Please note that some of the projects may have modified dates and venues, due to COVID-19.
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Title
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Summary
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Town/City
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| Chamber Orchestra of Barrington at St. John's | Organizational Support for Chamber Orchestra | $1,200 | The Chamber Orchestra of Barrington at St. John's is an ensemble comprised of 35 passionate and committed professional and amateur musicians from throughout New England, and this grant will support their mission of providing 5 free concerts to the community during their 2020/2021 season, and facilitate educational outreach to high school students. | Barrington | FY21 c1_AAG_Arts Access Grant |
| Nick Mendillo | MHHS Multimedia Summer Camp | $2,850 | Over the course of five weeks, students will conceptualize, write, film, edit and present a short film from scratch. Utilizing skills in filmmaking, editing, music production, creative writing and public speaking, this camp is a masterclass in how to create multimedia art for the public. | Bristol | FY21 c1_PGA_Project Grants in Education for Individuals |
| Community String Project | General Operating Support | $3,500 | Bristol | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Calcutt Middle School (Central Falls School District) | An Arts Exploration of Immigration and other social issues with Pushed | $4,000 | We are proposing a multi-artist residency with Pushed teaching artists Oliver Arias, Kevin Rodriguez, Victoria Rodriguez and Eric Axelman for the 2020-2021 school year to help build the arts component of our STEAM initiative. Artists will work with Principal Timothy Milisauskas to coordinate teacher partnerships and frequently showcase student art. | Central Falls | FY21 c1_PGE_Project Grants in Education |
| Friends of the Rhody Center | Steelpan and Latin Percussion Ensembles | $1,400 | The Rhody Center will provide another six months of its Steelpan ("steel drum") Ensembles, as well as its Latin Percussion Ensemble. The ensembles are free for youth to join. |
Coventry | FY21 c1_AAG_Arts Access Grant |
| Esperanza-Hope | Esperanza-Hope Free Art Program 2020 | $1,200 | Esperanza-Hope will hold its 5th Free Five Week Art Program for children ages 6-16 in Providence, October-November 2020. 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. | Cranston | FY21 c1_AAG_Arts Access Grant |
| Hope Alzheimer's Center | Drama Therapy | $2,000 | Hope Alzheimer's Center, in conjunction with a licensed drama therapist, plans to start a drama therapy program for its participants, all of whom have Alzheimer's disease or another form of progressive memory loss. | Cranston | FY21 c1_PGH_Project Grants in Healthcare |
| Patricia Smith | Introduction to Gospel Music 102 | $3,000 | This is the second year of the Introduction Gospel Music. The program was extremely successful. I am working with the same apprentice. This year we hope to continue by taking the introduction and history of gospel music further. The apprentice will explore varied gospel musicians. Hand technique for keyboard and piano will be introduced. The apprentice will develop the skill to play a song by ear. | Cranston | FY21_FAA_Folk Arts Apprenticeship |
| Artists' Exchange | General Operating Support | $3,000 | Cranston | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Rhode Island Civic Chorale and Orchestra | General Operating Support | $6,000 | Cranston | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Music on the Hill | General Operating Support | $2,000 | East Greenwich | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| JDP Theatre Company | Willie Wonka Children's Show | $1,000 | The children's musical "Willie Wonka" is scheduled to be performed at Seekonk High School in October 2020. There will be 30 children in the cast ranging in age from 7-13. JDP is affordable and reaches children who would not otherwise have access to theater. | East Providence | FY21 c1_AAG_Arts Access Grant |
| East Providence Arts Council | The Looff 2020 | $1,000 | The Looff-East Providence Arts Festival is an annual event that takes place on the second Saturday in August. The East Providence Arts Council has run this award winning festival since 2015. EPAC keeps this event free to the public thanks to donations, sponsorships, and grants. | East Providence | FY21 c1_AAG_Arts Access Grant |
| Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital | Healing Arts Program at Bradley Hospital | $3,000 | 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. From improv to cardio-drumming to circus arts and much more, the program will comprise 2,000-plus workshops this year led by community-based experts in their fields. | East Providence | FY21 c1_PGH_Project Grants in Healthcare |
| CareLink | Dance for Parkinson's Community Group | $2,250 | Rachel Balaban, Regional Coordinator for Dance for Parkinson's and Co-Founder, Artists and Scientists as Partners (ASaP), Brown University has partnered with CareLink and Scandinavian Communities to provide a Dance for Parkinson's program that includes both residents from Scandinavian Communities and the local community at large. | East Providence | FY21 c1_PGH_Project Grants in Healthcare |
| Narragansett Bay Symphony Community Orchestra | General Operating Support | $2,000 | East Providence | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Providence Singers | General Operating Support | $10,500 | East Providence | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| RI Philharmonic Orchestra & Music School | General Operating Support | $72,640 | East Providence | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Tomaquag Indian Memorial Museum | General Operating Support | $3,500 | Exeter | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Hear In Rhode Island | Rhode Island Folk Festival | $1,400 | Hear in Rhode Island is producing it's seventh annual free folk festival, its second year at the Rose Larisa Park in East Providence, on Sunday, August 30 from 12-6pm. The Rhode Island Folk Festival will have three stages of live folk music from primarily RI musicians. Vendors will be selling food and art along the path that connect the stages. | Greenville | FY21 c1_AAG_Arts Access Grant |
| Rhode Island Chamber Music Concerts | General Operating Support | $3,000 | Hope | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Debbie Spears Moorehead | Eastern Woodlands Native American Songs | $3,000 | I will complete lessons with apprentice Jasmine Moorehead. In our 1st year lessons included styles, rhythms, and chants. Year 2: Native language, dialects, vocables, drum beats song structures, ceremonial, contemporary, forty nine, honor, stomp, powwow, prayer, social, courting love songs. Year 3 advanced knowledge and lessons on how to access of the raw materials used to make the instruments. | Hope Valley | FY21_FAA_Folk Arts Apprenticeship |
| Jamestown Arts Center | General Operating Support | $3,500 | Jamestown | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| 15 Minute Field Trips | East Bay / Bike Way / Art Day 2020 | $500 | To create a one day opportunity make art along the state's most popular bike path. Artists will be stationed along the 14 mile path to purposefully engage bike riders and other members of the public in art making. The stations will highlight the natural beauty of the bike path and the art will have an environmental theme. | Johnston | FY21 c1_AAG_Arts Access Grant |
| Operation Stand Down Rhode Island, F.S. | Providence Clemente Veterans Initiative Summer Writing Seminar | $2,250 | Lucas Pralle, USMC veteran and co-founder of Endless Beautiful, will host a 5-session online summer writing seminar for Rhode Island veterans from July 29 to August 26. Lucas will teach vets how to write short stories based on their personal experiences. The wider public can view these stories and learn more about Rhode Island veterans at PCVI.org. | Johnston | FY21 c1_AAG_Arts Access Grant |
| Warwick Civic Orchestra | WSO-URI Collaboration: Two Sides of a Nutcracker | $1,400 | The WSO will present a two-concert series in partnership with the University of Rhode Island Symphony and Big Band merging the musical idioms of Western Classical with American Jazz. These concerts will feature movements of the Tchaikovsky and Ellington "Nutcracker" as well as the premiere of a work by RI Composer James Himmelmann. | Kingston | FY21 c1_AAG_Arts Access Grant |
| South County Art Association | SCAA Student Art Mentorship Program | $1,000 | The SCAA Student Art Mentorship Program is designed to foster a love for the arts in young adults. Personalized one-on-one mentoring, by local established artists, gives mentees real-world guidance that helps them navigate the art world. This complimentary program provides a natural transition from the school environment to community involvement. | Kingston | FY21 c1_AAG_Arts Access Grant |
| Kingston Chamber Music Festival | General Operating Support | $3,500 | Kingston | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Musica Dolce | General Operating Support | $2,500 | Kingston | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| State Ballet of RI, The | General Operating Support | $5,000 | Lincoln | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Choral Collective of Newport County | Newport County Youth Chorus Middle School Ensemble in Newport | $1,200 | The Choral Collective of Newport County is seeking support for Newport County Youth Chorus Middle School Ensemble classes including a new section for Newport students in grades 5 through 8. Funds received from RISCA will help cover teaching artist fees including a teacher/conductor, accompanist and high school chorus manager intern. | Newport | FY21 c1_AAG_Arts Access Grant |
| Newport String Project | Newport String Project | $1,230 | Newport String Project seeks support for its free after-school music education and youth mentoring program. Forty students (K-12) participate in twice weekly lessons in violin, viola and cello. | Newport | FY21 c1_AAG_Arts Access Grant |
| Flickers, the Newport Film/Video Society & Arts Collaborative | General Operating Support | $4,386 | Newport | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Island Moving Co. | General Operating Support | $19,000 | Newport | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Newport Art Museum and Art Association | General Operating Support | $21,468 | Newport | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| newportFILM | General Operating Support | $2,000 | Newport | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Davisville Middle School (Town of North Kingstown School Dept) | Uniting a Community: Silk Road Market | $5,250 | Ninety seventh grade students from DMS will enhance their understanding of Asian and African cultures by "traveling" down the Silk Road in 4-D: Dance, Drama, Drumming and Design. Students will create a 10 stall silk road market where community members will barter with canned goods turning the entire event into a service learning project. | North KIngstown | FY21 c1_PGE_Project Grants in Education |
| Julie Yang | Traditional Hmong Dance II | $3,000 | I will be continuing my instruction of Hmong Traditional Dance with my apprentice. These intruction will cover more extensive history behind the dances and its movements. | North Kingstown | FY21_FAA_Folk Arts Apprenticeship |
| Lesly Pineyro | Bolivian Folk dance | $3,000 | In the first apprenticeship, I taught my apprentice the Caporales dance. In Bolivia we have over 300 different dances. This year I chose to teach my apprentice the Tinkus. I will be teaching the Bolivian folkloric dance & history. The final outdoor performance will be held on August 8-9, 2020 at the State House of Rhode Island lawn. | North Providence | FY21_FAA_Folk Arts Apprenticeship |
| Colombian American Cultural Society | Colombian Independence Day Festival | $1,800 | The Colombian American Cultural Society of RI will celebrate 210 years of independence from Spanish Colonial authorities at the 48th annual Independence Day Festival in July 2020. The festival draws over 4,000 people from across RI, MA, CT, NY and NJ, providing them an opportunity to engage with the Colombian culture and folkloric traditions. | Pawtucket | FY21 c1_AAG_Arts Access Grant |
| The Art Connection-RI | Art Experiences for Pawtucket and Central Falls Teens | $1,200 | Art Connection-RI (AC-RI) art workshops will connect Pawtucket and Central Falls teens with local artists, role models, professionals, and with original works of art through 10 weeks of instruction, 2 field trips and an exhibit of their artwork. Students will be empowered to think independently while creating, observing, and critiquing art. | Pawtucket | FY21 c1_AAG_Arts Access Grant |
| Empowerment Factory | Free Online Art Workshops for Elementary Youth | $2,000 | The Empowerment Factory will partner with RISCA teaching artists to continue our successful Free Art Workshops for Kids. The online classes will stream live on Saturdays in August, September and October, targeting 3rd & 4th graders from Pawtucket schools, using Google Hangouts or Facebook Live. Craft kits will be distributed to participants homes. | Pawtucket | FY21 c1_AAG_Arts Access Grant |
| Blackstone Valley Tourism Council, F.S. | Pawtucket Arts Festival | $1,200 | Celebrating the City’s creative and cultural life by presenting vibrant arts events to Pawtucket residents and visitors to the Blackstone River Valley. We collaborate with local and international partners to present dance, music, theatre, film, visual, and folk-traditional arts that evoke the City’s historic legacy and diverse communities. | Pawtucket | FY21 c1_AAG_Arts Access Grant |
| Burbage Theatre Company | Burbage & Bard | $1,800 | Burbage Theatre Company seeks your support for its third annual “Burbage & Bard” Shakespeare Festival this summer, featuring 8 free outdoor performances of "Chimes at Midnight" by Orson Welles, an innovative adaption of Shakespeare's Henry IV; performances which are split between two different locations in Pawtucket and East Providence. | Pawtucket | FY21 c1_AAG_Arts Access Grant |
| International Charter School | Documenting Our Identities | $6,000 | “Documenting Our Identities” is an arts education project integrated into the International Baccalaureate (IB) units “How We Express Ourselves” and "Where We Are in Place and Time" in which 3rd graders, teachers & the Artist-in-Residence collaborate to teach how art and visual narrative can explore concepts of identity, culture, and community. | Pawtucket | FY21 c1_PGE_Project Grants in Education |
| Nader Molina Figueroa | Traditional Colombian Dances | $3,000 | The project "on the roads of Colombia", is an ethnographic and dance route through the region of the Colombian Andes. This is the folkloric area with more variety of rhythms and dances in Colombia. The apprentice will know, identify and interpret with his body, in time and space, folk dances such as bambuco, sanjuaneros, contradanzas, rumba, guabinas, torbellinos, montaneros. | Pawtucket | FY21_FAA_Folk Arts Apprenticeship |
| Aurea, Inc. | General Operating Support | $3,750 | Pawtucket | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Mixed Magic Theatre and Cultural Events | General Operating Support | $7,500 | Pawtucket | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Common Fence Music | General Operating Support | $6,400 | Portsmouth | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Oasis International | AFRICAN SUMMER BASH | $500 | Oasis International will celebrate its 27th African Summer Bash this year. The Bash celebrates the cultural richness of African and other diverse ethnic groups in Southwest Providence through music, dance, food, and the arts. The bash is an all-day festival with games and liver live entertainment for all ages. | Providence | FY21 c1_AAG_Arts Access Grant |
| Brown University | 70-20-50 years of Rites and Reason (working title – 1970 to 2020 – 50 Years of Rites and Reason) | $1,200 | To celebrate Rites and Reason's 50th Anniversary, R+R will create a production of 5 scenes, 1 scene from a play from each decade of R+R's history. Folkthoughts-post play discussions will interrogate how our unique Research to Performance Method of play development has evolved. R+R plans to include the original playwright, scholar, director, actors, artists. | Providence | FY21 c1_AAG_Arts Access Grant |
| Preserve Rhode Island, F.S. | Rhode Island's 42nd Heritage Festival | $780 | RIHPHC plans to hold RI’s 42nd Heritage Festival on September 26, 2020, at WaterFire Arts Center. This unique free festival bridges Rhode Islanders’ cultures and expressions of creative talent by showcasing a number of art forms such as music, performance, visual art and a fashion show. The public gets to explore the world through art and music! | Providence | FY21 c1_AAG_Arts Access Grant |
| Dirt Palace Public Projects | Dirt Palace Storefront Window Gallery | $1,800 | The Dirt Palace Storefront Window Gallery is a public arts project that exhibits works on a rotating basis from a diverse group of local, national and international artists, community organizations, and youth groups. It is located in the Olneyville neighborhood of Providence. | Providence | FY21 c1_AAG_Arts Access Grant |
| India Association of Rhode Island | IARI's Diwali Celebration | $1,400 | IARI plans to organize “Diwali- Festival Of Lights”, a culturally extravagant evening where Rhode Island community will experience Artist Performances and rich Indian food in the majestic McVinney Auditorium located in the heart of Providence on November 7 from 4:30-7:00pm. | Providence | FY21 c1_AAG_Arts Access Grant |
| Providence Public Library | Free, Accessible Music Instruction @ PPL | $1,440 | All children should have the opportunity to engage in music instruction. Providence Public Library and Trinity Academy for the Performing Arts (TAPA) are partnering to offer free, accessible, high quality music instruction for Rhode Island children in PPL’s newly renovated building in downtown Providence. | Providence | FY21 c1_AAG_Arts Access Grant |
| My HomeCourt | My HomeCourt 2020 at Cranston Street Tot Lot | $1,000 | MyHomeCourt (MHC) plans to create a significant work of public art by painting a large-scale mural on the surface of a newly-installed basketball court at the Cranston Street Tot Lot in Providence. This Contemporary art mural is to be designed by internationally renowned visual artist Andrea Bergart (andreabergart.com). | Providence | FY21 c1_AAG_Arts Access Grant |
| Roger Williams Park Conservancy | Roger Williams Park Artist-In-Residence | $1,000 | Artist Brett Day Windham plans to create a body of work at the Roger Williams Park Botanical Center. During her residency she will use cyanotype (the early photographic process also known as sunprint) to capture small to large scale prints of plants in the collection, and hand paint them. She will also offer free cyanotype workshops to the public. | Providence | FY21 c1_AAG_Arts Access Grant |
| Stages of Freedom | Frederick Douglass in Rhode Island | $3,000 | Stages of Freedom is planning three performances of Frederick Douglass' famous speech, "What the Black Man Wants" by Trinity Rep actor, Joe Wilson Jr. at Central Falls, Woonsocket and Providence's Paul Cuffee High Schools. This project will be part of a 3-day conference celebrating Douglass in Rhode Island funded by a secured RICH grant. | Providence | FY21 c1_AAG_Arts Access Grant |
| Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council | Olneyville Square Rain Keep Sculpture | $2,000 | This project will engage sculpture artist Allison Newsome with young people to create and install a RainKeep sculpture that will function to mitigate polluted runoff impacting the Woonasquatucket River in Olneyville Square as well as beautify an industrial section of the Greenway along San Souci Street. | Providence | FY21 c1_AAG_Arts Access Grant |
| Preserve RI, F.S. (RI Cape Verdean Heritage Committee) | 45th Cape Verdean Independance Day Festival | $1,000 | 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 5th, 2020, 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. | Providence | FY21 c1_AAG_Arts Access Grant |
| ENSEMBLE PARALLAX | Island of Peoples and Intolleranza Multimedia Opera | $1,000 | ENSEMBLE / PARALLAX will perform the New England premiere of its multimedia opera, “Island of Peoples,” composed by Berklee professor, Gabriele Vanoni. The piece will be paired with the premiere of Peyman Farzinpour’s multimedia composition, “Intolleranza.” The performance will take place at AS 220 in Providence, in October 2020. | Providence | FY21 c1_AAG_Arts Access Grant |
| What Cheer Art Company | Providence HONK! Festival 2020 | $1,400 | PRONK! is a free, outdoor music festival, featuring brass and drum-based street bands from across the country playing alongside local groups. With public spectacles starring community groups and any community member who spontaneously joins in, PRONK invites the Providence community to reclaim its streets with brass, beats, and feet. | Providence | FY21 c1_AAG_Arts Access Grant |
| Providence Community Library | Feria del Libro y las Artes de Providence | $2,700 | Feria is a free bilingual Latino festival for the whole community created by Providence Community Library in partnership with Providence College. It’s a day-long event featuring adult/youth Latino author panels, adult/youth art exhibits, cultural dance, music and puppet performances, artisan crafts, art activities, and a free book for every child. | Providence | FY21 c1_AAG_Arts Access Grant |
| What Cheer Writers Club | Accessible Podcasting for RI Storytellers | $2,000 | What Cheer Writers Club will offer free and low-cost podcast education to underserved communities across Rhode Island, enabling diverse groups of creatives to broadcast their voices to a listening audience. Podcasting 101 introduces beginning podcasters to the audio equipment and resources they need to get their story into someone else’s earbuds. | Providence | FY21 c1_AAG_Arts Access Grant |
| ReFocus | The Little Clay Studio – A ReFocus Collaborative | $1,800 | ReFocus requests a grant in support of The Little Clay Studio (TLC Studio), its in-house pottery studio and classroom where adults with disabilities explore the potentials of clay, and develop self-confidence and individual creativity. | Providence | FY21 c1_AAG_Arts Access Grant |
| 134 Collaborative, F.S. (Tenderloin Opera Company) | Tenderloin Opera Company Season 11! | $1,400 | Tenderloin Opera Company is a homeless advocacy music and theater group based in Providence whose members include currently and formerly homeless people and homeless advocates. Through weekly meetings and monthly performances, TOC will develop an "Opera" featuring the stories of local homelessness, created and performed by its members. | Providence | FY21 c1_AAG_Arts Access Grant |
| Southside Cultural Center | Community Arts Gallery at Southside Cultural Center of Rhode Island (CAG) | $2,000 | CAG is a program designed for Providence visual artists interested in displaying their work at SCCRI. This gallery provides a new platform for local black artists and other artists of color to exhibit their art pieces in our new gallery and community event space. | Providence | FY21 c1_AAG_Arts Access Grant |
| Hasbro Children's Hospital, pediatric division | Therapeutic Music in Pediatric Surgical Services | $3,250 | With the help of community partner musicians Aubrey Atwater Donnelly and Michelle Kaminsky, we will improve the experience of patients and families in Pediatric Surgical Services at Hasbro Children’s Hospital by increasing therapeutic music sessions from once per month to weekly sessions. | Providence | FY21 c1_PGH_Project Grants in Healthcare |
| DownCity Design | DownCity Design Summer Design Studios | $8,960 | The 2020 DownCity Design Summer Design Studios will engage 65+ teens from Providence and RI core cities in a free, intensive 6-week design education program from July 6-August 14, 2020. Students will explore design careers and will design and fabricate new amenities for public spaces or community groups, while improving math and literacy skills. | Providence | FY21 c1_PGE_Project Grants in Education |
| School One | Intergenerational Arts Program | $1,600 | 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. | Providence | FY21 c1_PGE_Project Grants in Education |
| Trinity Academy for the Performing Arts (TAPA) | Interdisciplinary Arts and Humanities Residency with Pushed and associated artists | $7,500 | We are proposing an intensive residency for Pushed Learning and Media teaching artists Oliver Arias, Eric Axelman, Kevin Rodriguez, Steven Choummalaithong and Trent Lee. Together with teachers Matt Garza and Avi David, we will create original dance choreography and music to be performed live as well as integrated into educational short films. | Providence | FY21 c1_PGE_Project Grants in Education |
| The Met School | Continued Partnership for Arts and Civic Engagement with Pushed | $3,500 | We are proposing an intensive multi-artist residency with Pushed Learning and Media’s teaching artists for the 2020-2021 school year. Artists will work with class advisors to create student-led short film documentaries exploring themes in line with the course curriculum related to the sociological environment of Providence and the United States. | Providence | FY21 c1_PGE_Project Grants in Education |
| Lauren Pearlman | Paper Arts Space for All | $1,000 | Lauren Pearlman, founder and director of Paper Connection International is invited as artist-in-residence for the fall term to spearhead building a papermaking studio and implement a paper arts curriculum at Moses Brown. Two paper artists from Japan will also be invited for special demonstrations. The focus will be on traditional hand papermaking and adaptations for today. | Providence | FY21 c1_PGA_Project Grants in Education for Individuals |
| Carolyn Castro | Hula Kahiko- The teaching of ancient Hula | $3,000 | I have plans to continue teaching ancient Hula to my apprentice. She has studied the language, the meaning of different signs as well as the actual dance movements. My goal is to have her continue her studies and in turn, be able to teach others this art form. In ancient Hula, it is necessary for her to learn how to chant with a gourd called an " ipu which is very important in ancient Hula. | Providence | FY21_FAA_Folk Arts Apprenticeship |
| Assitan Coulibaly | Fellowship in Folk Arts | $1,000 | Assitan Coulibaly is a folk artist, teacher, and choreographer who preserves traditional Malinke and Bambara movement practices, while also exploring its contemporary connections. | Providence | FY21_FAF_Folk Arts Fellowship |
| Joel Rosario | Fellowship In Folk Arts | $5,000 | In his practice as a folk artist, he maintains traditional Taino and eastern woodlands practices of maintaining our culture through regalia construction through dance language ceremony and spiritual elements of maintaining our culture. | Providence | FY21_FAF_Folk Arts Fellowship |
| AS220 | General Operating Support | $38,488 | Providence | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| City of Providence Dept of Art, Culture + Tourism | General Operating Support | $15,000 | Providence | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Community MusicWorks | General Operating Support | $11,454 | Providence | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Educational Center for Arts and Sciences (Teatro ECAS) | General Operating Support | $5,000 | Providence | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Everett | General Operating Support | $21,000 | Providence | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Festival Ballet Providence | General Operating Support | $22,056 | Providence | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| FirstWorks | General Operating Support | $10,000 | Providence | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Frequency Writers | General Operating Support | $1,575 | Providence | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Gallery Night Providence | General Operating Support | $5,000 | Providence | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| RIOT! Rhode Island | General Operating Support | $5,000 | Providence | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Manton Avenue Project | General Operating Support | $5,500 | Providence | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Museum Concerts | General Operating Support | $2,000 | Providence | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design | General Operating Support | $68,728 | Providence | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| New Urban Arts | General Operating Support | $11,000 | Providence | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Providence Athenaeum | General Operating Support | $6,000 | Providence | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Providence Ballet Theatre | General Operating Support | $2,500 | Providence | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Providence Children's Film Festival | General Operating Support | $3,500 | Providence | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Providence CityArts for Youth | General Operating Support | $5,397 | Providence | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Rhode Island Black Storytellers | General Operating Support | $3,750 | Providence | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Rhode Island Latino Arts | General Operating Support | $3,750 | Providence | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Rhode Island Museum of Science and Art | General Operating Support | $3,750 | Providence | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Rhode Island Wind Ensemble | General Operating Support | $1,300 | Providence | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| RPM Voices of Rhode Island | General Operating Support | $4,000 | Providence | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Trinity Repertory Company | General Operating Support | $90,140 | Providence | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Wilbury Theatre Group | General Operating Support | $5,000 | Providence | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| The Steel Yard | General Operating Support | $7,000 | Providence | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| COAAST (Creating Outreach About Addiction Support Together) | Peer Drama Therapy Workshop | $3,250 | Drama Therapy Peer Workshop is an educational and therapeutic experience for Certified Peer Recovery Specialists who work on the frontline of the overdose epidemic. It brings together the evidence-based healing results of drama therapy to aid in preventing relapse, compassion fatigue or burnout, and supports the overall mental health of peers. | South Kingstown | FY21 c1_PGH_Project Grants in Healthcare |
| South Kingstown School Department | Go Figure | $2,800 | Go Figure is an original multidisciplinary performance that allows the entire learning community to explore mathematics through the arts. Working with Give Everyone A Role Productions (GEAR), Peace Dale School will create an exciting new show keyed to this generation's mathematics learning needs. | Wakefield | FY21 c1_PGE_Project Grants in Education |
| Contemporary Theater Company | General Operating Support | $3,500 | Wakefield | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Hera Educational Foundation | General Operating Support | $3,750 | Wakefield | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Puerto Rican Institute for Arts & Advocacy | BOMBAZO! | $1,000 | PRIAA offers a series of workshops instructing artists and the public on traditional Puerto Rican dance, music and customs, performance given by Maribella Burgos and her performance group 'Junte Loiceño', William Cepeda, Afro-Rican Jazz artist, and Lydia Perez and her performance group 'Yoruba 2'. | Warwick | FY21 c1_AAG_Arts Access Grant |
| Lydia Perez | Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba Dance | $3,000 | I wish to take Elias Grissel Lopez, a local Puerto Rican resident who has been impacted by our performances and work, as my dancing apprentice. He will learn traditional Puerto Rican Bomba dance. | Warwick | FY21_FAA_Folk Arts Apprenticeship |
| Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre | General Operating Support | $27,500 | Warwick | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Chorus of Westerly | General Operating Support | $12,000 | Westerly | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Neighborworks Blackstone River Valley | Levitt AMP Woonsocket Music Series | $1,800 | 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. | Woonsocket | FY21 c1_AAG_Arts Access Grant |
| Seven Hills Rhode Island | Integrated Performing and Visual Arts Program (IPVAP) at Seven Hills Rhode Island | $3,750 | Seven Hills Rhode Island, a health and human services organization supporting children and adults with developmental disabilities, will partner with Trinity Rep and other local artists to provide a unique performing and visual arts program for children and adults supported through its programs. | Woonsocket | FY21 c1_PGH_Project Grants in Healthcare |
| RiverzEdge Arts Project | General Operating Support | $11,500 | Woonsocket | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – | |
| Stadium Theatre Foundation | General Operating Support | $7,500 | Woonsocket | FY21*_IAC_Investments in Arts & Culture – – |