The Florence Regional Arts Alliance's (FRAA) Board of Directors recently approved six grant awards regionally in the fourth quarter of its grants program. Grant recipients are Gabriel Smallwood, the Lake City Community Theatre, the Lake City Early Childhood Center, Florence School District 4, the Florence Symphony Orchestra, and the Masterworks Choir.
These upcoming funded projects have the potential to impact a wide range of ages beginning with Lake City's Early Childhood Center’s Fairytales Do Come True Project which teaches preschoolers to waltz through an artist in residence. Also in Lake City, the Community Theatre will be producing Disney’s Jungle Book Kids. Funding will help with the wide and diverse range of costuming needs in the production. Florence School District 4’s Studio Project will share the media arts throughout its district, providing students with hands on experiences. College bound, Gabriel Smallwood will pursue professional development as he continues to market himself as a musician and young composer. Finally, audiences of all ages will benefit from the delightful upcoming performances of the Florence Symphony Orchestra’s Spring Concert and the Masterwork’s Choir May Concert.
Partnering with the South Carolina Arts Commission, the Florence Regional Arts Alliance is proud to be a behind the scenes support to organizations and artists through this program. Uschi Jeffcoat, current executive director of the Arts Alliance reflects, “More and more, I am seeing a yearning, locally, to have artful encounters and creative conversations among all ages. The FRAA’s Grants Program helps make that happen.”
Designed to support a wide variety of quality arts projects, professional development opportunities for artists and arts administrators, the Arts Alliance has awarded almost $20,000 this fiscal year through its grants program. To be considered, organizations must be based in Florence County with a Florence County mailing address and be registered charitable organizations with federal non-profit status. Individual artists must be practicing artists and have a Florence County mailing address.
The FRAA raises local dollars to match funds. This year’s grants program had been supported locally through the generosity of Honda of South Carolina, individual donors and FRAA fundraising initiatives. The program is also funded in part by a generous award from the John and Susan Bennett Memorial Arts Fund of the Coastal Community Foundation of SC, the South Carolina Arts Commission, and The National Endowment for the Arts.
For more information about the FRAA’s Quarterly Grants Program, visit www.florenceartsalliance.org or contact Mrs. Uschi Jeffcoat at director@florenceartsalliance.org or 843.407-3092.
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