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November 30, 2020

Lamont announces $9M in grants to support CT arts nonprofits

Hartford Stage received a $542,200 state grant through the COVID Relief Fund for the Arts.
By Sean Teehan

Gov. Ned Lamont announced a state program will distribute $9 million in grant funding to 154 Connecticut arts organizations, with some of the largest sums going to Hartford-based groups.

The grants are funded through a program Lamont announced in October that will provide financial relief to some arts nonprofits. That $9 million comes from federal CARES Act funding from the state’s Coronavirus Relief Fund.

“Like nearly every segment of our communities, many of nonprofit arts organizations are struggling to recover from its impact," Lamont said. "These grants will provide some needed support."

Dubbed the COVID Relief Fund for the Arts, the fund is being administered by the Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD). Funds will be available to arts nonprofits that are performing arts centers, schools of arts or performing groups for whom grants will affect their survival and hiring plans; and organizations that have had to curtail operations due to pandemic restrictions.

Organizations that qualify will receive a base grant of $5,000, according to Lamont's office. Organizations that raised funds between March 10 and Nov. 1 are also eligible for a supplemental match, for which the state will match 50% of the money raised during that period.

Connecticut Players Foundation (also known as Long Wharf Theatre) of New Haven received the largest portion with $551,400; followed by Hartford Stage, which received $542,200 and Horace Bushnell Memorial Hall Corporation (the Bushnell Theatre), which got $480,900.

“The year 2020 has presented unprecedented challenges to Connecticut’s arts organizations and they have risen to the occasion in every possible way,” Liz Shapiro, DECD’s director of arts and museums, said. "[But] it is important to understand that this funding, while certainly helpful, does not solve these organizations’ financial challenges."

Arts organizations receiving funding through the program include:

  • 1214 Foundation (aka NewArts), Newtown, $11,700
  • ACT of Connecticut, Ridgefield, $221,000
  • ActUp Theater, Hartford, $12,700
  • American Baroque Orchestra, North Haven, $5,000
  • Amity Teen Center, Woodbridge, $11,500
  • Architecture Resource Center, New Haven, $7,700
  • ARTFARM, Middletown, $7,100
  • Artists Collective, Hartford, $14,700
  • Artreach, Norwich, $9,400
  • Arts Escape, Southbury, $6,800
  • Arts for Learning Connecticut, Hamden, $57,400
  • ASAP!, Washington Depot, $52,100
  • BackCountry Concerts (aka BackCountry Jazz), Greenwich, $31,400
  • Ballet Theatre Company, West Hartford, $18,700
  • Broadway Method Academy, Fairfield, $8,600
  • Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, $43,200
  • Buttonwood Tree Performing Arts Center, Middletown, $8,600
  • CAPA/Shubert Theatre, New Haven, $118,800
  • Cappella Cantorum, Madison, $6,900
  • CAST Children’s Theater, Manchester, $15,700
  • Center Stage Theatre, Shelton, $32,100
  • Charter Oak Performing Arts (aka Connecticut Gay Men's Chorus), New Haven, $10,000
  • Community Music School, Centerbrook, $19,900
  • CONCORA, Hartford, $14,000
  • Connecticut Academy for the Arts, Torrington, $9,700
  • Connecticut Ballet, Hartford, $18,200
  • Connecticut Chamber Choir, Trumbull, $5,600
  • Connecticut Dance School, Fairfield, $9,700
  • Connecticut Hurricanes Drum & Bugle Corps, Seymour, $11,300
  • Connecticut Players Foundation (aka Long Wharf Theatre), New Haven, $551,400
  • Connecticut Valley Symphony Orchestra, Windsor, $6,700
  • Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, New Britain, $18,100
  • Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, $77,300
  • Crescendo, Lakeville, $7,600
  • Crystal Theatre, Norwalk, $9,000
  • Cuatro Puntos, Hartford, $17,100
  • Curtain Call, Stamford, $81,300
  • Danbury Music Centre, Danbury, $38,000
  • Darien Arts Center, Darien, $41,700
  • Downtown Cabaret Theatre, Bridgeport, $39,200
  • Eastern Connecticut Ballet, East Lyme, $21,600
  • Eastern Connecticut Symphony, New London, $56,700
  • Eli Whitney Workshop, Hamden, $84,000
  • Elm Shakespeare Company, New Haven, $45,200
  • Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Waterford, $376,200
  • Fairfield County Children's Choir, Fairfield, $8,100
  • Fairfield Theatre Company, Fairfield, $106,400
  • Farmington Valley Arts Center, Avon, $15,400
  • Five Points Center for the Visual Arts, Torrington, $42,700
  • Flock Theatre, New London, $59,600
  • Friends of Madison Youth, Madison, $5,800
  • Friends of the Levitt Pavilion, Westport, $55,200
  • Garde Arts Center, New London, $182,800
  • Goodspeed Opera House Foundation, East Haddam, $532,100
  • Greater Bridgeport Symphony, Bridgeport $43,000
  • Greater Connecticut Youth Orchestras, Fairfield, $44,400
  • Greater Middletown Chorale, Middletown, $13,800
  • Greenwich Art Society, Greenwich, $11,500
  • Greenwich Arts Council, Greenwich, $14,000
  • Greenwich Symphony Orchestra, Greenwich, $19,300
  • Grumbling Gryphons Traveling Children's Theater, West Cornwall, $6,300
  • Guilford Art Center, Guilford, $63,300
  • HartBeat Ensemble, Hartford, $23,700
  • Hartford Artisans Weaving Center, Hartford, $26,600
  • Hartford Chorale, Hartford, $15,100
  • Hartford Performs, Hartford, $72,100
  • Hartford Stage , Hartford, $542,200
  • Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Hartford, $326,600
  • Horace Bushnell Memorial Hall Corporation, Hartford, $480,900
  • Hygienic Art, New London, $13,700
  • INTEMPO, Stamford, $63,600
  • Ivoryton Playhouse, Ivoryton, $125,900
  • JIB Productions (aka Play With Your Food), Westport, $11,900
  • Judy Dworin Performance Project, Hartford, $37,000
  • Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, Old Saybrook, $111,300
  • Klein Memorial Auditorium Foundation, Bridgeport, $58,500
  • Landmark Community Theatre, Thomaston, $29,900
  • Legacy Theatre, Branford, $17,700
  • Litchfield Performing Arts, Litchfield, $26,100
  • Little Theatre of Manchester, Manchester, $30,800
  • Lyme Academy of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, $23,200
  • Madison Lyric Stage, Madison, $12,200
  • Main Street Ballet Company, Woodbury, $6,200
  • Mariachi Academy of New England, Hartford, $7,200
  • Maurice C. La Grua Center, Stonington, $38,000
  • Milford Arts Council, Milford, $24,700
  • MOCA WESTPORT, Westport, $97,700
  • Music Haven, New Haven, $101,100
  • Music Mountain, Falls Village, $23,000
  • Music on the Hill, Wilton, $13,200
  • Music Theatre of Connecticut, Norwalk, $44,600
  • Mystic Ballet, Stonington, $48,000
  • Neighborhood Music School, New Haven, $166,900
  • Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County, Bridgeport, $30,900
  • New Canaan Society for the Arts (aka Carriage Barn Arts Center), New Canaan, $15,600
  • New Haven Ballet, New Haven, $13,900
  • New Haven Chorale, New Haven, $30,200
  • New Haven Symphony Orchestra, New Haven, $219,300
  • Newington Children's Theatre Company, Newington, $8,300
  • Norwalk Symphony Society, Norwalk, $25,100
  • Norwalk Youth Symphony, Norwalk, $14,600
  • Nutmeg Ballet Conservatory, Torrington, $31,000
  • Nutmeg Symphony Orchestra, Bristol, $10,000
  • Oddfellows Playhouse Youth Theater, Middletown, $28,900
  • Open Arts Alliance, Greenwich, $9,700
  • Opera House Players, Enfield,  $6,000
  • Opera Theater of Connecticut, Clinton, $9,100
  • Our House Meriden, Meriden, $7,600
  • Palace Theater Group, Waterbury, $149,700
  • Pantochino Productions, Milford, $13,000
  • Pilobolus, Washington Depot, $97,300
  • Playhouse Theatre Group, West Hartford, $74,500
  • Real Art Ways, Hartford, $153,700
  • Ridgefield Conservatory of Dance, Ridgefield, $30,400
  • Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield, $14,300
  • Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and the Performing Arts, Ridgefield, $186,400
  • Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra, Ridgefield, $25,000
  • Ridgefield Workshop for the Performing Arts (aka Ridgefield Theater Barn), Ridgefield,  $16,300
  • Rowayton Arts Center, Norwalk, $17,300
  • Seven Angels Theatre, Waterbury, $37,000
  • Shakesperience Productions, Waterbury, $26,200
  • Sherman Chamber Ensemble, New Milford, $8,600
  • Sherman Players, Sherman, $6,300
  • Silvermine Guild of Artists, New Canaan, $57,900
  • Simsbury Performing Arts Center, Simsbury, $19,000
  • Sonia Plumb Dance Company, Hartford, $21,600
  • Southington Community Cultural Arts, Southington, $36,200
  • Square Foot Theatre Company, Wallingford, $9,500
  • Stamford Center for the Arts, Stamford, $50,000
  • Stamford Symphony, Stamford, $185,600
  • Stamford Young Artists Philharmonic, Old Greenwich, $6,600
  • Summer Theatre of New Canaan, New Canaan, $46,600
  • Thames Valley Music School, New London, $11,200
  • TheaterWorks Hartford, Hartford, $264,900
  • Theatre of Northeastern Connecticut (aka The Bradley Playhouse), Putnam, $17,800
  • Thrown Stone Theatre Company, Ridgefield, $5,900
  • Treetops Chamber Music Society, Stamford, $8,100
  • Tri State Center for the Arts, Sharon, $58,900
  • Trinity-on-Main, New Britain, $13,900
  • Vernon Community Arts Center (aka Arts Center East), Vernon, $9,500
  • Village Center for the Arts, New Milford, $16,600
  • Voice of Art, Cheshire, $7,700
  • Wall Street Theater, Norwalk, $6,800
  • Wallingford Community Theatre, Wallingford, $8,400
  • Warner Theatre, Torrington, $193,600
  • Waterbury Ballet Company (aka Brass City Ballet), Middlebury, $14,300
  • Waterbury Symphony Orchestra, Waterbury, $57,000
  • Wesleyan Potters, Middletown, $15,800
  • West Hartford Art League, West Hartford, $18,400
  • Western Connecticut Youth Orchestra, Ridgefield, $14,900
  • Westport Community Theatre, Westport, $5,500
  • Westport Country Playhouse, Westport, $365,800
  • Whitney Players, Hamden, $11,100
  • Writer's Block Ink, New London, $11,100
     

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