Our Grantees
2024-2025
In our inaugural year, the Creative Arts Collective has awarded $500,000 in grants to the following artists and organizations:
The Choir Room
The Choir Room is a vibrant, multi-generational, and multi-cultural nonprofit choir organization that amplifies not only melodies but also diverse voices, cultures, and economic backgrounds. Founded on the belief that music has the power to unite and inspire change, their mission extends beyond the stage to advocate for those in need within the community. Created by GRAMMY Award ®-winning songwriter, producer, and musician Dwan Hill, its purpose is to “bring choir back” and inspire a diverse group of people to unite in song and mission. The grant supports multiple local and regional events, marketing efforts, resources for churches, and organizational staffing.
Requiem for Colour
Requiem for Colour is a wholly original orchestral and choral experience, written and composed by Dr. Jeffery Ames. A highly accomplished conductor, composer, and professor, Jeffery Ames’ Requiem for Colour is a labor of love that explores and honors the experiences of generations of Black people and their descendants. Ames’ Requiem is a groundbreaking work combining music, literature, and visual art, blending genres from classical to R&B, oration to spoken word. Informed by his Christian faith and the traditions of gospel roots, Ames has created a work that spans generations in reckoning with our current societal vices of racism and injustice. The grant supports planning efforts toward a Spring production and live recording.
100 Fold Studio
100 Fold Studio is an international nonprofit architecture firm dedicated to developing communities through design. This effort uses architecture to address basic human needs while inviting people into a greater story of beauty, redemption, and flourishing. The grant supports the 2024 Summer Studio, a 6-week initiative that equips architecture students and recent graduates in leadership, service, faith, and design, helping them explore how their Christian faith can inform and shape careers in architecture.
Barefoot Republic
Barefoot Republic Camps & Retreat Center – Celebrating 25 years of service, the mission of Barefoot Republic is to facilitate Christ-centered relationships between individuals from diverse racial, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds through an equally diverse platform of artistic, athletic, and team-building programs. They strive to reflect God’s pursuit of His children through interests, passions, interpersonal relationships, and equipping students with tools for exploring and discovering God’s presence in their lives. The grant supports curriculum development, materials and resources, and workshops for Arts and Worship Nights for youth.
Creo Arts
Creo Arts Guild is a Christian nonprofit organization that exists to inspire beauty, goodness, and truth through the arts. The organization works with artists and faith-based organizations across the nation to help start a wide range of art initiatives to bring beauty to the world. The grant supports capacity building within the organization as well as empowers Creo Arts to sub-grant and shepherd relationships with artists, churches, and nonprofit organizations nationwide.