Grants Recipients - Spring 2007
Liz Argo: to complete a documentary film, Summer Stock Story which brings to life the remarkable 1950s adventure of resident summer stock at the Orleans Arena Theatre. $1,500
ArtsFalmouth, Inc.: to hire the band Stage Door Canteen to play live big band music at the Town Dance on the opening night of the three-day Arts Alive! Festival in Falmouth. $1,000
Big and Small Mask Troupe, Inc.: to collaborate with Prometheus Dance to develop a new choreographic work for elder dancers to perform in the community to increase generational understanding and well-being through creative expression. $1,000
Cahoon Museum of American Art: to support the 2007 exhibit schedule, including Tree-mendous, the Museum’s first national juried competition, that will features paintings, sculptures, and photographs of trees, as well as their upcoming exhibits Quite a Big Diehl and In Fine Feather: Excellence in Contemporary Bird Carving and Avian Art. $2,000
Cape Cod Art Association: to collaborate with the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History to offer nature photography workshops to youth who will learn using child-friendly digital cameras and specialized printing equipment through a series of hands-on classes. $750
Cape Cod Community College: to install Heather Blume as an artist-in-residence at the college for Fall 2007, culminating in an exhibition of the artist’s work at the Higgins Art Gallery. $2,000
Cape Cod Conservatory of Music and Arts, Inc.: to expand the music and art therapy programming open to community organizations that serve adults and children with disabilities, as well as at-risk students. $2,000
Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School: to begin an intergenerational clay workshop for middle school students and senior citizens of Brewster to create ceramic pottery and sculptures together. $1,225
Chatham Chorale: to commission and perform the choral work Why I Wake Early, a cycle of songs by Ronald Perera, with text by Cape Cod poet Mary Oliver, in honor of Margaret Bossi’s 20th season as music director. $1,275
Falmouth Artist Guild, Inc.: to support a series of “drop-in” art classes for children during the summer months entitled Afternoon Art that will engage youth of different ages and levels of ability. $2,100
Nye Family of America Association, Inc.: to install new flame-retardant front stage curtains and a track system at the East Sandwich Grange Hall, a setting for several cultural events in the area including monthly Contra Dances, Poetry Recitals and the Grange Hall Coffeehouse. $1,460
Pope John Paul II High School: to restore and preserve five historic wall murals by Vernon Coleman in the “old Barnstable High School” building in Hyannis, that will be accessible for public viewing once completed. $1,500
Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival: to produce the original play The Foggy Foggy Dew, a collaboration between Wellfleet playwright Wendy Kesselman and Provincetown artist Jim Peters, at the artSTRAND Gallery. $3,000
Shakespeare on the Cape: to produce Kiddie Shakes, an hour-long, narrated version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream that will be performed in the Lower Cape community and local schools to engage children under twelve. $2,500
The Sturgis Charter Public High School: to purchase Djembes, hand-held African drums, to teach the origins of African theatre and storytelling and for a cross-curricular performance by students. 1,440
Thornton W. Burgess Society: to create and promote gallery space at the Green Briar Nature Center to mount changing exhibitions of their own collections, including children’s book illustrations and work by local artists. $2,000
Wellfleet Preservation Hall, Inc.: to feature the previously unknown work of Jonathan Kendall, who carved the doors of the Wellfleet Preservation Hall, in a collaborative exhibit with the Cape Cod Museum of Art. $1,000
Woods Hole Film Festival, Inc.: to produce three panel discussions during the week of the annual film festival on the topics of media and technology and the challenges, opportunities, and impact on the film industry of new and emerging media. $1,500