Grants

Grants made in 2008

Excellence in the Arts $247,050

Amistad Center for Art & Culture

Amount
$13,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Exhibition support for Digging Deeper in 2009

Artists in Real Time

Amount
$2,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

19th annual Open Studio

Ballet Theatre Company

Amount
$3,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Spring 2008 production support

Capital Classics

Amount
$3,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

2008 summer Shakespeare production

Charter Oak Cultural Center

Amount
$6,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Dance at Charter Oak

Community Partners in Action

Amount
$1,750
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Flat file storage for Prison Arts Program permanent collection

CONCORA

Amount
$6,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

2008/2009 season production support

Connecticut Ballet

Amount
$10,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

2008 productions in Hartford

Connecticut Guitar Society

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Sponsorship of Guitar Masters Series

Connecticut Landmarks

Amount
$2,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Performance of The Witching Hour by Judy Dworin Performance Project

Connecticut Opera

Amount
$20,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support for 2008 matinees

Connecticut Opera

Amount
$17,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support for 2009 matinees

Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support for 2008-2009 season

First Night Hartford

Amount
$2,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Three performances during First Night

Full Force Dance Theatre

Amount
$3,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support for More Than Meets the Eye dance concert

Guakia

Amount
$7,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Support for teachers, musical instruments, and the Ray Gonzalez Latin Jazz & Salsa Festival

HartBeat Ensemble

Amount
$7,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support for Rich Clown, Poor Clown, Beggar Clown, Thief

Hartford Children’s Theatre

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Spring 2009 Mainstage production support

Hartford Chorale

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support for Holiday Pops and Thanksgiving concerts

Hartford Stage

Amount
$25,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support for Resurrection

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Amount
$25,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support for 2008/2009 Masterworks Series

Judy Dworin Performance Project

Amount
$6,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support for Dreamings

Lift Every Voice and Sing

Amount
$3,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Support for featured performing artists at the annual gospel festival

National Theatre of the Deaf

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Hartford-area performances of Little Theatre of the Deaf

New Britain Museum of American Art

Amount
$10,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Exhibition support for Sensational: The Eight & Modern American Art

New Britain Symphony Orchestra

Amount
$3,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Support for May 2009 concert with the Hartford Chorale

Opus

Amount
$2,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Intertwine the Arts summer program for youth

Pilobolus

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support for 2009 performance at the Belding Theater

Riverfront Recapture

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Guitars Under the Stars concert

Sankofa Kuumba Cultural Arts Consortium

Amount
$3,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Choreography support for Sankofa Sojourn of Emancipation

Scapegoat Garden

Amount
$2,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support for Pleased to meet you: infinite space

Theaterworks

Amount
$20,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support for Rabbit Hole

West Hartford Art League

Amount
$4,300
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Outdoor sculpture exhibition

Woodland Concert Series

Amount
$3,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Production support for concert with soloist Anne Sofie von Otter

Capital $77,500

Connecticut Science Center

Amount
$7,500
Category
Capital

Second distribution of $25,000 grant for public art

CREC Foundation

Amount
$10,000
Category
Capital

Catwalk for the Theater of the Performing Arts

Hartford Art School – University of Hartford

Amount
$25,000
Category
Capital

Renee Samuels Center campaign

Hartt School of Music – University of Hartford

Amount
$25,000
Category
Capital

Second distribution of $100,000 grant to the Handel Performing Arts Center

Hill-Stead Museum

Amount
$10,000
Category
Capital

New outdoor program venue

Creation of New Work $17,500

Charter Oak Cultural Center

Amount
$12,500
Category
Creation of New Work
Grants made in
2008

To commission visual artists Carlos Hernandez Chavez and Marela Zacarias to create two murals titled The Mural as Mirror: Reflections on the Immigrant Experience.

Real Art Ways

Amount
$5,000
Category
Creation of New Work
Grants made in
2008

To commission Hirokazu Fukawa’s sculpture exhibition, A Thought at the Edge of the Continent: Manchuria to Siberia 1942 -1947.

Total: $342,050