Arts & Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville to Receive $150,000 NEA Grant
Paris Woodhull Begins Work on New Strong Alley Mural
Sunday: UT Symphony Chamber Orchestra Concert
Sunday: UT Music, Piano Trios by Bulgarian Composers
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The Arts & Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville has announced that they are the recipient of a grant as part of the American Rescue Plan from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The Alliance is receiving $150,000 intended to help the local arts and cultural sector recover from the pandemic. The funding will be used to distribute grants in the community for the purposes of saving jobs, funding facility operations, obtaining health and safety supplies, and to assist marketing and promotion efforts aimed at encouraging event attendance and participation. In total, the NEA is awarding grants across the U.S. totaling $20,200,000 to 66 local arts agencies for sub-granting.
“The NEA’s significant investment in local arts agencies, including the Arts & Culture Alliance, is a key element in helping the arts and culture sector recover and reopen, while ensuring that that American Rescue Plan funding is distributed equitably,” said Ann Eilers, NEA’s acting chair. “These grants recognize the vital role of local arts agencies and will allow them to help rebuild local economies and contribute to the well-being of our communities.”
The Arts & Culture Alliance is stating that 100 percent of the NEA funds will support: 1) non-profit organizations whose primary mission is arts and culture-related to serve their communities, especially the underserved; and 2) individual artists conducting well-defined projects. Applications will be accepted from Anderson, Blount, Campbell, Hamblen, Knox, Loudon, Monroe, Morgan, Roane, Scott, Sevier & Union counties and will be due on March 15, 2022.
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Work began this week on a new mural by local artist Paris Woodhull in a section of Strong Alley on the rear of the Miller’s Building in Downtown Knoxville. The mural will stretch 32 feet down the alley from Union Avenue and features several Knoxville landmarks including the Historic Tennessee Theatre marquee, the Henley Street Bridge, and the Sunsphere. The mural was commissioned by Dogwood Arts as a part of their Art in Public Places Mural Program. Shown above is an early sketch of the art.
The Miller’s Building location is a new addition to the ongoing mural program in Strong Alley, made possible with approval from the Knoxville Utilities Board. Woodhull’s mural is the third commission on the building, preceded by pieces from local artists Sarah Moore and Sonia Summers.
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On Sunday afternoon, the University of Tennessee Symphony Orchestra is offering a Chamber Orchestra concert featuring Jennifer Higdon’s To the Point, Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Five Variants of ‘Dives and Lazarus’, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s 4 Novelettes. James Fellenbaum conducts.
Sunday, November 21, at 2:30 PM
Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall on the UT Campus
FREE
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Later on Sunday evening, UT School of Music’s Miroslav Hristov is presenting a concert of works by Bulgarian composers. Hristov will be joined in a trio by Marta Simidtchieva, professor of cello at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, and Ilia Radoslavov, professor of piano at Illinois Wesleyan University. The evening will feature a number of Bulgarian piano trios and will also feature the world premiere of a piano trio, Irminden by the young and upcoming Bulgarian composer Lora Al-Ahmad.
Sunday, November 21 at 8:00 PM
Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall on the UT Campus
FREE
