• Arts Build Communities (ABC) Grants is a program funded by the Tennessee General Assembly and administered in cooperation with the Tennessee Arts Commission and Allied Arts of Greater Chattanooga.

      The overall objective of these grants is to build communities by nurturing artists, arts organizations (including local arts agencies), and arts supporters in each of Tennessee's ninety-five counties.

      Speaker at the Conference of Southern Literature

      Following are examples of single-project focus activities and expenditures that are consistent with the funding philosophy for Arts Build Communities Grants:

      • Projects that involve and promote Tennessee artists.
      • Visiting artists conducting master classes.
      • Workshops, festivals, and conferences.
      • Public performance, production, and exhibitions produced by the applicant.
       

    • A copy of the ABC guidelines, application forms and report forms may be obtained from the Tennessee Arts Commission website. To complete the ABC grant forms on-line, you may download them from the Tennessee Arts Commission at
      www.arts.state.tn.us.

      ABC Grant Calendar

      • Applicant Orientation Meeting: Thursday, July 29, 2010, 4:00 p.m., Allied Arts 
      • Application Due: Tuesday, August 31, 2010, 4:30 p.m. 
      • ABC Panel Review Meeting: Monday, October 4, 2010, 8:30 a.m., Allied Arts

      ABC Grant Awards 2009-2010

      • Agency
      • Project
      • Amount
      • AIM Center, Inc.$1,200Outdoor Sculpture
      • Arts & Education Council$1,750AEC's Chattanooga Festival of Writers
      • Association for Visual Arts$1,000Muse Visiting Artist Lecture & Series 2009
      • Ballet Tennessee$2,000Underserved Audiences at The Nutcracker Ballet
      • Chattanooga Choral Society for the Preservation of African American Song$1,7502010 African American Music Workshop
      • Chattanooga Downtown Partnership$2,000Performances by Local Musicians
      • Chattanooga Girls Choir$1,000Chattanooga Girls Choir Guest Clinician
      • Chattanooga Symphony and Opera$1,500Ticket Support for Family Concert
      • Creative Discovery Museum$2,001Spooky Days
      • Destiny Theatre Company$1,600Driving Miss Daisy
      • Friends of Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library$500Abraham Lincoln Exhibit Speakers
      • Girls Inc. of Chattanooga$500Building Arts Appreciation in Disadvantaged Community
      • Mark Making$1,000Murals in East Chattanooga
      • Normal Park Museum Magnet School PTA$2,000Normal-Palooza Arts & Music Festival
      • Orange Grove Center$800Orange Grove Dancers, A Moving Experience
      • Signal Centers, Inc.$1,000The Rhythmic Arts Project (TRAP)
      • UTC$1,600Meacham Writers' Workshops

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