Thriving Cultures Grants Descriptions
Alternate ROOTS
Atlanta, GA | $50,000
To support core programs and community engagement.
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
Anchorage Museum
Anchorage, AK | $60,000 (24 months)
To support the work of artists in the Gyre project, a multidisciplinary project examining the science and sociology of marine debris problems affecting oceans globally.
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
Architecture for Humanity
San Francisco, CA | $15,000
For Design Like You Give a Damn: LIVE!, a forum for design practitioners in which participants discuss critical needs faced by communities in United States and around the world to promote vitality and resiliency through community-led design.
Category: Discretionary
Arizona State University Foundation
Tempe, AZ | $50,000
To support the development of echo::system, a performance and installation work by artist Grisha Coleman that explores the relationship between the natural environment and humanity.
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
ArtPlace
Chicago, IL | $500,000
To support ArtPlace’s work of grantmaking, research, documentation, and learning activities addressing creative placemaking throughout the United States.
Category: Artists & Economic Development
Asian Arts Initiative
Philadelphia, PA | $75,000
To support Youth Arts Workshop, a year-round program that engages artists to create a safe, constructive space for diverse groups of Philadelphia youth to share and deepen cultural and community experiences through art-making.
Category: Teens' Artistic & Cultural Advancement
Baltimore School for the Arts
Baltimore, MD | $160,000 (24 months)
To support BSA's TWIGS, a program that provides access to a continuum of pre-professional arts training for disadvantaged Baltimore students; and arts and academic programming necessary to prepare students for success in college and in careers.
Category: Teens' Artistic & Cultural Advancement
Bates Dance Festival
Lewiston, ME | $150,000 (24 months)
To support summer performing arts workshops (Youth Arts Program) and dance training (Young Dancers Workshop) for teens and the Professional Training Program (PTP) that provides professional development for high school educators.
Category: Teens' Artistic & Cultural Advancement
Boston Center for the Arts
Boston, MA | $15,000
To support the Boston Center for the Arts' collaborative design process for CycloPark.
Category: Discretionary
Boston Children's Chorus
Boston, MA | $80,000
To support advanced musical training for student singers in four upper choirs of the chorus.
Category: Teens' Artistic & Cultural Advancement