The Arts Management faculty and students at the College of Charleston organized a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant workshop after realizing few South Carolina arts organizations were taking advantage of the federal funding available. The NEA Workshop and SCAC Grants Workshop will be held on November 9 from 9:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the School of Education, Health, and Human Performance building on the College of Charleston campus (86 Wentworth Street).
“Last Spring, the Charleston Student Arts Advocacy Association (CSAA) held an advocacy conference where they learned from Professor Brett Lott, College of Charleston Writer in Residence and Presidential Appointee to the National Council on the Arts, that very few South Carolina organizations were receiving federal arts grants,” said Scott Shanklin-Peterson, director of the Arts Management Program. “The students were just as concerned as Brett and I were, so we decided to invite the National Endowment for the Arts and the SC Arts Commission to conduct this workshop.”
Close to one hundred participants from arts organizations across South Carolina will attend the workshop as well as both undergraduate and graduate arts management students.
“The arts management students are all learning grant writing in their classes and have to write state and federal grants, so this is a great opportunity for them to learn from representatives of state and federal arts agencies and also meet arts managers across SC.” says Dr. Karen Chandler, professor of arts management.
The event is sponsored by the College of Charleston School of the Arts and the Arts Management Program, the Charleston Student Arts Advocates, the South Carolina Arts Commission, the South Carolina Arts Alliance, the City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs and the North Charleston Cultural Affairs Department.
For more information, contact Anja Urbanski at 843.953.6301.
