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Out North Art House awarded quarter-million dollar grant

Four Alaskan arts organizations have been awarded substantial grant money from nationally recognized group ArtPlace. Alaska Arts Southeast, Ice., the Alaska Native Heritage Center, the Anchorage Museum Association and Out North Contemporary Art House are all poised to receive new support.

ArtPlace is a nationwide group of private and public funders dedicated to developing and strengthening community through diversity in the arts. Some 2,2000 applicants jockeyed for a piece of the 2012 budget, valued at $15.4 million. Forty-seven creative place-makers were awarded including the four in Alaska.

Out North claimed $250,000 of that grant money, according a press release Tuesday.

Out North plans to utilize the grant to support the fledgling Art House Resident Group project, a program aimed at fostering artist through creation, education and collaboration.

"We are honored to receive such a pivotal grant from such an eminent and important organization," said Dawnell Smith, Out North's newly-appointed executive director. "The artists, volunteers, leaders, and arts advocates who have dedicated so many creative hours to Out North should feel proud of all they've done to build this space, and for all that we can now do to cultivate the work we do."

Learn more about Out North.

Craig Medred

Craig Medred is a former writer for the Anchorage Daily News, Alaska Dispatch and Alaska Dispatch News. He left the ADN in 2015.

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