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FY 2010 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/American Masterpieces/
Arts on Radio and Television/Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth/Partnerships

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

CONNECTICUT

Architecture Resource Center, Inc.
New Haven, CT
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Design Connections, a design education initiative. Architects, city planners, and museum educators will assist teachers in integrating the design arts into the classroom curriculum.

City of New Haven, Conneticut
New Haven, CT
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the inventory and documentation of New Haven, Connecticut's, public art collection. More than 400 works of public art are known to exist in the historic city.

Connecticut College
New London, CT
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of performances during the Onstage at Connecticut College 2010-2011 season. Presentations will be accompanied by workshops and master classes for middle, high school, and college students.

Connecticut College
New London, CT
$15,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the reconstruction and presentation of Fugue (1975 by choreographer Twyla Tharp on Connecticut College dance students. The project will also include workshops, lectures, and informal performances for schoolchildren and adults.

Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism
Hartford, CT
$852,400
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Connecticut Historical Society
Hartford, CT
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Arts and Accomplishments: Connecticut Women and Their Needlework, 1740-1840, with accompanying catalogue and education program. The exhibition will include a symposium and adult, youth, and family programs.

Elm Shakespeare Company
New Haven, CT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support free performances of classical productions in rotating repertory in New Haven's Edgerton Park. The productions will be accompanied by the Elm Scholars Program, a summer theater program that allows students to work alongside professional Equity artists.

HartBeat Ensemble
Hartford, CT
$17,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Youth Play Institute. Urban and suburban high school students will participate in month-long, after-school play-building residencies taught by working theater professionals.

Hill-Stead Museum
Farmington, CT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Sunken Garden Poetry and Music Festival. Programming on the summer series will include readings by notable, emerging, and student poets; post-performance "meet-the-poet" opportunities; book signings; and jazz performances.

Institute for Community Research, Inc. (aka ICR) (Consortium)
Hartford, CT
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Southern New England Apprenticeship Program. In collaboration with the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the program will bring together artists and apprentices from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.

Institute for Community Research, Inc. (aka ICR)
Hartford, CT
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Cultural Heritage Arts Program (CHAP). The project serves as the official statewide folk arts program.

Music and Arts Center for Humanity, Inc.
Bridgeport, CT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support AileyCamp and Dance II. The camp provides at-risk students with dance classes, workshops that address teenage issues, and personal counseling sessions. Dance II offers additional training for graduates of the AileyCamp.

New Haven International Festival of Arts & Ideas, Inc.
New Haven, CT
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Blurring the Lines. The project will include the commissioning of new work and outreach activities such as master classes, and post-performance and panel discussions designed to engage audiences.

New Haven International Festival of Arts & Ideas, Inc.
New Haven, CT
$35,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Opening a Door to the Future, featuring works by choreographer Susan Marshall and new music ensemble Bang on a Can All-Stars. Performances will be complemented by workshops, master classes, and panel discussions.

Our Piece of the Pie, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Journey of the Heartwood. Students will participate in one of two programs to learn traditional skills in boat-building or folk instrument-making. Boatwrights and instrument makers will teach students in traditional methods the cultural contexts of the objects they will learn to craft.

Real Art Ways, Inc. (Consortium)
Hartford, CT
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support concurrent exhibitions by artists Olu Oguibe and Saya Woolfalk. The exhibitions, accompanied by ancillary programming, will be undertaken in partnership with the Parkville Senior Center.

Site Projects, Inc.
Hamden, CT
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the commissioning of a site-specific public artwork by Felice Varini. The artist will install Square and Four Circles in Temple Plaza in downtown New Haven.

Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc.
Storrs Mansfield, CT
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Creative Force 2010. The exhibition, to be held during the Houston International Quilt Festival, will include approximately 50 quilts by members of Studio Art Quilt Associates.

Westport Country Playhouse, Inc
Westport, CT
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of The Diary of Anne Frank, with Wendy Kesselman's adaptation of the original 1955 play by Francess Goodrich and Albert Hackett. Artistic Director Mark Lamos and Associate Director David Kennedy will oversee the artistic process, with accompanying educational and outreach activities.

Yale University
New Haven, CT
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support design plans for the Naugatuck Valley Industrial Heritage Trail. The plans will include a design strategy to improve the urban industrial corridor and preserve the natural elements of the river valley landscape and its cultural heritage assets.

Yale University (on behalf of Norfolk Chamber Music Festival)
New Haven, CT
$40,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Charles Ives Project, concerts of the American composer's chamber music at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. Performances will be augmented by seminars, lectures, workshops, and a critical essay on Charles Ives (1874-1954) and his influence on 20th-century music.


Number of Grants: 21          Total Amount: $1,329,400

 
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