The Arts Council of Anne Arundel County recently announced the recipients of their Community Arts Grants for fiscal year 2017. These grants are given to nonprofit arts and historic preservation groups to help fund their general operating budgets. The Community Arts Grants are just one of several different types of grant awarded by the Arts Council of Anne Arundel County . The Arts Council also awards mini grants, strategic grants and Arts-in-Education grants in addition to providing support, advocacy, and resources for Arts and Historic Preservation.
Thirty-six Anne Arundel County arts and historic preservation groups will be receiving grants ranging in size from $1,000 to $53,000 for fiscal year 2017, totalling $400,200.
The following organizations will be receiving Art Grant Awards:
All Children’s Chorus of Annap. – $7,700
Annapolis Arts District — $9,000
Annapolis Film Festival — $22,000
Annapolis Maritime Museum — $12,000
Annapolis Opera — $20,000
Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre — $9,500
Annapolis Symphony Orchestra –$29,000
ARTWALK/dba Annapolis the Beautiful, — $1,000
Anne Arundel Community Concert Asso. — $3,000
AA County Trust For Preservation — $4,900
Ballet Theatre of Maryland– $25,000
Captain Avery Museum — $10,000
Chesapeake Arts Center — $48,000
Chesapeake Children’s Museum — $1,500
Chesapeake Youth Sym. Orchestra — $10,500
Children’s Theater of Annapolis — $8,500
Compass Rose Theatre — $9,000
Creating Communities — $7,500
Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble — $3,000
Heritage Harbour Chorus — $1,300
Historic Annapolis Foundation — $11,500
Kunta Kinte – Alex Haley Fdn. $2,200
Live Arts Maryland — $26,000
Londontown Foundation — $13,500
Londontowne Symphony Orchestra — $4,000
Maryland Federation of Art –$10,000
Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts — $53,000
Mitchell Gallery, St. John’s — $11,000
National Ballet Institute for the Arts — $1,000
Pasadena Theatre Company — $3,500
Maryland Concert Series — $3,000
South County Concert Association — $5,000
Blue Angel Wing Project — $1,700
The Creative and Performing Arts of South County — $1,900
West Arundel Creative Arts — $3,500
World Artists Experience — $7,000
Total $400,200
For more information about the Arts Council of Anne Arundel County and to find out more about membership call 410-222-7949 or visit www.acaac.org.
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