Emerging Creators and Creative Renewal Fellowships highlight ASC’s fiscal year 2021 investment of $435,000 in artists that contribute to Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s cultural community.
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The Arts & Science Council (ASC), the 62-year-old nonprofit that serves as the chief advocate, resource hub and steward for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg region’s cultural community, shares its inequitable funding history and its journey on the path to cultural equity in its inaugural Cultural Equity report.
Krista Terrell, APR, has been named acting president of the Arts & Science Council (ASC) effective immediately.
R. Jeep Bryant, who has led the Arts & Science Council (ASC) through the most challenging period in its 63-year history, is resigning effective January 29. Bryant moved quickly to reengineer and strengthen ASC prior to the COVID-19 crisis and led the organization’s extensive response to the pandemic.
Twenty-four groups and individuals receive a combined $136,300 in funding for cultural projects that build community and increase relevance and innovation.
Awards provide $5,000 to outstanding arts, science and history teachers.
Twenty-four groups and individuals receive a combined $148,700 in funding for cultural projects that build community and increase relevance and innovation.
Equity supplement and formula used to increase transparency and support for diverse organizations.
As a young boy growing up in Shanghai, China, Raphael “Ray” Tsu would look skyward wondering about the universe beyond the clouds. “I asked my mother, ‘What is behind the clouds?’” recalled Tsu. “She told me, ‘The sun.’ I’d then ask, ‘What is behind the sun?’ and she told me, ‘The stars.’ When I finally asked, ‘What is behind the stars?’ she told me, ‘Only God knows.’ I knew then at 10 years old there was so much we didn’t know. This is what drives me as a scientist, to learn about what we don’t know.”