Panel Report Multidisciplinary Projects

Memorandum

TO: Florida Council on Arts and Culture
FROM: Glenn Lochrie, Panel Chair
DATE: September 25, 2015
SUBJECT:

Multidisciplinary Projects Panel, Meeting Report and Recommendations

The Multidisciplinary Projects grant panel meeting was held via teleconference on September 25, 2015. Twenty (20) eligible applications were reviewed and eighteen (18) applications were recommended for funding.

A complete list of all reviewed applications, with the request amounts and final scores, is provided in the following sections.

Panel comment was as follows:

There were no panel comments.

Public comment was as follows:

A member of the audience expressed appreciation for the transparency of the process and for the ability to be involved in the panel.

Panel Biographies

Julia Black Andrews

Broward County

  • Executive Director, Coral Springs Museum of Art, Coral Springs, Florida
  • Previously, Curator & Program Manager for Art Serve, Ft. Lauderdale
  • Portrait painter, specializes in pets
  • Member, City of Pompano Beach Public Art Committee

Weiselande Cesar

Miami-Dade County

  • Teacher, Miami-Dade County Public Schools
  • Founding Director/Dancer/Choreographer, Tradisyon Lakou Lakay, Inc.
  • Dancer/Choreographer ADDDFF, Delou Africa, African Dance & Drum Diaspora of Florida
  • Author, The Colors We Feel and Loving Thyself: Discovering the Spirit Within
  • 2009 Francisco R. Walker Miami Dade County Teacher of the Year from Miami Dade County Public Schools
  • APD Human Services/Public Health from Walden University; ED.S. Educational Leadership, Curriculum and Instruction, and Masters of Science, Exceptional Student Education/Varying Exceptionalities both from Barry University

Mary Dillon

Hillsborough County

  • Director of Research and Grants at the Museum of Science & Industry
  • Former Executive Director at Rural Social Services Partnership
  • Independent grant consultant since 2008
  • Certified grant writer by Grant Professionals Association
  • University of Tampa, MBA, Nonprofit Leadership

Maria Emilia

Pinellas County

  • Grants writer at PARC, Inc
  • Former Grants Manager, Florida State University at The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
  • Former Executive Director, Florida Craftsmen
  • Artist whose work is in the collections of Polk Museum of Art, the Gulf Coast Museum of Art, USF and the Smithsonian American Art Museum
  • MFA, University of South Florida

Susan Mitchell

Orange County

  • Grantwriter and Project Director, Holocaust Memorial Resource & Education Center of Florida, Maitland, Florida
  • Former concert pianist and theater producer
  • Playwright for Fringe Festival
  • Former Vice Chair, Laurel Foundation, Jefferson County Pennsylvania
  • BA, Education and MA, English

James Moy

Hillsborough County

  • Dean, College of the Arts, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
  • Former Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and Research, Nova Scotia College of Art & Design
  • Member of the International Council of Fine Arts Deans, the Association for Asian American Studies, the National Association of Schools of Theater, and the American Drama Society
  • PhD, Cultural Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Elizabeth Young

Monroe County

  • Executive Director, Monroe Council for the Arts, Key West
  • Previously, Business Manager, Island Wellness; and spent nearly a decade in New York City as a Casting Director for film, television and theater
  • Serves as Executive Board Member of Congregation B’nai Zion and Florida Association of Public Art Professionals
  • B.A., Art History and Theater, Wheaton College

Panel Recommendations

Date & Time September 25, 2015 9:00 AM - to conclusion
Application Types

SCP - Discipline-Based (Multidisciplinary)

This list contains the panel recommendations to the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. This is not a final funding recommendation. Panel review is step 2 in a 4 step review process.

# App Num Applicant
Project Title
County
Application Type Request Recommendation Avg Score
1 17.5.114.210 Shands Teaching Hospital and Clinics, Inc.
Artists in Residence Program
Alachua County
SCP: Discipline-Based
Multidisciplinary
$25,000 $25,000 97.857
2 17.5.114.415 Broward College
BSOCA Overheard Series
Broward County
SCP: Discipline-Based
Multidisciplinary
$10,000 $10,000 93.714
3 17.5.114.250 Bas Fisher Invitational, Inc.
Weird Miami Artist Swaps: Pollinating South Florida with a global artist/activist network
Miami-Dade County
SCP: Discipline-Based
Multidisciplinary
$25,000 $25,000 93.571
4 17.5.114.285 The Farmworker Association of Florida, Inc.
Campesinos’ Gardens Totem Project
Orange County
SCP: Discipline-Based
Multidisciplinary
$25,000 $25,000 92.714
5 17.5.114.029 Edge Zones, Inc.
“Art of Uncertainty - Other Voices -Miami/Santo Domingo”
Miami-Dade County
SCP: Discipline-Based
Multidisciplinary
$25,000 $25,000 92.143
6 17.5.114.085 The Foundation for Leon County Schools, Inc.
Two Regimes – Witnesses to the Holocaust
Leon County
SCP: Discipline-Based
Multidisciplinary
$25,000 $25,000 91.571
7 17.5.114.063 Mount Dora Center for the Arts, Inc.
Art Creates Change
Lake County
SCP: Discipline-Based
Multidisciplinary
$13,863 $13,863 90.571
8 17.5.114.231 Life Enrichment Center, Inc.
LEC Art Explorers: Workshops and Art Lab for expanding the adult creative experience
Hillsborough County
SCP: Discipline-Based
Multidisciplinary
$25,000 $25,000 90.286
9 17.5.114.541 Gainesville Environmental Film and Arts Festival, Inc.
Cinema Verde Environmental Film & Arts Festival
Alachua County
SCP: Discipline-Based
Multidisciplinary
$25,000 $25,000 90.143
10 17.5.114.396 Artists in Residence in Everglades, Inc.
"Wild Culture"
Miami-Dade County
SCP: Discipline-Based
Multidisciplinary
$5,000 $5,000 89.714
11 17.5.114.188 Miami Beach Arts Trust, Inc.
Grass Stains
Miami-Dade County
SCP: Discipline-Based
Multidisciplinary
$25,000 $25,000 88.429
12 17.5.114.476 Greater Caribbean American Cultural Coalition Inc.
Unifest Multicultural Festival
Broward County
SCP: Discipline-Based
Multidisciplinary
$25,000 $25,000 88.429
13 17.5.114.477 Hope at Hand, Inc.
Permanent Poetry Scene
Duval County
SCP: Discipline-Based
Multidisciplinary
$25,000 $25,000 88.429
14 17.5.114.351 The Arts at St. Johns, Inc.
Coup des Artes
Miami-Dade County
SCP: Discipline-Based
Multidisciplinary
$25,000 $25,000 87.143
15 17.5.114.411 Creative City Project, Inc.
2016 Creative City Project
Orange County
SCP: Discipline-Based
Multidisciplinary
$25,000 $25,000 87.000
16 17.5.114.189 Grace Arts Center, Inc.
R&J too: Romeo and Juliet Chapter Two
Broward County
SCP: Discipline-Based
Multidisciplinary
$12,250 $12,250 85.286
17 17.5.114.237 Jayadevi Arts, Inc.
Indo-Caribbean Festivals
Broward County
SCP: Discipline-Based
Multidisciplinary
$25,000 $25,000 85.143
18 17.5.114.297 Young Performing Artists Corporation
Multi-Project
Sumter County
SCP: Discipline-Based
Multidisciplinary
$25,000 $25,000 82.286
19 17.5.114.038 Melbourne Main Street, Inc.
Paint the Town: Murals in Downtown Melbourne
Brevard County
SCP: Discipline-Based
Multidisciplinary
$3,000 $0 78.286
20 17.5.114.206 Polynesian Culture Association, Inc.
Polynesian Cultural Festival 2017
Broward County
SCP: Discipline-Based
Multidisciplinary
$12,500 $0 77.571