State Council on Arts announces new grants

PROVIDENCE – The R.I. State Council on the Arts in January announced $139,877 in grants to schools, organizations, community centers and artists.
Statewide, 63 grants were awarded in response to 227 applications received at the council’s Oct. 1 deadline.
To date, the council has awarded 276 grants totaling $1,445,487 in fiscal 2015, which runs through June 30. The council receives its support through an annual appropriation from the General Assembly and from the federal National Endowment for the Arts.
Projects supported in the current round of grants include:
• A $1,750 grant to The Learning Community Charter School in Central Falls for a project for fifth-graders with teaching artist Jess Regelson to create a tile mosaic mural based on Kate DiCamillo’s book, “The Tiger Rising,” for the school and community.
• A $3,600 grant to Newport schools to partner with the Island Moving Dance Company to develop a creative-movement residency based on math concepts. The new curriculum will be piloted at the Pell School in winter 2015 with the 2nd grade, including teacher training with the dancers to integrate movement into math teaching.
• A $2,500 grant to the Narragansett Bay Symphony Community Orchestra, based in East Providence, to support free concerts for the public.
A complete list of December grant recipients is available at www.arts.ri.gov/grants/recent. •

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