Montco Arts Groups Beneficiaries of $19K in Grants

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Project Stream grants provide funding to individual artists and organizations offering innovative, community-based arts projects in southeastern Pennsylvania. (MONTCO.Today file photo)

The Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance recently announced the distribution of $19,147 in Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA) Project Stream grants in Montgomery County.

Project Stream grants provide funding to individual artists and organizations offering innovative, community-based arts projects in southeastern Pennsylvania and are made possible through the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts’ (PCA) Partners in the Arts program.  In total, the Cultural Alliance distributed $95,434 to 79 arts groups across the five-county Philadelphia region.

The 2018 Project Stream grant award recipients in Montgomery County are:

  • Friends of St. Paul’s Elkins Park ($1,150): ​Funding will support the annual concert season in the historic sanctuary of St. Paul’s Elkins Park.
  • ARTZ Philadelphia ($1,099): ​Funding will support the ARTZ on the Road and ARTZ @ The Museum programs to bring professionally facilitated conversations about museum-quality works of art into the lives of people with dementia and their care partners.
  • Brush with the Law ($1,099): ​Funding will support Brush with the Law’s programming that connects artists with communities, youth aid panels, rehab centers, county jails and other nonprofit organizations.
  • Senior Adult Activities Center of Montgomery County ($1,099): ​Funding will support Art4ME, a free program for people in early stages of dementia and their caregivers designed to increase communication, quality of life and self-worth.
  • Borough of Lansdale ($1,086): ​Funding will support the White’s Road Park Concert and Performing Arts Series, an annual event celebrating its 37th season in spring 2019.
  • Pulley & Buttonhole Theatre Company ($1,061): ​Funding will support Pulley & Buttonhole Theatre Company’s 2018-19 season, featuring three plays from non-American authors with storylines that reflect upon the universal questions of belonging.
  • Jenkintown School District ($1,023): ​Funding will support the art program at Jenkintown Middle School and High School to develop a variety of community-engaging public art projects.
  • Lansdale Library Association ($1,023): ​Funding will support a engagements with the folk/world music duo Simple Gifts, featuring a community concert and outreach to three seniors’ residences.
  • Iron Age Theater ($1,010): ​Funding will support a production of ​The Kentucky Cycle​by Robert Schenkkan, featuring a sequence of nine one-act plays spanning six hours.
  • Night Music ($1,010): ​Funding will support the production of ​Killer B’s: Music by Bach, Beethoven, Boccherini, and Brahms​ at Ardmore Presbyterian Church.


View a full list of funded projects at 
https://philaculture.org/2018-2019-project-stream-grantees.

For more information about this year’s grantees, contact Kristen Vinh at kristenv@philaculture.org or 215-399-3529.

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