TPAC Grant Recipients
Tucson Pima Arts Council Awards $272,000 in Grants To Support Arts & Culture Throughout Metro Area
TUCSON, Ariz. (August 18, 2009) – The Tucson Pima Arts Council announces more than $272,000 in grants awarded to 53 arts organizations throughout the greater Tucson community. TPAC is the designated local arts agency for the City of Tucson and Pima County.
The grant recipients – from Arizona Balalaika Orchestra to the Zuzi! Dance Company – span the creative spectrum with projects ranging from glass art and film to drumming, poetry and child’s play, ballet, mariachi, jazz and inter-active theater. (See list below.)
These grants support new and ongoing creative arts projects, including arts in education, dance, festivals, literature, music, theatre and the visual arts. Other grants provide general operating support.
“Every year the grants process reminds us of the breadth and depth of the arts and culture in our community,” said Reuben Tomas Roqueñi, grants program manager for TPAC. “These grant recipients are among the many ‘Sources of Originality’ in our community who enrich our culture and our lives.”
The 2009-2010 grants support developing arts organizations and opportunities to create new arts experiences with guest choreographers, living stories, new technologies and multi-disciplinary cross pollinations. Grants also help sustain established ethnic traditions like the mariachi conference, our festival culture including the All Souls Procession, and large institutions like the theatre, symphony, ballet and art museum. Grant applications are reviewed and scored by panels of artists, arts administrators, business leaders and other experts in the field.
“Our goal is to use this government funding to support a broad diversity of arts projects and strengthen the cultural fabric of this community,” Roqueñi said.
TPAC Grant Recipients 2009-2010
Arizona Balalaika Orchestra
Arizona Early Music Society
Arizona Friends of Chamber Music
Arizona Opera
Arizona Theatre Company
Arts for All
Arts for Life
Ballet Arts Foundation
Beowulf Alley Theatre Company
Borderlands Theater
Boys R Us
Casa Libre En La Solana
Chamber Music PLUS
Chax Press
Cultural Exchange Council
Desert Voices
FUNHOUSE Movement Theater
Invisible Theatre
Kore Press
La Frontera Tucson International Mariachi Conference
Live Theater Workshop
Many Mouths One Stomach
NEW ARTiculations Dance Theatre
Ocotillo Literary Endeavors
Odaiko Sonora
OTO Dance
Pan Left Productions
POG
Rusyny Folk Ensemble
Seven Pipers Scottish Society
SharMoore Children’s Productions
Sonoran Glass Art Academy
Sons of Orpheus
Southern Arizona Women’s Chorus
The Dambe Project
The Drawing Studio
The Loft Cinema
The Rogue Theatre
Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus
Tucson Chamber Artists
Tucson Chapter of the Links Inc
Tucson Children’s Museum
Tucson Girls Chorus
Tucson Guitar Society
Tucson Jazz Society
Tucson Jewish Community Center
Tucson Kitchen Musicians Association
Tucson Museum of Art
Tucson Pops Orchestra
Tucson Regional Ballet
Tucson Sino Choir
Tucson Symphony Orchestra
Voices Community Stories Past and Present
Zuzi! Dance Company
Use the links on the on the right-hand side of the page to explore the many recipients of Tucson Pima Arts Council Grants, and see how they have in turn enriched our community.