Falcon Children’s Home and Family Services of Falcon, NC, announces support of “The Potter’s Wheel,”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 
Mr. Michael Edds, Director of Donor Development
910-544-9117
Falcon Children’s Home and Family Services
910-980-1065
medds@fchfs.org
https://www.falconchildrenshome.org/
 
Falcon Children’s Home and Family Services of Falcon, NC, announces support of “The Potter’s Wheel,” the clay pottery art program, with the help of a grant in the amount of $6,100 from the Arts Council of Fayetteville/Cumberland County.
 
This grant will enable the youth of Falcon Children’s Home, Falcon Christian Academy, and the youth and the adults of the Upper Cumberland County region enjoy the creative expression and appreciation of working with clay and producing and sharing works of art they have created. This program depends upon the generosity of grants and outside funding.  The Series Support grant from the Arts Council will help our agency for the entire season, which includes a series of events to display the artistic clay art work of the participants. Project Support grants increase opportunities for access to arts, cultural and historical programming of Cumberland County.  The grants are awarded to Cumberland County nonprofit agencies, schools of higher learning, and municipal entities that demonstrate administrative and financial stability.
 
Since 1909, Falcon Children’s Home in Falcon, North Carolina, has provided the opportunity of hope for over 20,000 children, who needed a safe, nurturing and loving home and family.    Located on 40 acres just off Exit 65 off Interstate 95 in Falcon, North Carolina, the FCH campus includes 12 cottages that provide for residential care for children who can no longer live with their families, Falcon Christian Academy, 3 cottages for young mothers and babies and pregnant teens, a clinic, foster care and adoption services, and transitional living services.  
 
The Arts Council of Fayetteville/Cumberland County is a tax-exempt 501 c 3 organization based in Fayetteville, NC that connects our communities, embraces diversity, promotes individual creativity, advances economic development and fosters lifelong learning through the arts.  As a primary steward of public and private for the arts, cultural, and historical activities in the Cape Fear Region, all affiliated programs of the Arts Council exemplify our five core values of Excellence, Accountability, Transparency, Collaborative and Innovation.  In 2023-2024, the Arts Council distributed more than 1 million in grant funds and special allocations to Cumberland County artists, non-profits and institutions of higher education and municipal offices producing arts and cultural activities.  Grants, programs and services of the arts Council are funded in part by contributions from community partners, and through grants from the City of Fayetteville, Cumberland County and the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of National and Cultural Resources.   www.theartscouncil.com