Amistad Foundation
Amount
$10,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Fresh Faces exhibition
Grants
Grants made in 2003
Excellence in the Arts $211,200
Artists Collective
Amount
$10,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Two theater productions
Bloomfield Education Foundation
Amount
$4,800
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Keyboards for keyboard lab
Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts
Amount
$17,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Presentation of Alvin Ailey Dance Theater Company
Celebrate Windsor!
Amount
$15,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Hartford Symphony concert
Chamber Music Plus
Amount
$10,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Commission of new work by composer Avery Sharpe
CONCORA
Amount
$10,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
2003-2004 Season support
Connecticut Classical Guitar Society
Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Guitar Masters Series
Connecticut Historical Society
Amount
$10,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
First installment of $20,000 grant for Eliphalet Chapin Connecticut furniture exhibition
Connecticut Opera
Amount
$3,400
Category
Excellence in the Arts
First installment of $18,400 grant to upgrade supertitle equipment
CREC Center for Creative Youth
Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Tuition support for Hartford-area students
Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz
Amount
$7,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Support for Jazz festival
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Creation of a new touring theater piece
Hartford Jazz Society
Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Spring 2004 concert series at the Wadsworth Atheneum
Hartford Public Library
Amount
$2,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Hearts & Hands arts enrichment program
Hartford Stage
Amount
$25,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Brand:NEW new plays festival
Historic Deerfield
Amount
$4,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Woodworkers of Windsor exhibition at the Windsor Historical Society
Mark Twain House
Amount
$15,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Exhibition of photographer Alvin Langdon Coburn
New Britain Museum of American Art
Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
LeWitt’s LeWitts exhibition
New World Chamber Ensemble
Amount
$7,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts
2003/2004 season support
Noah Webster House Foundation
Amount
$2,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Music director for WebsterCompany
Polish American Foundation of Connecticut
Amount
$2,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra
Riverfront Recapture
Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Summer concerts on River Plaza Stage
Wadsworth Atheneum
Amount
$25,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Childe Hassam exhibition
Capital $80,000
First Church of Christ in Hartford
Amount
$20,000
Category
Capital
Restoration of Roberts Memorial Organ
Hartford Art School – University of Hartford
Amount
$20,000
Category
Capital
Lighting upgrade for the Joseloff Gallery
Newington Children’s Theater
Amount
$5,000
Category
Capital
Equipment for new black box theater
St. Joseph College
Amount
$15,000
Category
Capital
In-house sound mix station for Hoffman Auditorium
Trinity College
Amount
$20,000
Category
Capital
Final installment of $100,000 grant for renovations to Austin Art Center’s Goodwin Theater
Creation of New Work $22,500
Hartford Art School – University of Hartford
Amount
$12,500
Category
Creation of New Work
Grants made in
2003
To commission photographer Christine Breslin to create a mixed media work entitled Beyond the Veil, a series of interviews, photographs and digital images exploring the challenges Hartford-area Muslim teenage girls face in maintaining their identity in the context of contemporary American mass culture.
Real Art Ways
Amount
$10,000
Category
Creation of New Work
Grants made in
2003
To commission musician Stephen Haynes to compose a new jazz piece in conjunction with Real Art Way’s 2005 exhibition, Faith.
Total: $313,700