Arts Lottery ‘13 Grant Award Winners
The Northampton Arts
Council is pleased to announce the awarding of 20 LCC/MCC 2014 grants totaling $9,870
in support of a variety of projects. The caliber of applications this round
was outstanding, and we were unable to fund many worthy projects. The Arts
Council received 65 requests for almost $62,000 of funding. These grants were
awarded from funds allotted by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. These grants were awarded in the following categories: Dance,
Film/Video, Mixed Media, Music, Theater and Visual Art.
DANCE
$700 to Jennifer Polins for Catalyst Dancers, celebrating PVPA’s Catalyst
Dancer’s 16th performance season in February 2014, at the Academy of
Music.
$600 to Olana Flynn for
Workbench: Choreographies in Progress.
$500 to The Dance Generators for An Evening of New Works.
$320 to Claire Muary for Cue, an interactive dance performance with local dancers, designers
and musicians.
$250 to Iroko
Nuevo for Florence Night Out
Performance, an afro-Cuban dance and drum experience.
$250 to Pioneer Valley Ballet for
Beauty and the Beast.
FILM/VIDEO
$750 to Historic Northampton for Fast Forward: New Filmmakers at Historic Northampton.
$250 to the
Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival for a festival of Jewish films.
MIXED MEDIA
$1000
to Donnabelle Casis for Florence Night Out.
$500
to Kestrel Land Trust for Story Walk at Fitzgerald Lake.
$350 to Lisa Thompson for The ArtSalon, a cross-disciplinary community-building event celebrating local
contemporary visual arts.
MUSIC
$250 to Da Camera Singers
for Four Decades of Da Camera:
Celebration.
$250 to Music In Deerfield, Inc. for Concert Season.
$250 to Novi
Cantori of Greater Springfield, Inc. for Spring Concert with Novi
Cantori.
$250 to the
Pioneer Valley Symphony for JUBILATION: 75th Season Opening Gala
Concert.
THEATER
$750 to Serious Play! for "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is
Enuf"
$650 to Chrysalis Theater for Chrysalis Theater: 35th Year Celebrations.
$500 to Heidi
Haas for Caught
Off Guard, an educational theatre troupe committed to exploring the social
issues students deal with on a daily basis.
$320 to Allison
Smartt for Mom
Baby God, a solo theatrical show exposing the underbelly of the
anti-abortion movement.
VISUAL
ARTS
$750
to Phyllis Kornfield for Folk Arts & Artifacts from America's Prison Culture.
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