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AZ Arts Commission awards grants
08/26/2008 08:24 AM Kathleen Allen
Forty-five Tucson organizations received close to $1 million in grants from the Arizona Arts Commission.
The complete list:
Amphitheater USD, Amphitheater High School, $2,300, Arts
Learning-Residency
Arizona Bass Players, Inc., $1,925, Arizona Bass Players Festival 2009
Arizona Designer Craftsmen, $3,400, ADC Workshops Talleres V
Arizona Early Music Society, $2,475, Early Music Concert Series
Arizona Friends of Chamber Music, $3,850, 16th Winter Chamber Festival
Arizona Media Arts Center, $2,450, 2009 Arizona International Film
Festival
Arizona Theatre Company, $7,315, A Raisin in the Sun
Arizona Theatre Company, $128,946, Basic Aid
Arizona Theatre Company, $19,500, Working Capital-Phase I
ArtCulture Partnership, $2,963, General Operating Support I
Arts for All, Inc., $30,500, General Operating Support III
Arts for All, Inc., $1,312, Graffiti Artists at Arts for All
Ballet Arts Foundation, $7,500, General Operating Support II
Ballet Arts Foundation, $1,700, Guest Artists for Opening Night
Performance
Ballet Arts Foundation, $3,500, Guest Choreography for 12th Annual Dance
and Dessert
Beowulf Alley Theatre Company, $7,500, General Operating Support II
Beowulf Alley Theatre Company, $1,615, Workshop Production: Noche de los
Muertos
Borderlands Theater, $4,183, Folk Tales
Borderlands Theater, $19,441, General Operating Support III
Casa Libre en la Solana, $2,354, General Operating Support I
Catalina Players, $1,671, General Operating Support I
Chamber Music PLUS Inc., $5,500, General Operating Support I
Chamber Music PLUS Inc., $3,825, Poe and Debussy, The Fifth Arizona
Cultural Forum
Chamber Music PLUS Inc., $4,675, Rhythms of LIFE
Chax Press, $7,500, General Operating Support II
Cultural Exchange Council of Tucson, Inc., $6,000, General Operating
Support I
Cultural Exchange Council of Tucson, Inc., $3,850, National Danish
Performance Team Arizona Tour
Cultural Exchange Council of Tucson, Inc., $3,825, Tucson Meet Yourself
2008
Dinnerware Artists Cooperative Gallery, $1,400, Asian Slant Southwest
Dinnerware Artists Cooperative Gallery, $7,500, General Operating
Support II
El Centro Cultural de las America, $4,125, Veteranos – a Legacy of Valor
Flowing Wells Extension Programs, Inc., $4,300, Young Flowing Wells
Rembrandts
Foothills Women’s Chorus, $2,000, Kirby Shaw Master Class and Community
Concert
Foundation for Creative Broadcasting, $22,500, General Operating Support III FUNHOUSE movement theater, $3,000, Butterfield-Continental Youth
Outreach Program FUNHOUSE movement theater, $2,050, General Operating Support I FUNHOUSE movement theater, $1,100, Guest Choreographers Series
Hopi Foundations Ctr for Prevention/Resolution of Violence, $2,300, From
the Darkness
Invisible Theatre, $16,000, General Operating Support III
Kore Press, Inc., $9,000, General Operating Support II
Kore Press, Inc., $1,400, Kore Press 7th Annual First Book Award
Kore Press, Inc., $2,975, Trilingual Anthology
La Frontera Center Mariachi Conference Inc, $4,050, Fiesta de Garibaldi
La Frontera Center Mariachi Conference Inc, $10,000, Tucson
International Mariachi Conference
Workshops
La Pilita Association, $5,500, General Operating Support II
Live Theatre Workshop, $2,835, General Operating Support II
Many Mouths One Stomach, $2,354, General Operating Support I
Marana USD, DeGrazia Elementary School, $2,300, Taiko at DeGrazia
Museum of Contemporary Art, $9,000, General Operating Support II NEWARTiculations Dance Theatre, $1,400, Guest Artist Series NEWARTiculations Dance Theatre, $2,250, The Invisible City
Ocotillo Literary Endeavors, Inc, $1,430, General Operating Support I
Ocotillo Literary Endeavors, Inc, $750, Ocotillo Poetry Slam
Ocotillo Literary Endeavors, Inc, $3,400, Tucson Poetry Festival
27—Poetry and Healing
Odaiko Sonora, $1,700, Music
Odaiko Sonora, $7,500, General Operating Support II
Old Pueblo Playwrights, $1,075, New Play Festival
Opening Minds through the Arts Fdn., $7,500, General Operating Support
II
O-T-O Dance (Orts Theatre of Dance), $4,103, General Operating Support I
Pan Left Productions, $7,500, General Operating Support II
Sharmoore Childrens Productions, $5,000, General Operating Support II
Sharmoore Childrens Productions, $10,000, Stories that Soar 2008-09
Sonoran Glass Art Academy, $3,500, General Operating Support I
Sons of Orpheus – The Male Choir of Tucson, $1,957, General Operating
Support I
Southern Arizona Blues Heritage Foundation, $3,825, 2008 Blues Heritage
Festival
Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra, $3,628, General Operating Support I
Southern Arizona Watercolor Guild, Inc., $4,856, General Operating
Support I
Sunnyside USD, Lauffer Middle School, $2,000, A Lifetime Of Orchestra
Playing
Sunnyside USD, Los Ranchitos Elem School, $2,000, Professional Musicians
Working with Orchestra
Sunnyside USD, Santa Clara Elem. School, $2,000, Developing Wind Skills
and Techniques for Band
The Drawing Studio, Inc., $10,000, Art of Summer VII and VIII
The Drawing Studio, Inc., $20,000, General Operating Support III
The Loft Cinema, Inc., $1,750, Essential Cinema
The Loft Cinema, Inc., $9,000, General Operating Support II
The Loft Cinema, Inc., $3,400, Visiting Filmmaker Project
The Rogue Theatre, $4,023, General Operating Support I
The Rogue Theatre, $3,150, Performance Quality for the Season
The Rogue Theatre, $2,450, Six Characters in Search of an Author
Thom Lewis Dance, $993, General Operating Support I
Thom Lewis Dance, $1,148, Guest Artists
Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus, $22,500, General Operating Support III
Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus, $13,087, Working Capital-Phase II
Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus, $6,000, Neighborhood Cadet Choir
Tucson Arts Coalition, $2,125, Her Shorts 3rd Annual International
Womens Video Festival
Tucson Chamber Artists, Inc., $3,150, American Masterpieces
Tucson Chamber Artists, Inc., $3,150, Haydn Creation
Tucson Chamber Artists, Inc., $5,000, General Operating Support II
Tucson Chamber Orchestra, $2,394, General Operating Support I
Tucson Chamber Orchestra, $2,100, Zounds! Arizona
Tucson Children’s Museum, $750, 2008 Summer Dance Workshops
Tucson Children’s Museum, $1,375, Festivals of Friendship
Tucson Children’s Museum, $24,500, General Operating Support III
Tucson Guitar Society, $1,064, General Operating Support I
Tucson Jazz Society, $3,400, 30th Anniversary of Primavera
Tucson Jazz Society, $9,000, General Operating Support II
Tucson Jazz Society, $2,475, Jazz Under the Stars
Tucson Jewish Community Center, $1,200, 2008-2009 Jewish Author Series
Tucson Jewish Community Center, $4,250, 2009 Tucson Jewish Film Festival
Tucson Junior Strings Society, Inc., $4,500, General Operating Support I
Tucson Kitchen Musicians Association, $4,250, The 24th Annual Tucson
Folk Festival
Tucson Museum of Art, $4,908, A Place of Refuge
Tucson Museum of Art, $34,799, Basic Aid
Tucson Museum of Art, $4,884, Trouble in Paradise
Tucson Museum of Art, $19,500, Working Capital-Phase I
Tucson Pima Arts Council, $4,250, Family Arts Festival
Tucson Pima Arts Council, $37,500, Locals Aid
Tucson Pops Orchestra, $7,500, General Operating Support II
Tucson Regional Ballet, $3,500, A Southwest Nutcracker
Tucson Regional Ballet, $4,500, General Operating Support I
Tucson Small School Project/City High School, $3,000, City High
Artist-in-Residence Program
Tucson Symphony Society, $69,541, Basic Aid
Tucson Symphony Society, $10,000, Music in the Schools/ Young People
Tucson Symphony Society, $19,500, Working Capital-Phase I
Tucson USD, Blenman Elementary, $3,000, Blenman Taiko Program
Tucson USD, Borton Primary Magnet School, $2,100, Cyles and Systems
Tucson USD, Cragin Elementary School, $1,925, Wow… I Did It
Tucson USD, Doolen Middle School, $2,000, A Lifetime of Orchestra
Playing
Tucson USD, Miller Elementary School, $3,000, School and Courtyard
Transformation
Tucson USD, Pistor Middle School, $1,150, Dance Fusion— Dance Locally,
Think Globally
Tucson USD, Pueblo Gardens Elem Sch, $2,300, Discovery and Art – Visualizing the Natural World
Tucson USD, Sabino High School, $2,000, Orchestral Music Performance
with Professionals
Tucson USD, Steele Elementary School, $2,300, Pathfinder: Exploring the
world through Music
Tucson USD, Van Buskirk Elem School, $2,000, Taiko Residency for Van
Buskirk
Tucson USD, Wakefield Middle School, $2,300, Interpreting the World
Around Us Through Drawing
UA Balalaika Orchestra, $1,400, Concert of Russian Music and Fun
UA Sonora Review, $1,100, Sonora Review Issues 55 and 56
Voices: Community Stories Past and Present, Inc., $20,000, General
Operating Support III
Voices: Community Stories Past and Present, Inc., $2,500, The Living
Stories Project
Waila Festival Committee, $2,700, Waila Festival
WomanKraft, $2,373, General Operating Support I ZUZI! Dance Company, School and Theater, $9,000, General Operating
Support II