Mid Atlantic Arts Regional Resilience Fund
Awards Over $1.59 Million to
Organizations Across Region
Baltimore, MD – October 27, 2020 – Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation (MAAF) is pleased to announce $1,594,340 in support of 38 organizations through the Mid Atlantic Arts Regional Resilience Fund. MAAF collaborated with the five other U.S. Regional Arts Organizations – Arts Midwest, Mid-America Arts Alliance, New England Foundation for the Arts, South Arts, and the Western States Arts Federation – to form The United States Regional Arts Resilience Fund in response to the COVID-19 pandemic with generous support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Mid Atlantic Arts Regional Resilience grants will support mid-Atlantic nonprofit arts and cultural organizations as they build resilience and look to the future with programming, planning, and reimagining their work. The program was designed for organizations with visionary leadership and whose work is critical to the region, primarily supporting those making a statewide, regional and/or national impact. Grant awards can support general operating expenses and associated relief and resilience expenses.
In an effort to address long-standing structures that have led to inequity in the field, and, in alignment with MAAF’s new strategic plan and vision to implement equitable practices, the Mid Atlantic Arts Regional Resilience Fund prioritizes organizations led by or serving BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, Persons with Disabilities, communities whose primary language is not English, and/or rural and remote communities.
MAAF’s Executive Director Theresa Colvin said “It was gratifying to work with our sister Regional Arts Organizations and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to design and implement the U.S. Regional Arts Resilience Fund. We all know the need is great and hope that by supporting these visionary organizations, the impact to the field and the communities they serve will reach far beyond their own walls.”
We are pleased to share the Mid Atlantic Arts Regional Resilience grant recipients:
- 1Hood Media, Pittsburgh, PA, $60,000
- Art 180, Richmond, VA, $32,470
- August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Pittsburgh, PA, $32,470
- BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA, $32,470
- Christina Cultural Arts Center, Wilmington, DE, $70,000
- Classical Theatre of Harlem, New York, NY, $32,470
- Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Shepherdstown, WV, $32,470
- Cool Culture, Brooklyn, NY, $32,470
- Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD, $32,470
- Dance Place, Washington, DC, $60,000
- Delaware Shakespeare, Wilmington, DE, $60,000
- Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY, $32,470
- Friends of Ganondagan, Victor, NY, $60,000
- Gala Hispanic Theatre, Washington, DC, $70,000
- Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV, $40,000
- Institute of Music for Children, Elizabeth, NJ, $32,470
- Jazz House Kids, Montclair, NJ, $40,000
- Kulu Mele African Dance & Drum Ensemble, Philadelphia, PA, $32,470
- The Laundromat Project, Brooklyn, NY, $40,000
- Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center, Bronx, NY, $70,000
- The Musicianship, Washington, DC, $40,000
- Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, Fort Lee, NJ, $50,000
- Newark Arts, Newark, NJ, $70,000
- Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture, Baltimore, MD, $32,470
- Pregones Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Bronx, NY, $32,470
- Richmond Triangle Players, Richmond, VA, $32,470
- Sitar Arts Center, Washington, DC, $32,470
- Weeksville Heritage Center, Brooklyn, NY, $32,470
- Soundscapes, Newport News, VA, $32,470
- Split This Rock, Washington, DC, $32,470
- Step Afrika!, Washington, DC, $32,470
- Theatre of the Oppressed NYC, New York, NY, $32,470
- United Jazz Foundation, St. Thomas, USVI, $50,000
- Urban Artistry, Silver Spring, MD, $32,470
- Urban Bush Women, Bronx, NY, $32,470
- viBe Theater Experience, Brooklyn, NY, $32,470
- Wide Angle Youth Media, Baltimore, MD, $50,000
- Youth FX, Albany, NY, $50,000
About Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation develops partnerships and programs that reinforce artists’ capacity to create and present work and advance access to and participation in the arts. The Foundation was created in 1979 and is a private non-profit organization that is closely allied with the region’s state arts councils and the National Endowment for the Arts. It combines funding from state and federal resources with private support from corporations, foundations, and individuals to address needs in the arts from a regional, national, and international perspective. For more information on the Foundation’s programs and services, please visit: www.midatlanticarts.org.
About The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Founded in 1969, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation endeavors to strengthen, promote, and, where necessary, defend the contributions of the humanities and the arts to human flourishing and to the well-being of diverse and democratic societies by supporting exemplary institutions of higher education and culture as they renew and provide access to an invaluable heritage of ambitious, path-breaking work. Additional information is available at www.mellon.org.
Contact:
Karen Newell
Director, External Affairs
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
karen@midatlanticarts.org
410.539.6656 x104