Creative Greensboro Annual Report 2022-23

Having a GROW art residency at Creative Greensboro was such a wonderful experience! I met so many local artists at the workshops that I sponsored. I was able to interact intimately with the Greensboro community and those interactions and responses to my paintings has helped me spread my wings as a multidisciplinary artist.

— Kym Cooper

GROW Artist in Residence

INSPIRING RESIDENCIES

Todgi Dozier repurposing found materials to create new art. Residency at the Hyers provides rent-free access to the 88-seat black box theater in the Cultural Center for organizations to create and premier dramatic, musical or dance productions. This year’s 11 residencies included a concert and workshops discussing the history, culture, and musicianship of Ethiopian music and Ethio-jazz by Jonovan Cooper and JOYEMOVEMENT developing “Rewind 1968” a new dance-centered opera that examined the consequences of the North Carolina Eugenics program.

Creative Greensboro’s residency programs – the Greensboro Residency for Original Works (GROW) and Residency at the Hyers – brought new, exciting programs and productions to the Cultural Center. Creative Greensboro received a $58K North Carolina Arts Council grant to support this effort. GROW is a paid residency that provides an open flex space for Guilford County-based creative individuals and organizations to produce new and original works that encourage visitation and engagement by the public. This year’s residencies included Princess Johnson developing an original ballet, titled “The Hair Journey,” about Black women’s relationship with their hair, and

As a first-time writer and director, having an opportunity to share my work onstage felt momentous. The Residency at the Hyers gave my team and I the opportunity and space to rehearse, produce and perform ‘ANCESTRAL,’ a musical about three friends who are guided by ancestral figures during their dreams. The technical support I received during the residency was instrumental in making the show successful.

— Anna Luisa Daigneault, known professionally as Quilla Artist in Residence

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