Grants

Grants made in 2020

Excellence in the Arts $337,900

Artist Collective

Amount
$10,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2020

Funding to support the 2020 Jackie McLean Memorial Celebration

Ballet Theatre Company

Amount
$6,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2020

Funding to support Aladdin

Capital Classics, Inc.

Amount
$8,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2020

Funding to support its annual Shakespeare production – As You Like It

Charter Oak Cultural Center

Amount
$8,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2020

Funding to support two children’s theater productions

Connecticut Chopin Competition

Amount
$6,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2020

Funding to support the 12th Annual Chopin International Piano Competition

Connecticut Choral Artists Inc.

Amount
$6,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2020

Funding to support the 2020/2021 Mainstage Concert Series

Connecticut Guitar Society

Amount
$5,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2020

Funding to support 2020/2021 Women and Their Guitar Concert Series

Connecticut Historical Society

Amount
$3,600
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2020

Funding to support Offrenda video for Dia de los Mertos

Connecticut Summerfest

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2020

Funding to support the International Contemporary Ensemble residency

Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra

Amount
$10,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2020

Funding to support the 2020/2021 Performance Season

CREC/Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2020

Funding to support the 2020 Choreographers’ Showcase

Elizabeth Park Conservancy

Amount
$3,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2020

Funding to support two summer concerts

First Night Hartford

Amount
$12,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2020

Funding to support artist performances

Free Center

Amount
$8,300
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2020

Funding to support virtualization info sessions and workshops

Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz, Inc.

Amount
$20,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2020

Funding to support the 2020 Jazz Festival

Hartford Chorale

Amount
$12,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2020

Funding to support Handel’s Messiah! concert

Hartford Jazz Society

Amount
$7,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2020

Funding to support the 2020 Paul Brown Monday Night Jazz Series

Hartford Opera Theater, Inc.

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2020

Funding to support New in November

Hartford Performs

Amount
$10,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2020

Funding to support 2020/2021 Education Programs

Hartford Stage

Amount
$25,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2020

Funding to support 2021 production

Hartford Symphony Orchestra

Amount
$25,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2020

Funding to support the 2020/2021 Masterworks Season

Judy Dworin Performance Project

Amount
$9,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2020

Funding to support Colorfields Dance Performance at NBMAA

Music at the Red Door

Amount
$2,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2020

Funding to support the 2020/2021 Concert Season

New Britain Museum of American Art

Amount
$15,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2020

Funding to support Some Day Is Now: Women, Art & Social Change exhibition

New Britain Symphony Orchestra

Amount
$5,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2020

Funding to support the Spring Main Stage Concert

Night Fall

Amount
$10,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2020

Funding to support 2020 Night Fall production

Out Film Festival

Amount
$3,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2020

Funding to support the 2020 CT LGBTQ Film Festival

Rise Up Group

Amount
$6,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2020

Funding to support a Hartford Pop Up Mural Day

Riverfront Recapture

Amount
$7,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2020

Funding to support the 2020 Hartbeat Festival

The Children’s Museum

Amount
$6,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2020

Funding to support Cellobration!

TheaterWorks

Amount
$25,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2020

Funding to support the 2021 summer production

University of St. Joseph

Amount
$13,500
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2020

Funding to support Let’s Dance:  A Season of Celebrating Dance & Movement

Wadsworth Atheneum

Amount
$20,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2020

Funding to support Diversity, Equity, Accessibility and Inclusion Training

West Hartford Art League

Amount
$8,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2020

Funding to support Bus Shelter Murals

Windsor Art Center

Amount
$4,000
Category
Excellence in the Arts
Grants made in
2020

Funding to support 80 @ 80:  The Artwork of Phyllis Small

Capital $30,000

Hill-Stead Museum

Amount
$30,000
Category
Capital
Grants made in
2020

Funding to support Bringing Art to Life Capital Campaign

Creation of New Work $20,000

Hartford Public Library

Amount
$20,000
Category
Creation of New Work
Grants made in
2020

In honor of “The Year of the Woman,” to commission a sculpture by Marilyn Parkinson Thrall. The art piece will celebrate Hartford’s Suffragist movement in 1920.

Total: $387,900