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Cambridge Arts Council Announces
2013 Grant Recipients
Cambridge, MA – The Cambridge Arts Council (CAC) announces it has awarded a total of $50,000 in grants to 38 Cambridge based individuals and organizations with funding from the City of Cambridge and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. Funding goes towards a wide variety of creative and innovative projects that are of outstanding artistic quality and demonstrate a strong community benefit.
Announcing the awards, Jason Weeks, Cambridge Arts Executive Director, noted, “The City of Cambridge makes a critical investment in local artists and the arts and cultural life of the city through the annual CAC Grant Program. The arts fill the city with vibrancy and have a positive impact on the character of the neighborhoods, the strength of our business districts and the overall well-being of all those who live, work or visit Cambridge.”
Artists receive grants through a rigorous selection process. A volunteer panel of Cambridge residents and arts professionals with expertise in the arts reviewed all 2013 applications, ensuring that the voice of the community is integrated into the decision-making process. Applications were submitted in four discipline areas: Music, Dance, Theater & Literature, and Visual Art, Film, & Video. Final decisions are based on the quality of the projects and their benefit to citizens and visitors of Cambridge.
Jason Slavick, Artistic Director of Liars & Believers, recipients of a grant for its project, Icarus, noted the impact that the Cambridge Arts Council’s support made in bringing the work to fruition: “We’re honored to receive the Cambridge Arts Council grant. While the financial support contributes to our ability to produce, the real impact is the official recognition. It’s a seal of approval for other grants, foundations, vendors and partners. It demonstrates that Cambridge values our work. It’s a great big official feather in our company cap – it’s proud plumage! Support from the CAC says – ‘Hey, look at this. The city thinks we’re doing something worthwhile, so come check us out.’ We’re truly grateful.” Go see Icarus this spring – visit liarsandbelievers.com for more information.
Below is the complete list of the 2013 CAC Grant recipients by category:
THEATER
Monica Raymond
Paper or Plastic
Theater, Creating & Presenting
A workshop production of mini-opera on ecological themes and enviromental concerns of our times.
Michelle Whitaker
Stories Without Roofs
Theater, Creating & Presenting
A theatrical production based entirely on the original poetry, prose, and visual art of homeless men and women in our community.
Liars & Believers
Icarus
Theater, Creating & Presenting
An experimental musical theater production set in a depression area sideshow inspired by the story of Icarus.
Revels, Inc.
Revels RiverSing
Theater, Creating & Presenting
A free family-oriented outdoor celebration of the autumnal equinox with music, theater, and poetry.
Survivor Theatre Project/Women's Center
Violence Transformed
Theater, Creating & Presenting
One full-length and two short theater pieces on the topic of violence provention and survival.
Underground Railway Theater @ Central Square Theater
Youth Underground presents Six Years Online
Theater, Education & Access
Support for marketing and outreach activities for a new play about social media and youth.
LITERATURE
Megan Fernandes
Dollhouse Poetry
Literature, Creating & Presenting
A collaborative project that aims to create a more affective experience of poetic language by complication our notions of voice, authorship, and sound through a Dollhouse installation.
StoryStream Cambridge
Finding Our Voices, Part Two
Literature, Education & Access
This project includes the training of new and experienced CET outreach workers in a storytelling curriculum which they will share with immigrant and under-served parents.
DANCE
Alioune V. "Pape" Ndiaye
NDAJE African Dance and Drum Festival 2013
Education & Access
A festival celebrating African dance and drumming through workshops and demonstrations to the general public.
Erica Sigal
Dance in the Schools
Education & Access
To bring dance teaching artists into the Cambridge public schools to integrate movement and dance into the academic and arts curricula.
Cambridge Youth Dance Program
2013 Spring Concert
Creating & Presenting
A dance performance choreographed and developed in Cambridge by Cambridge youth.
Folk Arts Center of New England
Folk Dancing in Harvard Square
Creating & Presenting
A free, accessible series to increase appreciation of traditional dance and music and promote cultural diversity and vitality in Cambridge.
Jose Mateo Ballet Theater
Dance for World Community's Talk About Dance
Education & Access
The area's largest public forum for conversation around dance related issues, promoting an increased understanding of the jobs in the field.
Prometheus Dance
International Workshops and Intermission Initiative
Education & Access
A year long series of master classes and immersion workshops designed to bring students an in-depth physical and intellectual experience through dance.
Jean Appolon Expressions
Haiti Speaks, Ayiti Dans
Creating & Presenting
A full-length performance consisting of Jean Appolon's original choreographic interpretations of eight Haitian folklore dances woven together with spoken text and sound collage.
Akhra: the Dancing Grounds, Inc.
Lilith
Creating & Presenting
A multi-media, multi-disciplinary performance made in collaboration with the dancer Wendy Jehlen and arcitecht Huang Zhe.
VISUAL ARTS
Joseph Levendusky
Beijing Journal
Visual Art, Creating & Presenting
An exhibition of photo essays on contemporary life in Beijing, China at the Multicultural Arts Center.
Leah Brunetto
Cambridge Landscape Art Workshop
Visual Art, Education & Access
Local artist and CPSD alumna Leah Brunetto will lead a three part urban landscape art workshop for Cambridge Creativity Commons students, grades 6-8.
Rosalyn Grunmann
"Safe Space" Installation at Vassal Lane Upper School
Visual Art, Education & Access
The installation involves art, architectural design and community building, while constructing a sculpture in the space outside the art room out of found materials.
Cambridge Women's Center/Elizabeth Powers
Art Collectives with Homeless & Low-Income Women
Visual Art, Creating & Presenting
Free painting, sewing, beading and crochet instruction groups for homeless and low-income women which foster self worth, teach skills and build community.
Gallery 263
Curatorial Proposal Series
Visual Art, Creating & Presenting
The Cultural Proposal Series is Gallery 263's main exhibition program and will be exhibiting primarily local artists.
Next Step
Mask-making Project and Exhibit
Visual Art, Creating & Presenting
Cambridge artist, Laurie Gaines, and music therapist, Kimberly Khare, will conduct workshops with seriously ill youth at Next Step's programs to create multi-media masks to be exhibited at West Cambridge Community Center in Fall 2013.
Cambridge Creative Commons
Creativity Club
Visual Art, Education & Access
An afterschool enrichment program that focuses on the core values of the Putnam Ave Upper School through hands-on art making at the Creativity Commons.
Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery
African American Heritage Trail
Visual Art, Education & Access
The creation and presentation of a walking trail that will interpret the African American experience in Greater Boston in the 19th and 20th century through the stories of those buried and commemorated in the Cemetery.
FILM & VIDEO
Jesseca Ferguson
Film screenings with Maysoon Pachachi
Film & Video, Creating & Presenting
Iraqi filmmaker, Maysoon Pachachi will screen films and host artists meet and greets and Q&A’s with students, artists, scholars, etc. This film is in paring with the current exhibtion Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here at the CAC Gallery.
Cambridge Community Television
Social Media Training Series for Cambridge Artists
Film & Video, Education & Access
Design and pilot a social media training series for Cambridge artists.
MUSIC
Sarah Gluck
New England Americana Festival, 2013
Creating & Presenting
The New England Americana Festival is a live-music event established to connect and grow the community of New England americana music appreciators and musicians.
Beverly Mire
Teen Radio on TV
Education & Access
Teen Radio on TV will be produced in collaboration with Cambridge Educational Access and will offer Cambridge Rindge and Latin high School students the opportunity to create their own magazine-style radio show that will be aired on CEATV.
Cambridge Community Center, Inc
The Hip Hop Transformation
Creating & Presenting
A violence prevention and intervention program that allows youth to express themselves artistically.
Cambridge Symphony Orchestra
CSO Chamber Players Outreach Series 2013
Creating & Presenting
A presentation of eight chamber music concerts andeducational programs in Cambridgeincluding: after-school programs , the public library performances, and assisted living residences.
Cappella Clausura, Inc
Martines, Hensel in Cambridge
Creating & Presenting
Concert of music written by women composers in classical and romantic eras with full orchestra, chorus and soloists.
Musica Sacra
A New Birth of Freedom
Creating & Presenting
Pianist and drama students will present powerful music and texts from the Civil War era.
Kodaly Music Institute at Anna Maria College
Vocal Vacation
Education & Access
A two week intensive urban choral traning and performance festival.
New England Folk Music Archives
Stories Through Song
Education & Access
A sereis of immersive in-school workshops that bring folk musicians to Cambridge public school students.
Field Trip Grant Projects
Afterworks @ St. Peters
Peabody Museum at Harvard University
Serves 25 Students
Agassiz Baldwin Community
Boston Children's Theater
Serves 60 Students
King Open Extended Day Program
The Urban Nutcracker
Serves 57 Students
King Open Extended Day Program
Museum of Fine Arts
Serves 57 Students
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