Metro Arts FY2019 Annual Report Final

SUPPORTING
ARTS NONPROFITS
Eakin Elementary students perform The Jungle Book as part of Tennessee Performing Arts Center's Disney Musicals in Schools program.
Photo submitted.
G R A N T S
With a focus on equity and engagement, Metro
Arts continues to build a stronger creative
workforce, deepen creative participation and
inspire dynamic, creative neighborhoods
through grant funding.
Each year, the Mayor and Metro Council approve
funds from the city's general operating budget to
invest in community arts. Through these grants,
Metro Arts awarded more than $2.4 million in
fiscal year 2019 to support Nashville nonprofits
in arts and cultural programs.
Artists engaged with students more than 110,000
times in the community and at Metro schools.
Forty-nine Nashville nonprofits received Metro
Arts grants, for both operational support and to
fund innovative projects. One such project was
Nashville Ballet's production of Lucy Negro Redux,
the groundbreaking performance written by Paul
Vasterling, based on the book by Nashville poet
Caroline Randall Williams, and featuring an
original score from Grammy winner and
MacArthur "Genius" grant recipient Rhiannon
Giddens.
Metro Arts
grants funded
110,343
student arts
interactions in
FY19
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