ASCA Funds three projects in FY 24!

This 2024 Fiscal Year, the Alabama State Council on the Arts has provided support to the Wallace Center for poet Salaam Green to provide a year of reparative poetry discussion and performance as she completes her volume Healing Harpersville for Pulley Press; for the opening and conversations around For Love, With Grief, by artist Elizabeth M. Webb with Salaam Green and the descendant community; and to develop an overarching conceptual design with plans for an experiential interpretation of the Wallace House and grounds. Together these grants total $18,500.

ASCA has been our partner from the beginning, when the Wallace Center was just getting off the ground. They have providing funding for programs, for operating costs, and for design and construction of our new Artist Residency and Visitor Center. The latter centered our capital campaign, as we needed to raise matching funds for the grant. Thank you, ASCA!

The ASCA grant for experiential interpretation comes together with funding from the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, the Alabama Humanities Alliance, and individual donors to create a wonderful experience that spans the full history of the Wallace House and land. While we begin with enslavement and reconstruction, we reach back to the removal of Muskogee Creeks from the land as part of settler colonialism, and continue through the Great Migration and Jim Crow, setting the stage for the conditions addressed by the Civil Rights Movement.