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FY 2012 Grant Awards: State Listings

Art Works II/Arts in Media/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
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
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.

Connecticut College
New London, CT
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of performances during the Onstage at Connecticut College season. Presentations by David Dorfman Dance, theater groups the Civilians and SITI Company, and music ensemble Sō Percussion will be accompanied by workshops and master classes for middle, high school, and college students.

Connecticut Historical Society
Hartford, CT
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the digitizing and cataloguing of painting for The Artist and the Connecticut Landscape. Part of Connecticut History Online digital library, the project will involve digitization and cataloguing of 500 paintings from the Colonial Period through the early 20th century from the collections of Connecticut art museums such as the Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London, the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, the New Britain Museum of American Art, and the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford.

Connecticut State Office of the Arts, Dept. of Economic & Community Development
Hartford, CT
$738,100
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Elm Shakespeare Company
New Haven, CT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production from Shakespeare's canon directed by Artistic Director James Andreassi with accompanying educational and outreach activities. In tandem with free performances in New Haven's Edgerton Park, the project will include The Elm Scholars Program, a summer theater experience for New Haven youth to work and study with professional actors, sound and lighting designers, and operators.

Goodspeed Opera House Foundation, Inc. (aka Goodspeed Musicals)
East Haddam, CT
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a production of Carousel, with music by Richard Rodgers, book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, and direction by Rob Ruggiero. In keeping with the theater's mission of preserving, producing, and advancing American musical theater, the production will include accompanying educational and outreach activities about the creative process of musical theater.

HartBeat Ensemble
Hartford, CT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support arts programming in a newly-developed multidisciplinary performance space in the commercial Hollander Building in downtown Hartford. The project will offer theatrical performances and multidisciplinary arts programming targeted to low- and moderate-income residents, and an affordable rehearsal and performance space for individual artists and small to mid-size companies.

Institute for Community Research, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Cultural Heritage Arts Program. The project will provide for identification, documentation, and presentation of folk arts; training for community scholars; development of a website with online galleries and professionally produced videos; and a traveling exhibit on Connecticut's agricultural traditions, in collaboration with state offices of Historic Preservation and Tourism.

Institute for Community Research, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Southern New England Apprenticeship Program. In its 15th year, the project will bring together master artists and apprentices from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut to teach students from their community, presenting the results of their cooperative learning in a public event, community festival, or performance.

Music Haven, Inc.
New Haven, CT
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support a free, year-long, after-school music residency of the Haven String Quartet. Program components include twice-weekly instrumental music lessons, bi-monthly workshops, and mentoring from college students studying music.

New Haven International Festival of Arts & Ideas, Inc.
New Haven, CT
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support cornerstone projects at the 2012 festival. The projects will include performances by Asphalt Orchestra, Mark Morris Dance Group, Taiwan’s Contemporary Legend Theater, and poet Robert Pinsky and musician Ben Allison, and associated outreach activities.

New Haven Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
New Haven, CT
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support an artist-in-residency project featuring composer and violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain. The orchestra and Music Director William Boughton will collaborate with the composer during the five-week residency, titled From Haydn to Hip Hop, which will include two-day residencies at five New Haven high schools.

Pilobolus, Inc.
Washington Depot, CT
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the International Collaborators Project, a program which fosters creative collaboration with guest artists from different creative backgrounds. Guest artists will include film director Trish Sie, master juggler Michael Moschen, and choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui.

Wesleyan University (Consortium)
Middletown, CT
$34,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the university's new Institute for Curatorial Practice. In partnership with Danspace Project, Wesleyan is launching the nation's first post-graduate professional certificate program in curatorial practice.


Number of Grants: 14          Total Amount: $1,152,100

 
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