Grant Recipients FY19 Fall

Recipient
Title
Grant Amount
Summary
Grant Program
City
Alan Shawn Feinstein Elementary School Part of the Oath: Voices Of Beauty at Alan Shawn Feinstein Elementary School 1625 This project will bring Festival Ballet Providence’s (FBP) Part of the Oath program to English Language Learner (ELL) students at Alan Shawn Feinstein Elementary School. FBP will teach students about the power of their own writing and movement as vehicles to express themselves using movement awareness, expression, communication and confidence. Project Grants in Education FY19-Cyc2 Providence
Allison Bianco Rhode Island's Largest Printing Press 1500 AS220 Community Printshop in Providence, RI houses the largest printing press in Rhode Island. Allison Bianco will create a monumental etching on this press, working with local artist Lois Harada. The AS220 Community Printshop will host an open studio for the AS220 Youth Alumni and public studio hours. Cade Tompkins Projects will exhibit the final print at a public reception in June. Project Grants for Individuals FY19cyc2 North Providence
Andrea Perez Fellowship in Drawing & Printmaking 1000 Merit Fellowship in Drawing & Printmaking Fellowship in Drawing & Printmaking FY19 North Providence
Astrid Drew Community Workshop Development Project 1000 Astrid Drew, treasurer of Providence Poetry Slam, will establish monthly writing workshops for area writers and members of the Providence poetry community. Project Grants for Individuals FY19cyc2 Providence
Barrington Recreation Department Barrington Arts Festival 2000 The Town of Barrington will provide artists of all disciplines with a venue for exhibiting and performing their creativity on the Barrington Government Center lawn. The successful 2018 Festival had a record of visual artists, performers, and arts educators–all demonstrating the power of the arts in building community. Arts Access Grant FY19-Cyc2 Barrington
Belinda Phivilay face(s) of PVD 1000 This is a collection of street photography and portraits of black and brown individuals from different backgrounds who help sustain Providence. The purpose of this project is to build community by creating safe spaces and to acknowledge how much of an asset we are regardless of experience. With this visibility we can learn to create communities that fit the mold of a world we aspire to exist in. Project Grants for Individuals FY19cyc2 Providence
Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sánchez Se Aculilló? | Primxs 2250 "Se Aculilló? | Primxs," the 4th exhibition in the Se Aculilló? series, will feature art created by people who have origins, ancestral roots, and/or cultural ties to geographies colonized by the former Spanish Empire, selected via open call with strong consideration for Black artists, Indigenous artists, LGBTQAI artists, and artists who have been marginalized from traditional presentations of art. Project Grants for Individuals FY19cyc2 Providence
Butler Hospital Healing Arts Storytelling Residencies Program 3300 Butler Hospital’s Healing Arts 2018-2019 Multi-Disciplinary Storytelling Experience Residencies Program, a six-month project, will host internationally recognized storytellers Len Cabral and Valerie Tutson, poet Christopher Johnson and comic book artist Walker Mettling to facilitate five month-long residencies in storytelling. Arts in Healthcare Project Grants FY19-cyc2 Providence
Cathren Housley Fantasy Board Game Workshop 2345 In this 5 week workshop, kids will design their own board game, make game accessories, and write their own rule book. Award winning multidisciplinary artist Cathren Housley supplies materials personalized to each group's imagination and aim. Kids have the opportunity to combine writing skills, design, sculpture, and drawing to produce a board game that becomes part of the library collection. Project Grants for Individuals FY19cyc2 Providence
Christopher Johnson New and Dangerous Tv 2500 Docu-theater where scripts are created from stories, poems, and submissions from marginalized voices (high school students) in the RI/New England community at large. The The plays will take place and filmed in local theaters and open spaces, with a talk back when applicable, then edited and uploaded bi weekly as a Youtube sitcom. Project Grants for Individuals FY19cyc2 Providence
Deanna Brown The Backstreets: Providence 1200 Deanna "DeeDee" Brown will produce episode 1 of Providence; The Backstreets and a screening for the premiere. Project Grants for Individuals FY19cyc2 Providence
DownCity Design DownCity Design: Resilient Providence 5136 Resilient Providence is a series of free design education programs in which 54 Providence youth will design and build installations across the city of Providence that will test and showcase new ideas for increasing our city’s environmental sustainability and resilience. Project Grants in Education FY19-Cyc2 Providence
Downtown Providence Parks Conservancy c/o Providence Foundation Greater Kennedy Plaza (GKP) Arts & Cultural Programming 3000 GKP Arts & Cultural programming revitalizes our capital city by providing free, high quality, accessible public programming in downtown parks since 2008. Programs include the Burnside Music Series, Noon Tunes, and family programs such as Kidoinfo Storytime & Art in the Park as well as public art and community programs at the Imagination Center. Arts Access Grant FY19-Cyc2 Providence
Ernest Jolicoeur Fellowship in Painting 5000 Fellowship in Painting Fellowship in Painting FY19 Providence
Friends of the Rhody Center, Inc. Steel Pan and Latin Percussion Ensembles 3000 Friends of the Rhody Center, Inc. will provide another six months of its Steel Pan ("steel drum") Ensembles, as well as its Latin Percussion Ensemble. The ensembles are free for youth to join. Arts Access Grant FY19-Cyc2 Coventry
Gerald Shippe Draw Your World 500 "Draw Your World" is a 24 page drawing instruction book for students aged 9-15. It will provide directed lessons on how to draw 5 subjects utilizing different methods, allowing students to select the method that works for them best. Not all students learn the same way, and these methods will provide them choices, as well as a method to draw other subjects not in the book. Project Grants for Individuals FY19cyc2 West Warwick
Gilbert Stuart Middle School Learning through Storytelling 7500 Gilbert Stuart Middle School (GSMS) and a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the awareness, appreciation, and application of Black Storytelling in Rhode Island through performance, educational, and cultural experiences. will expand seventh-grade history and eighth-grade history and English curricula in an arts integration project. Project Grants in Education FY19-Cyc2 Providence
Grace Church in Providence In Harmony: Collegium Ancora @ Pride 3000 Collegium Ancora plans to offer a free concert of choral music in conjunction with RI Pride 2019, featuring music by, for, and about LGBTQIA+ individuals and communities. Works include Conté's "Elegy for Matthew Shepard", and the world premiere of the winning entry in the ensemble's inaugural composition contest. Performed at Grace Church downtown. Arts Access Grant FY19-Cyc2 Providence
Gray Horan Premier Staged Reading of "Coming Attraction" 1500 The event will include first staged reading of a powerful new play, "Coming Attraction" on January 28, 2019. Audience members will include identified special interest groups who will have an opportunity to participate in a "Talk Back" program to discuss and react to the play's resonate themes. Several rare vintage photographs, which are the subject of the play, will receive a special exhibition. Project Grants for Individuals FY19cyc2 North Providence
Harrison Grigsby Fellow in Music Composition 5000 Fellowship in Music Composition Fellowship in Music Composition FY19 Providence
Highlander Charter School Making Beats for Social Change 3600 Highlander will develop a multi-disciplinary performing arts, literacy, and media project at their recording studio in partnership with Beatbox Studio. Staff and students will explore the entertainment industry using multiple disciplines to powerfully express students’ personal narratives and interests within while connecting with core subjects. Project Grants in Education FY19-Cyc2 Providence
International Charter School Documenting Cultural Communities 7500 “Documenting Our Identities” is an arts education project integrated into the International Baccalaureate (IB) unit “How We Express Ourselves,” in which third graders, teachers & Artist-in-Residence Mary Beth Meehan collaborate to teach how art and visual narrative can explore concepts of identity, culture & community. Project Grants in Education FY19-Cyc2 Pawtucket
James McBride Follow Your Dreams School Tour 1000 Mr. Deep Positivity plans to perform at 10 Providence Schools and inspire over 6000 students to be safe, smart, healthy and successful so they can follow their dreams. Project Grants for Individuals FY19cyc2 East Providence
Joanne Dorrance Poets Speaking Up 1000 Artist will hold a poetry reading at the Contemporary Theater in Wakefield, RI on March 24th, 2019. Poets of all ages, from across RI, will take part is this show. Music will also be incorporated. Project Grants for Individuals FY19cyc2 Wakefield
Joey DeFrancesco La Neve Public Performances 805 Musician La Neve will complete a new forty minute set of live music and develop an accompanying expanded live performance to be presented three times in Rhode Island. La Neve is artist Joey La Neve DeFrancesco, guitarist and lead songwriter of internationally acclaimed Providence band Downtown Boys. The music and performances will be a large scaling up of current La Neve shows. Project Grants for Individuals FY19cyc2 Providence
Jose Maldonado Project 401 School Year Programming (Winter Session) 2500 Project 401 will execute it's year round Hip-Hop education programming initiative. A comprehensive after school program where youth are encouraged to express themselves creatively through the Hip-Hop elements ( Rapping, Bboying/Bgirling, Djing, and Graffiti), be introduced to and explore alternative healthy lifestyles, and develop a broader understanding of their ethnic identity. Project Grants for Individuals FY19cyc2 Providence
Karen Isenberg Family Music Classes at Community LIbraries 850 Karen Isenberg will conduct family music classes for children ages 0-5 years and their adults at Providence Community Library branches serving low-income communities. Participants will experience a diverse set of children's songs with a mix of tonal and rhythmic patterns. Classes aim to foster music competence, support child development, and build positive relationships and community. Project Grants for Individuals FY19cyc2 Providence
Kei Soares Cobb BASSO CONTINUO- Experimental Opera 1000 BASSO CONTINUO is an experimental opera by Kei Soares Cobb, KYLE b. co. and Ashley Frith with support from AS220’s Community Live Arts Residency. BASSO CONTINUO is an investigation of the concept of SELF that challenges the notion of a singular SELF and elevates the collective identity. Project Grants for Individuals FY19cyc2 North Kingstown
Kendall Reiss Seeking Level: Exploring Historic Tools from the Tim Bornstein Collection at Coggeshall Farm Museum 1000 In partnership with Coggeshall Farm Museum and Art Night Bristol/Warren, artist Kendall Reiss invites the Rhode Island community to a two-part artist talk and workshop. Participants will engage with objects from the Tim Bornstein collection of historic tools through programs focused on the progress and installation of a site-specific sculpture made from bronze casts of a mold in the collection. Project Grants for Individuals FY19cyc2 Bristol
Kenneth Borge RED 750 Kenny will direct and produce two films about the art and culture of skateboarding based in providence that will be screened at As220 Main Stage in the summer of 2020.
The screening of the film kenny is producing, Red with showcase the city of Providence through a skateboarders perspective.
Project Grants for Individuals FY19cyc2 Providence
Kirsten Volness Verdant Vibes Dance Mini-Fest 1500 Verdant Vibes is a new music ensemble and concert series based in Providence that
brings together composers and performers creating new work in multiple genres. The Dance Mini-Fest will include collaborations with our ensemble and local dance ensembles Luminarium Dance Company and Diary of Clouds at a performance at South Side Cultural Center in June 2019.
Project Grants for Individuals FY19cyc2 Providence
Kirstin Lamb Fellowship in Painting 1000 Merit Fellowship in Painting Fellowship in Painting FY19 Providence
Vatic Kuumba Fellowship in New Genres 1000 Merit Fellowship in New Genres Fellowship in New Genres FY19 Providence
Luis Rodriguez Music Program Project 2300 The Music Program plans to enable kids and young people in dangerous part of the city of Providence, to develop and interest and learn to play a musical instrument. Project Grants for Individuals FY19cyc2 Providence
Marlon Carey Shakespeare to Hiphop 1800 Shakespeare to hiphop will perform a literary concert (2-3 times) in 2019 at the Bishop McVinney Auditorium on Shakespeare's recognized birthday, April 23. The concert will be "The Shakespeare Time-traveling Speakeasy" a highly acclaimed 55 minute musical and poetic multimedia presentation that introduces students to the world of Shakespeare and encourages further exploration. Project Grants for Individuals FY19cyc2 Providence
McAuley Ministries Arts at McAuley House Program 3000 Arts at McAuley House Program will taught in 2018 – 2019 by artist, Kathy King to guests of the meal site in the Elmwood section of Providence. The program, in operation more than a decade, includes weekly arts instruction and features an annual art show, an artist's blog and limited opportunities for artists to sell their work. Arts Access Grant FY19-Cyc2 Providence
Melodie Thompson "A Letter from Coretta" Stageplay, Phase One 500 Melodie Thompson will write and present a staged reading from her stageplay "A Letter from Coretta," based on a personal letter written by Coretta Scott King to her mother, Ella Bowman Clark, in October of 1968. This presentation will be directed by Ricardo Pitts-Wiley at Mixed Magic Theater during February 2019. Project Grants for Individuals FY19cyc2 Cranston
Meredith Stern Fellowship in Drawing & Printmaking 5000 Fellowship in Drawing & Printmaking Fellowship in Drawing & Printmaking FY19 Providence
Nafis White Fellowship in New Genres 5000 Fellowship in New Genres Fellowship in New Genres FY19 Providence
Oliver Arias Student-Centric Arts and Social Justice Curriculum Development and Implementation 3000 I am proposing a multi-visit arts based curriculum development project at Central HS and Paul Cuffee HS that explores the complexity of racial identity with students and teachers, while concurrently developing an arts and social justice based video curriculum that uses student voices to expand upon difficult but necessary conversations about racial inequality in classrooms across our state. Project Grants for Individuals FY19cyc2 Providence
Orlando Hernández Hernández and Davidson collaboration blending tap, contemporary dance, pointe and live music 1500 Danielle Davidson and Orlando Hernández, in collaboration with cellist Adrienne Taylor, create Project 01/28. This interdisciplinary work questions established dance practices by blending tap dance and contemporary dance, pointe work and live music. Free and ticketed events will be held in communities in and around Providence. Performances, workshops, and Q&A's will be open to the community. Project Grants for Individuals FY19cyc2 Providence
Orlando Hernández Fellowship in Choreography 5000 Fellowship in Choreography Fellowship in Choreography FY19 Providence
Patricia Hawkridge, MFA Teaching Curriculum Through the Arts: A Practical Approach 4575 Two RI Arts Integration Specialists will develop and implement a,tuition free 8 hour professional development arts integration course for RI teachers, grades 6-12. Project Grants in Education FY19-Cyc2 Pawtucket
PC Galleries at Providence College On the Wall: Elizabeth Corkery 500 On the Wall: Elizabeth Corkery is the fifth installment of Providence College Galleries' (PC–G) On the Wall program, an annual artwork commission applied directly to the walls of the gallery. Inspired by work of women of the Bauhaus, Corkery will create the large-scale mural using geometric abstraction, silkscreen and custom-designed wallpaper. Arts Access Grant FY19-Cyc2 Providence
Peter Scartabello Fellowship in Music Composition 1000 Merit Fellowship in Music Composition Fellowship in Music Composition FY19 Wickford
Providence Ballet Theatre Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 2019 3000 Providence Ballet Theatre created an original production of the classic Grimm’s fairy tale "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" early 2018. This work features a collaboration between choreographer and Artistic Director Eva Marie Pacheco and composer Tony Lustig creating an all-new artistic experience for all ages. Arts Access Grant FY19-Cyc2 Providence
Providence Children's Museum Family Maker Experiences at the Museum 3000 Providence Children's Museum (PCM) seeks funding to offer 6 Family Maker experiences to the public, where young children and their caregivers can explore making and scientific thinking in a safe, developmentally appropriate environment. Running from January to June 2019, this project is projected to serve 500 children and adults every month. Arts Access Grant FY19-Cyc2 Providence
Puerto Rican Institute for Arts Caribbean Art Diáspora: MEJUNJE- BOMBA Y PATRIA 2000 Caribbean Art Diáspora: MEJUNJE- BOMBA Y PATRIA reflects the cultural and civic movements that are created when the Caribbean populations, away from their home islands, are influenced to take actions as a direct result of what transpires back home. The project will include music, dance, rap, and video projections. Arts Access Grant FY19-Cyc2 Warwick
Raising Hope, Inc. Afro-Caribbean Drumming 3000 Afro-Caribbean drumming engages young people ages 8 to 18 years in low income communities to develop skills for making music through folk drumming and other percussions. Program is provided by trained master artists, in collaboration with other after school programs, community groups, and arts organization in order to impact a wider audience. Project Grants in Education FY19-Cyc2 Providence
Rebecca Maxfield Goblin Market 900 Head Trick Theatre will perform "Goblin Market", a musical by Polly Pen and Peggy Harmon, adapted from the poem by Christina Rossetti. Nine performances will take place at AS220's Black Box Theatre. Project Grants for Individuals FY19cyc2 Providence
Rebecca Noon Choral Performance on Feminist Labor History at Paragon Mills 1250 Strange Attractor will create and present a free public performance at the Earnscliffe Woolen Mill/Paragon Worsted Co. in Olneyville, in partnership with the Providence Preservation Society's Sites & Stories. We will research the women who worked in the mill and compose songs for community choruses to sing in and around the buildings during a haunting performance dedicated to their unsung work. Project Grants for Individuals FY19cyc2 Newport
ReFocus The Little Clay Studio 750 ReFocus requests a $750 grant in support of The Little Clay Studio (TLC), its in-house pottery studio and classroom where adults with disabilities explore the potentials of clay, and develop self-confidence and individual creativity. Arts Access Grant FY19-Cyc2 Providence
Rhode Island Alliance for Arts in Education PS2019 And "The Gift Of Art" To The State of R.Il. 2500 The Rhode Island Alliance for Arts in Education in partnership with URI exhibit statewide student art (PS2019) & 1 school district's "Gift of Art" at the URI Prov. Campus. A recognition ceremony for the general public. After this public exhibit The Gift of Art framed works are hung at RIDE for the remaining year for all who visit to enjoy. Arts Access Grant FY19-Cyc2 Warwick
Salve Regina University Newport County Youth Chorus 3000 Newport County Youth Chorus offers free after-school programs for 2nd – 6th graders at the Martin Luther King Center and St. Mary's Church (Portsmouth). Participants are led by an experienced music educator and a professional pianist with a combined total of over 25 years of experience as well as assistants from local high schools and universities. Arts Access Grant FY19-Cyc2 Newport
Sara Azriel Schaub MARS Camp After School Program 2000 MARS Camp is a music, arts, recording, and songwriting program. Combining holistic methods with new technology, MARS takes a visionary approach in helping students discover their voice. Students learn to write, record, produce, and distribute their original work, and apply healthy mind and body practices to their art and daily lives. Project Grants for Individuals FY19cyc2 Clayville
Shanthi Yogini Community Dance Project 500 Shanthi Yogini will offer a dynamic, graceful and expressive Indian classical dance performance dressed in elaborate traditional costume followed by a community dance workshop in 4 libraries in Rhode Island. She will begin with a brief introduction to India, the significance of classical dancing and how it can uplift an individual whether performing or viewing the dance. Project Grants for Individuals FY19cyc2 Smithfield
Shanthi Yogini Self-Development through Dance 4900 The project is to help students live to their highest potential and the greatest possible life through the medium of traditional dance. They achieve this through working on their body, mind and intellect. They expand their understanding of unity in diversity through Indian lifestyle and philosophy which are reflected in the dance form. Project Grants in Education FY19-Cyc2 Smithfield
Sheyla Rivera Rios FANTASY ISLAND: Reenvisioning Puerto Rico 1750 To gather and elevate the stories of the people of Puerto Rico and its diaspora, what they’ve experienced during the humanitarian crisis and the hurricanes. To conjure collective healing through storytelling and create an interactive mini documentary. Project Grants for Individuals FY19cyc2 Providence
Smart Test, Inc. Hip Hop Science 2175 Smart Test plans to provide a 12-week in-school Hip Hop Science program and expand it to Martin Luther King School, in which students will learn basic scientific concepts of motion and apply Newton's Laws of Motion and Gravitation to the Hip Hop genre, using their bodies to show concrete examples of scientific laws. Project Grants in Education FY19-Cyc2 East Greenwich
South County Chamber Singers For the Beauty of the Earth 1000 The South County Chamber Singers will offer a musical celebration/observance of Earth Day, including offering a special chorus for youth as part of the concert program. The concert will be held on April 28th at the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Kingston. Arts Access Grant FY19-Cyc2 Wakefield
Stages of Freedom “No man ever would have been treated so." Elleanor Eldridge: RI's First Black Businesswoman 3000 Stages of Freedom will develop the "Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge" about an 18th century Rhode Island woman of color with astonishing entrepreneurial & oratory skills, into a one-woman play. The piece will be previewed by an audience of high school students, artists, educators and historians before its anticipated tour of Rhode Island high schools. Arts Access Grant FY19-Cyc2 Providence
The Art Connection-RI Artistic Experiences for Disadvantaged Children 2000 The staff at Children's Friend Dean Center in Pawtucket has installed the art they chose from Art Connection-RI's portfolio of art offered for donation by local artists. Now the children will have direct experience with one of the artists who created the art on their walls. Arts Access Grant FY19-Cyc2 Pawtucket
The Empowerment Factory Free Art and Creativity Community Saturday Workshops 500 A series of Saturday FREE art & creativity workshops, with an emphasis on engaging youth and families from the Woodlawn neighborhood in Pawtucket. Our goal is to reach, teach and inspire youth that would not normally have access to these art making activities. These will coincide with the well attended Wintertime Farmers Market, Jan. – April. Arts Access Grant FY19-Cyc2 Pawtucket
The Narragansett Bay Symphony Community Orchestra Narragansett Bay Symphony Community Orchestra (NaBSCO) Spring 2019 Concert Series 1500 NaBSCO will present two culturally-stimulating low-cost orchestra concerts and a free chamber music recital concert featuring music. Works include the world premier of The Gates of Niflheim by Jeremy Bell, Lancen's double bass concerto with Joe Bentley, Brahms’ Symphony No. 3, the Elgar Cello Concerto with Clara Yang, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 1. Arts Access Grant FY19-Cyc2 East Providence
The Peace Flag Project The Children's Flag of America 3000 Artist Cathren Housley and the Peace Flag Project will engage children from diverse RI communities in a collaborative art work, “The Children’s Flag of America,” the 3rd in the American Peace Flag Trilogy. Children express their own hopes for a better future & create their own Peace Flag. The finished 20' X 10' Flag will be exhibited throughout RI. Arts Access Grant FY19-Cyc2 Providence
Trinity Academy for the Performing Arts Bridging Gaps 3000 Bridging Gaps is an exploration of the crucial place of improvisation in the artistic process. Leland Baker will meet with students at TAPA to facilitate a series of improvisation workshops. Arts students will explore various techniques that help them understand improvisation and prepare for composition, songwriting and public performances. Project Grants in Education FY19-Cyc2 Providence
TRYCAPS CREATIVE ART PROGRAM Culture, Collages and Family 1000 TrY CAPS youth plan to engage single families living in transitional housing at McAuley Village and increase community participation. The youth and two artist will host (2) two hour workshops and (1) one full week of two hour art classes for children and their families living at the Village.The youth will engage the families as well. Arts Access Grant FY19-Cyc2 Providence
v Raffini Connecting the Diaspora 1800 Three women will perform in dance, historical narrative, drumming as they tell the True story of struggles of the three generations of women from their family/country. Using artistic expressions, we hear of these women from Liberia, Nigeria, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and America. The Journey and stories of survival of Grandmother, Mother, and Self. Project Grants for Individuals FY19cyc2 Providence
Vilia Putrius The Seasons 1000 Merit Fellowship in Choreography Fellowship in Choreography FY19 Providence
Warwick Center for the Arts Support for Affordable Out of School Time Art Camps for Area Youth 500 Warwick Center for the Arts (WCFA) will provide affordable, out-of-school time, hands-on art programs for students age 6-17 during February and April school vacations. WCFA's vacation camps offer area students the chance to work alongside professional teaching artists to explore a variety of mediums, build confidence, and interpret art. Arts Access Grant FY19-Cyc2 Warwick
Warwick Symphony Orchestra WSO Pops-Up for Audiences 1100 The Warwick Symphony Orchestra will provide five free concerts to the public featuring orchestral pops music in diverse communities across the state in June and July 2019. The purpose of these accessible performances is to continue a long-standing initiative by the organization focusing on audience diversification and development. Arts Access Grant FY19-Cyc2 East Greenwich
West Bay Chorale Tapestry- Woven in Harmony 2000 West Bay Chorale presents two multicultural performances in the spring of 2019. March brings a coffeehouse of global music, poetry, and dance by chorus members and professional artists. Tapestry, the Chorale's May concert, will showcase a composer's RI premiere in 6 languages and equally diverse music and high school singers and guest artists. Arts Access Grant FY19-Cyc2 Warwick