Thirteen arts organizations based in Pasadena are getting a total of $456,000 in funding from the Los Angeles County Arts Commission within the next two years in support of programs and activities that promote arts awareness and provide cultural services to the diverse population of the county.
The funding support is part of the commission’s Organizational Grant Program (OGP) awarding a total of $4,518,000 to 184 non-profit arts organizations in the county from this year up to 2016. The amount represents a $200,000 increase in funding from the previous grant cycle where most of these art organizations also benefited from.
“Sixty percent of applicants have increased award amounts from the last time these organizations were funded,” said Claire Peeps, president of the Arts Commission. “Almost half of these grants will support ongoing salaries or new jobs, so arts organizations will not only be able to provide a diverse range of cultural services for residents, they’ll also be employing them.”
The Arts Commission provides these grants to fund concerts, theatre and dance productions, exhibitions, in-school and out-of-school arts education and core operations that help these art organizations enrich the lives of county residents in large and small communities alike. The program also ensures that a wide variety of cultural services will continue to reach county residents.
Listed here are the Pasadena-based arts organizations, their funding allocations out of the OGP for 2015-2016, and the purpose for which the allocations will be used, as contained in a press release from the Los Angeles Arts Commission:
• Light Bringer Project, $20,100, to support a program coordinator position
• Lineage Dance Company, $21,500, to support executive director, development and programs director positions
• Los Angeles Children’s Chorus, $50,700, to support marketing and communications
• Pasadena Arts Council, $39,500, to support staff salaries
• Pasadena Conservatory of Music, $52,300, to support the Young Musicians program at Jefferson Elementary School
• Pasadena Museum of California Art, $38,000, to support the Nature of William S. Rice and Claire Falkenstein exhibitions
• Pasadena Symphony Association, $51,400, to support the annual Music Under the Stars free concert program
• Pasadena Playhouse State Theater of California, $67,800, to support Our Stories, an initiative to include communities throughout Los Angeles County in the art of theatrical storytelling
• The Music Circle, $11,800, to support 2015 to 2017 concert series
• About Productions Inc., $20,900, to support a theater arts residency program for HS students in East LA
• Side Street Projects, $24,500, to support woodworking classes for third graders in Pasadena Unified School District as part of a K-6 curriculum
• The Fund for Music, $38,500, to support staff salaries
• Floricanto Dance Theater, $19,000, to support programs, including a 40th anniversary celebration, three performances and information technology upgrades.
