The Alabama State Council for the Arts has awarded KAC $65,000 toward the construction of our Venue Support and Artist Residency Cottage. This building will provide two bathrooms with exterior entrances, a small kitchen for catering, and living space for artists and historians in short-term residencies. Ground will be broken in Spring 2023. We are currently engaged in fundraising for the match required for this grant.

On September 9, 2022, Theo Perkins and Nell Gottlieb shared information about Klein Arts & Culture with attendees of the 7th Annual Civic Institute, Public Trust & Collective Imagination. The Civic Institute is a project of the David Matthews Center for Civic Life in Montevallo. Their panel was titled: Where you are with what you’ve got: Building civic spaces in your neighborhood.

The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham has awarded $15,000 for the period 7/1/22 to 6/31/23 to conduct cultural assets mapping, have local artists perform, and enhance the October 2022 homecoming. Creative placemaking provides the framework for this activity, which is directed toward reparative programming that facilitates racial reconciliation.

Wideman-Davis Dance will return for an 18 week residency in Harpersville between April 2023 to March 2024 with funding from the New Monuments Project of the Mellon Foundation. Migratuse Revisited will expand their model to include more community involvement and audience engagement, placing the Black narrative in antebellum history through dance. Klein Arts & Culture is proud to be their partner.

The Alabama State Council for the Arts has awarded $15,000 (10/1/2021-9/30/2022) to Klein Arts & Culture under the Alabama Arts Recovery Program to address our program losses during the pandemic. This was supplemented by a Sustainability Grant of $6,000 from South Arts to support our operations between 1/1 to 12/31/2022.

The Alabama State Council for the Arts has awarded KAC two grants totaling $13,000 effective 1/3 to 9/31/22.

The Alabama Humanities Alliance has awarded $7,500 for the period 12/1/21 to 9/15/22 to Klein Arts & Culture to conduct three public panels: the history of the historic Wallace Plantation, issues in the reparative interpretation of plantation houses, and the design of experiential exhibits based on reparative interpretation, using the Wallace House as an example.

A group of distinguished historians and creators has come together to discuss best practices in the interpretation of plantation houses and to understand the history of the Wallace Plantation from a full perspective that brings together black, white and indigenous narratives.

On June 2, 2021, the Alabama State Council for the Arts awarded KAC $35,000.00 for our Cultural Facilities project, titled "Klein Arts & Culture Cultural Facilities Design”.

Writing our Stories students taught by Daniel DeVaughn in the Vincent Middle School completed the Land as Persona: Many Paths to the Present curriculum in May, 2021. Through the form of the persona poem, students were given the chance to learn and explore the many people and peoples who have called the Harpersville-Vincent area home.

The preliminary design of the visitor center is intended to be modern, evoking what might have been an original outbuilding. The visitor center is an important support facility for the historic Wallace-Klein House. It enables the house to serve as a venue for arts and education. We will begin fundraising for this building in 2021.

The Alabama Writers’ Forum views the Klein-Wallace house, and the land surrounding it, as a means to give students a direct and tangible link to this state's complex past—a literal doorway into history.

Bloom, a student-run design studio at the University of Alabama at Birmingham headed by professor Douglas Barrett, has selected Klein Arts & Culture as its client for Fall 2020.

On November 3, 2019, Barbara Adkins, Peter Datcher, Nell Gottlieb and Theoangelo Perkins were recognized as Harpersville Stars as part of the Sixth Annual Harpersville Day Celebration. City hall officials introduced each star, providing biographical information and noting how each made the community shine.

Isabella Newbrun joined Klein Arts & Culture for the summer of 2020 as our first intern.

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.