Twenty creative individuals whose work is strengthening Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s cultural community will receive a combined $250,000 from ASC in order to refresh their creative energy.
The upcoming Dozen Years of Digging Festival commemorating Winterfield Community Garden in East Charlotte is a celebration of science, art, music and literature – all around the theme of sustainability.
Plan to take time this spring to head out to a community festival and experience what make Charlotte-Mecklenburg an incredible place to be.
Charlotte creative Sarah Ingel used an ASC Emerging Creators Fellowship to expand her choreographic work into film.
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.