2023-2024 Community Arts Project Grant Awards

Eugene Cuban Salsa, LLC

$2,300 award

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Grant funds will be used by Eugene Cuban Salsa, LLC to increase opportunities for the current Cuban Salsa dance community to grow their skills and to attract newcomers by bringing professional Cuban dance instructor Wilfredo Guilbiac Rodriguez to provide a series of Cuban dance workshops to the community free of charge.

Eugene Difficult Music Ensemble

$1,553 award

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Paying artists fairly while providing unique experiences free of charge has been a core goal of EDME since their founding. As such, the Community Arts Project Grant will be used to hire musicians and dancers for a final performance for a project in process highlighting the issues of homelessness and the people affected by it within the Eugene community. Pictured: Eugene Difficult Music Ensemble artists

Irving Grange

$1,392 award

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Irving Grange will conduct a community mural process, which will involve neighborhood residents in the conceptualization and painting of a 600 sq ft mural on the exterior of the Irving Grange. Grant funds will be used to cover the essential costs of this public art installation.

KindTree – Autism Rocks

$1,392 award

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With warm hearted whimsy, an open sense of family and a deep level of caring, KindTree – Autism Rocks reach within themselves to embrace their flaws, gather their strengths, and offer their love, while reaching out to people on the autism spectrum, their families and caregivers, and to the community at large. Through the power of self-advocacy in an atmosphere of acceptance and respect, autistic and neuro-normal people alike can work toward self-realization. Grant funds will be used to support their annual art show – Artism Autism, where individuals of all ages can display and sell their artwork.

Music’s Edge Rock Camp

$1,850 award

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Grant funds will give Music’s Edge Rock Camp an opportunity to offer tuition scholarships to those up and coming musicians who often need this music program the most. Music’s Edge Rock Camp is proud to have partnered with the Lane Arts Council for many years to benefit rising youth musicians in the Eugene community.

NATIVES Program

$2,500 award

The NATIVES Program will utilize Program Grant funds to hire five American Indian and Alaskan Native artists and creatives who will share their knowledge with program students. Funds will allow them to pay these artists for their time and talents, and provide supplies for instruction in culturally relevant fine, applied, and culinary arts.

Out and About Theater

$2,500 award

Out and About, a small theater troupe in Eugene, will write and perform a short play to be performed in a public, outdoor spaces. Using a devised theater method (a process of creating a performance collaboratively within the ensemble) the show will explore shared concept of queer liberation, countering the respectability narrative.

Wordcrafters in Eugene

$2,500 award

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Wordcrafters in Eugene will use grant funds to support ReKindling: A Community Storytelling Performance, a celebration of community stories gathered through 2023 for StoryHelix at Wordcrafters in Eugene. To celebrate the ReKindling mixtape release in December, Wordcrafters will work with Minority Voices Theatre (MVT) to interpret stories into performance pieces, including dramatic readings, stories set to music and/or dance, and other creative interpretations to bring the stories to life.