Foundation Grant To Help Selma Art Organization To Continue Work Year-Round

By Justin Averette

A grant from the Alabama Power Foundation will help a Selma organization working to revitalize the community through the arts continue their work year-around.

The $5,000 grant to ArtsRevive will assist with the installation of a new HVAC system at its Carneal Building headquarters.

ArtsRevive uses the space for art classes and exhibits as well as community events like the annual Kathryn Tucker Windham Tale-Tellin’ Festival. Executive director Becky Youngblood said ArtsRevive has always been at the mercy of Mother Nature since the building doesn’t have heat or air conditioning.“We’ve been able to use it in the winter, but you have to rent a heater, which has never really done the job,” Youngblood said. “During Tale Tellin’ last fall, it was so cold because you had to turn the heater off when people were talking, which was most of the time. Literally, we were just freezing in there – and that was October.”

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