August 2025
Our Community Grant Awards are designed to support organizations and people
that encourage excellence in the arts at the community level. For the 2025-2026
community grant season, four grants were offered — one at the $1,000 level
and three at the $500 level. Artists and arts organizations in the
tri-state area were encouraged to apply.
Special thanks to Masterwork’s Program Committee - Joseph White, Eric Hafen,
Eileen White, Tony Javed and Alice Glock for their work identifying award
criteria and evaluating applicants.
We’re pleased to announce the following awardees:
· Our $1,000 award goes to the Chelsea Music
Festival
Chelsea Music Festival celebrates great music by convening world-leading
musicians & artists in the performing, culinary, and visual arts for an
international audience. The Festival invites artists, composers, and performers
to collaborate in pursuit of new perspectives in artistic expression.
Inspired by its Chelsea roots, the Festival reflects the creativity of one of
New York City's most dynamic neighborhoods. Programs span musical genres
ranging from classical to contemporary to jazz with a special emphasis on
Festival commissions by composers whose works are not in the traditional
western canon. In addition to its on-the-ground programming, the Festival hosts
an online library of recordings so music enthusiasts, artists, and students
alike can explore unique interpretations of classical, jazz, and contemporary
works via high-quality videos of world-class performances and dialogues
available for years to come.
For more about the Chelsea Music Festival, visit: https://www.chelseamusicfestival.org/
· Our three $500 awards go to Flute Choir
Day, Blues Alive and Site-Specific Dances respectively
1.Carter-Glennon Center for Arts and
Nature’s Flute Choir Day
An annual event at the Carter Glennon Center for Arts and Nature, the New
Jersey Flute Choir Day celebrates flutists of all abilities, ages and
backgrounds. Participants range in age from 9 years old to 90. A day long
rehearsal culminates with a concert featuring a piece by J.S. Bach, as well as
an original work reflective of the year’s theme.
For more about New Jersey Flute Choir Day, visit: www.carter-glennon.org
2. Blues Alive, for Ma Rainey’s Living Tradition of the Blues
Part of the Brooklyn Folk Fest, Blues Alive will partner with the Ma Rainey
House Museum in Columbus, Georgia to frame Gertrude Pritchett—a.k.a. Ma
Rainey—as a trail-blazing American composer and band leader.
We shine a light on the woman as a powerful musician, mentor, and collaborator
to several young sidemen who in-turn became innovators in their own careers;
trumpeter/vocalist Louis Armstrong, pianist Thomas Dorsey, guitarist Tampa Red,
and saxophonist Coleman Hawkins.
This awardee offering includes a 40 minute panel discussion and a 60 minute
concert.
For more about Blues Alive, visit: https://www.brooklynfolkfest.com
3. Site-Specific Dances
Site-Specific Dances is an interdisciplinary performing arts collective of
artists, choreographers, musicians, and designers. Much like architecture, our
projects emerge from a direct engagement with a particular place. Our work
moves beyond the stage to engage deeply with the world around us, with the site
as a protagonist - and not a backdrop.
Our practice unfolds across three primary typologies
* STAGE PIECES about sites
* SITE ACTIVATIONS in spaces not designed for performance
* COMMUNITY-DANCE, a participation-based project that invites local
participants to create a community performance in public space
Our performances often feature original scores by collaborating composers in a
range of styles, frequently performed live.
For more about Site-Specific Dances, visit: https://www.sitespecificdances.com/
Congratulations to our 2025 awardees!
The Masterwork Music and Arts Foundation has been supporting excellence in
the arts for over 60 years. 100 percent of your donation funds art and artists
through community grants, competitive awards, and a premier award for an
emerging artist. Find out more at www.masterworkarts.org.
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