The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham has awarded $15,000 for the period 7/1/22 to 6/31/23 to conduct cultural assets mapping, have local artists perform, and enhance the October 2022 homecoming. Creative placemaking provides the framework for this activity, which is directed toward reparative programming that facilitates racial reconciliation.
Read MoreThe Alabama State Council for the Arts has awarded $15,000 (10/1/2021-9/30/2022) to Klein Arts & Culture under the Alabama Arts Recovery Program to address our program losses during the pandemic. This was supplemented by a Sustainability Grant of $6,000 from South Arts to support our operations between 1/1 to 12/31/2022.
Read MoreThe Alabama State Council for the Arts has awarded KAC two grants totaling $13,000 effective 1/3 to 9/31/22.
Read MoreThe Alabama Humanities Alliance has awarded $7,500 for the period 12/1/21 to 9/15/22 to Klein Arts & Culture to conduct three public panels: the history of the historic Wallace Plantation, issues in the reparative interpretation of plantation houses, and the design of experiential exhibits based on reparative interpretation, using the Wallace House as an example.
Read MoreOn June 2, 2021, the Alabama State Council for the Arts awarded KAC $35,000.00 for our Cultural Facilities project, titled "Klein Arts & Culture Cultural Facilities Design”.
Read MoreWriting our Stories students taught by Daniel DeVaughn in the Vincent Middle School completed the Land as Persona: Many Paths to the Present curriculum in May, 2021. Through the form of the persona poem, students were given the chance to learn and explore the many people and peoples who have called the Harpersville-Vincent area home.
Read MoreThe Alabama Writers’ Forum views the Klein-Wallace house, and the land surrounding it, as a means to give students a direct and tangible link to this state's complex past—a literal doorway into history.
Read MoreBloom, a student-run design studio at the University of Alabama at Birmingham headed by professor Douglas Barrett, has selected Klein Arts & Culture as its client for Fall 2020.
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