Program areas at The Durham Arts Council
Support and development of Arts organizations and artists dac provides grants & technical assistance to artists and Arts organizations. In fy22, dac provided exhibition, performance, teaching, Arts jobs, training, grants & art exhibit/sales opportunities to 2,029 individual artists; dac grants supported 98 Arts organizations & 64 individual artists. 418 arts/cultural organizations were served across all dac programs. Dac provided sector-wide Arts advocacy & economic support of $1,715,905, including $369,817 in Arts facility grants; $340,453 in cash grants; and dac provided $1,005,635 in Arts education jobs, performance jobs, & Arts management jobs.
Arts program and facility support services dac manages & programs The historic dac building as a premier venue for artists, Arts organizations, & community groups in downtown Durham. Dac programs its galleries, theatres, rehearsal spaces, studios & classrooms for The Arts community & public 7 days a week. Dac is normally (pre-pandemic) The 4th most visited facility in downtown Durham. In fy2019, dac building and events attracted attendance of 413,234; hosted 5,028 events & programs & managed 26,127 hours of facility use. In fy22 attendance rebounded to 286,022 with 3068 events and programs and 17,942 hours of managed facility use as pandemic conditions eased and normal attendance began to return.
Arts education programs dac's Arts center school provided 248 classes for 1,819 youth & adults in visual, performing & literary Arts & 10 weeks of youth Arts camps; an increase of 991 students from The prior covid-impacted year. The dac creative Arts in schools program (caps) provided 362 programs to 17,842 students at 74 school and community sites in Durham, orange, granville, chatham and person counties. Caps provides curriculum-based Arts residencies, performances & workshops to strengthen academic outcomes. Dac school & caps programs provided 610 contract jobs that paid $284,817 to teaching artists in fy22.