Grants Recipients - Spring 2011

Individuals

Ellen Anthony: Funding to support Quirky Circus Table-Top Tour, a Cape-wide traveling show that will feature original puppets created by the artist.   $1000

Heather Blume: Funding to produce a 4-color art exhibition pamphlet that will be used to educate the community about the relationship between the works of Cape artists Rachel Ellis Kaufman and her daughter, Heather H. Blume.   $1000

Tara Murphy: Funding to support Cape Cod African Dance and Drum's Educational Interactive Assembly performance at Riverview School.   $500

Myra Slotnick: Funding to support the fifth annual Universal Theater, a three-day short play festival celebrating writers, actors and directors from across the country, held at the Universalist Unitarian Meeting House in Provincetown.   $1000

Educational Organizations

Cape Cod and Islands Art Educators Association: Funding to support Creativity Flows, a traveling art exhibit featuring work by members of the Cape Cod and Islands Art Educators Association.   $600

Bernadette Waystack / Harwich Middle School: Funding to support From Hawthorne to Hofmann, an interdisciplinary curriculum for eighth graders studying the history of the Provincetown Art Colony and its impact on students today.   $600

Marstons Mills Public Library: Funding to support the Barnstable Libraries' Collaborative Summer Reading Program, a free, six week community-focused arts and literacy youth program that supplements the Barnstable Schools' summer reading requirement with artistic and educational performances.   $800

Non Arts Organizations

Esprit Partnership for Independence: Funding to support All of Us, a unique performing arts project that demonstrates appreciation and joy of the performing arts by adults with disabilities alongside talented and trained non-disabled performers.   $500

First Night Chatham: Funding to support the 21st annual New Year's Eve celebration, a town-wide event attended by up to 10,000 residents and visitors. This year's even will be themed Dancing the Night Away and will focus on the art of dance.   $1000

Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies: Funding to support art exhibitions and public arts programming during Whale Week: A Celebration of the Sea, including a theater production for children and adults, and an arts and crafts program for children.   $1000

Sandwich Partnership for Families: Funding to support a program that will introduce young children and their fathers or other significant males to musical experiences. The program emphasizes not only the theoretical elements of music, but also the emotional responses it elicits.   $750

Small Arts and Cultural Organizations

ArtsFalmouth: Funding to support JazzFest Falmouth 2011, a six day festival celebrating jazz with a free stroll, jazz brunches, and outdoor concerts in downtown Falmouth.   $1500

Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival: Funding to support a tango string and movement workshop with the Quartet San Francisco to be presented at the Riverview School in Sandwich.   $750

Cape Cod Theater Coalition: Funding to develop, optimize, launch, and publicize a new Coalition website, social media initiative, mobile applications, and real-time performance calendar.   $1750

Eventide Arts: Funding to support Cape writers and playwrights through the sponsorship of a playwriting competition, award, and staged reading of the winning full length play.   $1000

Falmouth Chorale: Funding to support an open community sing of Brahms' Requiem and Schubert's Mass in G.   $750

Meeting House Chamber Music Festival: Funding to support the production of one music program presented in two locations throughout Cape Cod, highlighting two young professional musicians who have recently joined the CCSO as principals.   $500

Woods Hole Film Festival: Funding to support programming for the 20th Annual Woods Hole Film Festival's Filmmaker in Residence Program.   $1000

Large Arts and Cultural Organizations

Cape Cod Art Association: Funding to purchase cameras for a new photography program for children.   $750

Cape Cod Maritime Museum: Funding to sponsor performing artists for the 10th Annual Cape Cod Maritime Festival, an event that brings 8,000 people to the Hyannis waterfront parks to visit the Museum for arts and crafts, boat building, entertainment, and more.   $750

Cotuit Center for the Arts: Funding to support the inaugural year of Summer Camp at the Center, an arts education initiative and performance series in collaboration with the Town of Barnstable's HyArts Festival.   $2000

Falmouth Artists Guild: Funding to add crucial lighting elements to the exhibition in response to an increased demand for exhibition space at the Falmouth Art Center.   $500

Historic Highfield: Funding to support the first annual Hootenanny at Highfield, an outdoor bluegrass concert and family festival to be staged on Sunday, July 24.   $750

Pilgrim Monument & Provincetown Museum: Funding to support Postcards from Provincetown, a permanent collection of approximately 200 postcard images depicting significant places, people and events in Provincetown's history.   $1500

Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival: Funding to support the 2011 Festival program Double Exposure: Past and Present, a presentation of a dozen international plays celebrating 100 years of Tennessee Williams in Provincetown.   $2000

Wellfleet Preservation Hall: Funding to support the inaugural exhibition, Woodcarvings by Jonathan Kendall, the renowned folk artist who carved the doors to the Hall which are a community treasure.   $1250