The city’s Cultural Arts Division has named the organizational and individual/creative business recipients for the Elevate program that awards midlevel contracts to 200 recipients. Organizational awards were given between $30,000 and $75,000, with the following groups receiving the maximum: Austin African American Book Festival, BRAVE Communities, Collide Arts, ConnectHER, East Austin Creative Coalition, Folklore y Ritmos de Panama, Future Front Texas, Girls Rock Austin, HOPE Events Inc., ISHIDA Dance Company, Motion Media Arts Center, Rancho Alegre, Song Rise Arts, Spectrum Theatre Company, TALA, and Texas After Violence Project. Grants for individuals or creative businesses were given in amounts from $10,000 to $25,000, with the following recipients getting the maximum: Behind the Sari: Intergenerational Storytelling, Women’s Work and Immigrant Family Life in Texas; Brown Boy Productions; Bumuo: Rebuilding the Filipino Body; Cage Match Project; Casie Luong Music; Ceia G.; Colectivo IN SITU; Dorian Layssard and Criancas De Capoeira Angola; Greater Tomorrow Youth Art Program; Javier Jara; Khristián Méndez Aguirre; Las Ofrendas DBA Frida Friday ATX; Luis Ordaz Gutiérrez; Malika Boudissa; Mary Jane Garza; Mauricio Callejas; Mercury McKnight; Neighborhood Molino; RichesArt Gallery; and the Levite Laboratory.
Chad Swiatecki is a 20-year journalist who relocated to Austin from his home state of Michigan in 2008. He most enjoys covering the intersection of arts, business and local/state politics. He has written... More by Chad Swiatecki