Lackawanna County Commissioners last week approved $269,830 in total arts and culture grants, including $216,000 in 2020 program stream grants representing yearly allocations to established nonprofits and $53,830 in smaller 2020 project grants benefiting specific events or initiatives.
All the grant awards are funded through county’s 1-mill arts and education tax
2020 Community Project Grant recipients include:
- Abington Area Joint Recreation Board, $1,500 for a summer concert series at Hillside Park.
- Arts at First Presbyterian Church, $2,500 for a concert series.
- Marnie Azzarelli, $1,800 to present “Dawn of Lackawanna,” an original two-act historical play.
- Leela Baikadi, $750 for a traveling photograph exhibit.
- Jeff Boam, $2,000 to present his original play “Behind the Six” in Scranton.
- Sandra Burgette-Miller, $1,500 to present “Tell’Em,” a multi-disciplinary performance piece about her family’s escape from slavery through the Underground Railroad.
- Creative and Performing Arts Academy of NEPA, $1,500 to present the play “The Last Séance for Harry Houdini.”
- Marylou Chibirka, $2,000 for Good Grief Portrait Painting, a program for adults who have experienced loss.
- Covenant Public Concerts, $2,000 for public concerts.
- Diva Theater at the Olde Brick, $1,000 to fund their one-act play festival featuring local playwrights.
- Julie Esty, $1,800 for the Dunmore Cemetery Tour.
- First Presbyterian Church of Carbondale, $1,250 for a concert series.
- Friends of the ARC Auxiliary, $2,000 for a theater arts program for adults with disabilities.
- Rosemary Hay, $1,800 for theater workshops and performances in partnership with United Neighborhood Centers of NEPA.
- Indraloka Animal Sanctuary, $1,000 for a paint animals with animals program.
- Glynis Johns, $1,500 for a Black History Month art gallery exhibition at AFA Gallery in Scranton.
- Lackawanna County 4-H, $1,000 for the program “Reading, Cooking and Decorating the 4-H way.”
- Lexington Entertainment, $2,000 for “Living History of America,” a musical performance.
- Michaela Moore, $2,500 for Camp Create.
- Sujata Nair-Mulloth, $1,800 to present “Unity and Diversity,” a performance of Indian classical dance.
- Pennsylvania Prison Society, $2,000 for a prisoners’ art exhibit.
- Amy Pinder, $1,800 for an Inclusion Festival.
- Travis Prince, $1,500 to create an interactive art exhibit celebrating iconic African Americans from Scranton.
- Saint Joseph’s Center. $1,530 for a musicians in residence program.
- Ihor Shablovsky, $2,000 to present a concert of European and American music at local senior centers.
- Snow Forge, $1,800 for a community holiday event.
- Summer Music Festival Inc., $1,500 for a musical performance at the Scranton Cooperative Farmers Market.
- The Gathering Place, $1,200 for Bears in Clarks Summit, a series of sculptures celebrating the bear as a symbol for the borough.
- The Greenhouse Project, $1,000 for a Secret Garden Tour.
- Wally Gordon Community Singers, $1,400 for free choral music concerts.
- Waverly Community House, $2,500 for a film festival featuring short films.
- Women to Women: Thrive, $2,400 for “Arts Thrive,” a festival showcasing local artists’ talents.
2020 Program Stream Grant recipients include:
- United Neighborhood Centers’ Project Hope & Illumination Arts program, $23,000.
- Lackawanna County Heritage Fair, $20,000.
- Lackawanna Historical Society, $20,000.00.
- Broadway Theatre League of NEPA, $15,000.
- The Northeast Pennsylvania Philharmonic, $12,000.
- Scranton Civic Ballet, $7,000.
- La Festa Italiana, $7,000.
- Ballet Theatre of Scranton, $7,000.
- Anthracite Heritage Museum & Iron Furnaces Associates, $7,000.
- Actor’s Circle, $7,000.
- St. Ubaldo Festival, $6,000.
- St. Patrick’s Day Parade Association of Lackawanna County, $6,000.
- Scranton Tomorrow-Downtown Events, $6,000.
- Scranton Shakespeare Festival, $6,000.
- Scranton Jazz Festival, $6,000.
- Artists for Art Gallery, $6,000.
- First Friday Scranton, $5,000.
- Boys and Girls Club of NEPA, $5,000.
- Scranton Music Association, $5,000.
- Scranton Fringe Festival, $5,000.
- City of Carbondale Pioneer Nights Festival, $4,000.
- Abington Business and Professional Association (Ice Festival), $4,000.
- Scranton Public Theatre, $3,500.
- North Pocono Cultural Society, $3,500.
- Choral Society of Northeast Pennsylvania, $3,500.
- Lyric Consort, $3,000.
- Lackawanna River Conservation Association (RiverFest), $3,000.
- Catholic Choral Society, $3,000.
- Arcadia Chorale, $3,000.
- Mostly Opera, $1,500.
- N.E.I.U. No. 19 Poetry Out Loud Program, $1,000.
- Lackawanna Heritage Valley (Heritage Explorer and Santa Train), $1,000.
- All County Band, $1,000.
