Judith Wilkinson. Chair, SCC announces 2024 grants:
SCC awarded 32 grants ranging from $250 to $1,000 to support cultural programs in Stockbridge and the surrounding area. The Council received 54 applications, an increase of almost 50% over the number of applications it received last year. The applications represented a range of projects including music, dance, theater, and the humanities. The Council awarded a total of $14,250, a twenty percent increase in the amount awarded last year. Funding was provided by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Town of Stockbridge.
This year, in appreciation and recognition of the $10,000 contributed by the Town of Stockbridge, the Stockbridge Cultural Council once again focused its attention and funds on Stockbridge-based applicants and events. The Council is grateful for this significant Town support.
Grants were approved for the following Stockbridge-based applicants and projects:
Berkshire Garden Center, Inc./Rooted in Place
Berkshire Pulse, Inc./Spirits of Chesterwood
Chesterwood/Tableaux Vivant Workshop and Performance
IS 183, Inc./Community Visual Arts Programming & Resources
Rachel Nicholson/Science Heroes Interactive Program
Olga Dunn Dance Company, Inc./Nutcracker Seedling and More
Neil Silverblatt/Voices of Poetry — In Stockbridge
Stockbridge Housing Authority/Resident Services Coordinator Media Arts Classes
Stockbridge Library Association/Stockbridge Ice Festival
The Laurel Hill Association of Stockbridge/Laurel Hill Day
The Norman Rockwell Museum, Inc./Mohican Interpretive Panel
Town of Stockbridge/COA Lecture and Arts Series
Natalie Tyler/Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood
Terry Wise/Mohican Artist Exhibit at Stockbridge Library
In addition, the Stockbridge Cultural Council provided funding for the following projects that it believes benefit the Stockbridge and Berkshires cultural community:
Beehive Media LLC/Bearing Witness: Stories of Resilience
Berkshire Bach Society, Inc./Messiah Sing
Berkshire Children’s Chorus, Inc./The Sounds of Music
Berkshire Music School, Inc./Willie was Different: A Musical Enrichment Program
Berkshire South Regional Community Center/Berkshire Ukulele Band and Berkshire Sings!
Berkshire Theatre Group, Inc./BTG PLAYS! School Residency Program
Center for Peace Through Culture/Legacies
Edith Wharton Restoration, Inc./Nightwood
Flying Cloud Institute, Inc./S.M.Art Lab: Where Science Meets Art
Great Barrington Public Theater, Inc./Berkshire Voices 2024 Reading Series
Greenagers, Inc./Climate Action — Environmental Education
Muddy Brook Regional Elementary School/Cows
Rebel Town Productions/Rebel Town (The Boston Tea Party Musical)
Shakespeare & Company, Inc./2024 Fall Festival of Shakespeare
The Stockbridge Sinfonia, Inc./The Stockbridge Sinfonia: Intergenerational Community Orchestra of the Berkshires
Triplex Cinema, Inc/Triplex Saturday Morning Kids’ Series
Triplex Cinema, Inc/Spring Teen Film Festival
WAM Theatre, Inc./WAM Theatre’s 2024 Community Engagement Program
The Council grants funds from the Town of Stockbridge and regrants funds from the Massachusetts Cultural Council to individuals and organizations for projects in the arts, science, and humanities. Decisions about which projects to support are made at the community level by a board of municipally appointed volunteers. The current members of the Stockbridge Cultural Council are Judith Wilkinson (Chair), Janet Egelhofer (Treasurer), Joan Burkhard, Barbara Cooperman, Anne Ferril, Maureen O’Hanlon, John Perkel, Isabel Rose, and Chelly Sterman. If you have questions or ideas for the Council, please email them to jwilkinson@stockbridge-ma.gov.
