PA Partners in the Arts Grantees

PENNSYLVANIA PARTNERS IN THE ARTS 2006-07 GRANTS IN ALLEGHENY COUNTY
$135,067 AWARDED TO 57 GRANTEES  
Project Grants

Silk Screen: Asian American Film Festival                  
Project: To offer workshops and panel discussions with Asian American filmmakers and actors during the weeklong film festival in order to more directly connect the local Pittsburgh community with Asian and Asian American film and culture.
  $3,000
  
      Representative Jake Wheatley with Silk Screen - Asian American Film Festival, Kate Freed
       
Steel Valley Arts Council Grant:
Project: To create the Homestead Community Arts and Heritage Food Market Inter-generational Mural in collaboration with Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area, Propel School/Homestead, Steel Valley Middle School, YoungLife, and Community LIFE Homestead.
$3,000
  
 
City of Asylum / Pittsburgh
Project: To present a public Jazz Poetry Concert kicking off a series of public performances and opportunities for interaction with City of Asylum writers-in-residence.


 $2,500
  
    Representative Jake Wheatley with City of Asylum - Pittsburgh, Rekha Shukla
 

Focus on Renewal
Project: For a dance teacher stipend, program supplies and bus transportation for the elementary age children from the Sto-Rox community who are participating in a community dance program.
$2,500
  
    Senator Wayne Fontana with Focus on Renewal, Pat Moran
 
Cheryl Capezzuti Grant:
Project: For "Puppets for Pittsburgh," a free lending library of giant puppets created for the greater Pittsburgh community to use to bring attention and excitement to public events; the project includes giant puppets to loan, free puppetmaking workshops for interested individuals and volunteer puppeteer opportunities.
$2,500
  
       
Tickets for Kids Foundation Grant:
Project: To include lower-income children and their families in the audience of Black Nativity, an annual multi-cultural performance by the African Drum and Dance Ensemble.
 $2,500    
       

Sandra Gould Ford
Project: To produce, edit, design and print an anthology of inmate fiction, poetry, memoirs and essays from Allegheny County Jail.
$2,000
  
    Tom Fallon (for Senator James Ferlo) with Diamonds in the Rough, Sandra Gould Ford
 

Fe gallery
Project: For "Sight Unseen," a visual art exhibition designed for the visually impaired, including a lecture, workshops, and 3 evenings of performance.
$2,000
  
      Tom Fallon (for Senator James Ferlo) with Fe Gallery, Jill Larson
       
Pittsburgh Jewish Music Festival
Project: To support musicians' fees for "Klezfest '07," which will showcase the multiple facets of Klezmer music and the intersection of Pittsburgh's classical musicians with Klezmer specialists.
$2,000
  
      Senator Wayne Fontana with Pittsburgh Jewish-Israeli Film Festival, Dodie Roskies
       
David Motak
Project: To cover various costs of Cracow "Szopka" workshops and the exhibition of student works including printing and mailing expenses, facility charges and related production expenses.

$1,680
  
     
Bill McElligott (for Representative Frank Dermody) with Crakow Szopka Workshops, David Motak
       
Art on Gist Street
Project: To positively transform the visual atmosphere of a depressed, at-risk neighborhood in Uptown, through the addition of public art by painter John Fleenor.
$1,500
  
      Representative Jake Wheatley with Art on Gist Street, James Simon
       
Bloomfield Business Association
Project: For Bloomfield's fifth annual Little Italy Days festival, a free, family-oriented event featuring a wide variety of activities, from "just fun" entertainment to traditional Italian music, art, foods and dance.

$1,500
  
      Tom Fallon (for Senator James Ferlo) with Bloomfield Business Association, Randy Strothman
       
Boyd Community Center
Project: To present a high quality and artistically significant Halloween Pageant and Community Bonfire and provide community members with an opportunity to engage their imaginations.
$1,500
  
 
Judy Cohen (for Representative Shawn T. Flaherty) with Boyd Community Center, Stephanie Flom
       
Dreams of Hope
Project: To include professional gospel and traditional Jewish musicians in the development of the creative and performing arts youth group's season, whose theme in 2006-07 is Religion.
$1,500
  
 
Kim Bellora (for Representative Dan Frankel) with Dreams of Hope, Susan Haugh
       
Fillipino American Association of Pittsburgh
Project: To support production of a high-quality program of Philippine folk dances and music to be presented as a concert, at the annual Pittsburgh Folk Festival, and in schools throughout the county.

$1,500
  
 
Bill McElligott (for Representative Frank Dermody) with Fillipino American Association of Pittsburgh, Antoinette Angeles
       
Gist Street Reading Series
Project: To pay stipends to two dozen poets and prose writers who read in the monthly series, and for travel expenses for three Saturday morning writing workshops.
$1,500
  
 
Allison Haberski (for Senator Jay Costa) with Gist Street Reading Series, Sherrie Flick
       
Handmade Arcade
Project: To mount and present an indie craft fair founded to promote independent arts and crafts vendors and the arts community in Pittsburgh.
$1,500
  
 
Representative Jake Wheatley with Handmade Arcade, Elizabeth Clare Prince
       
Pittsburgh Dragon Boat Festival
Project: For the annual arts and heritage event in Allegheny County that serves to increase the visibility of Asian arts and culture in the region.
$1,500
  
      Susan Blackman (for Senator James Ferlo) with Pittsburgh Dragon Boat Festival, Tom Fallon
       
Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks
Project: To produce and perform the play A Midsummer Night's Dream, in Frick Park, in October 2006.
$1,500
  
      Kim Bellora (for Representative Dan Frankel) with Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks, Jennifer Tober
       
Sreyashi Dey
Project: To support the research, choreography and musical composition for Shankara Sri Giri, a new work in the Odissi style of Indian classical dance, based on an ancient hymn to the powerful god Shiva.

$1,500
    
       
David Brody
Project: To produce William Tenn: A Writer's Life, a documentary on Pittsburgh's most renowned science fiction writer.
$1,500
    
       
Natrona Comes Together Association
Project: To assemble a team of professional artists to create a collage mural of painted wood cutouts to be installed on the chain link fence at the Natrona Ballfield on River Avenue in Natrona, PA.
$1,250
  
      Bill McElligott (for Representative Frank Dermody) with Natrona Comes Together Association, Bill Godfrey
       
Pittsburgh Playback Theatre
Project: For "'The Darfur Project," an assisted monologue project that will tell the story of Hashim Adam Mersal, a refugee from Sudan living in Pittsburgh.
$1,250
    
       
Vijay Palaparty
Project: To support a series of audience workshops/classes and a performance which enhances the understanding of the artistic and cultural aspects of one of South India's classical dance styles, Bharata Natyam, in Fall 2006.
$1,250
    
       
Elizabeth Perry
Project: For a public art project-The Museum Drawing Project-in which the artist will draw and reflect on something connected with two local museums daily from October 2006 through June 2007, and post the drawing and reflection to a public weblog.
$1,250
  
      Tom Fallon (for Senator James Ferlo) with The Museum Drawing Project, Elizabeth Perry
       
Afrika Yetu
Project: For a two-day drumming and dancing event featuring Elie Kihonia and Master Drummer Mamadi Keita to promote Afrika Yetu's outreach program.
$1,150
  
      Representative Jake Wheatley with Afrika Yetu, Sahara Nzongola
       
Costumers' Guild of Western Pennsylvania
Project: To mount Scenes and Seams: Costumes and Their Environment, an exhibit that will feature work of local costume and set designers.
$1,150
  
      Kim Bellora (for Representative Dan Frankel) with Costumers' Guild of Western Pennsylvania, Igor Roussanoff
       
Pittsburgh Concert Chorale
Project: To support the presentation of concerts in March 2007, highlighting John Rutter's 2003 Mass of the Children in collaboration with members of the Children's Festival Chorus, the Academy Chamber Orchestra and organist, Dr. David Billings.
$1,031
  
      Kathy Campbell (for Senator Jane Clare Orie) with Pittsburgh Concert Chorale, Barbara McKelway

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