Three Kosciusko County Groups Receive Indiana Arts Commission Grants
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SOUTH BEND - The Warsaw Parks and Recreation Department, the Christian Performing Artists' Fellowship and the Warsaw Community Art Center are among the organizations receiving Indiana Arts Commission grants this year.Local theater, outdoor performing arts series, arts programs for seniors and youth, music and dance programs, and a variety of performances throughout northern Indiana are just a few of the local arts events receiving support through the Indiana Arts Commission Regional Arts Partnership. Thirty-two area organizations will receive grant awards for arts programming by the Indiana Arts Commission through the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County, which serves six counties in northern Indiana. Since 1998, the Community Foundation has partnered with the IAC as part of its Regional Arts Partnership.
Organizations from St. Joseph, Elkhart, Marshall, Kosciusko, Fulton and Starke counties submitted grant requests. The applicant organizations requested funding totaling more than $1 million. Panels of representatives from these counties held public hearings to allocate $227,942 in available funds for this year. The awards are made possible with funds appropriated by the Indiana General Assembly and the U.S. Congress through the National Endowment for the Arts.
Volunteer panelists evaluated the requests based on the following criteria: quality of programming, community impact/public benefit and quality of management. Arts Organization Support grants provide general operating support for non-profits with arts programming or service as their primary mission. Arts Project Support grants provide support for arts projects and are available to any non-profit organization or public agency.
Grant awards are as follows:
City of Warsaw Park and Rec. Dept.: $2,687 to support a free performing arts series educating and enteraining patrons in the Warsaw community.
Christian Performing Artists' Fellowship: $2,604 to support the public outreach and classes of the MasterWorks Festival Dance Program. The festival includes more than 70 free quality concerts including outreach, theatre, opera and classical dance productions.
Warsaw Community Arts Center: $1,999 to support the Summer of Art program featuring free art classes and family activities.
