2010 Grant Recipients
The Lane County Cultural Coalition awarded $36,000 for Arts, Heritage & Humanities in 2010. We are proud to support the following cultural organizations in Lane County:
Youth Empowerment Project
Eugene, Oregon
$1580—Funds to support teach art to children of migrant farm workers
Priority Areas: Education & Arts
Edison Elementary School
Eugene, Oregon
$1750—Funds to support a monthly multicultural storytelling program
Priority Areas: Education & Heritage
All Species Project
Cottage Grove, Oregon
$2,000—Funds to support classroom and community based workshops to create puppets and costumes for the All Species Parade, held annually on Earth Day in Cottage Grove.
Priority Areas: Education & Arts
Arts Umbrella
Eugene, Oregon
$3,000—Funds to provide beginning strings instruction to more than 150 4th and 5th graders in Lane County.
Priority Areas: Education & Arts
Writers in Lane County Schools
Eugene, Oregon
$3,000—Funds to send a published, professional local writer for an extended residency in Lane County schools.
Priority Areas: Education & Humanities
Emerald Empire Art Association
Springfield, Oregon
$2,500—Funds to provide Free Family Art Sundays, low-cost Saturday art studio,free art tables a summer art festivals and migrant education summer school.
Priority Areas: Education & Arts
Haceta Head Coastal Conference, Inc.
Florence, Oregon
$500—Funds to support the Haceta Head Coastal Conference educate the public about the need for a healthy, productive and resilient marine ecosystem in the Pacific Ocean off the Oregon Coast.
Priority Areas: Education & Humanities
Oregon Covered Bridge Festival, Inc.
Cottage Grove, Oregon
$2,500—Funds to place interpretive plaques at each of the six covered bridges that comprise the Cottage Grove Covered Bridge Tour.
Priority Area: Awareness & Heritage
Chamber Music Amici
Springfield, Oregon
$2,500—Funds to collaborate with the Eugene Ballet and Springfield Public Schools to perform Peter Schickele’s “The Emperor’s New Clothes” for 600 public elementary school students in the Springfield School District.
Priority Areas: Education & Arts
FloTones
Florence, Oregon
$2,500—Funds to purchase wireless music amplification system to enable the musical group to perform in a wider range nursing homes.
Priority Areas: Access & Arts
Olive Del Solo and Lokiko Hall
Cottage Grove, Oregon
$1,850—Funds to continue and expand Al Kennedy Alternative High School’s creative writing program.
Priority Areas: Education & Arts
Lord Leebrick Theatre Co.
Eugene, Oregon
$2,500—Funds to continue the $10 Student Pricing Project.
Priority Areas: Access & Arts
Ballet Fantastique
Eugene, Oregon
$2,000— Funds to send a professional dancer and educator for an extended residency in the Mapleton School District.
Priority Areas: Education & Arts
Free Shakespeare in the Park
Eugene, Oregon
$2500—Funds to support choreograph and train volunteer student actors in stage fighting techniques, and support the “Creating Ensemble” program that teaches middle and high school students to perform major operations of stage management and production of community theatre.
Priority Areas: Education & Arts
Glenada-Odd Fellows Cemetery Association
Florence, Oregon
$759—Funds to purchase and replace markers to identify the unmarked graves in the historic Glenada Odd Fellows Cemetery.
Priority Areas: Access & Heritage
Gallery Association for Learning and Art (G.A.L.A.)
Florence, Oregon
$260—Funds for provide bus tours of local art galleries in Florence.
Priorities Areas: Access & Arts
Oregon Mozart Players
Eugene, Oregon
$2,500—Funds to support a Youth Baroque Outreach Concert for students of
Lane County Schools and youth oriented organizations.
Priority Areas: Education & Arts
Breaking the Sound Barrier Deaf Choir
Cottage Grove, Oregon
$2,500—Funds to promote performances.
Priority Areas: Awareness & Humanities
Download a .PDF file of the 2010 Lane Cultural Coalition Grant Recipients.