June 4, 2022 - Nonprofit's Public Healing Arts

It can be challenging enough for someone to create an artistic experience. It's something else entirely to secure the marketing and funding support to get the art in the public eye.In today's show, BUZZ creator Michael Hemphill visits the Taubman Museum to learn about its "Healing Ceiling Tiles" project, which will be featured in an upcoming episode of BUZZ on PBS. And he attends the Roanoke Arts Commission's announcement of the first ever ART MATTERS award recipients, which provide $3,000 grants to the following public art initiatives:Charlie Brouwer | The Benediction ProjectBrian Counihan | Daisy Chain World Art ParadeBryan Hancock | National Youth Poet Laureate Program Toya Jones | Back to Black Art ShowHeather Marshall | Youth Art Workshops /Oliver Hill Justice Center Waiting Room ArtJane Gabrielle McCadden | The Singing Tree ProjectKathryn Schnabel | Artist Workshops for Sustained EngagementKatie Trozzo & Joy Truskowski | Singing CirclesJohn Woodrum | I Heart Southeast Sculpture Project Lynsey Wyatt | Queer Your Aerial Arts and Activism Project Are you a nonprofit with an event that we could help promote? Or a marketing problem we could help fix? Contact us and we’ll share on an upcoming episode.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - FOLLOW US:F A C E B O O K ➜ http://facebook.com/buzz4good​​I N S T A G R A M ➜ http://instagram.com/buzz4good​​L I N K E D I N ➜ https://www.linkedin.com/company/buzz...T W I T T E R ➜ http://twitter.com/buzz4good​​W E B S I T E ➜ http://buzz4good.com​​- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The United States has more than 1.5 million nonprofits — from homeless shelters, food banks and rescue squads to children’s choirs, science museums and animal refuges — that employ one out of every 10 Americans. Like any company, nonprofits have salaries and bills to pay, a budget to balance. They require money. And if enough people don’t know about them, don’t believe i