2010 Grant Descriptions
Sustaining Grants
Sustained funding is annual revenue sharing to selected arts organizations with annual budgets of $1,000,000 or greater. Amounts may vary with fluctuations in the revenue pool.
The Black Rep
As the largest professional African-American theater in the country, The Black Rep brings a wide variety of theatrical productions to the Grandel Theater. Educational programs include a youth-oriented tour and Student Matinees, designed to enlighten youth about the African-American experience.
COCA
COCA is the largest arts institution in the St. Louis area and offers classes in dance, music, drama, the visual arts and more in outreach, after-school and scholarship programs and summer camps, along with hundreds of culturally diverse performances and exhibitions.
Community Music School of Webster University
Supporting nearly 2,000 students from across the St. Louis area, the School has earned accreditation form the National Association of Schools of music. The School develops the highest caliber performers of all varieties of musical instruments.
Craft Alliance
Craft Alliance is committed to the instruction and production of two and three-dimensional media. With studios in University City and Grand Center, Craft Alliance provides space for artists to teach, exhibit and sell their work.
Dance St. Louis
Dance St. Louis brings the world’s best dance to the St. Louis area with dance presentations, creations and educational programs, such as the Young People’s Performances that offers discounted tickets to students and teachers.
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
With more than a dozen year-round education programs reaching between 14,000 and 20,000 adults and children annually, Opera Theatre is a national leader in arts education. This season, Opera Theater will bring four productions including a world premier of THE GOLDEN TICKET by Peter Ash.
Repertory Theatre of St. Louis
Every year the Rep brings St. Louis imaginative professional theater through its Mainstage and Studio productions. This year the Imaginary Theatre Company will present for young audiences A Peter Rabbit Tale and Bah! Humbug! Based upon Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
With nearly 125 orchestral, educational, holiday, and special events concerts, the symphony brings the best and most creative programming orchestral programming to the St. Louis area, as well as 250 free events outside Powell Hall.
Sheldon Arts Foundation
With more the 300 events, the Sheldon Concerts Hall and the Sheldon Art Galleries provide the St. Louis area with a wide variety of presentations, concerts and exhibits. Located in Grand Center, the Sheldon is a popular destination for art seekers of every age.
Operating Grants
Grants of $10,000-$50,000 for organizations with annual budgets of $500,000 or greater.
Circus Arts Foundation of Missouri – Circus Flora
In its 24th year of entertaining and exciting audiences, Circus Flora brings a unique one ring circus event back to the Grand Center in June. Circus Flora is committed to community outreach and training with free workshops and programs.
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
Located in the lively Grand Center District on Washington Avenue, the Museum presents relevant and innovative art of today with an annual series of exhibitions. The Contemporary is committed to the education and display of local artists such as the Great River Biennial and Contemporary Conversations lecture series.
Grand Center Inc.
Focused on the redevelopment and enhancement of the Grand Center Arts and Entertainment District, Grand Center Inc. produces arts programming perfect for the location. With programs like Dancing in the Street and First Night, Grand Center has many programs designed to reach audiences of all ages.
Jazz St. Louis
With many programs, Jazz St. Louis continues to make St. Louis a premier jazz center in the Mid-West. Jazz St. Louis is dedicated to the preservation and performance of Jazz in the St. Louis area.
Laumeier Sculpture Park
The park takes sculpture outside with a free public park. Laumeier expands critical and creative thinking through interaction with contemporary arts with tours, classes, summer camps and community outreach teaching programs.
Metro Theater Company
Reaching young audiences, Metro Theater Company commissions and produces new works that encourages meaningful learning through theatrical performances and programs such as workshops, professional development institutes and curriculum linked residencies.
Shakespeare Festival St. Louis
The Festival presents a free annual production in Forest Park’s Shakespeare Glen. Shakespeare Festival St. Louis also conducts teacher-training seminars and performances and reaches more than 25,000 students with educational tours and performance-oriented instruction in the works of Shakespeare throughout the St. Louis area.
Springboard
Bringing arts and cultural-integration enrichment programs into schools, Springboard reaches over 75,000 students in the St. Louis area. Programs bring together local professional artists with economically disadvantaged students.
St. Louis Children’s Choirs
Now in its 32nd season, the St. Louis Children’s Choirs are nationally and internationally recognized musical education programs for children in elementary, middle and high schools. The Choirs have in Europe, Japan, and Russia and serve as the official children’s choir of the St. Louis Symphony.
Stages St. Louis
Stages St. Louis has been entertaining audiences and training young adults and professionals since 1987. Committed to the American art form of Musical Theater, Stages St. Louis offers year round programs and performances for all ages.
Project Grants
Grants for specific projects in the amounts of $1,000-$5,000 for organizations with annual budgets under $500,000.
ANNONYArts
Continuing to spread dance across the community, FOSTER DANCE is a program designed to empower young women in foster care. The program focuses on a sense of belonging and self worth through the expressions of dance.
Bach Society of St. Louis
The Bach Society is dedicated to bringing choral works by classical composers to the St. Louis area. With four concerts and many educational outreach programs, the Society gives many young performers a chance to grow as an artist.
Black Cat Theatre
Piwacket Theatre for Children presents four shows in its 2010 season, Emperor’s New Clothes, Rumpelstiltskin, Goldilocks & the Three Bears, and a new production of Snow White. Touring the community, these productions highlight important social values.
Cameron Youth Chamber Orchestra
Providing the Normandy School District with instruments and instructors of classical strings, the Orchestra gives middle and high school students and opportunity to develop musical skill in a classical field they would rarely have exposure to.
Chesterfield Arts
Inspired by the arrival of J. Stewart Johnson’s sculpture, The Awakening, the public can learn how to take a sculpture from inspiration and vision to reality. A series of lectures and workshops will bring professionals from all over the country share this process.
Cinema St. Louis
The St. Louis International Film Festival is an annual event that showcases the independent film maker. With participants from around the St. Louis area, the Mid-West and around the globe, the Festival brings exposure and education for thousands of movie goers.
Community Health-in-Partnerships Services (CHIPS)
As a component of the health education department of CHIPS, Chips In Motion utilizes the arts to creatively teach community members about prevalent health and wellness issues. Touring shows will focus on teen pregnancy and prevention for school audiences and their families.
Cultural Festivals
The Creative Castle is a special place for kids to create art at the St. Louis Art Fair. Every year thousands of children experience the fun of creating visual art by throwing a pot, making and drawing a book or even creating a Mardi Gras mask.
Dances of India
Offering new performance works, public demonstrations and workshops, and cultural presentations, Dances of India preserves and broadens the art of East Indian Dance in the Metro St. Louis area.
Equinox Chamber Players
Recognizing that St. Louis is home to people from many nations and cultures, New Place Like Home will present 3 public concerts and travel to 8 schools and educational facilities to share music inspired by this diversity.
Florissant Fine Arts Council
For over two decades the Applause/Applause series has delighted audiences in the North County and surrounding areas. Bringing professional productions to the Florissant Civic Center Theatre, a large variety of shows gives everyone something to enjoy.
Frank Lloyd Wright House in Ebsworth Park
The Kraus House has been restored to its original condition and serves at a museum and preservation of Frank Lloyd Wright’s unique modern architecture. Tours, lectures and other special events give the public a chance to learn more about this one of a kind visionary.
Hispanic Festival
This annual free outdoor event showcases the lively culture of the Hispanic community at Soldier Memorial Park in downtown St. Louis. The festival offers a unique opportunity for local Hispanics to unite together regardless of their social, economical and political background, and educate non-Hispanic families about the culture.
HotCity Theatre
The GreenHouse Series gives three playwrights an opportunity to workshop their play with local directors, dramaturges, and actors over a week in June. At the culmination of the workshop and re-writing process, the plays are staged in a free public reading.
Innsbrook Institute
A 10 day festival offers opportunities for instruction and performance of classical chamber music. The largest festival of its kind in the Midwest, this summer program presents 21 concerts featuring the highest caliber Saint Louis and international musicians.
Jacoby Arts Center
ART EAST is an annual showcase of artists in the Metro East area. Artists from Madison County, Illinois open their studios for demonstrations and discussion of techniques and inspiration.
Junior League of St. Louis
Now in its 22nd season, The Family Theatre Series offers five productions of children’s theatre classics, as well as hosting pre-performance classroom discussions at local schools. Performances are through March 2010 at the Florissant Civic Center.
McKendree University
The River North Dance Company will provide a 2 day residency, examining and educating students about the Latino and Hispanic Influence on Modern Dance. The company will hold master classes and showcase performance matinees for local high schools.
Prison Performing Arts
Reaching young men and women, aged 10-17, Literacy through Hip-Hop Poetry brings poetry writing, poetry performance, scene design, costume design and Hip-Hop dance into the St. Louis Juvenile Detention Center. This program has become a vital learning tool for the students who have failed in traditional school settings.
River Styx
River Styx is a tri-annual, multicultural literary and arts magazine published by Big River Association. Based in St. Louis, the award-winning magazine features works of poetry, fiction, essay, and visual art. River Styx also hosts a lively reading series for established and emerging artists and education outreach programs for children and adults.
Saint Louis Ballet
The Innovation Series joins 3 selections for a two-performance weekend. This performances feature contemporary ballet, including a world premier by Artistic Director Gen Horiuchi.
Sherwood Forest Camp
This residential summer camp connects practicing artists and educators with economically disadvantaged children. Skills and relationships developed in the Creative and Performing Arts program help participants achieve long term success as they grow into adulthood.
Show-Me Sound
“Showdown” DRUMLINE competition and College Fair gives and opportunity for families to attend a college recruitment fair and drum line competition featuring 10 of the top Historically Black and University percussion ensembles.
St. Charles Municipal Band
A full summer concert series free to the public, the St. Charles Municipal Band showcases the American tradition of concert band music. Concerts are showcased in the Jaycee Pavilion in Frontier Park on the Missouri riverfront.
St. Louis ArtWorks
ArtWorks Summer Program offers paid apprenticeship to more than 100 youth in multiple artistic disciplines. Through a combination of arts education and job training, ArtWorks’ professional teaching artists provide the young apprentices with valuable workplace skills including creative thinking, teamwork, and articulating the meaning of their work.
St. Louis Philharmonic Orchestra
Providing free concerts, the St. Louis Philharmonic brings classical music performances at several locations helping to insure that a diverse audience can attend the performances. The orchestra includes music educators, high school and college students.
St. Louis Public Schools Foundation
Students of all ages get to showcase their talents on the Stage of the Fabulous Fox Theatre with the annual Performing Arts Night. Several thousand parents and teachers celebrate youth participation in performing arts with performances of dance, music and vocal performance.
Stray Dog Theatre
Committed to unleashing the art of theatre into the community, Stray Dog Theater offers main-stage productions, educational after school programs, youth reengagement activities, support drives and service projects.
Studio STL
100 local youth will partner with professional writers in 5 writing workshops designed to improve written communication skills, increase appreciation for literary arts and publish original writing. The published works are featured in a literary magazine published by Studio STL.
That Uppity Theatre Company
Since 1996, The DisAbility Project has been joining amateur artists and professional performers to create moving performances based on real life experiences. The project creates and tours performances with material focused on the stigma of living with a disability.
UMSL KWMU – FM Cityscape
Hosted by Steve Potter, this weekly radio program features stories and information about local arts and cultural events happening around the St. Louis area.
UMSL-Storytelling Festival
Participants from communities all around the St. Louis area will join the 31st annual St. Louis Storytelling Festival. Spreading across the Metro area, this festival in committed to preserve and develop the art of storytelling.
Union Avenue Opera
The 2010 Festival Season consists of four operas reflecting a mix of language, period, setting, and tone – La fille’ du regiment, Pirates of Penzance, Queen of Spades and Amahl and the Night Visitors. Operas are performed in their original language with projected English subtitles and accompanied by a full orchestra.
Warren County Fine Arts Council
The extensive “Arts In Schools” project brings over 50 arts related programs to 5,000 students in three school districts, three parochial schools and one private school. Multi-disciplined programs include music and theatrical presentations, master classes in visual and performing arts, and a Summer Arts Camp for students age 6-13.
Webster University – Film Series
The nationally recognized, year round Film Series has become a destination for many national tours of international cinema, often serving as the only venue in Missouri. This season’s year round screenings include a Technicolor series, filmmaker workshops, international films, a monthly cult film series and more.
Boeing/Arts and Education Council Collaborative Grants
Grants to organizations that create and promote, through programs, events or initiatives a more sustainable arts and cultural environment that will engage people to become lifelong arts and cultural participants, patrons and practitioners.
Atrek Dance Collective – Youth Outreach Fellowship
This program will allow a college student with an interest in a career in arts education to gain hands-on experience working alongside the administrators, program coordinators, and teachers that make their youth outreach programs possible.
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis – Teen Museum Council
A diverse group of 10-20 teens will meet at the museum for 8-12 weeks during the summer for an integrated series of workshops with staff from each department, introducing them to all aspects of non-profit museum management. They will have the opportunity to work collaboratively to design, organize and market a teen art exhibition in the Grand Center area.
Gitana Productions – Southside Multicultural Arts Initiative: Phase II
Talented youth from the African American and immigrant communities will be recruited to work hand in hand with professional teachers and staff within Gitana’s Global Education through the Arts program and mainstage events, including a musical production and play.
Grand Center – Non-Profit Arts Practicum
This program will be a practicum by educational standards, giving two part-time internships in development and events & marketing. These interns who are either college students and/or recent college graduates will be wholly immersed in the day-to-day operations of the fast-paced, multi-faceted organization.
Jazz St. Louis - Internship
This year long program will allow an individual to work up to twenty hours a week and apprentice under the direction of seasoned staff members to fully engage in and learn the business of arts management while advancing the uniquely American art of jazz via the nonprofit model.
Modern American Dance Company – Body Talk
A professional development program that will provide arts administration training for two of MADCO’s professional dancers and result in the development of a new arts education program that will tour to St. Louis metropolitan area schools from January 2010 – May 2012.
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis – Administrative Internship Program
This internship program provides important training, job experience and the guidance from professional staff and the artists who stage each spring festival season -- giving a unique experience to those and others who are interested in all aspects of opera production, including arts management.
St. Louis Children’s Choir – Apprenticeship Program
Four or five academically advanced music students and motivated nonprofit trainees will learn the artistic and/or administrative functions of the Children’s Choirs, specifically choral ensemble assistant responsibilities as well as operational and production tasks.
St. Louis Volunteer Lawyers and Accountants for the Arts – No Artist Left Behind
This academic program provides exposure to basic legal and business matters to help college students make the transition from the academic environment to their artistic careers.
Upstream Theater – Training for Tomorrow
Five apprentices will be paired with highly experienced professional mentors. Areas of training will include: lighting and set design, technical direction, stage management and arts administration.
For all grants:
The organization, or the entity for which it is a part, must be an IRC Section 501(c)(3) corporation in the state of Missouri or Illinois for 1 year or more. Organization must remain a 501(c)(3) for the duration of the grant period or the grant will be forfeited.
Grants will be made only for programs that take place in the St. Louis bi-state area (Missouri: Jefferson, Franklin, Lincoln, St. Louis City & County, St. Charles, Warren & Washington. Illinois: Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Jersey, Macoupin, Madison, Monroe & St. Clair).
