Public art humanizes Charlotte police stations while connecting precincts to the community.
“Jazzerific” created by Dapper Street Productions founder Nicci Canada and supported by ASC Culture Blocks, succeeded in bringing together East Charlotte residents of all generations through jazz.
Charlotte creative Jason Woodberry used an ASC Creative Renewal Fellowship to establish studio space and travel to Africa, visiting Ghana after learning he had roots to ancestral tribes.
ASC Cultural Vision Grant recipient Nadia Meadows found inspiration amid isolation. Desiring to create during the pandemic, Meadows channeled her personal frustrations into narrative art that highlights a common Black American struggle – hair.
The public artwork “Wishes of Historic West End” pays homage to the West End’s historically Black communities.
ASC Artist Support Grants support professional and artistic development for emerging and established artists to enhance their skills and abilities to create work or to improve their business operations and capacity to bring their work to new audiences.
An ASC Creative Renewal Fellowship is helping Indrani Nayar-Gall “explore the power behind visual media that transcends language.”
If not for an ASC Creative Renewal Fellowship, Alvin Jacobs, Jr. isn’t sure where he’d be now. But receiving the fellowship changed his plans … and his photography practice.