Grants

Grants made in 2007

Excellence in the Arts $216,000

Ballet Theatre Company

Amount
$3,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support for 2007 concert

Capital Classics

Amount
$3,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support for 2007 summer Shakespeare Festival

Charter Oak Cultural Center

Amount
$5,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Dance at Charter Oak

Community Partners in Action

Amount
$2,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Equipment for Prison Art Program

CONCORA

Amount
$4,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Partial season production support, spring 2008

Connecticut Ballet

Amount
$7,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support for Sleeping Beauty at the Belding Theater

Connecticut Guitar Society

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support for Guitar Masters series

Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support for 2007-2008 season at Trinity-On-Main

Cultural Dance Troupe of the West Indies

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support for 2008 Cultural Spectactular

Friends of Elizabeth Park

Amount
$2,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support for summer 2007 concert series

Full Force Dance Theatre

Amount
$3,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support for 2007 concert

Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz

Amount
$7,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Support for 2007 Jazz Festival

HartBeat Ensemble

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support for The Pueblo

Hartford Children’s Theatre

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support for Mainstage Series

Hartford Chorale

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Support for professional core singers

Hartford Jazz Society

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support for Jazz at the Atheneum series

Hartford Stage

Amount
$25,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support for Chick, The Great Osram

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Amount
$25,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support for the Family Matinee series

Judy Dworin Performance Project

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support for The Witching Hour

Lift Every Voice and Sing

Amount
$3,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support for 2007 gospel festival

Mark Twain House

Amount
$12,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Conservation of paintings and works on paper

National Theatre of the Deaf

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Hartford-area performances of Little Theater of the Deaf

New Britain Symphony Orchestra

Amount
$2,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support for 2007-2008 concert series

Oil Drum Art

Amount
$3,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Support for exhibition at ArtSpace

Pilobolus

Amount
$7,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Support for creation of a new work, The Persistence of Memory

Real Art Ways

Amount
$12,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Support for a public art project in the Frog Hollow and Parkville neighborhoods

Riverfront Recapture

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support for 2007 Opera al Fresco

Studio of Electronic Music

Amount
$2,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support for 2008 concert series

Trinity-On-Main

Amount
$2,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support for their Avery Ensemble concert series

Wadsworth Atheneum

Amount
$25,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Support for the What Lies Beneath exhibition

West Indian Foundation

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Suport for an exhibition of works by Michael Escoffrey

Woodland Concert Series

Amount
$2,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support for a Vaughn Williams concert

Capital $75,000

Artists Collective

Amount
$15,000
Category
Capital

Final distribution of a $30,000 grant for building repairs

Connecticut Science Center

Amount
$7,500
Category
Capital

1st distribution of $25,000 grant for public art

Hartt School of Music – University of Hartford

Amount
$25,000
Category
Capital

1st distribution of $100,000 grant to Hartt’s new performing arts center

Hill-Stead Museum

Amount
$15,000
Category
Capital

2nd distribution on a $50,000 grant for major book on Hill-Stead

New Britain Museum of American Art

Amount
$12,500
Category
Capital

Final distribution on a $50,000 grant for print/works-on-paper study room

Creation of New Work $12,500

Real Art Ways

Amount
$12,500
Category
Creation of New Work
Grants made in
2007

To commission A Thought at the Edge of the Continent: Manchuria to Siberia 1942 -1947 by Hirokazu Fukawa, a series of sculptures/site installations inspired by artist’s ongoing exploration of suicide bombings in current and past political contexts.

Total: $303,500