The Norfolk Commission
The Virginia Commission
The Tourism Opportunity Project
The Business Consortium
Business Consortium for Arts Support
Norfolk State University
The City of Norfolk
The Portsmouth Museum
Attucks Theater

It all started in November of 1982 at the Black Art Forum sponsored by Norfolk State University and Old Dominion University. Dr. Glenn Ray and many forum attendees expressed concern that only a handful of black organizations were represented in the Greater Hampton Roads Cultural Action Plan, and that these organizations received the least funding. The purpose of the forum was to respond to these concerns.


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