Metro Nashville Arts Commission
Norf at Magruder. Artist Joseph Love III working with students at McGruder Family Resource Center. Photo by Courtney Adair Johnson. Courtesy of Metro-Nashville Arts Commission.
Arts-and Intersections:
Equity & DiversityCollaborators:
Location:
Nashville, TennesseeRegion:
SoutheastGenre/Discipline:
Community artsLarge Intended Impact Area:
County/Multi-County RegionFoundations:
Project Website:
https://www.metroartsnashville.com/OVERVIEW
Metro Arts recently developed the THRIVE program, which uses an obscure municipal regulation to award contracts of up to $4,000 to individual artists and small arts groups ineligible for the Commission’s larger general operating support grants. Two-thirds of the pilot recipients were artists of color.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Metro Arts recently developed the THRIVE program, which uses an obscure municipal regulation to award contracts of up to $4,000 to individual artists and small arts groups ineligible for the Commission’s larger general operating support grants. Two-thirds of the pilot recipients were artists of color.