Four collaborative projects focusing on art, music, theater and dance education have won more than $52,000 in grants from a state-authorized program funded through local property taxes.
They represent the latest allotments from this year’s $375,000 Arts Institute Fund, approved by the state Legislature to receive a fraction of a percent from each county’s property taxes.
The money channels through the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation, which has designated the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana to review grant requests and award the funds.
The Arts Council awarded the latest funds, Creative Collaboration grants, to cooperative arts programs serving students in the county. Recipients are:
The Claymobile Residency received $22,200 to take mobile ceramics programs to six schools in the Bosse High School district.
The World Premiere Ballet Project, awarded $15,000 for the creation and production of a new ballet with music. Brian St. John, conductor of the Evansville Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, will score it; Mark Bush, artistic director for the School of Evansville Ballet will choreograph it; and members of their programs will perform it.
Muzical Works Workshop won $11,250 for New Harmony Theatre and Evansville Civic Theatre to present a two-day theater workshop at Harrison High School.
Summer Arts gets $3,950 for summer arts programming provided students in the Glenwood Leadership Academy by the YMCA, the Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library and Storytellin’ Time.
The rest of this year’s $375,000 Arts Institute Fund already has gone to more than a score of organizations providing arts education to young people in the county.
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