Ohio Arts Council Approves 57 Grants Totaling $267,800
by Stephanie Dawson
At a public meeting at the Ohio Arts Council on March 31, 2010 the Ohio Arts Council Board approved the third round of grants for fiscal year 2010 and grant ratifications for fiscal years 2009 and 2010. The Ohio Arts Council will award 57 grants totaling $267,800 to support arts organizations, arts programs and artists across Ohio. These grants have not been announced previously.
The Council Board has approved a total of 579 grants totaling $5,339,373 for fiscal year 2010 after reviewing 1,097 requests for $21,230,827.
Organizations that receive OAC funds are required to match state tax dollars with additional public and private funds. In general, for every state tax dollar invested, $52 is raised in matching funds by recipient organizations.
For more information specific to this round of grant announcements, download the following PDF file: by-city list of grants awarded in this round .
Individual Excellence
Twenty-nine (29) Individual Excellence (IE) Awards were approved totaling $150,000. Individual Excellence Awards are peer recognition of creative artists for the exceptional merit of a body of work that advances or exemplifies the discipline and the larger artistic community. These awards support artists’ growth and development and recognize their work in Ohio and beyond in 13 different disciplines. This fiscal year the agency began reviewing the IE Awards program’s 13 disciplines over a two-year period with alternating deadlines for two sets of disciplines. Only applications in choreography, criticism, fiction/non-fiction, music composition, poetry and playwriting/screenplays were accepted at the September 1, 2009 deadline.
2009/2010 Grant Award Ratifications
Ratifications are the Board’s final approval of funds allocated in various program areas since its September 24, 2009 meeting. The Board ratified three grants from 2009 totaling $36,730 and 28 grants from 2010 totaling $117,800. These awards have not been announced previously.
The 2009 ratifications included:
• Three (3) Special Organization grants for $36,730.
The 2010 ratifications included:
• Nine (9) Special Organization grants for $110,340.
• Nineteen (19) Artists with Disabilities Access grants for $7,460
2010 grant information to date, as well as complete grant information dating back to FY1998, is searchable on the Ohio Arts Council Web site at www.oac.state.oh.us/search/grants/SearchGrants.asp
Grant applications were reviewed last winter and spring by panels of arts experts and Ohio Arts Council staff. The Council Board, consisting of 15 gubernatorial appointees and four nonvoting members from the Ohio legislature, makes final decisions based on panel recommendations.
The Ohio Arts Council is a state agency that funds and supports quality arts experiences to strengthen Ohio communities culturally, educationally and economically.
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