10-thousand dollars is coming to the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn.
The grant funding comes from the National Endowment for the Arts and will support the center’s Quilters of Color Initiative.
“The National Endowment for the Arts is proud to support arts projects in communities nationwide,” said NEA Chair Maria Rosario Jackson, PhD. “Projects such as this one with the Schweinfurth Art Center strengthen arts and cultural ecosystems, provide equitable opportunities for arts participation and practice, and contribute to the health of our communities and our economy.”
“The Schweinfurth Art Center is known for its quilting and fiber arts programs. This NEA funding will help us extend more opportunities to quilters of color and recognizes the important contribution of African American quilters and their traditions in contemporary quilting,” said Schweinfurth Executive Director Donna Lamb. “We will be including several artists of color on the faculty for our fiber arts programs and providing exhibition opportunities.”
This is the first time the Schweinfurth has been approved for an NEA grant.
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