Grants

Grants made in 2004

Excellence in the Arts $229,500

Adam Miller Dance Project

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

New work

Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

Amount
$15,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

75th anniversary year dance series

Charter Oak Cultural Center

Amount
$10,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Dance at Charter Oak

Community Partners in Action

Amount
$2,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

To frame works from the permanent collection

CONCORA

Amount
$7,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support, 2004-2005 Season

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

Final distribution of grant for Eliphalet Chapin furniture exhibition

CREC Center for Creative Youth

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Tuition support for Hartford-area students

Cultural Dance Troupe of the West Indies

Amount
$3,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support for Cultural Spectactular

First Night Hartford

Amount
$2,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Musical performances

Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Community photography project

Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz

Amount
$7,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Support for Jazz festival

Guakia

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Premier performing ensembles

HartBeat Ensemble

Amount
$3,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Youth vacation theater program

Hartford Children’s Theatre

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Mainstage production support

Hartford Chorale

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

American Choral Celebration concert

Hartford Stage

Amount
$25,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Amount
$20,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Classical Conversations with Dr. Robert Greenberg

Huntington House Museum

Amount
$2,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Benny Andrews exhibition

Joyful Noise

Amount
$1,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Music for a Great Space concert

Lift Every Voice and Sing

Amount
$2,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Annual gospel festival

Mark Twain House

Amount
$10,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Jill Krementz exhibition

Meta Arts

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

New work: Secrets

New World Trio

Amount
$7,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support, 2004-2005 season

Peace Train Foundation

Amount
$2,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

New England Fiddle Contest

Pilobolus

Amount
$10,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Summer performance on riverfront

Polish American Foundation of Connecticut

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, production support

Riverfront Recapture

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Summer concerts

Studio of Electronic Music

Amount
$2,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Commission by Anthony Cornicello

Wadsworth Atheneum

Amount
$35,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Frame for Benjamin West’s Raising of Lazarus

Capital $102,500

Artworks Gallery

Amount
$7,500
Category
Capital

Gallery and signage upgrades

Connecticut Opera

Amount
$15,000
Category
Capital

Final distribution of grant for supertitle equipment upgrades

Hill-Stead Museum

Amount
$25,000
Category
Capital

First distribution on a $50,000 grant for a scholarly book on Hill-Stead

Hole In the Wall Company

Amount
$5,000
Category
Capital

New theater in downtown New Britain

New Britain Museum of American Art

Amount
$50,000
Category
Capital

for Prints/Works On Paper Study Area, to begin distribution in 2005

Creation of New Work $25,000

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Amount
$12,500
Category
Creation of New Work
Grants made in
2004

o commission composer Michael Gatonska to create Wandering the Moon Nursery, a new work that premiered at a Masterworks Series concert in November, 2005.

New Britain Museum of American Art

Amount
$12,500
Category
Creation of New Work
Grants made in
2004

To commission composer Ken Steen, e-cellist Jeffrey Krieger, and media artist Gene Gort to create a multimedia work entitled Reliquary of Labor which premiered at the opening of the newly expanded museum and performance space in 2006.

Total: $357,000