LCC FY14

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 Arts Council received 65 requests for almost $62,000 of funding. These grants were awarded from funds allotted by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

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.