Morris Arts hands out grants to local organizations
Morris Arts announced on Tuesday that it would be giving Local Arts Grants to 28 Morris County arts organizations.
These grants, which total $52,500 for funding year 2015, help support visual arts, theater, instrumental and choral groups, museums, a drum and bugle corps, and broad-based community arts programming, according to a press release from Morris Arts.
Funding is made possible through the Local Arts Program of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, the release said.
This year’s awardees include: Art in the Atrium (Morristown); Arts! By the People (Morristown); Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey (Dover); Blackwell Street Center for the Arts, Inc. (Denville); Chatham Community Players (Chatham); Coro Lirico (Morristown); County College of Morris (Randolph); Dance Innovations Performance Foundation, Inc. (Chatham); Fairleigh Dickinson University’s WAMFEST (Madison/Teaneck); Family Intervention Services, Inc. arts programming (Rockaway); First Night® Morris County (Morristown); Fusion Core Drum and Bugle Corp (Succasunna); Hanover Wind Symphony (Whippany); Harmonium Choral Society (Morristown); Lakeland Youth Symphony (Parsippany); Madison Arts and Culture Alliance, Inc. (Madison); Masterwork Chorus (Morristown); MidAtlantic Opera (Morristown); Morris Choral Society (Morristown); Morris County Arts Workshop (North Chester); Morris Music Men (Morristown); Arts programming at Morristown Neighborhood House (Morristown); Museum of Early Trades & Crafts (Madison); Music at Morristown United Methodist Church (Morristown); New Jersey Foundation for the Blind – The Arts at Diamond Spring program (Denville); Opera at Florham (Convent Station); Arts programming at St. Peters Episcopal Church (Morristown); and Womens Theater Company (Lake Hiawatha).
Morris Arts, located in Morristown, is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1973 dedicated to engaging and building community through the arts. The organization declined to release the amount of money awarded to each of the receiving organizations.