Grants

Grants made in 2015

Excellence in the Arts $306,634

Amistad Center for Art and Culture

Amount
$12,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2015

Funding to support 40 Acres: A Digital Diary

Artists Collective, Inc.

Amount
$15,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2015

Funding to support Black Wall Street

Bated Breath Theatre

Amount
$7,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2015

Funding to support Beneath the Gavel

Capital Classics, Inc.

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2015

Funding to support Romeo and Juliet

Charter Oak Cultural Center

Amount
$4,634
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2015

Funding to support the Traversing Traditions Indian Arts Festival

CitySingers of Hartford

Amount
$4,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2015

Funding to support the 2015/2016 Concert Series

Connecticut Chopin Competition

Amount
$6,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2015

Funding to support the 2016 International Piano Competition

Connecticut Choral Artists Inc.

Amount
$7,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2015

Funding to support the 2015/2016 Great Performances Concert Series

Connecticut Guitar Society

Amount
$5,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2015

Funding to support the 2016 Cutting Edge Guitar Series

Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra

Amount
$12,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2015

Funding to support the 2015-2016 Concert & Opera Season and Hartford Education Programs

First Night Hartford

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2015

Funding to support The New England Jazz Ensemble’s performance of Peter and the Wolf

Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz, Inc.

Amount
$20,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2015

Funding to support the 2015 Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz

Guakia

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2015

Funding to support the 2015 Ray Gonzalez Latin Jazz and Salsa Festival

HartBeat Ensemble

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2015

Funding to support the production of Gross National Product

Hartford Chorale

Amount
$7,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2015

Funding to support the staging of Mendelssohn’s Elijah

Hartford Opera Theater, Inc.

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2015

Sponsorship of The Old Maid and the Thief and An Embarrassing Position

Hartford Stage

Amount
$25,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2015

Funding to support Rear Window

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Amount
$25,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2015

Funding to support the 2015/2016 MasterWorks concert series

Judy Dworin Performance Project

Amount
$10,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2015

Funding to support Brave in a New World

Lift Every Voice & Sing

Amount
$2,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2015

Funding to support the 20th Annual LEVAS Gospel Festival

Mark Twain House

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2015

Funding to support Mysterious 44: An Opera in Two Acts

New Britain Symphony Orchestra

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2015

Funding to support its 2015/2016 New Britain performance events

Playhouse Theatre Group

Amount
$10,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2015

Funding to support the 2015/2016 Main Stage Series

Real Art Ways

Amount
$30,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2015

Funding to support its 40th Anniversary Programming

Sonia Plumb Dance Company

Amount
$7,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2015

Funding to support The Odyssey

TheaterWorks

Amount
$25,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2015

Funding to support Midsummer

TheaterWorks

Amount
$500
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2015

Gift on behalf of Jacques Lamarre who wrote the introduction to 2014 Annual Report

Trinity College

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2015

Funding to support the 2015 SambaFest

Wadsworth Atheneum

Amount
$20,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2015

Funding to support the educational programming for Gothic to Goth exhibition

West Hartford Art League

Amount
$4,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2015

Funding to support the Emerging Artists exhibition

Windsor Art Center

Amount
$4,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2015

Funding to support two art exhibitions featuring the work of Carlos Hernandez Chavez and photographers Andres Chaparro and Maurice D. Robertson

Capital $19,000

Bushnell Park Foundation

Amount
$6,500
Category
Capital
Grants made in
2015

Final installment of $15,000 grant for the restoration of Spirit of Victory

New Britain Museum of American Art

Amount
$12,500
Category
Capital
Grants made in
2015

Second Installment of $50,000 grant for new Collections Staff Office

Creation of New Work $15,000

TheaterWorks

Amount
$15,000
Category
Creation of New Work
Grants made in
2015

To commission the play, Raging Skillet, by Jacques Lamarre.

Total: $340,634