Supporting art. Advancing culture.

Annual Report to the City of Columbus December 15, 2010 INTRODUCTION: LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT (1-2)

2010 HIGHLIGHTS (3)

NEW FOR 2011 (4)

SUPPORTING ART (5-14) Grants to Organizations (5-9) Ohio Cultural Data Project (7) Grants & Services for Individuals (10-11) 2010 Columbus Arts Festival (12) Marketing the Arts (13-14) Community Arts Partnership Awards (14) Outreach to Constituents (14)

ADVANCING CULTURE (15-19) Cultural Planning Initiative (15) Community Arts Education Programs (15-17) International Programs & Cultural Exchanges (17) 2010 Public Forum (17)

2010 STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES (18)

2010 ALLOCATION OF CITY FUNDS (19)

PROPOSED 2011 BUDGET (20)

APPENDICES I. GCAC Board and Staff II. Glossary of Terms for Community Funding Cover photos:: (left) Participants in community workshop with artist Larry Collins at the Urban Cultural Arts Foundation; Photos: (top) Glass sculpture from Savage Gardens exhibition at the Franklin Park (right) Merce Cunningham at the Wexner Center. Conservatory; (bottom)The Broadway Musical Wicked, photo courtesy CAPA. Letter from the President 2010 brought many challenges for GCAC and our constituencies but much has been accomplished. We began the year with a great deal of optimism and energy to implement some significant changes within the agency to benefit the arts and cultural community – both arts organizations and individual artists. I am pleased to report that, while we still have much work to do, we attained many of the goals we set for this year. This report will outline in detail many important accomplishments for GCAC. A few highlights include: • With the restoration of GCAC’s portion of the hotel-motel bed tax by the City of Columbus and higher than anticipated bed tax receipts, the agency has been able to expand it’s funding resources and significantly increase the number of grant recipients. Funding under Operating Support, Project Support, Technical Assistance Grants and Individual Artists Fellowships was up 12 percent and the number of grant recipients more than doubled to 80. • Considerable time and effort has been focused on revising our grant guidelines to better align them with community objectives including organizational stability, expanding audiences, efficiencies, effectiveness and innovation. Additionally, our new guidelines attempt to bring more clarity and consistency to our funding programs and reflect changes occurring in our community’s arts organizations. Finally, our guidelines continue to support core organizations while providing more opportunities and resources to assist individual artists and emerging arts organizations. • In September, GCAC introduced in partnership with the Columbus Bar Association a program offering free legal assistance for Franklin County artists and small arts organizations. This program is intended to provide legal help for arts related issues such as contracts, copyright and trademark issues, business structure issues and lease arrangements. • GCAC is pleased to be chairing the Celebration Committee for the 2012 Bicentennial Celebration. We have brought together a diverse team of community members to make recommendations for an event strategy for the Bicentennial festivities. We are very pleased with the energy generated and the ideas under consideration. • In January, GCAC facilitated the completion of the final phase of the Cultural Plan Blueprint initiated by the Greater Columbus Creative Cultural Commission under direction of the . This work provided the basis for community discussion and action Photos: (top) FCNA grantee, Haven of Hope art steps including two additional components – an Arts Sustainability therapy workshop for cancer survivors. (middle) Columbus Children’s Theatre production of The Analysis being funded by the Columbus Foundation and an agency Best Christmas Pageant Ever; (bottom) Art in the review of GCAC. House student at Clintonville Beechwold Commu- nity Resources Center. Photo by Jennifer Sadler;

Page 1 • On the programming front we have been very busy—we had a successful Arts Festival in June and received three Pinnacle Awards for the Festival from the International Festival and Events Association. We are deep into planning for our 50th anniversary of the Arts Festival, our last in the Discovery District, and have already begun mapping our return to the Riverfront for the Bicentennial in 2012.

The impact of the arts and cultural sector in our community as an engine for economic development and employment has been well documented. We could not do our work to advance this important part of our community without support from the City of Columbus. We also thank the Franklin County Board of Commissioners and the Ohio Arts Council for their funding and program support.

It is also very important to underscore the contributions made by arts leaders and individual artists in our community. As a community, we are very fortunate to have outstanding arts leadership. In addition to their talents and the many excellent organizations they represent, our community benefits from a talented, enthusiastic and broad base of individual artists who bring creativity and excitement to our community.

Sincerely,

Milton D. Baughman

Photo: Urban Scrawl in Franklinton

Page 2 Investing in Columbus’ Creative Capital GCAC continued to guide cultural planning efforts in cooperation with various partners including the Columbus Foundation. The final phase of the city’s Cultural Blueprint was completed and additional action steps that came of this work are underway including an Arts Sustainability Study and Agency Review of GCAC. Celebrating Artists In 2010, GCAC expanded its Individual Artist Fellowship Photo: The . Photo by Jennifer Sadler. programs through partnerships with the Columbus Museum of Art for Visual Arts Fellowships and Columbus Dance Theatre for Columbus Dances Fellowships. The partnership with the Thurber House for the Thurber Prize continued to bring national recognition to Ohio’s literary heritage. Awarding Funds GCAC awarded $2,378,218 in Operating Support, Project Support, Technical Assistance and Individual Artist Fellowships. Serving Young People Through Art in the House, Artists-in-Schools and partner arts education programs such as TRANSIT ARTS, GCAC has helped to provide free arts experiences for more than 70,000 children, teens and adults. Building Downtown Vitality More than 300,000 people experienced visual art, music, hands-on activities and more at the 2010 Columbus Arts Festival presented by Time Warner Cable, in its third year in the Discovery District. Connecting Audiences to the Arts GCAC’s social media efforts expanded exponentially in 2010 through more frequent use of Facebook and Twitter accounts for GCAC and the Festival, and added promotion for constituent and community news. Total fans and followers have more than doubled in the past year. ColumbusArts.com visits have grown to more than 40,000 users per month. Honoring the Community Our annual awards program, the Community Arts Partnership, includes three awards for individuals and three awards for businesses, helping to showcase the collaborative community efforts in the arts that make Columbus a vital place to work and live. The Awards program was held in October at COSI with attendance by nearly 350 artists, business, community and arts leaders.

Page 3 Stronger Grants Process GCAC re-evaluated its grant making process in 2010 through meetings with grantees throughout the year. The results are completely revamped Grant Guidelines for the 2011 funding cycle. The new Guidelines bring more consistency and clarity to the grant process and help better align GCAC funding priorities with community needs.

Columbus Arts Festival 50th Anniversary In 2011 the Columbus Arts Festival will celebrate its 50th year and this momentous occasion will be marked by a BIG festival experience—diverse, inclusive and creative with an emphasis on drawing a broader spectrum of the community. New initiatives will be launched such as the Emerging Artists Program for Central Ohio artists, Arts & Sciences Day on Saturday, June 4, which will explore creativity and imagination through the lens of science and the return of local gourmet fare at The Art of Food and Wine, showcasing cuisine as an art form.

Informing the Community and Promoting Arts & Culture GCAC’s monthly publication Front Row Center will continue to engage the community with arts-based news, profiles of artists and arts organizations and articles about arts issues of interest to the community. In addition, a re-designed ColumbusArts.com Web site with a new individual artist registry for visual, performing and literary artists and new cooperative marketing programs will help promote Columbus’ creative capital and expand audiences for Columbus arts and cultural organizations, large and small.

Millions served

• Organizations funded by GCAC annually reach more than 2.2 million residents and visitors and serve nearly 100,000 students through arts education. • Programs such as the Columbus Arts Festival reach more than 300,000 residents and visitors each year and generate more than $2 million for the Columbus economy.

Photo: Early Music.

Page 4 Supporting Art2010 Grants to Organizations GCAC’s primary funding source is 2010 Operating Support Grants provided by the City of Columbus through a portion of the hotel/ Organization Amount motel bed tax. This funding is offered to the Columbus arts Actors’ Theatre $16,000 and cultural community in four areas: Operating Support, Project BalletMet $200,000 Support, Technical Assistance and Individual Artists. In addition CAPA $200,000 the Franklin County Board of CATCO $80,000 Commissioners funds the Franklin County Neighborhood Arts Chamber Music Columbus $16,000 Grants which are directed to smaller community arts groups City Music $16,000 and arts projects by non-arts Columbus Children’s Theatre $70,000 organizations. Columbus Dance Theatre $25,000 Operating Support Operating Support grants are Columbus Gay Men’s Chorus $20,000 unrestricted funding. Any Columbus nonprofit arts Columbus Museum of Art $200,000 organization of any budget size Columbus Symphony Orchestra $150,000 can qualify for Operating Support as long as they meet eligibility COSI Columbus $200,000 criteria. Applicants must demonstrate exemplary artistic Friends of Early Music $10,500 achievement and significant impact Jazz Arts Group $150,000 on the city’s economy and tourism. These grants are funded by the King Arts Complex $120,000 City of Columbus. MadLab Theatre $10,500 Two new organizations were awarded Operating Support Ohio Art League $16,000 in 2010 — Columbus Dance Theatre and the Columbus Gay Ohio Designer Craftsmen $70,000 Men’s Chorus — for a total of 22 Opera Columbus $100,000 organizations. Awards totaling Page 5 $2,005,000 were allocated to ProMusica Chamber Orchestra $85,000 the following 22 organizations, compared to $1,999,998 to 20 Thurber House $50,000 organizations in 2009. Wexner Center for the Arts $200,000 TOTAL $2,005,000

Page 5 Supporting Art2010 2010 Project Support Project Support grants are intended as special, short-term funding for professional arts and cultural activities and are open to all artistic disciplines. The program was expanded in 2010 from two semi-annual cycles to four quarterly cycles. Twenty-two applications were awarded grants totaling $218,022. This was an increase of $150,720 over funding totals in 2009.

Photo: Anna & the Annadroids

2010 Project Support Grants

Organization Project Title Grant

Alkebulan dba Juneteenth Ohio 20th Annual JuneteenthOhio Festival $2,500 Asian Festival 2010 Asian Festival $23,750 Available Light Theatre Skyscrapers/Merrily We Roll Along $14,620 Columbus Children’s Choir Musicians in Harmony $11,985 Columbus Civic Theatre Columbus Civic Theatre Season 2010 $1,000 Columbus Civic Theatre Fall Season 2010 $2,988 Columbus College of Art & Design CCAD Exhibitions 2010-1011 $25,840 Film Council of Greater Columbus Columbus International Film and Video Festival $3,750 First Night Columbus First Night 2010 $17,500 Friends of the Conservatory Savage Gardens $8,100 Fuse Factory Frequency Fridays $2,166 Gallery Players The Immigrant $5,525 Harmony Project Productions Hope for the Holidays $8,500 Jefferson Academy of Music Move-back with a Make-over $4,000 ROY G BIV Gallery ImageOhio 11 $2,275 Six String Concert Inc Six String Concerts Presents $3,800 Somali Documentary Project Somali Refugee Routes Documentary $10,530 SRO Theatre Company of Ohio SRO’s 2010-2011 Season $12,090 SRO Theatre Company of Ohio Follies in Concert $4,388 Ohioana Library Association 2010 Ohioana Book Festival $20,615 VSA Ohio ADA 20th Anniversary Mural Project $3,000 WaterFire Columbus 2010 Season $29,100 TOTAL $218,022

Page 6 Supporting Art2010 Technical Assistance Technical Assistance is a capacity-building program focused on broadening overall organizational skills and technology. Twenty technical assistance grants were approved for funding totaling $95,547, an increase of 15 grants and $72,747 from 2009. Grants are listed below in the order in which they were awarded. 2010 Technical Assistance Grants

Organization Title Grant

Aimee Sones Jeremy Lepisto’s Lines and Layers Workshop $882

Photo: Anna & the Annadroids Available Light Theatre Professional Development $1,000 BalletMet Moscow Footlights $10,000 Columbus Museum of Art CMA Web Site Redesign $10,000 Elaine Richardson Ohio Arts Presenters Network Conference $595 Jazz Arts Group Jazz Audiences Initiative $10,000 Lincoln Theatre Capacity Building $25,000 Opera Columbus OPERA America 2010 Conference $500 Somali Documentary Project Marketing and Development Consultant $7,770 CAPA Archtics Transition $15,000 Columbus Arts Endowment Form 990 Filing Fees $1,200 Columbus Symphony Orchestra CSO Web site upgrade/Archtics transition $8,250 CityMusic Data Management System Upgrade $5,000 Wonderland Columbus CAMA Marketing Bootcamp Scholarship $50 OhioDance CAMA Marketing Bootcamp Scholarship $50 Actors Theatre CAMA Marketing Bootcamp Scholarship $50 Columbus Civic Theatre CAMA Marketing Bootcamp Scholarship $50 CoCo Loupe CAMA Marketing Bootcamp Scholarship $50 Film Council of Greater Columbus CAMA Marketing Bootcamp Scholarship $50 Julia Rice CAMA Marketing Bootcamp Scholarship $50 TOTAL $95,547

Ohio Cultural Data Project The Ohio Cultural Data Project, which went online statewide last year, offers a collaborative, comprehen- sive information collection tool that enables participating organizations to track trends and benchmark their progress through powerful reporting tools. The emerging national standard empowers researchers and advocates with information to make the case for arts and culture, and equips funders with data to plan and evaluate grant-making activities more effectively. Organizations need only provide information once each year, but are able to use it as part of their application process to multiple funders.

Page 7 Supporting Art2010 Franklin County Neighborhood Arts Grants The Franklin County Neighborhood Arts Grants Program (FCNA) arts disciplines, provided they is designed to support arts projects by traditional arts organizations, are promoted and offered to the amateur and avocational groups, civic and neighborhood associations, general public. The purpose guilds, social service, youth-centered and cultural organizations in all of the program is to increase community participation in the 2010 FCNA Grants arts throughout Franklin County. These grants are awarded three Organization Grant times each year. In 2010, the Franklin County Neighborhood ADDvantage Center $500 Arts Program awarded a total All THAT - Teens Hopeful About Tomorrow $1,000 of $54,000 to 46 organizations, ARTillery $1,000 compared to 59 organizations for a total of $58,454 in 2009. Arts Council of Westerville $2,000 Bread and Circus Theatre Company $1,750 Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association $800 Central Ohio Brass Band $1,750 Changing Pathways $1,000 Chinese Culture Link, Inc. $1,000 Columbus Early Learning Centers $1,000 Columbus Urban League $1,000 Columbus Women’s Chorus $1,500 Community Development for All People Corporation $1,000 Creative Culture Inc. $1,000 Directions for Youth and Families $1,200 Dr. Grimaldi Circus School $700 Dublin Arts Council $1,500 Excel Preparatory Schools $1,000 Foreground Dance $1,500 Franklinton Development Association $1,000 Friends of the Ravines $1,500 Friends of the Topiary Park $1,500 Gaddis Foundation for KIDS $900 Good Grapes Illustration $500 Grandview Heights Public Library $1,000 YMCA $800

Interfaith Association of Central Ohio $1,200 Photo: Native American Indian Center of Central Kaleidoscope Youth Center $1,000 Ohio Annual Memorial Day Pow Wow.

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2010 FCNA Grants, Con’t.

Organization Grant

Magpie Consort $1,500 Main Street Canal Winchester $2,000 Merge Dance $1,500 New Albany Symphony Orchestra $1,500 Ohio Dominican University $1,400 Fine Arts Exhibition $1,200 Perinatal Outreach and Encouragement for Moms $1,000 Rock on the Hill $800 Skylab $1,500 St. Joseph Montessori School $1,800 St. Stephen's Community House $1,000 Summit on 16th United Methodist Church $1,000 The Children Shall Lead Them Productions $1,000 The Spirituality Network, Inc $1,200 Upper Arlington Cultural Arts Commission $1,000 Urban Cultural Arts Foundation $1,500 Westgate Neighbors Association $1,000 Wild Goose Creative $500 TOTAL $54,000

Photos: (top right) Columbus Arts Festival musical performance; (middle) Columbus Arts Festival crowd shot; (bottom right) Dancers at Festival Latino; (bottom left) FCNA grant activity ShortROY Community Art Day.

Page 9 Supporting Art2010 Additionally, GCAC supports four Grants & Services for Artists awards in the amount of $125 each GCAC recognizes that individual artists are an important component through the Ohio State Fair Fine of the creative community in Columbus. We provide funding and Arts Exhibition for professional professional development support for artists of all types who live and and amateur artists from Franklin work in central Ohio through the following programs: County. OPPArt: Opportunities for Artists Dance Through OPPArt, GCAC provides events to help individual artists Another new partnership was connect with each other and further themselves and their work. created with Columbus Dance The 2010 series included roundtable discussions with playwrights; Theatre which has begun workshops on project support applications, internships, marketing and producing the “Columbus Dances” selling your art, social events and more. Fellowship. This fellowship program will award 5 fellowships Individual Artist Fellowships in the amount of $2,000 each and The GCAC Individual Artists Fellowship Program recognizes will include a weekend showcase outstanding local artists in Franklin County by awarding fellowships of the recipient’s work. This each year. showcase will be free to the Visual Arts public. The recipients for 2010 will be selected following a public The fellowship program is open to artists residing in Franklin County adjudication. in the categories of 2D, 3D, Craft and Photography. The 2010 Visual Arts Fellowship recipients, chosen from 111 applicants, are: Mary Jo Literature Bole (3D), Jill Gallenstein (2D), Lynda McClanahan (2D) and Steven A new approach to assisting Thurston (Craft). Each Fellowship recipient received $5,000 and will literary artists commenced in be featured in an exhibition hosted by the Columbus Museum of Art 2010 with support of the Thurber in the spring of 2011. The CMA exhibition will also feature the artists Prize for American Humor. This selected for the Dresden Exchange program. The exhibition provides program, administered by Thurber local connectivity for the museum and continues to position GCAC as House, engages GCAC in a a leader in community collaboration and individual artist support. nationally recognized program. Film/Video A growing artist community in Columbus, film/video artists have become more prominent in the landscape of the creative community. The Ohio State Fair expanded their arts categories in 2010 to include film/video. In an effort to jump start support of that community, GCAC provided support for 2 awards for Franklin County artists in 2010 in the amount of $250 each.

Photo: OPPArt Session

Page 10 Supporting Art2010 As part of upcoming Grant Guideline revisions and in response to growing interest from the community about how GCAC can be more supportive of local artists, the agency is looking at ways to expand artist support.

Raymond J. Hanley Fellowship The Raymond J. Hanley fellowship was named to honor the memory of the former GCAC President. An anonymous panel of judges, along with trustees of the Columbus Arts Endowment, chooses an individual artist who lives or works in the Columbus area and who has demonstrated an unusual level of achievement, while working at least five years in the arts in any discipline. This year the second annual $10,000 award was presented to Geoffrey Nelson at the Community Arts Partnership Awards in October. The fellowship was created upon Hanley’s death in 2006 and is administered by GCAC and supported through the Hanley Arts Fund of the Columbus Photos: (top) Merge Dance, Double/Take, an Evening of Poets and Dances; (bottom) Hanley Award recipi- Arts Endowment, The Hanley ent Geoff Nelson in A Tuna Christmas. Fellowship is awarded to recipients including a commitment to new fatale in The Mystery of Irma Vep, without restriction, so they may works by Ohio writers. Satan in The Seafarer, a brain- use it as needed to further their damaged farmer in The Drawer careers as artists. Boy and a brutal detective in The Among the plays he has directed Pillowman. Geoffrey Nelson was founder of are: The Grapes of Wrath, A and artistic director of CATCO Christmas Memory, Glengarry Glen for 26 years. Under Nelson’s Ross, The Importance of Being leadership, CATCO produced more Earnest, A Tuna Christmas and the than 200 plays and developed a world premieres of You’re My Boy reputation for professional acting and Pierce to the Soul. As an actor, and adventurous play choices, he most recently played a femme

Page 11 Supporting Art2010 2010 Columbus Arts The Festival receives no public money and is dependent on earned Festival revenues and the generosity of the Columbus corporate community to host this free event. Time Warner Cable as presenting sponsor, More than 300,000 area residents American Electric Power, State Auto Insurance Companies, Motorists and visitors joined GCAC in the Insurance and Giant Eagle are just a few of the many corporations Discovery District June 4-6 for who sponsored the 2010 Festival. Media sponsors included WOSU, the 49th Columbus Arts Festival alive!, CD101, WBNS 10TV, WCBE, WMNI and Ohio Magazine. presented by Time Warner Cable. Each year, the Festival coordinating committee, which is comprised of Fantastic art, food and music, more than 50 community members, joins forces with GCAC staff to once again attracted crowds to the organize one of the top arts festivals in the country. Discovery District. In 2011 the Columbus Arts Festival will celebrate its 50th year The Columbus Arts Festival is a and this momentous occasion will be marked by a BIG festival juried show. This year, more than experience—diverse, inclusive and creative with an emphasis on 1,000 artists applied to exhibit and drawing a broad spectrum of the community. sell their art. A panel of artisans, gallery owners and arts educators reviewed the applications and scored the work according to a number of criteria. Top scoring artists were invited to the Festival. Artists from Israel, Canada and 41 states exhibited their work, including 57 new artists who showed their work in Columbus for the first time and 14 Central Ohio artists. Visual art is just one aspect of the Columbus Arts Festival. The ColumbusArts.com stage provided continuous musical entertainment representing a wide range of genres — from jazz to rock, bluegrass to pop and more. The Ohio Magazine Word is Art Stage highlighted talented poets, both student and adult, and hosted the Sixth Annual Poetry Slam. Aspiring visual artists tried their hands at creating masterpieces in the Giant Eagle Hands-On Arts Activities Area. The always popular Children’s Gallery offers kids the opportunity to buy a piece of art from work donated by Photos: (top) Leather purses by Columbus Arts Festival local artist Michelle Ishida; (bottom) TRANSIT Festival artists for $5 or less. ARTS dancer at the Columbus Arts Festival. Photos by Jennifer Sadler.

Page 12 Supporting Art2010 GCAC sends a monthly ColumbusArts.com e-mail blast highlighting the diverse events in the community to nearly 12,000 individual e-mail addresses.The GCAC Web site averages more than 15,000 unique visitors per month. Cooperative Marketing Marketing the arts in the community is an important role for GCAC and a key part of the agency’s contract with the city. GCAC invests in a variety of partnerships with other community and arts organizations such as the Columbus Health Department on ArtWalks, the Photo: The Lincoln Theatre new outdoor art walking tour, and Marketing and Promoting com, central Ohio’s most the Columbus Arts Marketing comprehensive resource for Association. In addition to the Arts arts and culture event listings, ongoing promotions and GCAC continues to build averages nearly 40,000 visitors advertisements for ColumbusArts. audiences for the arts by each month. In December work com, GCAC offers cooperative increasing connections through began on a redesign that will promotional opportunities to on-line and social media. The new make the site more interactive, Columbus arts organizations Tweet and Go Seek contest at the allow more focus on featured through partnerships with CD101 Arts Festival helped nearly double events as well as an expansion @102.5, ColumbusUnderground. the Festival’s Twitter followers. to include an individual artist com and Columbus Young Professionals Rewards Club. Other efforts to promote more registry for Franklin County grantee news as well as research artists in the visual, performing ArtZine and literary fields. Links to social of interest to Columbus residencts GCAC and WOSU Public Media’s media will make it easier for have been extremely successful to monthly television magazine users to share events with friends date. The Columbus Arts Festival program ArtZine, which showcases as well as make comments and and GCAC have more than 5,000 local artists, arts organizations upload photos to the site. Events, fans on Facebook and over 1,500 and cultural activities, won performances and exhibitions followers on Twitter. yet another Emmy in 2010, listed on ColumbusArts.com are bringing the show’s total awards gcac.org and shared with ArtsinOhio.com, to five. GCAC and WOSU will Experience Columbus and the ColumbusArts.com continue to present ArtZine, now Ohio Division of Travel and Ohio GCAC manages two Web sites in its sixth season, in a slightly Magazine’s on-line calendars. dedicated to sharing information different format. Each year one database. about the arts — ColumbusArts. 30 minute profile piece will be com and gcac.org. ColumbusArts. produced showcasing a different

Page 13 Supporting Art2010 arts organization., In 2010 The Westin Hotel received the award in the Medium Business ProMusica’s Messiah Sing-Along category for companies with 50-500 employees. The Westin was will be featured. In addition 20-30 nominated by the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra and Thurber House. shorter 2-3 minute segments will be produced allowing viewers to Orange Barrel Media received the award in the Small Business see a wider variety of the stories of category for companies with fewer than 50 employees. Orange Barrel Columbus’ rich, artistic landscape Media was nominated by the Columbus Museum of Art. they have come to love. ArtZine Columbus City Councilmembers Hearcel Craig, Eileen Paley, Charleta averages 40,000 viewers per Tavares and Priscilla Tyson and Franklin County Commissioners month. Paula Brooks and Marilyn Brown presented the awards. Community Arts GCAC also presented its Artistic Excellence Award — a $10,000 Partnership Awards prize given annually to an arts organization that has demonstrated innovation, risk and artistic excellence in a performance, exhibition or GCAC recognized three program — to Available Light Theatre for their production of Attempts individuals and three businesses in on Her Life. Other Artistic Excellence nominees were: CATCO for October at the 2010 Community Pierce to the Soul, Columbus Dance Theatre for Hands, Franklin Park Arts Partnership Awards at COSI Conservatory for Savage Gardens: The Real and Imaginary World of Columbus. Each winner was Carnivorous Plants, Jazz Arts Group of Columbus for Louis Armstrong recognized for their exemplary Hot Fives / Sevens Revisited. support of the arts in Columbus. Award winners were: Outreach to Constituents Ann Bremner, publications editor Over the past 15 months GCAC has focused on outreach to important for the Wexner Center received constituencies. We have convened quarterly meetings with eight the Arts Partner award for her suburban arts councils and cultural organizations. These meetings lifetime support of the arts. have helped advance dialogue around collaborations and opportunities for GCAC to provide marketing support. In addition, GCAC began Jackie Calderone, artistic meetings with individual artists, community arts education leadership director for TRANSIT ARTS and project support recipients. All of these meetings have helped received the Arts Educator award GCAC staff identify opportunities to broaden our work with these for her outstanding efforts in important constituencies. educating local youth through the arts. Adam Brouillette received the Emerging Arts Leader award for his work as an artist, and for his leadership with Couchfire Collective, Junctionview Studios and Wonderland. Nationwide Insurance received the award in the Large Business category. Nationwide was nominated by BalletMet and ProMusica Chamber Orchestra.

Photo: Community Arts Partnership Award Ceremony. Photo by Todd Yarrington.

Page 14 2010 Advancing culture Cultural Planning To date in 2010 561 Artists-in- Schools activities were conducted, Initiative reaching a total audience of 70,945 In January, GCAC facilitated people and featuring artists in the completion of the final Kindergarten through 12th grade phase of the Cultural Plan schools and non-school venues. Blueprint initiated by the Greater Columbus Creative The (CCS) Cultural Commission, under scheduled 69 of these activities, the direction of Columbus City reaching 11,403 CCS students 8,944 Council. This work provided the people attended Artists-in-Schools basis for community discussion activities in non-school venues and action steps including two The annual Artists Preview Night, additional components--an Arts Photo: A-i-S artist Daniel Colvin in residence at a showcase of Artists-in-Schools Fair Ave Arts IMPACT elementary. Photo by Sustainability Analysis led by Jennifer Sadler. artists was held Sept. 14 at the the Columbus Foundation and an Arts Impact Middle School (AIMS) Agency Review of GCAC. Mr. Marlow provided us on the campus of Ft. Hayes

Metropolitan Education Center. with a program which Community Arts Approximately 200 educators, exceeded expectations; Education Programs administrators, artists, students, he provided our students Artists-in-Schools parents attended and 45 artists with important contextual performed brief showcases for The Artists-in-Schools information regarding attendees. (A-i-S) program is intended the importance of to complement existing arts Art in the House & recycling, and related that education programs by: TRANSIT ARTS importance to students’ life experiences. He • Enabling teachers to combine Financially assisted by the arts learning with learning in Franklin County Board of conveyed the idea that other core subject areas, such as Commissioners, the United Way recycled materials were English, social studies, science and of Central Ohio, the Ohio Arts a good source of art math; Council, the Columbus Foundation, materials and inspiration • Encouraging teachers and the Columbus Federation of for creative expression. students to interact with local Settlements and GCAC, Art Students were very in the House and TRANSIT professional artists; pleased with their creative ARTS represent a comprehensive • Giving teachers and students a network of free, educational arts- outcome...perhaps broader range of arts experiences; based opportunities for youth ages equally important was 5-21, and their families, during his emphasis about being • Bringing creativity into the out-of-school-time hours. good stewards of the classroom, not just the art room! Art in the House is a network of environment. GCAC continues to receive home base sites at the Settlement Teacher Comments significant annual funding from Houses and neighborhood partner the Franklin County Board of about artist Eric Marlow’s sites where younger children 5-11 Commissioners to support the residency at Ohio State years old begin their connection to Artists-in-Schools program. School for the Blind

Page 15 2010 Advancing culture Professional Development for Teachers In the 2010-2011 school year GCAC was once again awarded a contract by Columbus City Schools to provide professional development for 40 K-12 arts and classroom teachers in arts integration during each of the district’s three professional development days. This project continues the strong collaboration with BalletMet Columbus and the Jazz Arts Group. GCAC also conducted arts integration training sessions for over 165 Columbus Photo: Students participating in A-i-S residency activity at Fair Ave Arts IMPACT Elementary. Photo by City Schools (CCS) middle Jennifer Sadler. school teachers during additional professional development lifelong learning through the arts. Accomplished professional artists conferences and workshops in partner at each site with apprentice artists and site staff members to 2010. provide hands-on introductions and exploration of various art forms to program students during afternoon hours during the school year and Other collaborating arts during the summer. To date in 2010 GCAC’s Art in the House program organizations over the years have has served 611 individual participants ages 5 to 11, through a total of included the Columbus Symphony 4,506 contacts. Orchestra, Columbus Museum of TRANSIT ARTS is a dynamic network of young artists on the move, creating, learning, inspiring, teaching, cultivating, and attracting young talent while honoring the master artists in our communities. TRANSIT ARTS celebrates the exciting diversity of our city by guiding youth as they discover and expand their creative minds and artistic talents. Master artists and arts administrators engage young people 12-21 years old through a wide variety of arts and related skills during afternoon and evening hours at Central Community House, South Side Settlement House, Gladden Community House, St. Stephens Community House, Neighborhood House/Sawyer Recreation Center, and other sites around the city, including libraries, parks, the YMCA Truancy Center, arts organizations, and performance venues. To date in 2010, the TRANSIT ARTS program has served 420 young people.

Photo: Thomas Elementary student participating in workshop with A-i-S artist Ann Alaia Woods.

Page 16 2010 Advancing culture such as Science or Social Studies. Gallery. The event occured in Evaluations continue to show that conjunction with an exhibition participating CCS teachers feel the titled houseWARNING, which professional development sessions included artwork by German have been engaging, useful and and American artists, and was effective. curated by this year’s residency artist from Dresden, Tina Beifuss, International Programs & and former local residency artist, Cultural Exchanges Melissa Vogley Woods. The Dresden Residency—a In November, GCAC’s program of GCAC in conjunction International Committee with the Saxon State Ministry for selected two artists to receive Higher Education, Research and international artist residencies the Fine Arts—annually offers two in 2011--Danielle Julian Norton Columbus artists the opportunity and Michael B. Hays were each to undertake a three-month awarded 12 week residencies in residency in Dresden, Germany. Dresden. Along with GCAC’s The residency program provides 2010-fellowship winners, their an extended period of time for a artwork will be shown in an Columbus artist to concentrate exhibition that opens at the on research and production, so Columbus Museum of Art on that his/her artwork significantly April 28, 2011. In exchange, benefits. GCAC provides round- GCAC will again welcome two trip international airfare, a living artists from Dresden in 2011: stipend, housing and a studio space photo/video artist Sylvia Doebelt in Dresden. Photos: (top) houseWARNING exhibition at OSU and installation artist Paul Elsner. Hopkins Hall; (bottom) detail from Elizabeth Gerde- This year, multi-media artist man’s work from Dresden residency. Elizabeth Gerdeman and sculptor 2010 Public Forum Shauna Merriman were the Each year the Greater Columbus Art, CCAD, Columbus Cultural recipients of the residency awards. Arts Council Annual Public Arts Center, Opera Columbus, Both artists’ residencies lasted Forum is an opportunity to Ohio Alliance for Arts Education, from May to August, culminating report to the community King Arts Complex and CAPA, in a joint exhibition of new work and stakeholders about through the use of the Ohio titled Apart at gallery geh8 in accomplishments, plans and and Lincoln Theatres. Based Dresden. important work undertaken by on a model developed by these the agency. This year’s Public collaborators, K-12 arts and Additionally, as part of the Forum focused on GCAC’s 2010 classroom teachers learn and international artist-exchange accomplishments and revisions utilize methods of integrating program, GCAC hosts two to the agency grant funding performing and visual arts Dresden artists each year. In July, guidelines for organizations and throughout the curriculum while installation artist Tina Beifuss individuals--the first significant adhering to district and state and painter Stefan Lenke arrived changes in more than a decade. academic content standards in and spent 12 weeks in Columbus. Nearly 60 constituents attended Fine Arts, English Language A welcome reception took place the December 6 session hosted by Arts, and other content area on August 13 at Hopkins Hall MadLab Theatre.

Page 17 Financial Activities

REVENUE Projected 2010 2009 City of Columbus Contract $3,720,000 $3,149,788 Ohio Arts Council 47,787 61,659 Franklin County Neighborhood Grants 54,000 60,000 Contributions 13,820 75,289 Artists in Schools 298,065 293,939 After School Programs 324,186 313,020 Columbus Arts Festival 472,439 505,972 Other 160,524 162,583 TOTAL REVENUE 5,090,821 4,622,250 EXPENDITURE Community Funding: Grants & Services 2,378,218 2,115,348 Franklin County Neighborhood Grants 54,000 58,367 Designated Projects 377,081 307,409 Total Community Funding 2,809,299 2,481,124

Programs: Artists in Schools 293,183 298,186 Out of School Programs 315,323 341,197 Columbus Arts Festival 468,489 426,539 Total Program Funding 1,076,995 1,065,922 Total Community Funding & Programs 3,886,294 3,547,046

Administrative Salaries 552,512 629,244 Payroll Taxes and Employee Benefits 163,431 191,094 Accounting & Legal 19,454 36,936 Community Arts Partnership/Special Events 39,575 38,012 Meetings, Travel, Local Expenses 5,650 11,553 Office and Equipment Rental & Amortization 106,249 93,858 Office Expenses 38,226 44,885 Telephone 9,333 11,678 Advertising/Public Information 5,065 15,524 Depreciation 34,946 38,118 Miscellaneous 10,659 13,952 Total General and Administrative 985,100 1,124,854

TOTAL EXPENDITURE 4,871,394 4,671,900 INCREASE (DECREASE) IN NET ASSETS 219,427 (49,650) BEGINNING NET ASSETS 667,748 717,398 ENDING NET ASSETS $887,175 $667,748

Note: Arts Stabilization not included

Page 18 City Funds

Projected 2010 2009

I. Operating Support Grants $2,005,000 $1,999,998 II. Project Grants Awarded 218,022 67,320 III. Technical Assistance 95,547 22,450 IV. Individual Artists Fellowships 54,649 25,460 V. Promotion City of Columbus 161,666 108,207 VI. Community Plan and Marketing 83,208 78,474 VII. International Program 26,667 23,728 VIII. Artistic Excellence 10,000 10,000

TOTAL COMMUNITY FUNDING 2,654,759 2,335,637

IX. Community Funding 135,241 31,453 X. General and Administrative 930,000 782,698

TOTAL USE OF CITY FUNDS $3,720,000 $3,149,788

2010 Total Community Funding for 2010 is projected at $2,809,299. Franklin County Neighborhood Arts Grants awarded were funded by Franklin County in the amount of $54,000. Annie’s Fund provided $5,000 for Individual Arts Fellowships. Community Plan and Marketing received $95,540 in funding from other sources.

2009 Total Community Funding for 2009 was $2,481,004. Franklin County Neighborhood Arts Grants awarded were funded by Franklin County and Ashland in the amount of $58,367. Community Plan and Marketing received $87,000 in funding from other sources.

Photo: Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition FCNA grant for Community Street Arts Project.

Page 19 2011Proposed Budget REVENUE Projected 2010 Proposed 2011

City of Columbus Contract $3,720,000 $3,869,000 Ohio Arts Council 47,787 44,705 Franklin County Neighborhood Grants 54,000 54,000 Contributions 13,820 21,000 Artists-in-Schools 298,065 333,400 After School Programs 324,186 333,320 Columbus Arts Festival 472,439 560,000 Other 160,524 59,275

TOTAL REVENUE 5,090,821 5,274,700

EXPENDITURE

Community Funding: Grants & Services 2,378,218 2,750,000 Franklin County Neighborhood Grants 54,000 54,000 Designated Projects 377,081 269,247 Total Community Funding 2,809,299 3,073,247

Programs: Community Arts Education: Artists-in-Schools 293,183 326,558 Out of School Programs 315,323 326,664 Columbus Arts Festival 468,489 537,918 Total Program Funding 1,076,995 1,191,140

Total Community Funding and Programs 3,886,294 4,264,387

Administrative Salaries 552,512 550,216 Payroll Taxes and Employee Benefits 163,431 191,417 Accounting & Legal 19,454 25,500 Community Arts Partnership/Special Events 39,575 43,875 Conference, Travel, Local Expenses 5,650 11,000 Office and Equipment Rental & Amortization 106,249 108,225 Office Expenses 38,226 41,080 Telephone 9,333 10,000 Advertising/Public Information 5,065 25,100 Miscellaneous 10,659 12,000 Total General and Administrative 950,154 1,018,413

TOTAL EXPENDITURE $4,836,448 $5,282,800

Page 20 Appendix 1 GCAC Board Mary Jo Green, Chair

Dr. Robert Falcone, Chair-elect

DeeDee Glimcher, Immediate Past Chair

Ted Inbusch, Treasurer

Karen Bell, Secretary

Nick Akins Nicholas Hill Eileen Paley

Brenda Brueggemann Kari Kauffman Cheryle Russo

Eric Carmichael Dr. Yung-Chen Lu Janelle Simmons

Nicole Farrell Willie Mayberry Tom Szykowny

William Faust Char Norman Priscilla Tyson

GCAC Staff

Milton D. Baughman Ruby Classen President Grants & Services Manager

Paula Menhenett Timothy J. Katz Vice President Community Arts Education Director Finance & Administration Ed Moore Jami Goldstein Administration & Finance Administrator Vice President Marketing, Communications & Events Oulanje Regan Community Arts Education Leah Alters Administrator Columbus Arts Festival Director Jennifer Sadler James Arter Marketing & Communications Associate Artist Coordinator

Anja Brüggemann Amanda Teague Assistant to the President Columbus Arts Festival Coordinator Appendix 2 Glossary Artistic Excellence Award Given annually to an arts organization that demonstrates innovation, risk and artistic excellence in a performance, exhibition or program. Each year the staff of GCAC selects nominations from different arts event and the GCAC Board of Trustees meets before the Community Arts Partnership Awards luncheon to review the nominations and select a recipient. Designated Projects Each year the Board designates up to 10 to 15 percent of the Community Funding budget for projects that benefit the greater Columbus community and/or seed community-wide pilot programs. This designation also allows staff to respond to emerging needs and opportunities in the arts community. Franklin County Neighborhood Arts Program (FCNA) With the goal of increasing community participation in the arts, the FCNA Program assists a variety of neighborhood and community groups with arts projects in all arts disciplines, provided they are promoted and offered to the general public. The Board approves the annual budget and applications are reviewed by the Community Arts Education department. Individual Artist Fellowships Fellowships are awarded to artists who live in Franklin County and demonstrate high proficiency in their chosen field. The current partners, Thurber House, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus Dance Theatre and other outside evaluators review applications annually. International Artists Exchange/Dresden Residency Artists who reach the final round of consideration for visual arts fellowships become eligible to apply for a residency in Dresden, Germany, one of Columbus’ sister cities. Each year two Columbus artists and two German artists are awarded two- to three-month residencies in their sister city. Marketing the Arts Designed to highlight the cultural offering in Columbus to residents, visitors and corporations. Projects included in this classification are the collaboration with WOSU to produce ArtZine; ColumbusArts. com, and advertising partnerships with CD101, ColumbusUnderground.com and other media entities to promote ColumbusArts.com and GCAC grantees. Operating Support Grants Operating Support grants provide unrestricted support for established arts organizations offering annual programming and demonstrating exemplary artistic achievement, stable artistic and administrative staffing, healthy financial structures and impact on the city’s economy and tourism. Project Support Grants Project Support grants provide funding for short-term cultural activities. Project grants are offered quarterly. Technical Assistance Grants Small grants are available to support the needs of individual artists and arts organizations in the categories of professional development, capacity building and sudden opportunities. Applications are reviewed monthly. Applications are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis until the program budget has been expended.