Grants Recipients - Fall 2008
Boys and Girls Club of Cape Cod: to fund a daily afterschool arts program for boys and girls of Barnstable County to learn to express their creativity through regular instruction and exploration in the fine arts, including music, drama, and crafts. $1,500
Cahoon Museum of American Art: to provide continuing support for two collaborative community art exhibitions to launch the 2009-2010 season and celebrate the Museum’s 25th Anniversary, LIFE in the Abstract, and Pearls of Cotuit: A Community Celebrates its Artists. $2,000
Cape Cod Art Association: to expand the programs and services provided by the Cape Cod Art Association to the community of printmakers in the region through the purchase of a new, multi-media printmaking press capable of producing woodcuts, monotypes, and lithographs. $1,500
Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival: to help support the presentation of a special 30th Anniversary season concert that will feature promising and talented local student musicians drawn from the musical programs of Barnstable County’s public and private school systems. $1,075
Cape Cod Opera: to support the organization’s array of High School Operatic Outreach Programs, which include the presentations of historical contexts of relevant operatic productions, libretto translations, performer question-and-answer sessions, printed materials, and student apprenticeships. $1,500
Cape Cod Repertory Theatre: to support the expansion of the Theatre’s continuing collaboration with the Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School in the presentation of a full-scale staged musical production, The Pirates of Penzance, through shared resources of facilities and expertise. $1,000
Cotuit Center for the Arts: to help present a week-long production of An Arabian Adventure by the Tanglewood Marionettes during school vacation week, as an alternate presentation of the Cotuit Center for the Arts’ Arabian Nights. $1,000
Cultural Center of Cape Cod: to fund the Center’s poetry programming, including a series of free monthly poetry readings by national, local, and student poets, and a number of regional poetry slam competitions, open to all Cape and Island high school students. $2,500
Fine Arts Work Center: to provide financial support to the Kids Art Partners in Education (KAPE) 2009 program, providing free workshops in creative writing and visual arts during the winter months to more than 350 Lower Cape children enrolled in local public schools. $2,500
Hyannis Main Street Business Improvement District: to support Hyannis Artscape Thursdays, a collaborative program, which represents more than 400 local artists, that provides special discounts at participating local restaurants to patrons of Main Street area art galleries on select summer Thursdays. $1,000
Sharon Morris and Lysa Benton: to support programming during the third consecutive year of presenting Kids Connecting Cultures, an interactive multicultural program in which children are able to explore their lives through the arts. $1,500
Orleans Historical Society: to help present a week-long exhibit of fifth-grade student artwork titled Orleans: Our Children’s Heritage, in which each piece of work will be accompanied by explanatory text by the student artist, in the
historical significance of various aspects of Orleans life. $350
Osterville Historical Museum: to expand and enlarge the interactive, hands-on educational art displays for children at the Museum, emphasizing the unique maritime crafts that shaped the history of Osterville and the greater Cape Cod community. $750
Provincetown Art Association and Museum: to provide partial funding in support of a 12-week after-school art education program for middle school children from the Lower Cape region, engaging them substantively in the work of local working artists who will serve as consistent mentors to the student artists. $2,000
The Rotary Club of Yarmouth: to support the Yarmouth Youth Street Art Festival, an annual day of individual and group explorations in chalk drawing that bring student artists together with professional artist mentors, with proceeds benefiting art and literacy programs in Yarmouth. $1,000
Guy Taylor: to help present Inspiring Young Cape Filmmakers, a special screening of a series of award-winning short films by Cape Cod directors, capped by a talkback session with the artists geared toward inspiring young filmmakers and encouraging their filmmaking effort. $500
Town of Barnstable: to provide continuing support to the Harbor Your Arts program, a collaborative arts program centered on the revitalization of the arts in Hyannis Harbor, through improvements to the newly landscaped Walkway to the Sea. $2,000
Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill: to fund the PASS (Providing Affordable Studio Space) Program, which provides low-cost studio space to local artists on the grounds of the arts center from October to May, allowing them to pursue their work independently in a diverse and supportive community setting. $2,000
Veterans for Peace: to provide continuing support to the 14th Annual Peace Poetry Contest, which invites students of all ages to approach the themes of peace, security, and human wellness through the art of poetry. $675
Zion Union Heritage Museum: to fund the purchase of 17 giclée prints by Pamela Chatterton-Purdy, which will serve as a permanent exhibit that will be unveiled during Black History Month in February 2009 with the new art exhibit Icons of the Civil Rights Movement. $2,000