500 Grant Button Art To support a new signature button, a public sculpture along Buford Highway

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“The Gwinnett Creativity Fund grant has enabled Spectrum to offer a free and enriching arts and crafts program for women on the autism spectrum, giving them a creative outlet and exposure to art while working on social skills and developing friendships. ArtReach, as we call it, has served an average of 8 women per month, creating art, friendships, and fun! In these days of social isolation due to the pandemic, this has been a boost to their mental health and wellness as well.”

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“The Gwinnett Creativity Fund has made it possible for the Hudgens Center for Art & Learning to move forward on a large-scale mural project designed to support and promote a local artist and provide improved wayfinding for the community to identify The Hudgens’ landmark facilities. Ultimately, the Gwinnett Creativity Fund project helps us to achieve our goal of cultivating vibrant creative experiences within the community, increasing arts enrichment, engagement and access for all.”

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Hudgens Center for Arts + Learning General Operating Fund General Operation Budget Hudgens Mural Project Funding

GCF Funds Received

Other Grant Sources

$15,000

Artworks! Gwinnett General Operating Fund

Total Overall Budget

SOURCE(S) $15,000

General Operation Budget

GCF Funds Received

$125,000

SOURCE(S)

Gwinnett Co.

Hudgens Mural Project Funding

$2,500

SOURCE(S)

Art Vedjs

$2,500

$82,250

SOURCE(S)

Cities

$82,250

Hudgens Mural Project Funding

$10,000

SOURCE(S)

CFNEG

$10,000

$35,000

SOURCE(S) Corp/Non-Profit

$35,000

$20,000

SOURCE(S)

CID’s

$20,000

$15,000

$277,250

SOURCE(S)

Total Overall Budget

Other Grant Sources

SOURCE(S) GRAND TOTAL

$15,000

$15,000 SOURCE(S)

$12,500

$27,500

Suwanee Performing Arts General Operating Fund General Operation Budget Income

GCF Funds Received

Other Grant Sources

$4,900

GRAND TOTAL

$125,000

$15,000

Gwinnett County Public Library General Operating Fund Total Overall Budget

SOURCE(S) $11,400

Expenses SOURCE(S)

Materials needed to offer photography

Other Grant Sources

$10,000

SOURCE(S) $24,759 SOURCE(S)

$5,000

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SOURCE(S)

$298

SOURCE(S)

Misc. costs for event

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SOURCE(S)

$413

SOURCE(S)

SOURCE(S) $25

Suwanee Public Arts Commission General Operating Fund General Operation Budget Concrete - $27,287

GCF Funds Received

Other Grant Sources

$15,000

GRAND TOTAL

$5,000

Total Overall Budget

Food + drink cost for day of event

$4,900

Speaker for event

GCF Funds Received

SOURCE(S)

GRAND TOTAL

$11,375

General Operation Budget

$10,000

$30,470

Aurora Theatre General Operating Fund

Total Overall Budget

SOURCE(S) $12,287

General Operation Budget

GCF Funds Received

Other Grant Sources

Total Overall Budget

Postcard/Mailer Acquisition

$2,510

Royalty Advance + Fees

$4,289

SOURCE(S)

Production Materials

$3,128

$2,179

SOURCE(S)

Northside

SOURCE(S)

Programs

$1,013

$102

SOURCE(S)

Northside

$1115

SOURCE(S)

Choreographers

$4,062

$1,438

SOURCE(S)

Northside

$5,550

$3,719

$18,719

Text Blocks - $15,000

SOURCE(S)

$15,000

Painted Design - $4,200

SOURCE(S)

$4,200

GRAND TOTAL - $46,487

$15,000

$31,487

GRAND TOTAL

$15,000

SOURCE(S) $2,510

$4,289 $5305

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Spectrum Autism Group General Operating Fund General Operation Budget

GCF Funds Received

Other Grant Sources

Atlanta International Night Market General Operating Fund Total Overall Budget

General Operation Budget

Other Grant Sources

Materials Supplies

$800

SOURCE(S) $800

Facility Rental

$400

SOURCE(S)

$600

SOURCE(S)

Support Aid Trained in Autism

$300

SOURCE(S)

$320

SOURCE(S)

Insurance

$455 SOURCE(S)

$455

SOURCE(S)

In-kind Support (Zeta Society)

$825

$825

SOURCE(S)

GRAND TOTAL

SOURCE(S)

$3,000

$3,000

Live Arts Theatre General Operating Fund General Operation Budget Outside Artist Fees

GCF Funds Received $2,000

Operating Budget

GCF Funds Received

GRAND TOTAL

$10,000

SOURCE(S) $18,871

$10,000

$18,871

Button Art General Operating Fund

Other Grant Sources

Total Overall Budget

SOURCE(S) $3,000

Venue SOURCE(S)

$377

General Operation Budget Button Art Sculpture

GCF Funds Received $2,500

Other Grant Sources $2,500

Donor

$5,000

$2,500

$5,000

SOURCE(S)

SOURCE(S)

SOURCE(S)

SOURCE(S)

SOURCE(S) $2,000

Total Overall Budget

SOURCE(S)

SOURCE(S)

GRAND TOTAL

Total Overall Budget

SOURCE(S) $3,337

GRAND TOTAL

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Lisa Anders Executive Director Lisa@ExploreGwinnett.org 404.849.8996

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