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| 134 Collaborative | Tenderloin Opera Company Season 10 | $2,250 | Tenderloin Opera Company is a homeless advocacy music and theater group based in Providence, RI, whose members include currently and formerly homeless people and their advocates. Through weekly meetings and monthly performances, TOC with develop an "opera" featuring the stories of local homelessness, created and performed by its members. | Arts Access Grant | Providence |
| Art Night Bristol Warren | #MeetTheArtist | $3,000 | During the project period July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020, Art Night will present its 8th and 9th seasons of open studios and gallery events. In 2019 and 2020, in addition to the full complement of Art Night events, Art Night will launch a new component: #MeetTheArtist art talks, demonstrations and unique interactive experiences. | Arts Access Grant | Bristol |
| Brown University (Rites and Reasons Theatre) | The Black Lavender Experience | $1,620 | The 12th Annual Black Lavender Experience will be a four-day hands-on exploration of Queer expression through performance, workshops, panel discussions, and folkthoughts (post event facilitated discussions), all sparked by Queer and self-identified LGBTQ artists of color-curated and produced by Rites and Reason Theatre. | Arts Access Grant | Providence |
| Burbage Theatre Company | Burbage & Bard | $2,250 | Burbage Theatre Company seeks your support for its second annual “Burbage & Bard” Shakespeare Festival this summer, now featuring 12 free outdoor performances of "Julius Caesar"; eight performances will be split between two different locations in the Company's hometown of Pawtucket and the final four performances will be in East Providence, RI. | Arts Access Grant | Providence |
| Chance to Dance/RI Dance Alliance | Chance to Dance Expanded Programming | $1,500 | Chance to Dance, a statewide program, has provided quality dance education for 33 years. Within school settings, a dance educator and accompanist provide 25 weeks of direct instruction. Students develop skills & knowledge to create dances performed in a gala annual performance at PPAC. Chance to Dance supports required “well rounded” education. | Arts Access Grant | Pascoag |
| Colonial Theatre of Rhode Island | Shakespeare in Wilcox Park 2019 | $1,620 | Bringing free outdoor Shakespeare to the communities of Westerly and southern Rhode Island since 1991, Colonial Theatre of Rhode Island is continuing its tradition of arts access this summer by incorporating a free "Pre-Professional" young company training program in conjunction with the professional production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream." | Arts Access Grant | Westerly |
| Creature Conserve, Inc. | Art+Sci Workshops on Learning to Co+Exist with Urban Wildlife | $1,500 | A series of workshops for Rhode Island artists on how to make science more accessible and understandable through visual art using urban ecology as the unifying theme. Participating artists will be invited to join a statewide call for artwork for a month-long Earth Day public exhibit, "Urban Wildlife in Rhode Island: "Learning to Co+Exist." | Arts Access Grant | Barrington |
| Downtown Providence Parks Conservancy c/o Providence Foundation | Greater Kennedy Plaza (GKP) Arts & Cultural Programming | $3,000 | 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, & family arts programs such as Providence Storytime & Art in the Park as well as public art & community programs at the Imagination Center. | Arts Access Grant | Providence |
| East Providence Arts Council | The Looff-East Providence Arts Festival | $1,500 | The Looff-East Providence Art Festival is the flagship event of the East Providence Arts Council. The Looff Arts Festival is an economic driver for the City, drawing thousands to walk East Providence’s waterfront, ride its historic Looff Carousel, and experience the arts in way specific to East Providence. | Arts Access Grant | Riverside |
| Esperanza-Hope | Free Bilingual Acrylic Art Program | $1,120 | Esperanza-Hope will hold its 4th Free Five Week Bilingual Art Program for children ages 7-16 in Providence, October-November 2019. The classes will be taught by five different artists. At the end of the five weeks, there will be an award ceremony and art exhibition with the children’s artwork. | Arts Access Grant | Cranston |
| GEAR Productions | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland – An All-Abilities Musical Production | $3,000 | GEAR Productions will stage an original musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" with a diverse cast comprised of people who have cognitive and physical impairments partnered with community members who are typically-developed. | Arts Access Grant | Wakefield |
| Grace Church in Providence (Collegium Ancora) | Mass for the Unarmed Child | $1,620 | Collegium Ancora plans to commission and perform “Mass for the Unarmed Child”, written by Michael Bussewitz-Quarm and Adrian Dunn in response to the ongoing gun violence against children. Duruflé’s Requiem completes the program, to be presented on Nov 3, 2019 (the weekend of All Souls' Day in the Christian tradition) at Grace Church in Providence. | Arts Access Grant | Providence |
| Imago Foundation for the Arts | Artists Speak 2019/2020 | $1,900 | IFA will continue its free public lecture series, "Artists Speak," by inviting four awarded-winning well-regarded Rhode Island artists to discuss their artwork and careers. Held at IMAGO Gallery, the series increases public understanding of how the arts enrich communities. | Arts Access Grant | Warren |
| NeighborWorks Blackstone River Valley | Levitt AMP Woonsocket Music Series | $3,000 | Levitt AMP Woonsocket leverages the power of free, live music to reinvigorate underutilized public space and strengthen community ties. The 10-week Friday night music series invests in musicians, celebrates diversity, and catalyzes the local economy by drawing locals and tourists alike into the public sphere through these family-friendly events. | Arts Access Grant | Woonsocket |
| Oasis International | African Summer Bash | $2,250 | Oasis International will celebrate its 26th African Summer Bash this year. The Bash celebrates the cultural richness of African and other diverse ethnic groups in Southwest Providence – including the Cape Verdean community – through music, dance, food, and the arts. The Bash is an all-day festival with games and live entertainment for all ages. | Arts Access Grant | Providence |
| Providence Children's Museum | Family Maker Experiences at the Museum | $780 | Providence Children's Museum (PCM) seeks funding to continue its Family Maker program in the second half of 2019, offering children and caregivers across the state opportunities to explore maker culture and creativity, all within in a safe, developmentally appropriate environment. | Arts Access Grant | Providence |
| Puerto Rican Institute for Arts | Caribbean Arts: Bomba/Carnival in Central Falls | $1,500 | This grant will support the Caribbean Art program with a month of Afro Puerto Rican Bomba/Carnaval workshops for Segue institute for Learning at Central Falls, ending with a great Carnival performance for students, staff, parents and community. | Arts Access Grant | Warwick |
| RI Cape Verdean Heritage Subcommittee | Cape Verdean Independence Day Festival | $3,000 | RICVHC plans to hold an annual Cape Verdean Independence Day Festival in commemoration of Cape Verde's independence. The festival will be held on July 7th, 2019, at India Point Park in Providence, Rhode Island. The festival brings together the Cape Verdean community in Rhode Island, to celebrate the culture and heritage of the Cape Verde Islands. | Arts Access Grant | Providence |
| Salve Regina University (Newport County Youth Chorus) | Newport County Youth Chorus | $2,250 | Newport County Youth Chorus offers free/low-cost weekly after-school programs for students in grades 2 – 6 in Newport and Portsmouth, each culminating in a performance. Participants are led by professional musicians and educators with a combined total of over 25 years of experience as well as emerging leaders from local high schools and colleges. | Arts Access Grant | Newport |
| The Autism Project | In Harmony | $3,000 | In Harmony – The Autism Project (TAP) and The RI Philharmonic Orchestra Music School (RIPOMS) will provide a school year of weekly music education to 15-20 youth with an Autism Spectrum Disorder, with a year-end public performance. In the summer, RIPOMS provides engaging music activities to 115 campers at TAP’s Camp WANNAGOAGAIN!. | Arts Access Grant | Johnston |
| The Choir School of Newport County | Piano Lesson Outreach Program | $3,000 | The Choir School of Newport County plans to continue its Piano Lesson Outreach Program with funding for its administrative and artistic personnel: a program recruiter/coordinator, and a Suzuki-method certified piano instructor for private and group classes. | Arts Access Grant | Newport |
| Warwick Center for the Arts | Meaningful Art Experiences for Individuals with Disabilities | $720 | Warwick Center for the Arts (WCFA) will provide art programs for clients for individuals with disabilities from Spurwink, RI, whose programming assists them in pursuing social, educational, vocational, and life enhancing opportunities. Teaching artists will provide instruction twice a month using diverse media and arts practices to engage clients in artistic exploration. | Arts Access Grant | Warwick |
| What Cheer Art Company | PRONK! 2019 | $3,000 | PRONK! is a free day long outdoor music festival, that has been bringing street bands from around the world and around the corner together with local artist and community groups. PRONK! 2019 highlights community activism art and music into a single and well loved Providence Parade and Music Festival held along the River on South Street. | Arts Access Grant | Providence |
| What Cheer Flower Farm | Art in the Fields | $1,620 | What Cheer Flower Farm, an urban farm which grows and donates 30,000 flowers to charity, is launching an annual Art in the Fields summer program to invite diverse groups in the community to experience creating art. The program will offer free, artist-led classes including nature photography, botanical illustration, and watercolor painting. | Arts Access Grant | Providence |
| Artists' Exchange | General Operating Support | $3,000 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Cranston | |
| AS220 | General Operating Support | $38,488 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Providence | |
| Aurea, Inc. | General Operating Support | $3,750 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Pawtucket | |
| Chorus of Westerly | General Operating Support | $12,000 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Westerly | |
| City of Providence Dept of Art, Culture + Tourism | General Operating Support | $10,000 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Providence | |
| Common Fence Music | General Operating Support | $6,400 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Middletown | |
| Community MusicWorks | General Operating Support | $11,454 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Providence | |
| Community String Project | General Operating Support | $3,500 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Bristol | |
| Everett | General Operating Support | $21,000 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Providence | |
| Festival Ballet Providence | General Operating Support | $22,056 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Providence | |
| FirstWorks | General Operating Support | $10,000 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Providence | |
| Flickers, the Newport Film/Video Society & Arts Collaborative | General Operating Support | $4,386 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Newport | |
| Frequency Writers | General Operating Support | $1,575 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Providence | |
| Gallery Night Providence | General Operating Support | $5,000 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Providence | |
| Girls Rock! Rhode Island | General Operating Support | $5,000 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Providence | |
| Hera Educational Foundation, Inc | General Operating Support | $3,750 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Wakefield | |
| Island Moving Co. | General Operating Support | $19,000 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Newport | |
| Jamestown Arts Center | General Operating Support | $3,500 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Jamestown | |
| Kingston Chamber Music Festival | General Operating Support | $3,500 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Kingston | |
| Mixed Magic Theatre and Cultural Events | General Operating Support | $7,500 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Pawtucket | |
| Museum Concerts | General Operating Support | $2,000 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Providence | |
| Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design | General Operating Support | $68,728 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Providence | |
| Music on the Hill | General Operating Support | $2,000 | Investments in Arts & Culture | East Greenwich | |
| Musica Dolce | General Operating Support | $2,500 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Kingston | |
| New Urban Arts | General Operating Support | $11,000 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Providence | |
| Newport Art Museum and Art Association | General Operating Support | $21,468 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Newport | |
| newportFILM | General Operating Support | $2,000 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Newport | |
| Old Slater Mill Association | General Operating Support | $5,000 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Pawtucket | |
| Providence Athenaeum | General Operating Support | $6,000 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Providence | |
| Providence Children's Film Festival | General Operating Support | $3,500 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Providence | |
| Providence CityArts for Youth | General Operating Support | $5,397 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Providence | |
| Providence Singers | General Operating Support | $10,500 | Investments in Arts & Culture | East Providence | |
| Rhode Island Black Storytellers | General Operating Support | $3,750 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Providence | |
| Rhode Island Chamber Music Concerts | General Operating Support | $3,000 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Hope | |
| Rhode Island Civic Chorale and Orchestra | General Operating Support | $6,000 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Cranston | |
| Rhode Island Latino Arts | General Operating Support | $3,750 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Providence | |
| Rhode Island Museum of Science and Art | General Operating Support | $3,750 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Providence | |
| Rhode Island Wind Ensemble | General Operating Support | $1,300 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Providence | |
| RI Philharmonic Orchestra & Music School | General Operating Support | $72,640 | Investments in Arts & Culture | East Providence | |
| RiverzEdge Arts Project | General Operating Support | $11,500 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Woonsocket | |
| RPM Voices of Rhode Island | General Operating Support | $4,000 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Providence | |
| Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre | General Operating Support | $27,500 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Warwick | |
| Stadium Theatre Foundation | General Operating Support | $7,500 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Woonsocket | |
| Teatro ECAS | General Operating Support | $5,000 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Providence | |
| The Contemporary Theater Company | General Operating Support | $3,500 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Wakefield | |
| The Manton Avenue Project | General Operating Support | $5,500 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Providence | |
| The Narragansett Bay Symphony Community Orchestra | General Operating Support | $2,000 | Investments in Arts & Culture | East Providence | |
| The State Ballet of RI | General Operating Support | $5,000 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Lincoln | |
| The Steel Yard | General Operating Support | $7,000 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Providence | |
| Tomaquag Indian Memorial Museum | General Operating Support | $3,500 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Exeter | |
| Trinity Repertory Company | General Operating Support | $90,140 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Providence | |
| Wilbury Theatre Group | General Operating Support | $5,000 | Investments in Arts & Culture | Providence | |
| Calcutt Middle School | STEAM Arts Component Implementation with Pushed Learning and Media | $4,000 | We are proposing a multi-artist residency with Pushed teaching artists Assi Coulibaly, Oliver Arias, and Eric Axelman for the 2019-2020 school year to help build the arts component of our new STEAM initiative. Artists will work with asst. principal Katie Gomes to coordinate teacher partnerships and showcase student art with frequent performances. | Project Grants in Education | Central Falls |
| DownCity Design | DownCity Design Summer Design Studio | $6,000 | Our DownCity Design Summer Design Studio will engage 50 Providence and RI urban core teens in a free, intensive 6-week design education program from July 8-August 16, 2019. Students will explore design careers and will design and build two new amenities for public spaces or community groups, while improving math and literacy skills. | Project Grants in Education | Providence |
| Gilbert Stuart Middle School | Integrating Storytelling into the Curriculum | $4,800 | Gilbert Stuart Middle School and Rhode Island Black Storytellers will work together to expand students' understanding of history, public speaking and good audience behavior through integrating the art of storytelling into all Social Studies, English, English Language Learner and Newcomer classes. | Project Grants in Education | Providence |
| International Charter School | Documenting Our Identities | $4,000 | “Documenting Our Identities” is an arts education project integrated into the International Baccalaureate (IB) unit “How We Express Ourselves,” in which 3rd graders, teachers & Artist-in-Residence Mary Beth Meehan collaborate to teach how art and visual narrative can explore concepts of identity, culture, and community. | Project Grants in Education | Pawtucket |
| Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center | Community Works | $1,680 | The Art Program at MLKCC will be inspired by the nearby Community Gardens and by Narragansett Bay. Artwork inspired by the garden will be exhibited in the entrance to the Community Food Pantry and the Community Room. Ceramic tiles depicting the sea around us will also be installed in classrooms, hallways and other spaces in the building. | Project Grants in Education | Newport |
| Raising Hope, Inc. | Afro-Carribbean Drumming | $4,000 | Afro-Caribbean drumming engages young people ages 8 to 18 years from low income communities to develop skills for making music through folk drumming and other percussion in collaboration with Providence Elementary Schools and other after school programs at two locations. Program is provided by trained master artists on RISCA Roster. | Project Grants in Education | Providence |
| School One | Intergenerational Arts Program | $3,000 | Intergenerational Arts Program brings together high school students and adults aged 65 and over to explore their creativity, learn theater skills, develop their powers of expression, and forge relationships across the generations. Unique to RI, the Intergenerational Arts Program uses theater to foster authentic collaboration and learning. | Project Grants in Education | Providence |
| Smart Test, Inc. | Hip Hop Science | $2,900 | Smart Test plans to continue to provide two 8-week in-school Hip Hop Science programs at Pleasant View, 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 | East Greenwich |
| South Kingstown CARES, Inc. | Knowing Home : All School Play | $1,620 | "Knowing Home" is a multi-arts theater production that would involve upwards of 200 elementary school students and 50 adults. The theme centers on the history, geography and culture of the Matunuck area, using the performing arts to internalize information in these core subjects. | Project Grants in Education | Peace Dale |
| South Kingstown School Department/ Wakefield Elementary School | The Great Quest – A Medieval Tale for Modern Times | $1,620 | The play, open to all school community members, tells the tale of a divided land where a dragon sows mistrust between two feuding kingdoms. As fear festers into hatred, war becomes imminent, until a wise wizard devises a plan to undo the dragon’s fear mongering and bring peace to the land. 200+ students will participate in telling this epic story. | Project Grants in Education | Wakefield |
| Trinity Academy for the Performing Arts | Intensive Arts Residency for Pushed Learning and Media Dance and Video Arists | $5,000 | We are proposing an intensive arts residency for Pushed Learning and Media teaching artists Oliver Arias and Eric Axelman for the 2019-2020 school year. Artists will work closely with dance teacher Matt Garza to develop dance choreography and Hip Hop music to be performed live and integrated into arts and educational short films. | Project Grants in Education | Providence |
| Creating Outreach About Addiction Support Together, Inc. | Recovery Theater – Combating the Opioid Crisis | $5,000 | The COAAST Arts in Healthcare project offers a professional training program for clinical staff and patients of CODAC Behavioral Healthcare in two Rhode Island locations. COAAST actors and teaching artists will deliver knowledge and expertise about drama therapy and therapeutic theater to CODAC Behavioral Healthcare clinical staff and patients. | Project Grants in Healthcare | South Kingstown |
| Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital | Healing Arts at Bradley Hospital | $5,000 | Bradley Hospital's Healing Arts Program provides creative and therapeutic activities that enhance the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of thousands of children every year. In 2019-20, Bradley will bring more consistent arts programming to the residents in six of our community-based group homes. | Project Grants in Healthcare | East Providence |
| Hasbro Children's Hospital | Music on Rounds | $5,000 | We will provide eight weekly hours of Music on Rounds therapeutic intervention to patients and families at Hasbro Children’s Hospital. Musician Michael Bresler will enhance the healing environment through singing, drumming, songwriting, and instruction in guitar and ukulele. | Project Grants in Healthcare | Providence |
| PACE | Intergenerational Mural outside PACE Woonsocket | $2,500 | The PACE Org of RI and Riverzedge Arts are looking to complete a mural project to be painted on a concrete wall that is visible from the day center windows of PACE's northern Rhode Island location. This would include planning sessions where the youth of Riverzedge and the elders at PACE work together to create a design that would later be painted. | Project Grants in Healthcare | Woonsocket |
| Jocelyn Prince | Fellowship in Crafts | $1,000 | Merit Fellow in Crafts | Fellowship in Crafts | Providence |
| Boris Bally | Fellowship in Crafts | $5,000 | Fellowship in Crafts | Fellowship in Crafts | Providence |
| Matthew Kramer | Lowkey Living | $1,000 | Merit Fellow in Fiction | Fellowship in Fiction | Providence |
| Darcie Dennigan | Fellowship in Fiction | $5,000 | Fellowship in Fiction | Fellowship in Fiction | Providence |
| Luli Heintz | Fellowship in Film & Video | $5,000 | Fellowship in Film & Video | Fellowship in Film & Video | Providence |
| Jan Carlos Terrero Rodriguez | Fellowship In Film & Video | $1,000 | Merit Fellow in Film & Video | Fellowship in Film & Video | Providence |
| Tina Tryforos | Fellowship in Photography | $1,000 | Merit Fellow in Photography | Fellowship in Photography | Rumford |
| mara trachtenberg | Fellowship in Photography | $5,000 | Fellowship in Photography | Fellowship in Photography | Wakefield |
| Aashish Edakadampil | Fellowship in Play/Screenwriting | $1,000 | Merit Fellow in Play/Screenwriting | Fellowship in Play/Screenwriting | Pawtucket |
| Lawrence Goodman | Heresy | $5,000 | Fellowship in Play/Screenwriting | Fellowship in Play/Screenwriting | Providence |
| Laura Brown-Lavoie | Fellowship in Poetry | $1,000 | Merit Fellow in Poetry | Fellowship in Poetry | Providence |
| Carrie Oeding | Fellowship in Poetry | $5,000 | Fellowship in Poetry | Fellowship in Poetry | Pawtucket |
| James Drain | Fellowship in Three-Dimensional Art | $5,000 | Fellowship in Three-Dimensional Art | Fellowship in Three-Dimensional Art | Providence |
| Johnny Adimando | Fellowship in Three-Dimensional Art | $1,000 | Merit Fellow in Three-Dimensional Art | Fellowship in Three-Dimensional Art | Providence |
| Michael Bresler | Fellowship In Folk Arts | $1,000 | Merit Fellow in Folk Arts | Fellowship in Folk Arts | Pawtucket |
| Junghee Oh | Fellowship in Folk Arts | $5,000 | Fellowship in Folk Arts | Fellowship in Folk Arts | East Greenwich |
| Patricia Smith | Introduction to Gospel Music | $3,000 | Folk Arts Apprenticeship | Folk Arts Apprenticeship | Cranston |
| Shanthi Yogini | Classical Dance Training | $3,000 | Folk Arts Apprenticeship | Folk Arts Apprenticeship | Smithfield |
| Debbie Spears Moorehead | Nettukkusqk Singers ( My Sisters) Apprenticeship | $3,000 | Folk Arts Apprenticeship | Folk Arts Apprenticeship | Hope Valley |
| Lesly Pineyro | Bolivian Caporales Dance | $3,000 | Folk Arts Apprenticeship | Folk Arts Apprenticeship | North Providence |
| Dean Robinson | Native American Drum | $1,500 | Folk Arts Apprenticeship | Folk Arts Apprenticeship | Providence |
| Mishetaashin Paudtau Conley | Native American Drum Keeping and Stick making | $3,000 | Folk Arts Apprenticeship | Folk Arts Apprenticeship | Warwick |
| Carolyn Castro | Hula Kahiko- Ancient Hula Dance | $1,500 | Folk Arts Apprenticeship | Folk Arts Apprenticeship | Providence |
| Julie Yang | Traditional Hmong Dance | $3,000 | Folk Arts Apprenticeship | Folk Arts Apprenticeship | North Kingstown |
| Charles Carvalho | Culture Shock Community Celebration (2nd Annual) | $2,100 | Artist will organize the second edition of a family friendly, multi-genre, outdoor concert event aimed at bridging the generational and cultural gaps that exist in and around Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Culture Shock Block Party will take place in Downtown Pawtucket and will use music as the tool to bring together and unite some of the prominent cultures that make up our beloved city Pawtucket. | Project Grants for Individuals | Pawtucket |
| Jennifer Sanchez | Abue! A Spanish-language play created and directed by Jennifer Sanchez | $1,800 | Latina performer and playwright Jennifer Sanchez to hold the production of 'Abue!' the play. A Mexican-American story based in Providence where a family falls apart as they gradually become successful opening the first tortilleria business in RI. Only one woman can hold the legacy and meaning of family together, none other than abue! | Project Grants for Individuals | East Providence |
| Sara Azriel Schaub | MARS Camp After School Program | $1,250 | 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 | Clayville |
| Christopher Johnson | Invoice For Emotional Labor | $900 | Invoice for Emotional Labor is Multi discipline Docu-Theater performance answering the asked and not so obvious unasked questions about race and racism from the perspective of poet and 2018 McColl Johnson finalist and RISCA Playwright fellow Christopher Johnson using the present definitions and language of the social justice lexicon. | Project Grants for Individuals | Providence |
| Peyman Farzinpour | ENSEMBLE PARALLAX 2019 Multimedia Performance | $1,700 | Renowned mezzo-soprano Kathleen Roland joins ENSEMBLE / PARALLAX in a program cosponsored by Syracuse University and the Italian Cultural Institute, featuring compositions by Stanford professor, Patricia Alessandrini, and Italian composer Salvatore Sciarrino. All three pieces will be accompanied by video art and live mapping by celebrated video artists from around the globe, commissioned by E/P. | Project Grants for Individuals | Providence |
| Patti McAlpine | Galway Kinnell Poetry Festival | $500 | This is a festival of workshops and readings held in Pawtucket paying homage to Pawtucket's poet, Galway Kinnell. The event is held in conjunction with the Pawtucket Arts Festival. The festival will be held the weekend of September 27, 2019. This will be the second year for the festival and myself and my fellow poets on the committee wish to expand this year, free and open to public. | Project Grants for Individuals | Warwick |
| Ricky Katowicz | The Rainbow Beard Show | $2,540 | Ricky Katowicz is the creator and host of a live theater production for children and their families called, 'The Rainbow Beard Show'. Held regularly at the AS220 Black Box, it is equal parts spectacle and classroom. Audience participation is encouraged and each 'Show' features special guests, recurring characters, minute-long dance parties, and a celebration of authentic feelings. | Project Grants for Individuals | North Providence |
| Alfonso Acevedo | THE NEW MILLENNIUM ART FACTORY CENTRAL FALLS CONNECTING THE ART WITH THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD PART IV | $2,500 | For this year 2019 Public Art Part IV will brig more children and artists aboard. We are seeking more partners to do public exhibits than 2018. On 2016, 2017 and 2018 with RISCA grants we did the first step on Public Art on Blackstone Valley. Our Program are doing history thanks to RISCA and the Adams Public Library Central Falls. Working hard since 1995 for the children and families. | Project Grants for Individuals | Central Falls |
| Cathren Housley | Maker's Box Recycled: the Transformative Power of Art | $2,195 | Maker's Box is a workshop series designed to kick start young imaginations with a variety of art mediums. Multidisciplinary artist and writer Cathren Housley provides the materials- each week a different challenge arrives…and the fun begins. Kids will explore the transformative power of art and develop solid problem solving skills as they take their ideas from thought to form. | Project Grants for Individuals | East Providence |
| Jonathan Guzman | Queer Ofrenda Altar | $500 | As a queer Chicano artist, I find visibility of both of my cultures to be lacking in Providence at times. In order to celebrate both my Mexican heritage and my Queer culture in Providence, I will be making a queer ofrenda altar that will celebrate those that have passed on Dia De Los Muertos. Queer idols, Chicano idols, and local PVD community members will be represented on the Ofrenda. | Project Grants for Individuals | Providence |
| David Henry | Festival of Solo Dances and Dance Films | $2,000 | "Kicking & Screening" will be a weekend of solo dance performances, dance films, and creative workshops, taking place in Providence, Spring 2020. Invited artists, both local and national, will be sharing work that pushes the boundaries of contemporary performance made for stage and cinema. | Project Grants for Individuals | Scituate |
| Mishki Thompson | Native Beading Workshop | $3,000 | Educational workshops that will introduce the public to Native American culture and Native traditions of beading arts. These ten beading workshops will be held at libraries in Washington County and at the Tomaquag Museum at no cost to the public. Five classes will be for children ages 10-15 and five classes for teens and adults 16 and up. | Project Grants for Individuals | Charlestown |
| Heather Caunt-Nulton | The Henna Crown Project | $1,000 | Henna artist Heather Caunt-Nulton will provide henna art crowns to chemotherapy patients, at no cost to them. Photos of all participants, along with their stories, will be shared on a website created for the project, as well as in a gallery show. |
Project Grants for Individuals | Pawtucket |
| Cecil Hickman | Warriors Wives Widows Podcast Plays | $600 | Podcast Plays to bridge the disconnect between veterans and civilians. The mission is to use role play to show the Drama of returning Home from War. Podcasting is the emerging medium. I propose to add five more scripts and perfect the five already written. Casting would include Veterans Families. Productions could be performed during major holidays. | Project Grants for Individuals | Providence |
| Jennifer Cahoon | Portraits of a City | $1,000 | Jennifer Gillooly Cahoon will poll the people of East Providence to identify three individuals of varied ethnic backgrounds who have had a positive impact on the community. Subjects will be painted by the artist and when finished, the art will be gifted to the city and hung in city hall. Subjects will be publicly celebrated by the city via ribbon cutting ceremony and at a City Council meeting. | Project Grants for Individuals | East Providence |
| Gina Rodriguez | A Message from the Archives: a mixed media immersive museum exhibit 7 generations in the future. | $750 | Co-curated by Providence-based writer Gina Rodríguez and Boston-based visual artist Dara Bayer, A Message from the Archives is a mixed media immersive museum exhibit set seven generations into the future. This one-night-only exhibit explores the ramifications of climate change, artificial intelligence, social collapse and rebirth through a feminist afrofuturist lens. 159 Sutton St, Providence RI. | Project Grants for Individuals | PROVIDENCE |
| Larry Miller | Substantia Nigra/ Furtive Movement Theatrical Cycle Public Reading and Community Development | $1,800 | D.S. Kinsell paints beautiful landscapes on several canvases at a time so he can continue to be productive while other pieces are wet. I’ve embraced this strategy with my play writing. Our friend and mentor reminds us that plays also need time to dry. over the past two years i have been developing 5 plays. (A Furtive Movement: The use of Farce, Lightning Ike, Substantia Nigra: In three 5th's) | Project Grants for Individuals | providence |
| Sharon Contillo | Curls short film | $2,100 | Sharon Contillo will be filming a fictional short film based on a true events. The story is about a little girl who is completely ashamed of her curly hair, so much so that she does everything in her power to hide it. In the end, she ultimately comes to embrace her differences and herself. | Project Grants for Individuals | Coventry |
| Sally Johnson | East Bay / Bike Way / Art Day | $750 | To create a one day opportunity make art along the state's most popular bike path. Five artists will be stationed along the 14 mile path to purposefully engage bike riders and other members of the public and artists of all sorts will be encouraged to "Come Play" and make art along the path on that day. | Project Grants for Individuals | Riverside |
| Karen Isenberg | Early Childhood Music Classes at Community Libraries | $3,000 | Karen Isenberg will conduct early childhood music classes for children ages 0-5 years and their adults at 4 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 basic music competence, child development, positive adult-child relationships, and community. | Project Grants for Individuals | Providence |
| Sheyla Rivera Rios | Luna Loba performance series | $2,000 | LUNA LOBA is a performance and new genre series, rituals of transformation following the Full Moon. This series has been running since 2016. Each night features 12+ artists of diverse mediums and identities; presenting performance art, video, spoken word/readings, sound/music, and performative installation. | Project Grants for Individuals | Providence |
| Fallon Masterson | Stranger Stories: A Live Reading Series | $1,000 | Stranger Stories is a bi-monthly “live lit” night featuring readings of true stories by creative non-fiction writers. A convergence of writing and performance, this event will bring strangers together to share the inherent strangeness of our lives, a platform from which a range of stories can be creatively written and told. | Project Grants for Individuals | Providence |
| Michael Masseau | 70s Haitian Griot Boy Pop Up Shop | $500 | The goal is to transform a local community venue into an immersive pop-up shop inspired by the Haitian perspective of 1970’s American culture. This interactive experience will blend folks of all backgrounds and ages to create nostalgia and new memories. | Project Grants for Individuals | Providence |
| Joseph DeGeorge | Sax Machine | $515 | The artist will conduct a series of free interactive sax education performances throughout Rhode Island that will be open to the public. The artist will also record and press a run of 500 vinyl records and print educational zines as supplementary documents to the performance. | Project Grants for Individuals | Providence |
| Gladys Cole | Polkadots: The Cool Kids Musical | $500 | G.Cole Productions will hold auditions and cast children actors for Polkadots: The Cool Kids Musical, a play about bullying. | Project Grants for Individuals | East Greenwich |
| Sylvia Ann Soares | Bilingual Cape Verdean history & cultural show | $3,000 | The artist will research, write, direct and perform a bilingual educative theatrical piece on the history and culture of Cabo Verde (the official name) and RI Cape Verdean community, with local Rhode Island Cape Verdean poets and professional musicians. | Project Grants for Individuals | Providence |
| Jose Maldonado | 6th Annual Project 401 Summer Jam Series | $1,750 | Project 401 founder and leader Jose "Facce" Maldonado will organize, complete outreach for, and execute Project 401's Sixth annual Summer Jam Series. This is a comprehensive Hip Hop programming initiative consisting of instruction and mentorship in Hip Hop elements, facilitated discussions on pertinent socio-political issues, and bi-weekly Jams at various parks in the Providence area. | Project Grants for Individuals | Pawtucket |
| Piero Alves Guimaraes | Verdant Vibes Season Five | $1,250 | 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. Our fifth season will include multimedia performance events, collaborations with artists from RI and beyond chosen from our free call for scores/proposals, and a workshop with students. | Project Grants for Individuals | Providence |
| Benjamin Lundberg | Media Literacy & Media Production Workshops in Central Falls Schools | $1,880 | In partnership with Central Falls School District's "Expanded Learning Communities," Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sánchez will offer summer-long Media Literacy & Media Production workshops to high school or middle school aged young people that will resource them with grounding in media analysis & provide practical skill-building in production using readily available tools such as the students' phones. | Project Grants in Education for Individuals | Providence |
| Melissa Guillet | Nature Art in the Park | $1,000 | 15 Minute Field Trips will run monthly all-age programs that include an art activity and nature exploration at Blackstone Parks in Providence. Each month will focus on a seasonal theme and teach about flora or fauna local to the area. | Project Grants in Education for Individuals | Johnston |
| Peter Dickison | 121: Intergenerational Artist and Apprentice Partnership | $1,000 | A multi-disciplinary collaborative pairing of a career artist with an aspiring student emerging artist, in a work and knowledge exchange with a public attendance happening as an outcome of the partnership. | Project Grants in Education for Individuals | Newport |