This page includes a list of artists and professionals that are advocacy + support experts who are interested in collaborating with the dance community. Use the contact information next to each listing to reach out to these individuals directly to learn more.
Advocacy
The GCAC Navigator program is a new initiative that will help GCAC engage more deeply with our diverse community. Annually, we will hire 14-18 artists to share resources and guide artists through GCAC grant and fellowship applications. The goal of this program is to increase outreach to new artists, especially those from historically marginalized or underrepresented communities.
Kenneth Eaddy
Email: kenneth@gcacnavigator.org | Instagram: @Kdnl_is
Kelly Hurlburt
Email: kelly@gcacnavigator.org | Instagram: @Kurlburt
Lawrence Lemon
Email: lawrence@gcacnavigator.org | Instagram: @Tawneven
Lorii A. Wallace
Email: lorii@gcacnavigator.org | Instagram: @Tapestrypac
Advocacy Organizations
Creative Ohio, Ohio Citizens for the Arts
We enrich our communities, citizens, and culture through constant advocacy and relentless support of Ohio creatives and the creative economy. CreativeOhio is the leading statewide advocacy organization for creatives and the creative economy – empowering, energizing, and establishing creativity as a core economic driver benefiting all Ohioans.
Website: creativeoh.org
Address: 77 South High Street, Floor 2 Columbus, OH 43215
Email: info@creativeoh.org
Ohio Alliance for Arts Education
The Ohio Alliance for Arts Education works to promote high-quality arts education programs in Ohio for all students. In order to accomplish our mission, OAAE needs YOU to be an arts education advocate. The information in this section will help you talk about the impact the arts have on student achievement, the economy, and quality of life. Make a personal commitment each month to promote arts education in your school, district, and community. Your support will strengthen OAAE’s advocacy efforts, and make it possible to achieve our common goals.
Website: oaae.net
Address: Vern Riffe Center for Government and the Arts
77 S. High St. 2nd Floor
Columbus, OH 43215
Phone: (614) 224-1060
Email: info@oaae.net
Ohio Black Dance
Established in 2011, Ohio Black Dance is a state-wide dance education and advocacy organization that promotes the preservation of the black dance tradition and continued cultivation of dance artists of color. Ohio Black Dance was created to affect positive change to the artistic environment for Ohio's African American Dance Artist. Ohio Black Dance mission is to cultivate a diverse community focused on the advancement of African American dance artist and culture.
Website: ohioblackdance.org
Address: 3783 Easton Way Columbus, Ohio 43219
Phone: (614) 398-0738
Email: info@ohioblackdance.org
Ohio Dance
OhioDance is committed to secure the foothold of dance in Ohio through increasing visibility, firming viability, and elevating the position of dance in Ohio. OhioDance is your representative for dance at the state level. In partnership with such organizations as the Ohio Arts Council, Ohio Department of Education, Ohio Alliance for Arts Education, Art Possible Ohio, and other statewide arts leaders. OhioDance creates a strong voice for dance in education and legislation. OhioDance has represented the field in the development of teacher certification, the state arts curriculum, and the Dance Educators Resource Guide on the web.
Website: ohiodance.org
Address: 77 S. High St., 2nd Floor Columbus, OH 43215
Phone: (614) 224-2913
Email: jane@ohiodance.org (Jane D’Angelo)
Support
Funding + Support Organizations
Greater Columbus Arts Council
Website: gcac.org
Address: 182 E. Long St. Columbus OH 43215
Phone: (614) 224-2606
Contact: www.gcac.org/contact-us/
The Greater Columbus Arts Council (Arts Council) funds artists and arts organizations and provides marketing services that support artists and organizations through the ColumbusMakesArt.com event calendar and Artist Directory. We also produce the annual Community Arts Partnership Awards recognizing business and individual contributions to the community and the Columbus Arts Festival, the city’s welcome to summer event that takes place each June. Arts Council programming provides access to the arts for people of all cultural backgrounds, economic status, sexual orientation, age and physical ability and ensures broad public access to the arts. Supporting Columbus artists, and arts and culture organizations enhances the cultural image of the Greater Columbus area.
Ohio Arts Council
Website: oac.ohio.gov/home
Address: 30 E. Broad Street, 33rd Floor, Columbus, Ohio 43215
Phone: (614) 466-2613
Email: communications@oac.ohio.gov
The board and staff of the Ohio Arts Council serve the public in strengthening Ohio communities culturally, educationally, and economically. The Ohio Arts Council's Essentials Plan is a strategic plan for the coming months. It lays out a way forward for the agency through four pillars: INVEST, ENGAGE, INNOVATE, and LEAD, which guide program prioritization and resource deployment. The Essentials Plan positions the OAC to remain relevant, responsive, and nimble as the state’s artists and arts organizations face new and unexpected challenges to their stability, resiliency, and resolve.
We need your help!
Do you know of a production + design professionals in Columbus that have not been included on this list? Email us at info@columbusdancealliance.org to give us the details! Thank you in advance for helping us to maintain this resource.