Eerie Arts Awarded Grant for Refugee Arts Program

Eerie Arts & Culture (Eerie, PA) has been awarded $37,500 from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The funding will go towards programs to support immigrant and refugee arts programming. The grant recieved coverage in Eerie News Now, a local news organization.

"It enables us to work with artist that are already living in our community," said Kelly Armor, folk art director for Erie Arts and Culture. "Most of them are refugees."

"This grant helps us work with these artist through a variety of activities to build their share their abilities and capacities to be able to share their art," said Armor.

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Published: July 03, 2019