KLEIN A&C RECEIVES TWO GRANTS IN 2019

Klein Art & Culture was awarded the Peter H. Brink Leadership Fund grant by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in July, 2019. The purpose of the Brink Fund is to build the capacity of existing preservation organizations and to encourage collaboration among them. Georgette Norman, founding director of the Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery, was selected to engage in board development with Klein Arts & Culture and, to date, has conducted interviews with each member of the founding board and she use this information to increase board capacity.Then, in December 2019, the Alabama State Council on the Arts funded the Klein Descendants Speak project. Ms. Norman will continue to conduct interviews, this time with a focus on descendants telling the story of their family’s relationship to Klein, their history in the community, and the descendant’s hope for the future. These interviews will become the basis for a video installation concerning the history of Klein and the Harpersville community.