Grants

Grants made in 2011

Excellence in the Arts $274,800

Amistad Center for Art & Culture

Amount
$15,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Sponsorship of War Prizes: The Cultural Legacy of Slavery & the Civil War

Avery Ensemble

Amount
$2,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Sponsorship of 2012 spring concert

Ballet Theatre Company

Amount
$2,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Sponsorship of spring production

Bated Breath Theatre Company

Amount
$3,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Sponsorship of Hunger

Billings Forge Community Works

Amount
$2,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Sponsorship of one MashUp event

Capital Classics

Amount
$3,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Sponsorship of Richard III

Charter Oak Cultural Center

Amount
$9,800
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Capital gift for new black-out curtains

CitySingers of Hartford

Amount
$1,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Sponsorship of three spring concerts

Community Partners in Action

Amount
$2,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Funding for the Prison Arts Program Permanent Collection

Connecticut Ballet

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Sponsorship of the 2011 Riverfront performance

Connecticut Choral Artists

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Sponsorship of its 2011/2012 concert series

Connecticut Guitar Society

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Sponsorship of Guitar Masters Series

Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra

Amount
$7,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Sponsorship of the 2011-2012 concert and opera season

First Night Hartford

Amount
$2,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Sponsorship of Interactive Art Installation

Guakia

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Sponsorship of the 2011 Ray Gonzalez Latin Jazz & Salsa Festival

HartBeat Ensemble

Amount
$7,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Sponsorship ofFlipside

Hartford Children’s Theatre

Amount
$7,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Sponsorship of Peter Pan

Hartford Opera Theater

Amount
$2,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Sponsorship of Spring 2011 Opera Production

Hartford Stage

Amount
$25,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Third installment towards a $100,000 capital gift to the Act Now Campaign

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Amount
$25,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Sponsorship of the 2011/2012 MasterWorks concert series

Hill-Stead Museum

Amount
$10,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Sponsorship of Rise to It, One Collector’s Quest

Judy Dworin Performance Project

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Sponsorship of In The Garden

Mark Twain House

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Sponsorship of Race, Rage & Redemption

National Theatre of the Deaf

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Sponsorship of school performances of Stories in My Pocket,Too

New England Carousel Museum

Amount
$4,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Capital support for the Centennial Restoration Project

Oil Drum Art

Amount
$3,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Sponsorship of its 2012 exhibition

Pilobolus

Amount
$10,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Sponsorship of the 2011 Riverfront performance

Playhouse Theatre Group

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Sponsorship of the Spring 2012 Main Stage Series

Real Art Ways

Amount
$12,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Support for the Alix Lambert residency and exhibition

Riverfront Recapture

Amount
$7,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Sponsorship of 2011 Guitar Under the Stars

Spectrum in Motion

Amount
$3,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Sponsorship of its 30th anniversary production, Madamdamin

St. Joseph College

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Support of the Advanced Integrated Multiple Intelligences Program

TheaterWorks

Amount
$20,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Sponsorship of The Understudy

University of Connecticut Foundation

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Sponsorship of the World of Puppetry program

Wadsworth Atheneum

Amount
$7,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Second installation for sponsorship of Monet’s Water Lilies education programs

Wadsworth Atheneum

Amount
$20,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Sponsorship of Andrew Wyeth: Looking Beyond education programs

West Hartford Art League

Amount
$4,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Support to install two pieces of public art

West Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Amount
$2,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Sponsorship of its 10th anniversary concert

Windsor Art Center

Amount
$2,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts

Sponsorship of the Anna Held Audette exhibition

Creation of New Work $15,000

Windsor Art Center

Amount
$15,000
Category
Creation of New Work
Grants made in
2011

To commission composer Katherine Swanson to create The River, a multi-media presentation of music, dance and photography inspired by the Farmington River.

Total: $289,800