COURT HOUSE – Cape May County Freeholder M. Susan Sheppard announced that sixteen local non-profit groups have received 2012 arts regrants totaling $55,811 from the County’s Culture and Heritage Commission.
The 2012 recipients are:
•Access to Art, Inc., $4,561 for Cape May Renaissance Festival, September, 2012.
•Avalon Performing Arts Council, $2,700 for various art entertainment events in 2012
•Cape May NJ State Film Festival, $2,700 to host educational programming for local students and adults
•Cape Shore Chorale, $1,500 for a presentation of classical and contemporary choral music
•Community Arts Project, $1,100 for local artists to transfer artwork designed by school children with an environmental theme onto MDO board and placed onto fencing at the ball fields.
• First Night Ocean City, $3,500 to present an alcohol free New Year’s Eve celebration of the arts with diverse entertainment to attract visitors of all ages.
•Friends of the Ocean City Pops, Inc., $5,000 to present internationally known violinist Sarah Chang on August 12, 2012.
•Historic Cold Spring Village $1,700, to restore its c.1714 Sara Eldredge Spicer’s white-on-white trapunto wedding quilt.
•Jersey Shore Pops, $3,500 to present the 2012 concert series at the Middle Township Performing Arts Center.
•John Walter Cape Community Band’s, $500 for the purchase of new music for their library and advertising for the 2012 concert series.
•Kull Youth Center, $1,500 for a visual arts component; new guitars and art education to continue tutoring and educating lift skills.
•The Masterworks Choir, $2,000 to present a choral concert in July and November of 2012
•Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum $6,500 to research create and produce an exhibit titled “Military Art from World War II to the Present.”
•Ocean City’s Arts Center $7,000 to increase offerings in classes and to increase participation from local arts enthusiasts in Arts Center’s classes, shows and events.
•Ocean City’s Fine Arts League $3,250 to remain an important main street presence in tourist attractive Ocean City and support the many outreach programs.
•Ocean City Theatre Company, 8,000 to support a season of four musicals with a professional cast of 100 artists and one musical for its 45 member Junior Company.
This program is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Cape May County Division promotes public interest and participation in local, county and state history, as well as in the cultural traditions of the community and supports the development of the County’s arts and history organizations.
The Division office is located in the Beesley House, 605 Route 9 North, Cape May Court House. The building is listed on both the State and National Registers of Historic Places. Business hours are Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
For more information about Cape May County’s arts, history and cultural groups, visit the Culture and Heritage Division’s website at www.cmcculture.org or call 463-6370.
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