AUGUSTA MUSEUM ON GMF GRANT LIST FOR BROWN EXHIBIT January 10, 2016 This past December the Georgia Music Foundation announced $60,000 in grants to Georgia organizations promoting musical and cultural education. The grants presented by not-for-profit Georgia Music Foundation continues an artistic mission that “seeks to foster an appreciation for the state’s rich music heritage by supporting programs of music preservation, education and outreach" and will go to middle school band programs, cultural centers, documentarians, summer music camps and other efforts. The grants will award $5,000 each, will go to recipients that include The Albany Civil Rights Institute Freedom Singers, to help develop an educational video and an accompanying lesson plan for 8th graders documenting the Freedom Singers, The Athens Music Project Oral Histories which helps preserve the history of music in Athens, The Center for Public History at the University of West Georgia to help produce a film on music documentarians George Mitchell, Art Rosenbaum and Fred Fussell, The Louisville (Georgia) Middle Schoolband program, to purchase new instruments, The Jefferson County High School Warrior Band which will use the money to purchase uniforms and new instruments, The Foundation for Public Broadcasting in Georgia to help provide a free music education website that supplies educational materials to accompany the PBS documentary “Robert Shaw, Man of Many Voices,” about the longtime ASO conductor, Savannah Music Festival’s Musical Explorers project mission to teach music theory, music history and regional traditions, Georgia Pick & Bow Traditional Music School, in Dahlonega that works to preserve and promote the traditional music of the North Georgia region, The Academy of the Arts Music Summer Camp (AASC) sponsored by Atlanta’s How Big Is Your Dream? Foundation, which encourages children from underprivileged neighborhoods to pursue careers in music, Nuci’s Space, in Athens, to assist a historic restoration project and to support Camp Amped, Nuci’s outreach program for young musicians, ages 11 to 17, The Otis Redding Center for Creative Arts, in Macon, which currently offers music lessons and oversees the annual Otis Music Camp. The Augusta Museum of History will also receive $5,000 to expand the James Brown exhibit.