Awarded Arts Council Grants

2025-2026 Arts Council Grants Awarded

18 grants totaling $180,000

• Architecture & Drama: The SW2 Festival of the Moving Creature | $10,000
• Architecture: Leftovers: Rethinking Waste in Design | $10,000
• Arts Leadership Program and Sculpture: Where Memory Lives | $10,000
• Art History: Global Tea Culture & Science | $10,000
• Arts Libraries: Zines Now!  | $10,000
• Cavalier Marching Band: The Boston Brass with CMB | $10,000
• Creative Writing/English: Emerging Voices: Writer's Residency | $10,000
• Dance: Bodies in Motion: Dance and Access/Ability | $10,000
• The Fralin: The World Between: Egypt, Wawat, Kush, and Meroe in Africa | $10,000
• Kluge-Ruhe: Robert Fielding exhibition and residency | $10,000
• Music: Stravinsky’s Petrushka and newly commissioned works | $10,000
• Studio Art: Student Thesis Shows | 1$10,000000
• UVA Arts: UVA Arts Welcome Picnic 2025 | $10,000
• UVA Arts: Arts Council Discretionary Fund for Students | $10,000
• Virginia Film Festival: UVA Faculty Programmer Series | $10,000
• Virginia Theatre Festival: Community Engagement Programs | $10,000
• WTJU: Arts This Week | $10,000
• WTJU: Live Sound Production Cohort Training | $10,000

Grant Reports & Updates

2024-2025 Arts Council Grants Awarded

15 grants totaling $139,905

• Art History & Arts Administration: Arts Leadership Courses: Performance and Media | $10,000
• Arts Libraries: Music, Monsters and Movement |$9,905
• Charlottesville Symphony: “& metaphors” Charlottesville Symphony | $10,000
• Drama: Cronique of a Social Movement in Creole: Chalvet, Martinique | $10,000
• The Fralin: Barbara Hammer: Evidentiary Bodies | $10,000
• Kluge-Ruhe: Curatorial residency and Spinifex exhibition | $10,000
• Media Studies: J-Term in NYC with Gotham Film Institute | $10,000
• Music: Aeolus Quarte | $10,000
• Studio Art: Studio Gallery Exhibitions and Visiting Artists 2024-2025 | $10,000
• UVA Arts: UVA Arts Welcome Picnic | $10,000
• UVA Arts: Alvin Ailey II | $10,000
• Virginia Film Festival:  VAFF Guest Programmer Series | $10,000
• Virginia Theatre Festival: 50 Years and Counting: A Musical Revue | $10,000
• WTJU: Ats This Week | $10,000

2023-2024 Arts Council Grants Awarded

12 grants totaling $120,000

• Arts Libraries: As Big As We Make It! Artists in Conversation with the Harlem Renaissance  | $10,000
• Cavalier Marching Band: Fall Band Showcase  | $10,000
• Dance: Dance Praxis: Multiple Approaches to Making/Performing/Thinking | $10,000
• Drama: Guest Artist Residency: Jesus I. Valles | $10,000
• The Fralin: Fralin Fashion As Art 2024  | $10,000
• Music: Flute Forum with guest artist Valerie Coleman  | $10,000
• Studio Art: Studio Gallery Exhibitions and Visiting Artists | $10,000
• UVA Arts: UVA Arts Welcome Picnic  | $10,000
• UVA Arts: A Standing Witness  | $10,000
• Virginia Film Festival: Guest Programmer Series | $10,000
• Virginia Theatre Festival: 2023 Season Community Engagement  | $10,000
• WTJU: Charlottesville Music Scene Zine Series  | $10,000

2022-2023 Arts Council Grants Awarded

13 grants totaling $127,130

• Arts Administration: Untempered Ensemble Artist in Residency | $10,000
• Art History: Art and Architectural History Graduate Symposium | $7,130
• Arts Libraries: Keep the Music Playing  $10,000
• Creative Writing: Publishing, Politics, & Creative Practice | $10,000
• Dance: The Body and Performance | $10,000
• The Fralin: The Central and South American Collections | $10,000
• Kluge-Ruhe: Madayin Exhibition Catalog & Book Making | $10,000
• Music: Residency by University of Pécs Faculty Trio | $10,000
• Studio Art: Ruffin Gallery Exhibitions and Artists-in-Residence | $10,000
• UVA Arts: UVA Arts Welcome Picnic 2022 | $10,000
• Virginia Film Festival: Five Guest Programmer Curated Film Series | $10,000
• Virginia Theatre Festival: 2022 Season | $10,000
• WTJU: Dreaming Charlottesville  | $10,000

2020-2021 Arts Council Grants Awarded

10 grants totaling $98,000

• Arts Libraries: Making Noise and Reconnecting after COVID | $8,000
• Dance: Blurring Boundaries: Dance in Non-traditional Spaces | $10,000
• Drama: Diversity and Inclusion Staged Readings; Playwright in Residence | $10,000
• The Fralin: Skyscraper Gothic | $10,000
• Kluge-Ruhe: Virtual Programs and Online Content | $10,000
• Music: Residency by University of Pécs Faculty Trio | $10,000
• Studio Art: Ruffin Gallery Exhibitions | $10,000
• UVA Arts: UVA Arts Grounds Day | $10,000
• Virginia Film Festival: Five Guest Programmer Curated Film Series  | $10,000
• WTJU: Nourishing Charlottesville’s Classical Community | $10,000

2019-2020 Arts Council Grants Awarded

13 grants totaling $119,500

• Architecture: Art and Democracy Project | $8,500
• Art History & Studio Art: Art Bus | $6,000
• Arts Admin: Consolidation of Foundation for Arts Administration | $10,000
• Arts Libraries: Art and Confrontation in the Americas | $10,000
• Dance: Engaging Identity through Embodied Practice | $10,000
• Drama: Broadway Talks Back | $5,000
• The Fralin: The Inside World Aboriginal Australian Art Exhibition | $10,000
• Heritage Theatre Festival: 2019 Season | $10,000
• Kluge-Ruhe: The Inside World Programming | $10,000
• Music: Artist Residencies | $10,000
• UVA Arts: UVA Arts Grounds Day | $10,000
• Virginia Film Festival: VFF Scholars Program | $10,000
• WTJU: Musical Commons: A Co-curated Musical Space | $10,000

2018-2019 Arts Council Grants Awarded

11 grants totaling $85,900

• Arts Admin: Upper Level Student Support Pilot Suite | $6,000
• Art History: Art Bus | $5,000
• Dance: Residency: Multidisciplinary/Media Work | $7,000
• Dance: American College Dance Association Conference | $3,000
• The Fralin: Georgia O’Keeffe at UVA and Beyond | $10,000
• Heritage Theatre Festival: 2018 Season | $10,000
• Kluge-Ruhe: Permanent Exhibition for Kluge-Ruhe | $10,000
• Music: No BS! Brass Band Concert for Diversity and Equality  | $9,900
• Studio Art: Ruffin Hall Exhibition Openings | $5,000
• Virginia Film Festival: VFF Scholars Program | $10,000
• WTJU: Charlottesville Classical | $10,000 

2017-2018 Arts Council Grants Awarded

14 grants totaling $119,450

• Architecture: An Exploration of Hong Kong’s Walkscapes | $10,000
• Art History: Non-Symbolic Interventions: Visiting Artist Series | $10,000
• Arts Admin: Wadada Leo Smith Artist in Residence | $7,500
• Arts Libraries: Making Noise: A Performances Series  | $10,000
• Dance: American College Dance Association (ACDA) Conference| $3,000
• Dance: Contemporary Residency, Dance & Social Justice | $6,000
• Drama: Guest Artist, Paul Wagner: Screenwriting & Film| $10,000
• The Fralin: The Legacy of the Samuel Kootz Gallery | $10,000
• Heritage Theatre Festival: 2017 Summer Season | $10,000
• Kluge-Ruhe: Museum Website Rebuilding and Redesign | $10,000
• Music: Ensemble Galilei residency | $10,000
• Studio Art: Exhibition and Residency with Sheryl Oring | $3,000
• Virginia Film Festival: 2017 Adrenaline Film Project (AFP) | $10,000
• WTJU: Arts on Grounds Radio Program & Podcast | $9,950 

2016-2017 Arts Council Grants Awarded

14 grants totaling $107,320

• Architecture: Architecture as a Technical Object Exhibition | $10,000
• Arts Admin: Chapel Jazz Series | $5,000
• Arts Libraries: Inspiring Minds: Student Digital Arts Fellowships | $10,000
• Dance: American College Dance Association Conference | $3,000
• Dance: Contemporary Dance Residency | $6,000
• Drama: Guest Artist: Shakespeare’s Folio | $8,000
• The Fralin Museum of Art: Kevin Everson: Moon Exhibition | $10,000
• Heritage Theatre Festival: 2016 Summer Season | $10,000
• Kluge-Ruhe: Indigenous Australian Dance and Film | $10,000
• Music: Residency by Yarn/Wire | $9,400
• Studio Art: Michael Rees Residency for 3D Modeling  |$ 4,000
• Studio Art: UnearthED | $3,000
• Virginia Film Festival: Digital Media Gallery (DMG) | $10,000
• WTJU: Arts at Virginia Radio Program | $8,920