Agencies receive arts funding from state

HARTFORD — The Connecticut Office of the Arts announces its most recent grant recipients in two categories include awardees operating in the Middlesex County area.

Supporting arts grants, totaling $632,800, were given out to 109 organizations statewide, including:

⏩ Artists for World Peace, Middletown: $5,950

⏩ Cappella Cantorum, Essex, $900

⏩ Con Brio Choral Society, Centerbrook, $2,700

⏩ Essex Winter Series, Essex, $5,950

⏩ Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, Old Saybrook, $10,500

⏩ IPark Foundation, East Haddam, $5,950

⏩ Greater Middletown Chorale, Middletown, $5,950

⏩ Greater Middletown Concert Association, Middletown, $2,700

⏩ Oddfellows Playhouse, Middletown, $5,950

⏩ Opera Theater of CT, Clinton, $5,950

⏩ Wesleyan Potters, Middletown, $5,950

The supporting arts grant program provides unrestricted funding to help support Connecticut’s arts organizations and municipal arts departments as they pursue their mission, according to a press release.

This type of grant is flexible, rather than for specific projects or programs, and gives the grantee the ability to use the funds where they are most needed, it said.

In all, 46 regional initiative grants totaling $155,850 were distributed to entities, including:

⏩ Artfarm, Middletown, $2,000

⏩ Alyson Maderson Quinlog, Essex, $4,000

⏩ Robbie Collomore Cultural Series, Chester, $4,000

⏩ Linalynn Schmeizer, Deep River, $2,000

The regional initiative grant program provides funding for the planning and implementation of small community art projects.

Panel reviews are conducted regionally in collaboration with COA’s nine Designated Regional Service Organizations that serve as local field offices for the Connecticut Office of the Arts, according to the press release.