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CROZET GAZETTE PRESS RELEASE SEPTEMBER 2024:
Crozet Arts has been awarded a grant of $7000 from the Bama Works Fund of the Dave Matthews Band in the most recent cycle of grant awards. The grant will support Crozet Arts’ general operations and programs. Crozet Arts is a 501(c)(3) non-profit committed to bringing the arts to life in our community through high-quality and engaging instruction and experiences in the arts, for all ages. Need-based scholarships are available. This is the eighth grant awarded to Crozet Arts by the Bama Works Fund of the Dave Matthews Band to support its programs and operations. To learn more about Crozet Arts please visit CrozetArts.org
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CROZET GAZETTE PRESS RELEASE AUGUST 2023:
Crozet Arts is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a grant of $7500 from the Bama Works Fund of the Dave Matthews Band. The grant will support general operations as Crozet Arts continues to rebuild from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on its programs. Crozet Arts is a 501(c)(3) non-profit committed to bringing the arts to life in our community through high-quality and engaging instruction and experiences in the arts. Need-based scholarships are available. This is the seventh grant awarded to Crozet Arts by the Bama Works Fund of the Dave Matthews Band to support its programs and operations. To learn more about Crozet Arts please visit CrozetArts.org
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CROZET GAZETTE MAY 2022
Read about Crozet Arts in this May 2022 Crozet Gazette article
by Theresa Curry.
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Crozet Gazette
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Old Crozet School Arts Launches Classes
As recently as June, Old Crozet School Arts founders Sharon Tolczyk and Mollie Washburne didn’t know if they were going to be opening an arts school in the old Crozet elementary school or not. On September 1, as workmen paused from installing a sprung dance floor in one former classroom, they hosted a kick-off event to announce the beginning of classes in 16 types of art on September 8. They had gotten a tremendous amount of work done in, as old-timers used to say, a rapid hurry. Not too long ago local citizens said they wanted a cultural center in the 1924 building, and with enterprising spirit, and a leap of faith, Tolczyk, serving as artist director, and Washburn, the administrative director, have made it happen.
Old Crozet School into Arts
Arts enthusiasts in Western Albemarle no longer need to trek into town to take classes. Old Crozet School Arts (OCSA), which opened in September 2009 in the former Crozet Elementary School building, offers a wide range of quality and affordable arts instruction for artists of all ages and disciplines.
The non-profit organization arose out of the community’s desire to revitalize the aging school building, which sat vacant for a number of years, as a culture and community center. OCSA offers classes in dance, music, theatre, visual arts, and other art forms. It’s their hope that intermingling artists from all disciplines under one roof will promote growth, awareness, and integration of the arts and will lay the groundwork for the development of a true center of culture at the Old Crozet School.