Arts Project Funding Awarded
The Tacoma Arts Commission announced the award of $50,000 in 2009 Arts Project funding to 20 different Tacoma organizations. The awards went to support of public outreach projects in the fields of music, dance, theater, poetry and the visual arts. They range in value from $1,000 to $4,000 and went to a broad section of our arts community.
Funded projects range from the production of a teen musical to a guerilla art project, from traditional Cambodian dance and urban hip-hop classes to poetry readings. Something for everyone.
We saw a few friends on the list, King’s Books, Tacoma Art Place, Tacoma Farmers Market, and the elusive Monkeyshines project.
I can’t wait to see these events happen in the new year.
3 comments
M M December 29, 2008
How about a list of what was funded, what’s new, what’s old, etc? Maybe a short little description if you know what they are…
D Derek staff December 29, 2008
Here’s the 2009 funding list:
Asia Pacific Cultural Center – 11th Annual Asia Pacific New Year celebration
D.A.S.H Center for the Arts – Teen fall musical “The WIZ”
Exquisite Disarray Press – “In Tahoma’s Shadow: Poems from the City of Destiny” poetry anthology
Fab-5 – The LIFE program
King’s Books – Small Press Month Wayzgoose
Monkeyshines project – Guerilla art project
Northwest Playwrights Alliance – Festival of Northwest Plays and the Double Shot Theatre Festival
Northwest Repertory Singers – A Northwest Celebration
Old Town Business and Professional Association – Classical Tuesdays in Old Town
Pierce County AIDS Foundation – Art engagement activities
Puget Sound Poetry Connection – Distinguished Writer Series and Open Mic
Roosevelt Dancers – Roosevelt Dancers performances
Second City Chamber Series – 2009 Second City Chamber Series Tacoma performances
Shakespeare in the Parking Lot Theatre Company – William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
SoJust – SoJust 2009 event
Tacoma Art Place – Art instruction series
Tacoma Concert Band – Tacoma Concert Band winter, spring & summer concerts
Tacoma Farmers Market – 2009 Market entertainment program
The Barefoot Collective – SiteWorks 2009
Victory Music – Playground Express summer concert series
M MattMike December 29, 2008
Awesome…thanks!