Grants

Grants made in 2005

Excellence in the Arts $230,800

Amistad Center for Art & Culture

Amount
$10,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Double Exposure photography exhibition

Ballet Theatre Company

Amount
$3,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Costumes for Les Sylphides and The Nutcracker

Community Partners in Action

Amount
$2,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Frames and sculpture platforms for works in the permanent collection

CONCORA

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Season support, 2005-2006

Connecticut Ballet

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Performance of Cinderella at The Belding Theater

Connecticut Classical Guitar Society

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Guitar Masters Series

CREC Center for Creative Youth

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Tuition support for Hartford-area students

CSS/CON

Amount
$2,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Mural in the neighborhood

Farmington Valley Arts Center

Amount
$2,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Second Thursday Arts Nights

Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Opera festival for young singers

Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz

Amount
$7,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Support for Jazz festival

HartBeat Ensemble

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production of new play, News to Me

Hartford Children’s Theatre

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Mainstage production support

Hartford Conservatory

Amount
$2,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Musical theater production

Hartford Jazz Society

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Jazz at the Atheneum series

Hartford Public Library

Amount
$3,300
Category
Excellence in the Arts

To commission work by photographer Carla Hernandez Ten Eyck

Hartford Stage

Amount
$22,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support for Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Amount
$20,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Classical Conversations with Dr. Robert Greenberg

Joyful Noise

Amount
$1,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Music for a Great Space concert

Lift Every Voice and Sing

Amount
$3,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

2005 gospel festival

Mark Twain House

Amount
$20,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Twain, Tiffany & Other Treasures exhibition

Meta Arts

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

New work: Time Out

New England Jazz Ensemble

Amount
$2,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Recording project

Noah Webster House Foundation

Amount
$1,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Webster Company Dancers

Peace Train Foundation

Amount
$3,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

New England Fiddle Contest

Pilobolus

Amount
$7,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Movin’ arts education program

Real Art Ways

Amount
$15,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Exhibition: Faith

Riverfront Recapture

Amount
$3,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Guitars Under the Stars concert

Sankofa Kuumba Cultural Arts Consortium

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

The Creative You in-school arts education program

Theaterworks

Amount
$20,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support for The Exonerated

Wadsworth Atheneum

Amount
$25,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Rodin exhibition

West Indian Foundation

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Exhibition of Stanwyck Cromwell and Jerry Barry

Capital $35,000

Little Theatre of Manchester at Cheney Hall

Amount
$10,000
Category
Capital

Restoration of historic piano

New Britain Museum of American Art

Amount
$25,000
Category
Capital

1st distribution on $50,000 grant for print/works-on-paper study room

Creation of New Work $12,500

Wadsworth Atheneum

Amount
$12,500
Category
Creation of New Work
Grants made in
2005

To commission a work by choreographers Adam Miller and Katie Stevenson-Nollet as part of the Wadsworth Atheneum’s initiative to present a full performance series in the museum’s theater.

Total: $278,300