The Arts Council of the Morris Area is pleased to announce that 31 Morris County arts organizations received Local Arts Grants for 2013. These grants help support visual arts, theatre, instrumental and choral groups, museums, a drum and bugle corps, and broad-based arts programming which, in turn, enable thousands of people throughout our county to experience the arts in a multitude of ways. Funding is made possible through the Local Arts Program of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.
This year’s awardees include: Art in the Atrium (Morristown), Arts! By the People (East Hanover), Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey (Madison), Blackwell Street Center for the Arts, Inc. (Denville), Boonton Main Street (Boonton), Chatham Community Players (Chatham), Coro Lirico (Morristown), County College of Morris (Randolph), Creative Heartwork, Inc. (Mendham), Dance Innovations Performance Foundation (Chatham), Faith Center for the Arts (Randolph), First Night® Morris County (Morristown), Fusion Core Drum and Bugle Corp (Succasunna), Hanover Wind Symphony (Whippany), Harmonium Choral Society (Morristown), Lakeland Youth Symphony (Parsippany), Macculloch Hall Historical Museum (Morristown), Madison Arts and Culture Alliance, Inc. (Madison), Masterwork Chorus (Morristown), Morris Choral Society (Morristown), Morris County Organization for Hispanic Affairs (Dover), Morris Music Men (Morristown), Arts programming at Morristown Neighborhood House (Morristown), Musconetcong Valley Community Association (Long Valley), Museum of Early Trades & Crafts (Madison), Music at Morristown United Methodist Church (Morristown), New Jersey Foundation for the Blind (Denville), New Jersey Jazz Society (Chatham), Opera at Florham (Florham Park); Solid Brass Chamber Music Guild (Chatham) and Arts programming at St. Peters Episcopal Church (Morristown).
Above: 2013 grantee Lakeland Youth Symphony in concert
L-R: Some of the 2013 grantees: Arts! by the People teaching artist Isabelle Garbani installing knitted art on trees Twists and Turns sculpture from Creative Heartworks, Inc.; Dance program at Morristown Neighborhood House; Masterwork Chorus under conductor Andrew McGill.
Additionally, the Arts Council awarded one mini-grant to The Morris County Arts Workshop (Chester) which utilizes an empty storefront in Chester to provide drop-in, after school arts activities for students from Pre-K through middle school, as well as adults and seniors.
L-R: Féraba (West African dance, drumming and tap dance troupe) to appear at First Night ® Morris County; Opera at Florham; Solid Brass Chamber Music Guild; The Chatham Community Players production of A Christmas Carol (photo by Chris Furlong).