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12 Organizations Receive Peninsula Arts Council Grants
Twelve San Mateo County arts organizations have been awarded grants in the ARTshare 2005 Regranting Program. Funds for the grants have been made available to ARTshare by the San Francisco Foundation.
The two largest grants, $2,000.00 each, were awarded to:
● Art in Action - in support of its arts education programs in county schools and
● Zohar Dance Company - for its IndepenDANCE and Juvie Jazz outreach programs.
Art in Action, based in Menlo Park, provides arts programs to 18,000 students in 50 schools during the regular school year and to 5,000 children in summer art camps. With a professional approach, Art in Action fills in a vacuum where the arts have been disappearing from the curriculum. To engage the community at large as well as the children, student work is displayed at public library art shows. One such exhibit will be on view at the Willow Oaks and 49er Academy at the East Palo Alto Public Library from March 3 to March 31.
Zohar Dance Company seeks to make dance accessible, inclusive, vibrant, relevant and integral to its community. IndepenDANCE is an outreach program for at-risk and special education children and Juvie Jazz serves incarcerated youth. They have garnered national and international recognition as model arts education programs.
Three grants of $1,000 each were awarded to:
● The Atherton Arts Committee - for its mural project at Selby Lane School, which serves a population of which 70 percent are English language learners
● City Arts of San Mateo - for its High School Visual Arts and Literary Arts Recognition Program
● The Djerassi Resident Artists Program - to support artist residencies.
Seven grants of $500.00 each were awarded:
● The Boys and Girls Clubs of the Peninsula - to support the Modern Painting Project for at-risk youth
● East Palo Alto Commitment to Performing Arts - to help launch the new organization
● Kainos Home and Training Center - in support a hands-on arts program, led by a professional artist, for individuals with developmental disabilities
● Peninsula Cantare - for operational expenses
● The Peninsula Museum of Art - for a copier and printing supplies for its library and docents
● The San Mateo Dance Association - to support choreography for its annual dance performances
● The West Coast Songwriters Association - to support website development.
The distinguished grant selection panel included Gerald Brett, a writer, art collector, and Founder/Director of Language Pacifica, and currently Vice Chair of the Palo Alto Public Art Commission and a former member of the Board of Directors of the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art; Peter Foley, an internationally recognized artist and writer working in Palo Alto; San Francisco multi-media artist and arts educator Deanne Morizono Meyers, currently an Artist/Facilitator for Community Works California; William Moreno, Executive Director of The Mexican Museum in San Francisco and formerly on the boards of San Franciscoís Galeria de la Raza, Business Volunteers for the Arts and the Oakland Youth Chorus; and Oakland dancer/choreographer Regina Thompson, a human resources professional.
The panel was impressed with the breadth and quality of arts programs on the Peninsula, the varied forms of outreach, the sensitivity to bringing together diverse communities, and the creative energy in new and developing organizations. |
