South Arts Inc

Jazz road is an artist-centric touring and residency program that aims to ensure jazz is performed and presented throughout the country. The program ensures paid work opportunities for jazz artists, as well as bolsters deeper engagement between jazz musicians, presenters and communities. U.s.-based jazz artists who define themselves as emerging to more established along a career spectrum are eligible for grants and professional development. The program is intended to support jazz artists for which a grant would offer new and significant career impact. Jazz road is supported by the doris duke foundation with additional support from the mellon foundation.

Service to the field includes the national coalition - south arts co-chairs the steering committee of the national coalition for arts' preparedness and emergency response and administered a grant from the national endowment for the arts to support coalition activities. The coalition is a cross-disciplinary network of organizations and individuals and uses a combined strategy of resource development, educational empowerment and advocacy to strengthen disaster readiness and resilience within the arts and culture sector.

South arts, with support from the national endowment for the arts, offers grants and subsidies in an effort to strengthen presenters organizational capacity, and to sustain and expand markets for arts organizations and artists. Through our touring funds, we support publicly accessible performances and programs that provide opportunities for artists to engage with underserved communities. This program contributes to the sustainability of arts organizations and supports high artistic quality projects with strong educational and outreach components for the participants across the region. Included are training, education, technical assistance, film screenings, traditional arts, and touring grants to performing and literary arts organizations. The program also includes cross-sector impact grants that aim to facilitate partnerships between the arts community and other sectors (non-arts organizations).in these mountains initiative preserves and perpetuates the traditional arts and culture of central appalachian counties of kentucky, north carolina, and tennessee. Through a series of strategic projects supporting practitioners, arts organizations, and communities, in these mountains supports the longevity and intergenerational transfer of the cultural traditions that have grown in this unique region. As we learn and grow, we continue to refine how we support the central appalachian communities with impactful programming.