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.