Major Venture Category
$150,000 to the Institute for Latino Studies at the University
of Notre Dame for development of the Notre Dame Center
for Art and Culture. The project encompasses the remodeling and
renovation of the former Hansel Center building and a carriage
house with office space at the rear of the property. The Center
will be a wonderful addition to the historic district, joining
the Studebaker Museum and Archive, the Center for History, the
IUSB Civil Rights Heritage Center and Tippecanoe Mansion, all located
in the central portion of an economically depressed area targeted
for revitalization. The project will help establish this area as
a vital art, culture and historic district, serving area residents
of all socio-economic backgrounds.
$40,000
paid at $20,000 a year for two years to Robinson Community Learning
Center for its Shakespeare Company. The
grant will allow Robinson to create a year-round drama club, based
on proven youth theatre training methods. One goal of the
program is helping diversify the arts community in South Bend by
recruiting, training, and giving arts exposure to an untapped talent
pool of under-represented youth who might otherwise not have a
chance to participate in drama due to location, financial limitations,
or cultural intimidation. The program will serve over 60
youth over the next 2 years.
Program/Project Category
$5,000 to The School City of Mishawaka, in conjunction with the
Mishawaka Lions Club. Funds will be used to create art gallery space
to feature student artwork in eight Mishawaka Public Elementary Schools.
Frames have been specially designed so that student work may be easily
rotated and the the School Corporation is installing track lighting.
$5,000 to The Center for the Homeless for the creation of a canvas
mural to be installed on the south side exterior wall of the new
Robert L. Miller, Sr. Veteran's Building. The mural will beautify
the unsightly wall which also is the north side of the Center’s
community garden.
$5,000 to South Bend Heritage Foundation to support the Colfax Campus
Gallery's exhibition season. Each year, the Gallery offers six exhibitions
featuring local and regional artists, minority artists, and student
artists from the 10 Intermediate schools in the South Bend Community
School Corporation.
$5,000 to Good Shepherd Montessori School to provide 8 low income
children with music scholarships. Funding will allow students to
receiving one-on-one strings lessons on a weekly basis.
$5,000 to The Scholastic Art Awards to sustain the growth in their
annual arts competition. For over 50 years, this organization has
recognized young artists in grades 7-12 from this region. They support
a large group of students producing very high quality art from over
60 public, private and parochial schools and all socio-economic levels.
The Competition provides a venue for student art work on a national
level.
$2,700 to the Conservatory of Dance for their May 2010 production
of Twelve Dancing Princesses. The grant will cover the costs of collaboration
with live musicians and singers, securing a principal male lead,
and the rental of backdrops.
$2,700 to Vesper Chorale to support two concerts during 2010. The
first concert will feature music by American Composers and the second
is a collaboration with the Jewish Federation which will feature
music from the Jewish tradition.
$2,500 to Patchwork Dance Company for its Spring 2010 concert. Funds
will be used to commission an original choreographic piece by a guest
artists and costumes.
$2,500 to The South Bend Chamber Singers to support the 2009-2010
concert season. This year the Chamber Singers will collaborate in
performances with the Quintessence Brass Ensemble, the Jim Pickley
Trio and the students of Culver Academy.
$1,500 for the Boys & Girls Clubs of St. Joseph County for a
collaboration with WAOR radio and retailer Woodwind/Brasswind called
The School of Rock. Funds will be used to teach Club Members at Navarre
Intermediate School how to play the guitar and the basics of music-making.
$2,480 to the Conservatory of Dance for costumes for The Contemporary
Nutcracker: A Fairy Tale for the Modern World. The Company has decided
to add this to its annual repertoire and the grant will help purchase
40 costumes.
$2500 to the South Bend Area Chapter of the Links for GospelFest
2009, a community-wide celebration of one of the oldest forms of
American music.
$3,000 to Downtown South Bend for this summer’s
Red Table Plaza Lunchtime Concert Series. Each weekday for 8 weeks
it offers free concerts featuring local musicians.
$4,750 to the South Bend Youth Symphony Orchestras to enable professional
musicians to provide Sectional Coaching to the orchestra members
or instrument groups during their practices.
$5,000 to the South Bend Museum of Art to support this year’s
Festival of Banners presented in association with Downtown South
Bend and the City of South Bend. The theme this year is Optimism:
All Things Are Possible. This year 80 winners were selected from
230 entries to create full-size banners which will be hung from light
poles throughout downtown South Bend.
$5,000 to the South Bend Symphony Orchestra for the "Music for
Michiana" project. The program will enable the Symphony to make
its concerts available to a portion of the Michiana community who
might, particularly in these economic times, assume that attending
orchestra concerts is not affordable for them. They will work with
the Food Bank of Northern Indiana and the Boys and Girls Clubs of
South Bend to provide a number of free tickets and previews of its
concerts.
$5,000 to the Northern Indiana Tourism Development Commission for
the development of the Art and Earth Trail. A consortium of Convention & Visitors
Bureaus across northern Indiana is working to develop a trail highlighting
artistic and agricultural assets across northern Indiana. It will
impact approximately 150 artists, craftspeople, local food producers,
studios and galleries, and master gardeners from seven counties in
Northern Indiana, to include approximately 20+ participants in St.
Joseph County.
$5,000 to the Center for History for the upcoming "Lincoln:
The Man You Didn't Know" exhibit, part of the national bicentennial
celebration of President Abraham Lincoln's birth. Included as part
of the special arts events are three theatrical performances called "Lincoln
Theater."
$5,000 to Southold Dance Theater to raise the artistic level of
the "Nutcracker
Ballet" by engaging new guest artists with national and international
reputations. Dancers from the American Ballet Theatre will participate
in this year’s Nutcracker and participate in a week-long residency
program.
$2,500 to Indiana University South Bend Raclin School of
the Arts for the “Lift Every Voice: Celebrating the
African American Spirit" concert in February 2010 which features
African American performers and the local Symphonic Choir on IUSB's
campus Main Stage Theater open to the entire community at no cost.
$5,000 to Indiana University South Bend Raclin School of
the Arts for the production of a weekly 10 minute radio program to be developed
and produced by the Raclin School of the Arts and broadcast on the
local public radio station, WVPE.
Capacity Building Category
$3,750 to the South Bend Museum of Art to undertake a facilitated
strategic planning process with a professional consultant.