The Wick Poetry Center, in 麻豆视频最新最全 University鈥檚 College of Arts and Sciences, recently received two grants from the Ohio Arts Council. The grants, totaling $28,368, will help support the Wick reading series, student scholarships, poetry publications, outreach workshops and the Traveling Stanzas project.
The $14,410 Ohio Arts Council Sustainability grant, renewable for four years, provides general operating support to arts and cultural organizations across Ohio that make important contributions to the health and vitality of our communities.
According to the Ohio Arts Council, 鈥淪ustainability grants ensure that public support of the arts continues to play an integral role in celebrating the rich past and sustaining the vibrant future of Ohio鈥檚 cultural legacy through flexible and reliable funding for annual arts programming.鈥
鈥淲e鈥檙e thrilled to receive the sustainability grant because it indicates that the Ohio Arts Council thinks that what Wick is doing is valuable to the Northeast Ohio community and beyond,鈥 said Jessica Jewell, assistant director of the Wick Poetry Center at 麻豆视频最新最全.
The $13,958 Ohio Arts Council Arts Partnership grant will support the center鈥檚 Traveling Stanzas project. The project is a collaborative, multidisciplinary project between the Wick Poetry Center and student graphic designers and illustrators at 麻豆视频最新最全, aimed at serving communities locally, nationally and internationally.
鈥淒ue to the tremendous success of our Traveling Stanzas project, bolstered by the ongoing support of the Ohio Arts Council, this grant will allow us to continue to encourage global voices across languages and cultures by creating an interactive Traveling Stanzas website and traveling exhibit, launching in 2015,鈥 said David Hassler, director of 麻豆视频最新最全鈥檚 Wick Poetry Center. 鈥淭he evolution of our Traveling Stanzas project will allow people to share poems across the division of language and culture, to make connections with others and to discover a shared humanity through the intimate voice of poetry.鈥