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Arts Foundation of Cape Cod Awards Over $40,000 in Grants
Funding Distributed to Local Artists and Cultural Organizations
Centerville, MA, March 25, 2008 - -- The Board of Directors of the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2008 Spring Grant Awards. Twenty-seven local artists and cultural organizations will receive a total of $40,600 in grants at a special reception from 6 to 8 pm on Wednesday, April 30 at the Coonamessett Inn in Falmouth.
“Direct financial support for artists and cultural organizations on Cape Cod makes a significant impact on the quality, scope, and sustainability of our local cultural community,” said Margaret Van Sciver, Board President of the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod. “These much-needed funds are distributed by the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod into villages and towns from the canal to Provincetown twice each year, helping to maintain the region’s reputation as a world-class cultural destination.”
“The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod grant program is the only one of its kind in the region focused entirely on supporting the arts and culture of Cape Cod,” said Lisa Hergenrother, Executive Director of the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod. “We are proud to support the growing and expanding creative economy on Cape Cod by supporting these worthy projects.”
The grants distributed during the Spring 2008 cycle brings the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod’s total 2008 grant distribution to $71,034, benefiting 45 artists, cultural organizations, and arts educators across Cape Cod. Arts Foundation of Cape Cod grants are awarded to support projects that are collaborative and educational; that help create a strong, stable, and diverse cultural community on Cape Cod; and that contribute to the quality of life and economic vitality of the region.
The Spring 2008 Arts Foundation of Cape Cod grant recipients are:
Academy of Performing Arts, $2,000 to fund the 2008 theater internship program employing and educating high school and college students in the theater arts
Cape Cod Celtic Society, $500 to hire a local performing group, Stanley & Grimm, to open the 2008 Cape Cod Celtic Festival
Cape Cod Chorale, $500 to fund the purchase of new risers for the Cape Cod Chorale
Cape Cod Community College Educational Foundation, $1,500 to support the Fall 2008 Artist-in-Residence program at the Higgins Art Gallery, featuring guest artist Anne Flash of Harwich
Cape Cod Maritime Museum, $735 to support a collaboration with Women of Fishing Families and children to produce the exhibit Gone Fishin'
Cape Cod Theatre Project, $500 to support the CCTP’s annual Ten Minute Playwriting Contest, the winning work of which is presented at the Arts Alive Festival
Children's Discovery Museum of Cape Cod, $1,000 to expand Art Without Boundaries, an educational art program for children
D.A.M.P. ARTs, $1,500 to support a collaboration with the Provincetown International Film Festival, bringing the makers of the film Treeheld to Provincetown
William Evaul, $2,500 to defray the costs of digitally re-mastering two art history slide presentations, The Art Colony of Provincetown and The Genesis of the White-Line Woodcut
Eventide Arts, $1,500 to support production costs for the 10th annual Nancy Smith Waage Songwriters’ Competition
Falmouth Artists Guild, $1,075 to fund Thursday Afternoon Art for Kids, a summer art class for children ages 8-12
Falmouth Chorale, $800 to present their Spring Sing concert and community-sing with a guest chorus
Falmouth Historical Society, $1,529 to support the Annual Katherine Lee Bates Poetry Competition
Historic Highfield, $1,500 to support Highfield Hall's emerging artists program which brings students from the New England Conservatory of Music to Falmouth for recitals and programs that educate, inspire, and entertain
John F. Kennedy Hyannis Museum Foundation, $2,000 to support the production of the documentary history project Friends and Neighbors
Living Arts Institute, $1,500 to pilot an interdisciplinary, intergenerational theatre arts summer program in collaboration with Harwich Junior Theatre, Harwich Senior Center, and Harwich Summer Youth Program
Mattacheese Middle School, $3,500 to support the production of And They Came For Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank at Mattacheese Middle School, including guest speaker, the step-sister of Anne Frank, a Holocaust survivor
Meeting House Chamber Music Festival, $1,500 to support production costs for a concert in collaboration with the Chatham Chorale
Steven Oney, $2,500 to support the production of the 20th Captain Underhill Mystery, The Case of the Calico Lobster
Payomet Performing Arts Charitable Trust, $2,250 to fund Payomet's drama classes for children
Pilgrim Monument & Provincetown Museum, $1,000 to support a concert of sea shanties and songs of the sea featuring the Maine singing group, "Roll & Go"
Sandwich Schools Band Boosters, $1,500 to fund the purchase of new timpani for Sandwich High School Band and repair old timpani drums for Sandwich elementary schools
Shakespeare on the Cape, $2,500 to expand the Kiddie Shakes Program, to double the number of performances Cape-wide
Solstice Singers, $750 to fund the production of the Solstice Singers Winter Concert
Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, $1,500 to support the Fourth Annual Provincetown Dance Festival, featuring live performances and meet-the-artists events
Truro Historical Society, Inc / Highland Museum, $500 to expand the program of summer educational activities for area resident children and local visitors, in conjunction with the Storybook School exhibit
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater (WHAT), $2,500 to provide free tickets to Lower Cape Cod elementary students to attend the WHAT for Kids summer theater production
The following distinguished community members served on the Spring 2008 grants committee: Ron Bearse, College PayWay; Nicki Blodgett, student; Clarke Buchanan, Sam Diego’s Mexican Cookery and Bar; John LaFlamme, Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Cape Cod; Bob Mahoney, Cape Light Compact; Allison Makkay Davis, Qantum Communications; Jim McEvoy, TD Banknorth Regional Co-President; Jeannie Meyer, Community Representative; Paul Schulenberg, artist and arts educator; Margaret Van Sciver, Whitebriar Financial Corporation; and David Willard, Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank.
Arts Foundation of Cape Cod grants are awarded twice a year. The next deadline for applications is September 26, 2008. Guidelines for grant applications are available at www.artsfoundation.org or by calling the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod at 508-362-0066.
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