Grants

Grants made in 2006

Excellence in the Arts $260,000

Amistad Center for Art & Culture

Amount
$15,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

For the Love of the Game exhibition

Artists in Real Time

Amount
$1,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

17th annual Open Studio event

Ballet Theatre Company

Amount
$2,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Costumes for Whodunnit?

Capital Classics

Amount
$2,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Summer Shakespeare production

Capital Community College

Amount
$4,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Lighting and UV window treatment for gallery

Charter Oak Cultural Center

Amount
$10,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Dance at Charter Oak collaborative

CitySingers of Hartford

Amount
$1,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Illumina concert

CONCORA

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Spring 2007 concerts

Connecticut Classical Guitar Society

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Guitar Masters Series

Connecticut Opera

Amount
$20,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Cosi fan tutte production

CSS/CON

Amount
$2,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Neighborhood mural arts education program

Cultural Dance Troupe of the West Indies

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support for Cultural Spectactular

Footlights

Amount
$3,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Audition for Life program

Guakia

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Premier performing ensembles

HartBeat Ensemble

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Plays in the Parks program

Hartford Children’s Theatre

Amount
$7,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Mainstage production support

Hartford Chorale

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Mozart Requiem concert with the Hartford Symphony

Hartford Jazz Society

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

2006/2007 Jazz at the Atheneum series

Hartford Public Library

Amount
$2,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Exhibition of photographer Carla Ten Eyck

Hartford Stage

Amount
$25,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

I Am My Own Wife production

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Amount
$25,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

1st of 2-year support for Family Matinee series

Hispanic Professional Network

Amount
$2,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Fiesta Del Rio concert during Riverfest

Institute for Community Research

Amount
$2,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Weavings of War exhibition

Judy Dworin Performance Project

Amount
$6,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Time In performance

Lift Every Voice and Sing

Amount
$3,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Annual gospel festival

Peace Train Foundation

Amount
$2,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

New England Fiddle Contest

Pilobolus

Amount
$10,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Dance education program

Polish American Foundation of Connecticut

Amount
$4,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Connecticut Virtuosi Orchestra concert

Real Art Ways

Amount
$12,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Open, annual juried shows

Riverfront Recapture

Amount
$10,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Opera al Fresco event and 25th anniversary

Studio of Electronic Music

Amount
$2,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Spring 2007 concert series

Theaterworks

Amount
$20,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Take Me Out production

Wadsworth Atheneum

Amount
$25,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Connecticut Contemporary exhibition

Woodland Concert Series

Amount
$3,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Sweet Honey in the Rock concert

Capital $27,500

Artists Collective

Amount
$15,000
Category
Capital

1st distribution of $30,000 grant for building repairs

New Britain Museum of American Art

Amount
$12,500
Category
Capital

2nd distribution of $50,000 for print/works-on-paper study room

Creation of New Work $25,000

Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz

Amount
$12,500
Category
Creation of New Work
Grants made in
2006

To commission The Hartford Suite, a new work by jazz musician/composer Steve Davis to premier at the 2007 festival. The piece, comprised of multiple movements, commemorated various Hartford area landmarks, people, or events.

Trinity-On-Main

Amount
$12,500
Category
Creation of New Work
Grants made in
2006

To commission No Mas Muertes, a work about illegal immigration, by composer David Macbride with spoken text drawn from Luis Alberto Urrea’s The Devil’s Highway.

Total: $312,500