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FY 2008 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/American Masterpieces/
Arts on Radio and Television/Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth/Partnerships

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

CONNECTICUT

Artists Collective, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support jazz dance and music classes and ensembles. Professional artists will lead daily 90-minute classes in jazz music from the swing era to the avant garde and dances of Africa and the African Diaspora for children ages 10-17 in Greater Hartford.

Connecticut Children's Theatre, Inc. (aka Connecticut Family Theater)
Essex, CT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support the production of Pinocchio, A Musical Journey and associated outreach activities. The classic story, featuring an original script and score including work by playwright Patty Carver, will be presented to youth audiences in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism
Hartford, CT
$743,000
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Connecticut Historical Society
Hartford, CT
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the publication of a catalogue of a collection of prints by the Kellogg Brothers of Hartford, 1830-1880. The brothers were a pioneering and prolific, but largely unstudied, family of lithographers.

Connecticut Public Broadcasting, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of a television series about American art collectors. Planned as three one-hour programs, The Collectors will tell the story of the great art collectors of the past whose philanthropy helped establish the major museums of the United States, and will also examine the ideas and practices of contemporary collectors.

Goodspeed Opera House Foundation, Inc. (aka Goodspeed Musicals)
East Haddam, CT
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the restoration of Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by composer and lyricist Roger Miller and book writer William Hauptman, adapted from the novel by Mark Twain. Rob Ruggiero will direct the production with his creative team of designers, orchestrators, and arrangers.

Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Musical Pathways, an educational and community engagement program. Activities include Symphony in the Schools (SIS), discussions on music criticism, pre-concert talks, family matinees, the 10th annual I Have a Dream Martin Luther King, Jr., concert, and Musical Dialogues featuring performances by and discussions with African American and Latino communities.

Hartley Film Foundation
Westport, CT
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support post-production costs for a documentary by Jennifer Taylor. New Muslim Cool is an observational work that follows two years in the life of a 30-year old Puerto Rican American Muslim convert who also is a hip-hop artist.

Institute for Community Research, Inc. (Consortium)
Hartford, CT
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Southern New England Apprenticeship Program. A collaboration with the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, the program will bring together master artists and apprentices from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.

Institute for Community Research, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Cultural Heritage Arts Program. The project serves as the official statewide folk arts program.

Music and Arts Center for Humanity, Inc.
Bridgeport, CT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support The Music and Arts Center for Humanity Ailey Camp. Students will learn modern, jazz, tap, and African dance, and take classes in creative communication and personal development.

Real Art Ways, Inc. (Consortium)
Hartford, CT
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Port of Exchange, presentations of West Indian artists' work. In partnership with the West Indian Foundation, the project will comprise performances, exhibitions, film screenings, readings, and discussions.

Western Connecticut State University
Danbury, CT
$7,500
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support a residency by the Manhattan String Quartet. Concerts, lectures, workshops, and seminars will highlight works by American composers.

Yale University (on behalf of Norfolk Chamber Music Festival)
New Haven, CT
$7,500
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support the Virgil Thomson Project of the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. Concerts, workshops, and a symposium will be presented by artist faculty, student ensembles, and composers.


Number of Grants: 14          Total Amount: $1,033,000

 
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