Greater Columbus Arts Council 2016 Annual Report
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2016 REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY SUPPORTING ART. ADVANCING CULTURE. LETTER FROM THE BOARD CHAIR AND PRESIDENT In 2016 the Greater Columbus Arts Council made substantial progress toward building 84,031 a more sustainable arts sector in Columbus. An unprecedented year for the bed tax in 2016 resulted in more support to artists and ARTIST PROFILE arts organizations than ever before. Twenty-seven Operating Support grants were awarded totaling $3.1 million and 57 grants totaling $561,842 in Project Support. VIDEO VIEWS The Art Makes Columbus/Columbus Makes Art campaign generated nearly 400 online, print and broadcast stories, $9.1 million in publicity and 350 million earned media impressions featuring the arts and artists in Columbus. We held our first annual ColumbusMakesArt.com Columbus Open Studio & Stage October 8-9, a self-guided art tour featuring 26 artist studios, seven stages and seven community partners throughout Columbus, providing more than 1,400 direct engagements with artists in their creative spaces. We hosted another outstanding Columbus Arts Festival on the downtown riverfront 142% and Columbus’ beautiful Scioto Greenways. We estimated that more than 450,000 people enjoyed fine artists from across the country, and amazing music, dance, INCREASE theater, and local cuisine at the city’s free welcome-to-summer event. As always we are grateful to the Mayor, Columbus in website traffic City Council and the Ohio Arts Council for our funding and all the individuals, corporations and community aided by Google partners who support our work in the arts. AD GRANT PROGRAM Tom Katzenmeyer David Clifton President & CEO Board Chair arts>sports that of Columbus Nonprofit arts attendance home game sports Additional support from: The Crane Group and The Sol Morton and Dorothy Isaac, in Columbus is attendance Rebecca J. Wickersham and Lewis K. Osborne funds at The Columbus Foundation. Attendance from 2015, the most recently completed 1.6season for arts and sports. Sports attendance of 3,288,739 from publicly available home game attendance for the following teams: Columbus Blue Jackets, Columbus Clippers, Columbus Crew SC, Ohio Machine and men’s and women’s football, basketball, ice hockey, lacrosse and soccer and women’s field Griset Damas-Roche is a featured artist in the hockey at The Ohio State University. Arts attendance of 5,212,745 compiled from physical attendance at 91 central Ohio Art Makes Columbus/Columbus Makes Art campaign. arts and cultural organizations as submitted to American’s for the Arts for the Arts & Economic Prosperity 5 study to be released in June 2017. 2016 GRANTS AND AWARDS TABLE OF CONTENTS Spotlight .............................. 2-3 84 ORGANIZATIONS SUPPORTED* 203 ARTIST GRANTS Lynette Shy 27 57 174 ADVOCACY .......................... 4-5 Spotlight ............................. 6-7 OPERATING SUPPORT PROJECT SUPPORT ARTIST Shanelle Marie GRANTS GRANTS GRANTS $3,123,623 $561,842 $125,738 EXPERTISE ..........................8-9 Spotlight ..........................10-11 Includes: Keo Khim Performing Artist Travel, Professional Development 13 12 and Supply Grants. Spotlight ..........................12-13 BOOST GRANTS power2give Searius Addishin $75,974 $64,581 COLLABORATION ........14-15 29 Spotlight .........................16-17 ARTIST EXCHANGE Alexandra Fresch 6 1 AND FELLOWSHIPS Spotlight ................................ 18 ARTrips COMMUNITY IMPACT $51,800 Lucy Aveni $5,760 $22,400 Fellowships awarded in Spotlight ............................... 19 dance, literature, media arts, Elena Osterwalder *Unique organizations, some organizations received more than one grant playwriting, and visual arts. ARTS FUNDING ...................20 GRANTS AND AWARDS Organizations .........21-22 Individuals .............. 23-25 FINANCIALS ..................26-27 SUPPORTERS ...............28-29 Arts Council Board ............29 Arts Council Staff ...............30 BalletMet in Serenade © The George Balanchine Trust, photo by Jennifer Zmuda. 1 Painting a mural at the New Albany Classic. LYNETTE SHY Director of Marketing, Communications and Sales for BalletMet Q A What do you get when you put together An amazing piece of art. cornstarch and pointe shoes? One of BalletMet’s biggest projects in My goal with Becoming Violet, was to I’m very proud of what BalletMet, and SO much bigger than marketing it’s 2016 was a video titled Becoming Violet. engage a new social audience and the marketing team and the Arts Council about being authentic, connecting We really wanted to create an art piece show the world what amazing and are doing for the arts here at home and humans to each other and to that was made for online audiences. athletic dancers we have at BalletMet. literally around the world. We strive to experiences that will move them. So, we did something extremely risky, We strive to always create marketing tell our story and the addition of the Art we teamed up with an amazing director content we’re proud of, tell stories our Makes Columbus/Columbus Makes Art I love my job. and gave him absolutely no direction. audience finds interesting, and always campaign where our dancers’ personal —Lynette Shy We did this so we could see what would remain authentic and honest, especially stories are being told has allowed us to happen if we didn’t box him in and he when it comes to our art. We feel that even further expand our reach. Screen captures: was free to go anywhere he liked with video’s such as Becoming Violet and Becoming Violet is an exploration into the his artistic vision. He came up with everything we do should always reflect I’m a marketer, yes, it’s true, but it’s not transformative and uniting power of creativity, the cornstarch. Colored organic cornstarch, that belief. a dirty word, I believe it’s a form of art persistent internal desire to create beauty out of itself. I absolutely love my job, it’s chaos. Directed by Steven Weinzierl of the Lair and the result was absolutely stunning. Collective. Published on YouTube Aug 8, 2016. 2 LAST YEAR AT BALLETMET RANKED AMONG THE 20 largest BALLET COMPANIES IN THE nation BECOMING VIOLET 300,000+ VIEWS 1,700 STUDENTS SERVED AT BALLETMET ADADEMY EACH WEEK 3 ADVOCACY PROMOTING ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY FIRST ANNUAL COLUMBUS OPEN STUDIO & STAGE The inaugural Art Makes Columbus/ Maggie Smith’s Columbus Makes Art event was a two- day self guided tour of Columbus art poem Good Bones studios and major performance venues. goes viral. “It’s impossible to know how many people have read the poem, though one estimate in August put the number at nearly a million. The poem has been interpreted into a dance by a troupe in India, turned into a musical score for the voice and harp and been translated into Spanish, Italian, French, Korean, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam. Closer to home, Smith says that she has gotten many requests for the work to appear in church bulletins and for her to read it aloud. “It’s my ‘Freebird,’ ” she jokes.” COSS participating artists included (left to right): April Sunami, Roger Williams, Lisa Horkin, Queen Brooks, and Michael McEwan. Excerpt from The Washington Post, Maggie Smith and the poem that captured the Right: Maggie Smith by Meghan Ralston mood of a tumultuous year. Maggie Smith is an Art Makes Columbus featured artist. 4 84,031 video views featured 269,505 Art Makes Columbus street twitter impressions teams engaged the public at artists TAKING IT TO the Arts Festival, PromoWest 40 Fest and Independents’ Day. THE STREETS Street chalk drawing at Independents’ Day 347 stories 243,858 web page views The Harmony Project and Art THE HARMONY Makes Columbus featured artist 350,000,000 NEW DESIGN PROJECT David Brown on CBS This Morning. earned media for now bi-monthly impressions ColumbusMakesArt e-newsletter $9.1 million in publicity value Emmy Award winning campaign Harmony Project with director David Brown $77,555 earned in google THE CAPITAL ad grants OF COMICS Broad & High received its third consecutive Emmy in August 2016 for outstanding magazine program and the first for its production work on the Art Makes Columbus Campaign. Awards presented Art Makes Columbus featured artist Jeff Smith, creator of the internationally $449,810 by from the National Academy of Arts & acclaimed graphic novel series Bone, brings his passion for comics and Science — Ohio Valley Chapter. Left to collaborative spirit to Cartoon Crossroads Columbus. The event celebrated its’ right: Ryan Schlagbaum, cinematographer; second year and garnered national media attention. in media in-kind Chuck Oney, studio camera; Kate Quickel, host; Jackie Shafer, producer & editor; added value Shawn Likley, cinematographer Photo by Chris Casella 5 SHANELLE MARIE Actor, Available Light Theatre Available Light Theatre set out to celebrate its 10th anniversary by creating a broadly inclusive theatrical portrait of Columbus, Ohio. In one year we interviewed more than 150 Palestinian family living in Grove City; individuals, surveyed more than 200 from retired, lifelong residents to newly people online, and visited more than transplanted, school-age children; from a dozen neighborhoods across the city, entrepreneurs to educators to artists to creating a profound cultural exchange. police officers. The Columbus From these conversations we built an Voices Workshop was an open house, interactive performance that we took a collective space, and an environment all over town in the fall. The goal for for cultivating connections. each event was simple: to empower Top: Feels Like everyone in the room to meet and (the body project. The Columbus Voices Workshop know their neighbors, to strengthen reinforced for me that being an actor Bottom: Shanelle Marie the bonds of community, and to is a gift. Contributing to the project at the Columbus Voices create new connections. provided a safe space for me to develop Workshop. into a more well-rounded artist and Shanelle Marie photo by Breathing life into these stories from encouraged me to bring my own David Wallingford. our community came with a great unique perspective and experiences responsibility to ensure that many Opposite: The Columbus to the project.