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From working with developers on affordable live/work housing for artists to offering key services to emerging arts organizations and expanding audiences for arts programming, CuDC is building DC’s arts industry and providing artists with greater opportunities. Among CuDC’s recent accomplishments over the past two years:
- Acquired the Source theatre on 14th Street, NW and launched a $3.5M campaign to rehabilitate this black box theatre to provide administrative, rehearsal and performance space for 6 resident companies and other DC-area performing arts groups;
- Awarded the Washington Post Award for Innovative Leadership in the Theatre Community at the 2007 Helen Hayes Awards for CuDC’s commitment to saving and reinvigorating the Source theatre (April 2007);
- Awarded Catalyst Award from American Institute of Architects for CuDC’s role in the redevelopment of Mather Studios (October 2006);
- Began planning and design, with Manna, Inc., for 41 affordable artist work/live condominiums at 24th & Douglas Street NE in Washington’s Langdon neighborhood (Ward 5);
- Began assisting Artspace Projects with the development of affordable live/work apartments in conjunction with a new facility for Dance Place in Brookland (Ward 5);
- Created a business plan for development of a cultural arts center as part of the Eastgate Gardens HOPE VI project in Ward 7 of Washington, DC;
- Submitted a proposal to lease and restore the Old Naval Hospital at 9th & Pennsylvania SE (Ward 6) as a signature center for the visual arts and were “short-listed;”
- Hosted 50 events in the Business Center at Flashpoint, including development roundtables, executive directors’ roundtables, resident organization meetings and new space roundtables;
- Presented 16 art exhibitions in the Gallery at Flashpoint, including Micro-Monumental, an exhibition of sculpture the size of a kitchen matchbox, featuring the work of 40 artists and juried by Kristen Hileman, assistant curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden;
- Hosted more than 300 performances and rehearsals in the Gilbert & Jaylee Mead Theatre Lab, including theatre, music, dance, cabaret, improv and film;
- Presented 11 productions as part of the Mead Theatre Lab Program. During the 06-07 season the season included: iMusical, a production by Washington Improv Theater combining improv and music, inspired by audience suggestions; Violet in My Winter, presented by BosmaDance, took a contemporary look at the life and writings of Emily Dickinson; Solas Nua presented The Small Things written by contemporary Irish playwright Edna Walsh; Hidden Pages, a new Hip Hop musical set in an allegorical world of political science fiction examined the role of leadership in the face of revolutionary failure; and Taffety Punk Theatre Company presented The Devil in His Own Words, a one man show, which fuses modern sound and classical texts with an original score and questions the role of evil as pure or pre-determined.
- Hosted more than 600 classes and rehearsals in the Dallas Morse Coors Dance Studio at Flashpoint, including Middle-Eastern and Southeast Asian dancing classes from Sahara Dance and Dhoonya Dance and rehearsals for StepAfrika!, Maru Montero Dance Company and other choreographers; and
- Approved and implemented three-year strategic plan at our February 21, 2006 board meeting; and
- Evaluated staff roles and responsibilities to plan for organizational and programmatic growth, which resulted in the hiring of a full-time development director and development associate, a part-time campaign director, as well as a full-time operations director and operations associate.
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