Budget
$400,000.00
Description
In its first six seasons, OZ Arts has established itself as a destination for world-class contemporary dance, theater, and multimedia performances. Visiting artists have included Camille A. Brown & Dancers, Wayne McGregor and Random Dance, ETHEL, Peter Brook's Theatre des Bouffes du Nord, Philip Glass and Tim Fain, Tim Robbins and The Actor's Gang, BANDALOOP, Vijay Iyer, Laurie Anderson, and Trisha Brown Dance Company, among others. OZ Arts seeks to bring national and international artists to the Greater Nashville community, as well as support local emerging and established artists by providing a nationally recognized platform.

Featured artists in our 2019/20 Season include: Hiroaki Umeda (Japan), Wendy Whelan + Maya Beiser, Companhia Urbana de Dança (Brazil), Ronald K. Brown / EVIDENCE, Stew & Heidi, TeatroCinema (Chile), and Manual Cinema.

Program Areas Served
Performing Arts

Budget
$235,000.00
Description
Since the beginning, OZ Arts has been invested in providing a platform for local artists to create multi-disciplinary new work.Participating artists included Chancellor Warhol, Benton C. Bainbridge, Herb Williams, Moon Taxi, Hunter Armistead, New Dialect, Michael Weintrob, Windship Boyd, Jakob Lewis, Tony Perrin, and Alex Lockwood, to name a few.

In our seventh season, we expanded our commitment to local artist programming by featuring 8 projects by Tennessee-based artists and more than doubling the total amount of artist fees being paid to makers in our immediate community. Featured local artists in the upcoming eighth season include: Dave Ragland and Inversion Vocal Ensemble, Shabaz Ujima, and Jessika Malone among others.

Category
Arts, Culture & Humanities  - Performing Arts 
Program Areas Served
Performing Arts

Budget
$50,000.00
Description
OZ Arts is proud to partner with Metro Schools for this pioneering initiative. By developing original cross-discipline lesson plans, OZ Arts engages students, educators, and teaching artists in the STEAM process which sparks creative thinking by combining the essence of contemporary art with innovative core learning. OZ Arts has innovatively re-tooled our Metro Schools STEAM Fusion original plans to bring arts-integrated curriculum into the classroom even without schools in session.

OZ has launched the OZ STEAM Fusion Virtual Library. The virtual library currently consists of 10 videos and accompanying educator guides designed to pair the arts ("A") with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) components for cross-curriculum learning.



Beneficiaries
Children and Youth (0 - 19 years)
Program Areas Served
Education & Engagement

Budget
$10,000.00
Description
In its second year, Art Wire is a unique collaboration between OZ Arts and The Porch Writers' Collective, which provides two cohorts of writers (adult and teen) the chance to experience a full season of OZ presentations, drawing inspiration from each live performance in order to generate original ekphrastic writing (poetry, fiction, lyric essay, etc.). Art Wire is an experiment in the artistic conversation between artforms, exploring social media responses, publishing written work online in draft form, and celebrating with a free and open to the public genre-hybrid reading at the season's end.
Beneficiaries
Adolescents
Adults
Program Areas Served
Education & Engagement