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ARTS COUNCIL AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION AWARD
COMMUNITY ARTS GRANTS FOR 1999 45 Grants Total $108,860

"We are grateful again this year to the State Legislature for increasing its appropriation to the State Council on the Arts," said the Arts Council's Executive Director, Sally Gaskill. "The increase means that Monroe County residents will benefit from more arts programs of exceptional merit."

The Arts Council's Decentralization grants total $87,360 in 1999, an increase of 22 percent over last year's allocation of $68,500. The Community Arts Fund, based at Rochester Area Community Foundation, is distributing $21,500.

The grants are extremely competitive. Three groups of peer review panelists evaluated 75 applications. The awards announced today represent the pick of the crop. Each arts project is evaluated on criteria that include artistic merit, outreach to under-served urban and rural communities, and responsiveness to community cultural needs.

The 1999 Community Arts Grants are awarded in two general categories:

Decentralization Program of the Arts & Cultural Council and New York State Council on the Arts
Three tiers of funding are awarded this year:

The Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester administers all Community Arts Grants. This includes developing guidelines and evaluation criteria, promoting the availability of funding, counseling prospective applicants, and managing the peer review evaluation process.

Grant Recipient - Arts Discipline - Grant Amount

African American Youth
Cultural Development - multi-arts - $3,000
for rites of passage workshops based on the seven principles of Kwanzaa for 25 youth, ages 14 -17, to participate in cultural activities, dance, video, and radio production.

Air de Cour - music - $1,000
Sponsored by Saint Anne Church
for three concerts by Air de Cour, a chamber music ensemble directed by Dr. Bonnie Choi at St. Anne Church, featuring Baroque and contemporary music.

Baden Street Settlement - multi-arts - $3,675
for "Our Voices, Telling Our Story: Northeast Rochester 1950 - 1970," which will be researched and recorded by students at Baden Street led by director and actress Almeta Whitis, video artist Carvin Eison, writer Dale Davis, and photographer Loret Steinberg culminating in a performance by Ms. Whitis.

Boys & Girls Club of Rochester - visual - $2,000
for a mural by Darryl Wilson painted by Club members ages 8 - 14 under the direction of artist Peter Sigrist.

B.E.H.O.L.D. Theatre - multi-arts - $2,500
Sponsored by the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection
for the Summer Arts Fun Camp for 45 urban children ages 8-13 to explore the visual arts, dance and drama culminating in three community performances.

Brighton Symphony Orchestra - music - $1,500
for eight concerts at community locations in celebration of its 25th anniversary.

Chili, Town of - visual - $3,000
for artist Richard Kane to work with seniors to design and install a mural that focuses on the life, hopes and joys of the elderly.

Eastman Bach Children's Chorus - music - $2,000
Sponsored by the Eastman School of Music
for composer David Evans Thomas to write a new work to be premiered by the Rochester Community Orchestra and Eastman Bach Children's Chorus.

Gates, Town of - theater - $2,500
for the 2nd Annual Summer Arts Drama Camp for children grades 5 through 8 featuring drama, dance, vocal arts, and a field trip to Bristol Valley Playhouse.

Genesee Center for the
Arts and Education - multi-arts - $4,000
for "Ceramics and Photo Express," a multi-disciplinary project with artists engaging 55 youth ages 10-15 from the Right on School, a six-week summer program, and guiding them through an exploration of work places and their architecture.

Greater Rochester Repertory
Companies, Inc. - theater - $1,000
for lighting, sound and costumes for the spring production of "Time Will Tell," an original Irish Musical, at the Edgerton Community Center.

Heritage Project
Sponsored by the Frederick Douglass Museum
multi-arts - $3,500
for students and elders to work together to translate local history into performance and other art forms that illustrate the links between the Underground Railroad, Afro-Rochester, and civil rights.

Lewis Street Center - dance - $3,300
for artist Roger Smith to lead dance and theater workshops for young people 7 -17, culminating in a performance on June 15.

Lifespan - visual - $2,000
for the development of a Senior Woodworking Guild led by woodworker Larry Naylor for the Garson Meyer Senior Center, Lilac Senior Center, and North Street Senior Center.

Madrigalia - music - $1,075
for two choral workshops for high school students in the Rochester City School District focussing on quartet singing, demonstration, critique and joint rehearsal culminating in a community performance.

Millennial Muse - literature - $2,000
Sponsored by Amnesty International
for Millennial Muse: Poets of the New Century, a quarterly series of three-person programs profiling Rochester area poets ages 18-27.

New Life Presbyterian Church - multi-arts - $1,500
for the Corner Place, a 7-week Summer Arts Program serving 60 youth from preschool through middle school in Southeast Rochester.

Northwest Family YMCA Branch - visual - $2,050
for "Weaving a Community Together," a series of family workshops led by artist Jappie King Black that will result in a collaborative family wall hanging.

Park Avenue Dance Company - dance - $2,000
for "Creativity & Learning for Young Children and Families," a series of eight parent/child workshops, culminating in a joint company and student production.

Parma Meetinghouse Museum - literature - $1,700
for a publication about Mary Jemison, first white woman to locate in the Genesee Valley, and Ebenezer Allen, Rochester's first pioneer, written by historian Shirley Cox Husted.

Peace Art International, Inc. - multi-arts - $3,000
for the Circle of Peace Concert 1999, a multi-disciplinary concert narrated by William Warfield, at Hochstein School of Music in May.

Penfield, Town of - theater - $1,500
for an original children's musical written by Pam Gerace, scored by Jeff Clair, and performed by the Young, Open, and Honest Players at five grade schools and an evening public performance.

Rochester Bach Festival - music - $1,800
for performances at the Rochester Bach Festival highlighting the Eastman Bach Children's Chorus, Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and the Rochester Chamber Symphony, workshops on Baroque technique by The Publick Musick, and other Bach Festival activities.

Rochester City Ballet - dance - $2,000
for a touring production of "Cinderella" in Spring 1999 at National Technical Institute of the Deaf and the Jewish Community Center.

Rochester Community Players - theater - $2,000
for eight productions of Shakespeare in the Park at Highland Bowl during July.

Society for the Protection
and Care of Children - multi-arts - $1,260
for artist fees for ceramic artist Calvin Hubbard and choral director Eric Simmons to teach classes in ceramics and gospel music to 60 young people at School #2.

Southwest Area
Neighborhood Association - music - $3,500
to enable the SWAN Community Band to work with professional musicians and perform at five feeder elementary schools of the James Madison School of Excellence.

Spencerport, Village of - music - $1,500
for 10 concerts at the "1999 Music on the Canal" concert series.

Wilson Commencement Park - multi-arts - $3,000
for five artists to work with Wilson Commencement Park's resident children in storytelling, and to culminate in a public performance at the downtown Rochester Public Library.

Grant Recipient - Arts Discipline - Grant Amount

Dance Rochester - dance - $4,000
for building collaborations and new audiences for dance through a concert with composers and choreographers who will present new work at Nazareth College Arts Center in October.

Downstairs Cabaret Theater - theater - $4,000
for strengthening management and implementing audience building campaigns to effectively market its new location, facilities and services.

Greece Performing Arts Society - music - $3,000
for the 1999 season of the Symphony Orchestra, Concert Band, Community Orchestra, Choral Society, and Jazz Band, emphasizing lifelong learning opportunities for children and adults.

Colleen Hendrick Dance Theater - dance - $4,000
for strengthening management and support for 1999 programming of the Hendrick Dance Project and the Youth Project, which engage young people and adults in creative movement.

Grant Recipient - Arts Discipline - Grant Amount

Ruth Kessler - literature - $2,500
for the completion of her second poetry collection, titled "Geographies," which explores experiences rooted in different geographical locations around the world, and landmark experiences that change our perceptions of life. She will complete the section "Portraits," which will draw inspiration from three different groups in the community: 1) youth - students from Monroe Community College; 2) middle stage - women who participate in Artime, a community studio; and 3) later stage of life - residents of the Jewish Home.

Cary Ratcliff - music - $2,500
for matching funds for the creation and staging of the first act of a full-length opera based on the memoir "Eleni" by Nicholas Gage.

Rachel Smith - visual - $2,500
for "From the Ground Up," a sculptural installation for the Bittner Street Park in downtown Rochester. Residents from the YWCA and people who use the park will work with the artist to create a small-scale house structure with inlaid symbolic references created by objects, mosaics, tiles, text and organic material.

Grant Recipient - Arts Discipline - Grant Amount

Aesthetic Education Institute - multi-arts - $2,400
for the planning and implementation of the AEI Partners, an annual donor campaign led by development consultant Barbara Jablonski and AEI board volunteers.

Arts Reach, Inc. - multi-arts - $1,950
for the Arts Reach Awareness Campaign, to increase public awareness of ArtsReach led by consultant Goldee Hecht-Meyer and volunteer Becky Whele.

Blackfriars Theater
of Rochester - theater - $1,500
for its 50th anniversary of providing community theater, funded by the Esther Usdane Memorial Fund for community theater.

BOA Editions, LTD - literature - $2,000
for a "New Titles and Selected Backlist" mini-catalogue which will be mailed to students, adults, college and high school poetry teachers, librarians and used for trade shows around the country.

Friends of Ganondagan - multi-arts - $4,000
for the development of a centralized database management system to expand its audience base and to enhance the effectiveness of the Friends' marketing project currently in progress.

Pyramid Arts Center - visual arts - $1,800
for "Materials, Substance, Form: To Last or Not to Last?" - an exhibition, related lectures and series of brochures for artists and collectors on the nature of materials and their function as both subject and object.

Rochester Association
of Performing Arts (RAPA) - theater - $4,000
for the planning and implementation of a capital fund drive to purchase its facility led by consultant Richard Probert or Leslie Gardner.

Wayne County
Council for the Arts - multi-arts - $2,350
for a public relations campaign and upcoming corporate membership campaign for its move to the Erie Canal Cultural Center.

Wayne County Multicultural
Arts Project - multi-arts - $1,500
to supplement the salary of a new director hired to 1) expand arts programs for youth in rural Wayne County through community outreach, 2) increase the number of youth participating, research and training for current youth program leaders, 3) develop an annual fundraising event, and 4) organize a public performance of youth groups at a public venue.

This site is supported by funding from State of New York Grants secured by Senator James S. Alesi, Assemblyman Joseph D. Morelle, and Senator Joseph E. Robach; the New York State Council on the Arts; WROC Television; and Rochester Area Community Foundation.

 

 

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