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Cultural Trust boosts art programs throughout county
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The Coos County Cultural Coalition on April 7 handed out cash awards totaling more than $11,000 to groups and individuals actively involved in the performing and visual arts, music, cultural exhibits, oral history, museums and therapeutic art projects.
The awards were presented in the main gallery of the Coos Art Museum in Coos Bay. Grant recipients included:
n Coos Art Museum: $1,072 for “Expressions West 2008” and “Reality Check,” an annual juried competition and exhibition sponsored by Southwestern Oregon Community College. Reality Check is an exhibition of works of Expressions West juror Gary Faigin of Seattle.
n Coos County Community Concert Association: $600 for “Music Makes a Difference,” a concert designated especially for a student audience to both entertain and educate, including students in Coos County schools on a school day at Marshfield auditorium.
n Coos Historical & Maritime Museum: $840 for the “Farm and Market Exhibit,” an overview of social and economic significance of agricultural activity in the Coos region over time.
n Egyptian Theatre Preservation Association: $600 for 34th-annual free Christmas Concert “Sounds of Christmas.” Funds are to cover expenses related to tuning and maintenance of the Wurlitzer organ.
n Lighthouse School: $1,000 to add a direct sound feed line to video camera and overhead microphones with necessary accessories, and to upgrade scenery options for the school's drama project.
n Little Theatre on the Bay - Theater for Children: $800 for the “Three Pigs, A Wolf and Some Sheep” project. Funds are for materials for a portable stage to facilitate taking performances into local schools.
n New Artists Productions: $810 to purchase six wireless headset microphone systems, mixer board, powered amplifier, speakers and cabling for the youth theater program.
n Oregon Coast Historic Railway: $1,000 for full-color informational and interpretive brochures for the railway museum.
n Oregon Coast Music Association: $1,000 for the 2009 Kinder Konzerts, bringing live music to Coos County schools; and to expand the influence of the program.
n Bittin Foster Duggan: $950 for the “Growing Through Circumstances in Coos County” project, which has five local groups in an 11-step art workshop culminating in a community exhibition.
n Robyn Greenlund: $562 for the “The Changing Face of Front Street: Coquille, Oregon,” a multi-media exhibit kiosk for museums, schools, tribal organizations and libraries.
n Coquille Valley English Handbell Choir: $400 to obtain original bell compositions and familiar sacred and secular music arranged for bells.
n Sarah Recken: $805 to upgrade oral histories, a project to transfer several local collections of oral histories onto compact discs.
n Ava Richey: $644 for the Artists and Writers Exchange for materials to bring artists and writers together to use art and poetry to produce new works inspired by each others’ existing pieces.
These grant funds are provided primarily from the Oregon Cultural Trust to support the arts, heritage and humanities of Coos County. For more information about the Coos County Cultural Coalition and its grant program, please visit the web site at http://www.ccculturalcoalition.org.
The awards were presented in the main gallery of the Coos Art Museum in Coos Bay. Grant recipients included:
n Coos Art Museum: $1,072 for “Expressions West 2008” and “Reality Check,” an annual juried competition and exhibition sponsored by Southwestern Oregon Community College. Reality Check is an exhibition of works of Expressions West juror Gary Faigin of Seattle.
n Coos County Community Concert Association: $600 for “Music Makes a Difference,” a concert designated especially for a student audience to both entertain and educate, including students in Coos County schools on a school day at Marshfield auditorium.
n Coos Historical & Maritime Museum: $840 for the “Farm and Market Exhibit,” an overview of social and economic significance of agricultural activity in the Coos region over time.
n Egyptian Theatre Preservation Association: $600 for 34th-annual free Christmas Concert “Sounds of Christmas.” Funds are to cover expenses related to tuning and maintenance of the Wurlitzer organ.
n Lighthouse School: $1,000 to add a direct sound feed line to video camera and overhead microphones with necessary accessories, and to upgrade scenery options for the school's drama project.
n Little Theatre on the Bay - Theater for Children: $800 for the “Three Pigs, A Wolf and Some Sheep” project. Funds are for materials for a portable stage to facilitate taking performances into local schools.
n New Artists Productions: $810 to purchase six wireless headset microphone systems, mixer board, powered amplifier, speakers and cabling for the youth theater program.
n Oregon Coast Historic Railway: $1,000 for full-color informational and interpretive brochures for the railway museum.
n Oregon Coast Music Association: $1,000 for the 2009 Kinder Konzerts, bringing live music to Coos County schools; and to expand the influence of the program.
n Bittin Foster Duggan: $950 for the “Growing Through Circumstances in Coos County” project, which has five local groups in an 11-step art workshop culminating in a community exhibition.
n Robyn Greenlund: $562 for the “The Changing Face of Front Street: Coquille, Oregon,” a multi-media exhibit kiosk for museums, schools, tribal organizations and libraries.
n Coquille Valley English Handbell Choir: $400 to obtain original bell compositions and familiar sacred and secular music arranged for bells.
n Sarah Recken: $805 to upgrade oral histories, a project to transfer several local collections of oral histories onto compact discs.
n Ava Richey: $644 for the Artists and Writers Exchange for materials to bring artists and writers together to use art and poetry to produce new works inspired by each others’ existing pieces.
These grant funds are provided primarily from the Oregon Cultural Trust to support the arts, heritage and humanities of Coos County. For more information about the Coos County Cultural Coalition and its grant program, please visit the web site at http://www.ccculturalcoalition.org.
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