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Erie Arts & Culture is thrilled to announce that the agency will welcome Savannah, Georgia-based artist Sharon Norwood as the next visiting artist in residence. Sharon will arrive in Erie on July 16th and serve as the visiting artist in residence through August 7th.

View our webinar recording our of PRO Network Budgeting & Banking for Artists Navigating the Unknown with Debt-Free Denae webinar.

Erie Arts & Culture is committed to growing the capacity of our region's creative and cultural professionals. As an agency, we identified financial literacy, the knowledge necessary to make important financial decisions, as one of the key topics that we wish to advance through ongoing educational workshops and webinars. Financial literacy is important because it equips us with a greater understanding of how to manage money effectively. Education in this area builds a foundation for recognizing how our financial decisions and the actions we take—or don't take—impact our current and future success and abilities to achieve our goals.

Erie Arts & Culture in partnership with County Executive Kathy Dahlkemper and the Erie County Department of Health will present “Feel Your Feelings Fridays,”  an effort which includes two participatory initiatives to promote mental wellness. The initiatives consist of a virtual youth art exhibit and a 30-day adult journaling challenge.

Erie Arts & Culture experienced exceptional growth in 2019. The team entered 2020 poised to carry that momentum through the calendar year.

The team at Erie Arts & Culture is small but mighty. It’s amazing what a group of dedicated individuals are able to accomplish, even in the midst of unprecedented times. The team has adapted to the unique challenges that we’ve been presented during the second quarter of 2020. It’s our pleasure to share with you some of our accomplishments, highlighted here in our Q2 Impact Report.

Staff Picks: A curated list of what to look at, listen to, watch, or read from the team at EAC

We want to give 10 students the ability to share their voice in our city and what better way than through filmmaking. 

Students selected to take part in this program will work with filmmakers, John C. Lyons and Soraya Johnson, to make a short video for the 1st annual New Horizons Youth Film Festival. Selected students will take part in a two-month process of learning the basics of writing, directing, and editing their own film. Students will create their own short film on their own time, with the assistance of the filmmakers, incorporating one or more of these themes:

My Culture 
My Neighborhood
My Voice

In honor of World Refugee Day, we asked six chefs who came as refugees to share a dish from their culture that is simple enough for anyone to try. We encourage you to step out of your comfort zone, patronize one of Erie’s many refugee-owned markets, and try one of the dishes!

For World Refugee Day 2020, Kelly Armor collaborated with four former refugee artists from Muslim-majority countries. They are all part of a current Erie Arts & Culture project funded through the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art's Building Bridges grant program.

In commemoration of Juneteenth, Erie Arts & Culture collaborated with Erie's Black Wall Street to develop a list of 92 black-owned businesses operating in Erie. 

Staff Picks: A curated list of what to look at, listen to, watch, or read from the team at EAC