The Greater Hartford Arts Council provides grant funding to more than 150 arts and heritage organizations through the following grant programs:
General Operating Support
Operating support is the “power source” behind an organization. It keeps the theater’s lights on, the museum’s doors open, and the school outreach programs funded.
Artists Collective
Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts
Charter Oak Cultural Center
Community Partners in Action’s Prison Arts Program
CONCORA
Connecticut Guitar Society
Hartford Children's Theatre
Hartford Chorale
Hartford Stage
Hartford Symphony Orchestra
Hill-Stead Museum
Judy Dworin Performance Project
Little Theatre of Manchester at Cheney Hall
Mark Twain House & Museum
New Britain Museum of American Art
Real Art Ways
TheaterWorks
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Community Events Grants
Provides support to encourage and enhance annual events throughout Hartford’s neighborhoods, including downtown.
Ancient Burying Ground
Annual Kwanzaa Celebration at Charter Oak Cultural Center
Billings Forge Community Works
Black-Eyed & Bluesfest
Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts
Caribbean American Dance Company
Children’s Latino Film Festival
Cinestudio Theater
Columbus Day Celebration & Parade
CONCORA
Connecticut Ballet
Connecticut Dance Alliance
Connecticut Landmarks
Dragon Boat Races & Asian Festival
Ebony Horsewomen
First Night Hartford
Friends of Vintage Baseball
Full Force Dance Theatre
Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz
Guitar in the City
Guitar Under the Stars
HartBeat Ensemble
Hartford Public Library
Hartford Stage
Hope Out Loud Peace & Arts Festival
ING Hartford Marathon
Institute of Community Research
Italian American Celebration
Joyful Noise
Keney Park Family Day
Knox Parks Foundation
Korean Language and Cultural Education Institution
Kwanzaa Celebration at Artists Collective
Lift Every Voice Gospel Festival
Monday Night Jazz
New England Jazz Ensemble
Old State House
Open Studios Hartford
OPUS, Inc.
Pipes in the Valley Celtic Festival
Puerto Rican Day Parade
Queen Ann Nzinga Center
Ray Gonzalez Latin Jazz and Salsa Festival
Riverfront Recapture’s RiverFest
Scapegoat Garden
South Marshall Street Block Party
Spectrum in Motion
Taste of Peru
Taste of the Caribbean & Jerk Festival
Ted Hershey Dance & Music Marathon
The Many Colors of a Woman Jazz Festival
The Mark Twain House & Museum
Trinity College
Veterans Day Parade
Woodland Concert Series
Heritage Advancement Grants
This grant program is designed to help Greater Hartford’s heritage organizations address professional staffing needs, increase their capacity for serving visitors, and build sustainability and institutional effectiveness.
Cedar Hill Cemetery
Connecticut Explored
Connecticut Historical Society
Connecticut Landmarks
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
Lutz Children’s Museum
Manchester Historical Society
New Britain Youth Museum
New England Air Museum
Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society
Trinity-on-Main
Neighborhood Arts & Heritage
Supports creative projects and programs by cultural, heritage, historical and social service organizations in the Greater Hartford region that enrich the quality of life for its participants.
American Clock & Watch Museum
Amistad Center for Art & Culture
Ballet Theatre Company
Billings Forge Community Works
Cedar Hill Cemetery Foundation
Cinestudio Theater
Circle of Life: Arts for All
City Singers of Hartford
Connecticut Audobon Society at Glastonbury
Connecticut Dance Alliance
Connecticut Institute for the Blind
Enfield Cultural Arts Commission
Farmington Valley Symphony Orchestra
First Baptist Church of West Hartford
First Church of Christ, Glastonbury
Footlights, Inc.
Granby Artists Association
Granby Family Dance Series
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
HartBeat Ensemble
Hartford Jazz Society
Hartford Public Library
Institute for Community Research
Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford
Klingberg Family Centers
Leadership Greater Hartford
Lutz Children's Museum
Main Street Singers/The
Manchester Symphony Orchestra
Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies
Music Series at South Church/The
National Theater of the Deaf
New England Air Museum
Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society
Nutmeg Symphony Orchestra
Peace Train Foundation
Plainville Wind Ensemble
Simsbury Community Band
Simsbury Open Studios
The Carol Autorino Center at Saint Joseph College
Theatre Guild of Simsbury
West Hartford Art League
West Indian Celebration
West Indian Independence Celebration
Wethersfield Academy for the Arts
Wethersfield Historical Society
Windsor Art Center
Windsor Historical Society
Neighborhood Studios
Neighborhood Studios hires teens to work as art apprentices alongside Master Teaching Artists in studios located throughout Hartford and has been recognized as a model summer youth employment program, and received a Certificate of Excellence from the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities.
The Amistad Center for Art & Culture
Artists Collective
Spectrum in Motion at Charter Oak Cultural Center
Hartford Stage
Real Art Ways
Public Art
Monument to the Puerto Rican Family, Hartford
Mayor Mike Memorial, Hartford
Conservation and Maintenance to existing work
Solo Writers Fellowship
Supports writers of various genres to foster imagination, focus and creativity. The purpose of this grant program is to reinforce the importance and value of writers within our community.
Michael Burgan, West Haven
Pegi Deitz Shea, Rockville
Mary Donnarumma Sharnick, Beacon Falls
Jonathan Gillman, Chester
Susan Kinsolving, Bridgewater
Edward Markiewicz, Rocky Hill
Leslie McGrath Taylor, Stonington
Maureen O'Brien, West Hartford
V. Penelope Pelizzon, Willimantic
Julia H. Pistell, Hartford
Dan Pope, West Hartford
Thomas M. Ratliff, Plainville
Sandra Rodriguez Barron, Milford
Dana Rondel, West Hartford
Ravi Shankar, Chester
Edwina Trentham, Moodus
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