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Oh Sew Powerful

Cleveland, OH

Cultural Sustainability

FY2025

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  • A group of young dancers from Bi-Okoto's Okoto Kekere (Pre-professional group) performing outdoors at Washington Park, during the World Drum Festival in Cincinnati, Ohio, on July 21, 2024. The children are dressed in colorful outfits with floral-patterned skirts, black tops, and matching headwraps. Each holds a blue and white fly whisk, used as a traditional African dance prop. They are mid-movement, showcasing synchronized, rhythmic dance steps. The performance takes place on a stage with a black backdrop and trees in the background, while drummers seated behind them play traditional African drums.

    Bi-Okoto Drum & Dance Theatre

    Cultural Sustainability

    FY2025
    Ohio

  • A tan teapot woven out of Korean paper (called hanji) using jiseung (paper basketry) techniques in the shape of a duck with a lid on the back shaped like a duckling, both with reddish pink beaks.

    Aimee Lee

    Midwest Culture Bearers Award

    FY2025
    Ohio

    Aimee Lee is one of nine winners of the 2024 Midwest Culture Bearers Award. This award celebrates artisans and folk arts practitioners whose work is rooted in cultural preservation and...

  • Two people of dark skin tone, one young and one old, look at a sign on an easel

    Marion Voices Folklife + Oral History

    ArtsHERE

    FY2025
    Ohio

    Marion Voices Folklife + Oral History's ArtsHERE grant will support a solidarity-building listening tour across North-Central Ohio engaging allied arts & culture organizations to share strategies & grow a regional folklife network, plus updates to their strategic plan & website as they expand their work regionally. Marion Voices is a folklife & cultural arts organization committed to social justice. Partnering directly with community culture-keepers in Marion County, they offer K-12 folk arts programs, exhibits, festivals, folklife documentation, and more to grow more just, more abundant cultural arts livelihoods across diverse communities.

  • A person with dark skin tone and a backwards baseball cap performs on a microphone with a hand outstretched to the audience

    Healing Broken Circles

    ArtsHERE

    FY2025
    Ohio

    Healing Broken Circles' ArtsHERE grant will support the creation of new collaborative partnerships, upgrading communications materials, and increasing staff technical skills in event production and promotion. Healing Broken Circles provides opportunities to heal, learn, and thrive for those of us impacted by the justice system, through programs and events that offer creative outlets, social-emotional support and opportunities to deepen societal awareness of the destructive impacts of mass incarceration

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