The Knight Arts program is now seeking grant opportunities in Charlotte that can create transformational and sustainable change through artistic excellence and collective cultural experiences. If you’re interested in learning more about working with Knight in the arts, please contact Program Director Susan Patterson.
Paul R. Jacoway’s “Final Edition: Journalism According to Jack and Jim Knight” was presented with a regional Emmy Award on June 19, by the lower Great Lakes Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The documentary, which first aired on October 26, 2009 in Akron, Ohio, follows the Knight family, from their days of [...]
From September 16-19, 2010 Silicon Valley will morph into a biennial playground as contemporary artists, engineers, designers, musicians, and creative thinkers from around the world participate in the 2010 01SJ Biennial taking place in San Jose, CA the heart of Silicon Valley. Today Doniece Sandoval, of ZER01, checks in with a preview. Read below for [...]
Last year the Knight Foundation made a $1,000,000 grant to United States Artists, an organization that celebrates and supports the individual artist in America. Each Knight award comes with an additional $5,000 grant for the artist to create a community engagement event. Today, our United States Artist Knight fellow Sophiline Cheam Shapiro checks in with an [...]
By the Charlotte Arts & Science Council After weeks of work and preparation we were able to pull off our first Random Act of Culture on August 17! And judging by the surprise and smiles, we were thrilled with how it went. The site of this first RAC was at the Atherton Mills and Market in [...]
By Susan Patterson, Charlotte Program Director Strolling through a farmers market at lunchtime in Charlotte is always a treat. Sniffing the just-picked peaches, choosing a perfect ruby red tomato – those are usually the highlights. My visit to Atherton Market was made even better Tuesday when opera filled the air. Yes, I knew a musical surprise was [...]
Levine Museum of the New South currently benefits from two Knight Foundation grants. One provides major underwriting of the exhibit Changing Places: From Black & White to Technicolor which explores Charlotte’s new diversity. The other is helping the Museum re-imagine COURAGE: The Carolina Story that Changed America, an exhibit on Civil Rights and education which [...]
By Susan Patterson, Charlotte Program Director Since its opening last fall with Steven Martin playing the banjo with the Steep Canyon Rangers bluegrass group, Knight Theater has had diverse programming on its stage. From Alvin Ailey to a Monterey Jazz Festival trio to the locally produced Tosco Music Party, all the performances I’ve attended have had enthusiastic audiences. I [...]
Welcome to the new KnightArts.org. In celebration of our one year anniversary and the national rollout of Knight Arts grants, we’ve redesigned our site to better serve the local & national arts communities. At KnightArts.org you’ll now find information about artistic endeavors in your city and in your fellow Knight Foundation resident communities. Click the [...]
We talk a lot about community engagement and the arts, but how does a museum truly engage a viewer beyond just hanging the art up on the wall and opening the door and saying “come in.” I recently had a visual art experience that went well beyond the tradition model of museum – viewer interaction. [...]
Davis Guggenheim, Oscar winning director of global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth has set his sights on his next topic – the sad state of K-12 education in America. Waiting for Superman opens Sept 24, but Dennis Scholl, Knight’s vice president of the arts and Miami program director, recently had an opportunity to preview the [...]
