KANSAS CITY, MO.- The Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City recently announced more than $574,000 in grants from the ArtsKC Fund for arts organizations and arts programs in the Kansas City metropolitan area in the Ovation and Catalyst grant categories. The Board of Directors approved distribution of $574,162 in operating and program support to a total of 65 organizations. Funding for the ArtsKC Fund is generated through an annual workplace giving campaign and contributions from individual, corporate and municipal donors. For the 2008 campaign, the Francis Family Foundation provided a $100,000 matching grant for the workplace giving campaign. A total of $731,705 was raised this year.
“The community response to our 2008 campaign was terrific, so we were able to grant 50 percent more money this year than last.” said Paul Tyler, ArtsKC Fund Grants Director. “We also added over 20 new organizations that are receiving funding for the first time, so these programs are reaching diverse audiences in every part of the metropolitan area.”
The ArtsKC Fund is a united arts fund in the metropolitan Kansas City area that raises new money to support a wide range of arts organizations, arts programs, artists and arts professionals. Its purpose is to provide stable sources of financial support for the arts, broaden access to high-quality arts experiences, and promote excellence in the arts and arts administration.
The main focus for raising money during the ArtsKC Fund Campaign is through workplace giving campaigns, an effort that no individual arts organization would have the ability to accomplish on its own. Seventy-two leading Kansas City companies and organizations held campaigns this spring as part of the ArtsKC Fund drive.
2008 Ovation Grant Recipients
American Jazz Museum — $22,986
Carlsen Center — $18,789
Coterie Theatre — $16,507
Folly Theatre — $10,991
Friends of Chamber Music — $10,966
Harriman-Jewell Series — $12,522
Heart of America Shakespeare Festival — $10,752
Kansas City Ballet — $23,405
Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey — $16,599
Kansas City Repertory Theatre — $29,016
Kansas City Symphony — $37,937
Kansas City Young Audiences — $21,545
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art — $23,390
Lyric Opera of Kansas City — $19,686
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art — $55,452
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art — $9,805
Paul Mesner Puppets — $10,128
Quality Hill Playhouse — $13,719
Starlight Theatre — $38,259
Unicorn Theatre — $10,971
2008 Catalyst Grant Recipients
Accessible Arts, Inc. — $3,750
Actors Theatre of Kansas City — $5,000
Arts Council of Johnson County — $3,750
Arts Incubator — $5,000
Barn Players — $3,750
Chameleon Arts and Youth Development — $3,750
Charlotte Street Foundation — $5,000
Chestnut Fine Arts Center, Inc. — $2,500
City in Motion Dance Theater, Inc. — $1,915
Civic Opera Theater of Kansas City — $3,750
Excelsior Springs High School — $1,000
Fine Arts Chorale — $1,000
Heartland Men’s Chorus — $5,000
Horizon Academy — $1,000
Images Art Gallery — $2,500
Jellybean Conspiracy — $3,750
Kacico Dance — $3,000
Kansas City Art Institute — $5,000
Kansas City Artists Coalition — $5,000
Kansas City Chamber Orchestra — $3,750
Kansas City Chorale — $5,000
Kansas City Clay Guild — $1,500
Kansas City Youth Jazz Inc. — $5,000
Kaw Valley Arts & Humanities, Inc. — $1,500
KC Fringe Inc. — $5,000
KCPT – Public Television 19, Inc. — $5,000
Mattie Rhodes Center — $5,000
Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre — $3,750
Mid-America Arts Alliance — $5,000
Music Theater for Young People — $1,500
Octarium — $1,772
Owen/Cox Dance Group — $2,400
Puppetry Arts Institute — $1,500
Quixotic Performance Fusion — $5,000
reStart, Inc. — $3,750
StoneLion Puppet Theatre — $3,750
Storytellers, Inc. — $1,500
The Theatre in the Park — $5,000
Theatre for Young America — $5,000
UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance — $5,000
UMKC Department of Theatre — $3,750
Wonderscope Inc. — $2,500
Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Company — $5,000
Youth Symphony Association of Kansas City, Inc. — $5,000
YWCA of Greater Kansas City — $2,400.
