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FY 2011 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/ 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

Artspace, Inc.
New Haven, CT
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the group exhibition Library Science. The exhibition will examine ways in which physical, intellectual, and emotional relationships to libraries have changed as libraries adapt to the digital world.

Capitol Region Education Council
Hartford, CT
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Center for Creative Youth, a pre-professional intensive five-week summer arts residency program for college-bound high school students on the campus of Wesleyan University. Students take creative writing, dance, music, theater, photography, filmmaking, drawing, painting, and sculpting classes with professionals and experience performances and presentations by guest artists.

Connecticut College
New London, CT
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of performances during the Onstage at Connecticut College season. Presentations will be accompanied by workshops and master classes for middle, high school, and college students.

Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism
Hartford, CT
$783,000
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Elm Shakespeare Company
New Haven, CT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Shakespeare's Henry V, directed by Artistic Director James Andreassi, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. In tandem with free performances in New Haven's Edgerton Park, the project will include The Elm Scholars Program, a summer theater experience for New Haven youth to work and study with professional actors and professional sound and lighting designers and operators.

Institute for Community Research, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support program activities conducted by the Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program, serving as the official statewide folk arts program. Special projects include new marketing initiatives for refugee artists, an exhibit of Bosnian Memorial Quilts, and a training program for folk artists to present their work in schools.

Institute for Community Research, Inc. (Consortium)
Hartford, CT
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Southern New England Apprenticeship Program. In collaboration with the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the program will bring together master artists and apprentices from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut to conduct fieldwork to identify new master artists.

Music and Arts Center for Humanity, Inc.
Bridgeport, CT
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Alvin Ailey Dance Camp and Dance II programs. Alvin Ailey Dance Camp is a six-week summer camp that focuses on dance, nutrition, and positive behavior. Dance II is a school year program that continues the learning and training begun during summer camp.

Neighborhood Music School, Inc.
New Haven, CT
$18,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Instrumental Impact. Students will participate in ongoing instrumental instruction, weekly individual lessons, weekly ensemble rehearsals, field trips, master classes, and multiple performance opportunities.

New Haven International Festival of Arts & Ideas, Inc.
New Haven, CT
$73,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support cornerstone projects at the 2011 festival. The projects will include performances and outreach activities, such as master classes and post-performance and panel discussions, designed to engage audiences.

New Haven Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
New Haven, CT
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a recording project featuring works by composer Augusta Read Thomas. The orchestral works to be recorded will be Radiant Circles (2010); Absolute Ocean (2008), for soprano, harp, and chamber orchestra; Prayer and Celebration (2006); and Daylight Divine (2001) for soprano, children's chorus, and orchestra.

Real Art Ways, Inc. (Consortium)
Hartford, CT
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the creation of two new works by multidisciplinary artist Alix Lambert. In partnership with Civilians, Inc., Real Art Ways will present Crime USA: Hartford, which will include an installation and a theater performance investigating crime (based on research conducted in Hartford) and will be complemented by a film series, literary events, radio broadcast, and community discussions.

Westport Country Playhouse, Inc.
Westport, CT
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, directed by Artistic Director Mark Lamos. The project will include community partnerships with the Westport Public Library, The Shakespeare Society, and Neighborhood Studios, an afterschool arts program for underserved youth in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in addition to other educational institutions.

Yale University (on behalf of Yale University Art Gallery)
New Haven, CT
$125,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the expansion and renovation of galleries to hold the Art Gallery's ancient Mediterranean collection. Plans for the reinstallation include a separate gallery to house art from the university's excavations in the 1930s at Dura-Europos, and for raising the profile of other holdings of more than 13,000 objects from the Near East, Egypt, Greece, Etruria, and Rome.

Yale-New Haven Hospital
New Haven, CT
$35,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Child Life Arts and Enrichment Program Digital Storytelling Project that brings professional artists to teach hospitalized youth how to create digital stories. Through interactions with artists, young patients who are either living with chronic illness, including sickle cell anemia, diabetes, asthma, cancer, and cystic fibrosis, or who experience a lengthy or difficult hospital stay due to an acute illness or injury, learn arts skills and produce work that reflects their perspective on living with illness and artistically transforms their experience.


Number of Grants: 15          Total Amount: $1,264,000

 
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