Announcing The Masterwork Music and Art Foundation 2024 Community Arts
Grant Awardees
June 2024
Our Community Grant Awards are
designed to support organizations and people that encourage excellence in the
arts at the community level. For the 2024-2025 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 Out of
the Box Theatre.
Serving the New York community for
over eighteen years, the mission of the Out of the Box Theater Company is
three-fold – to provide opportunities for working professionals in their prime,most over the age
of 50, to work outside the restrictions of age, race, sex, and disability,to make quality theatrical programming
available to seniors and to present new interpretations of period plays.
For more about the Out of the Box
Theatre Company, visit: https://www.outoftheboxtheatre.com/
·
Our three $500 awards go to the
Athens Cultural Center, The Friends of Beattie-Powers and the Stephen Petronio
Dance Company respectively
· 1. Athens Cultural Center
The Athens Cultural Center's mission is to encourage an understanding and
appreciation of arts and culture, to uplift creative voices within our
community, and to create a welcoming atmosphere for all. ACC has been serving
the upstate New York community for twenty years, offering a rich variety of
exhibitions, events, and classes for art enthusiasts of all ages and
backgrounds.
For more about
the ACC, visit: https://athensculturalcenter.org/
2. The Friends of Beattie-Powers
Serving the community of Catskill, NY
for over twenty years, The Friends of Beattie-Powers are
dedicated to preserving and protecting the natural beauty and historic
integrity of the Beattie-Powers grounds and circa 1840s house, while making it
accessible to the public for programming “for all.”
For more about The Friends of
Beattie-Powers, visit: https://www.beattiepowers.org/
3. The Stephen Petronio Dance Company
Founded in 1984, the mission of Stephen Petronio Company
(SPC) is to support the vision of choreographer Stephen Petronio, which
includes the creation and presentation of his existing and new works, alongside
legacy initiatives meant to preserve the history of postmodern dance lineage,
while also advancing its future through new works that honor and extend the
history and offer a platform for a greater inclusivity of artistic voices.
The Stephen
Petronio Dance Company also offers dance classes for youth through the Petronio
Education Program (PEP) in Columbia and Greene counties, New York, which this
award supports.
For more about the Stephen Petronio
Dance Company, visit: https://petron.io/
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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