RISCA awards $143K in grants to schools, organizations, artists

THE R.I. State Council on the Arts awarded approximately $143,000 in grants to schools, organizations, community centers and artists this month.
THE R.I. State Council on the Arts awarded approximately $143,000 in grants to schools, organizations, community centers and artists this month.

PROVIDENCE – Schools, organizations, community centers and artists were awarded approximately $143,000 in grants from the R.I. State Council on the Arts this month.
The council’s board approved the awarding of the 75 grants at a recent meeting.
Grants will go to support arts in education, community-based projects by organizations, and individual artist fellowships and projects for the remainder of the fiscal year.
“We’re particularly pleased with this round of grant awards,” Randall Rosenbaum, executive director of the R.I. State Council on the Arts, said in a statement. “Programs in arts education and projects that support the work of artists contribute to the economy and vitality of life in communities throughout our state.”
The top 10 grant awards are as follows:

  • Kevin Cunningham, $6,000, design innovation grant
  • James William Evans, $5,000, fellowship in choregraphy
  • Johnny Adimando, $5,000, fellowship in drawing and printmaking
  • Kelli Rae Adams, $5,000, fellowship in new genres
  • Jeff Prystowsky, $5,000, fellowship in music composition
  • Talia Elizabeth Levitt, $5,000, fellowship in painting
  • Jose Maldonado, $5,000, Project 401 School Year Programming
  • Meghan Taryn Fogarty, $5,000, ProvSlam Youth
  • Ana Paula Lopes Monteiro, $4,000, Behind These Bars – The Singer in Cell 90
  • Shakespeare in the City/Lincoln School, $3,500, Shakespeare in the City

All 10 grant recipients, with the exception of Fogarty, who is from North Providence, are from Providence.
Other examples of projects supported in the latest grant round include:

  • A $2,000 grant to Urban Pond Procession Arts. UPP Arts will collaborate with local artists to provide educational art workshops and public awareness events with the focus on urban waterways and indigenous culture. Final projects will be shared and celebrated at the ninth annual Urban Pond Procession which will be an enriched by performing artists.
  • A $2,000 grant to ECAS Theatre in Providence for a forum-theater production of the Brazilian play “The Fox and the Grapes” by Guilherme Figueiredo, with a cast combining bilingual and ESL high school students.
  • A $2,000 grant to The Community String Project, which will continue making after-school orchestral string music lessons available to all East Bay youth (ages 8 to 18). So far, 110 children/youth have been served during the 2015-2016 academic year. Forty-two percent meet income qualifications for free instruction and subsidized instrument, removing cost as a barrier.
  • A $1,500 grant to artist Alfonso Acevedo from Central Falls for the program “The New Millennium Art Factory,” a series of visual arts and movement classes for young people 6 to 18 years old at the Adams Library in Central Falls, culminating in pop-up exhibits in Blackstone Valley business districts.

A complete list of December grant recipients, as well as a list of all grants awarded by RISCA this year, can be found at the Arts Council’s website.

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