Past Grants

High Zero Foundation

Challenge grant for continued support of the High Zero 2008 Festival of Experimental Improvised Music. The four-day event, now receiving national and international notice, attracts high quality avant-garde musicians from around the world to participate in all new collaborations with Baltimore musicians.

Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance/ Creativity in Education Art Everyday

For support of an event featuring keynote speaker Sir Ken Robinson, an internationally recognized authority on creativity in education, for an audience of educators and arts professionals.

Downtown Partnership of Baltimore/ Baltimore Art Exposure

For continued support of Baltimore Art Exposure’s installation of art work used to enhance empty storefront windows along Charles Street.

Baltimore Opera Company

Toward the purchase of equipment to accommodate Metropolitan Opera Simulcasts at the Lyric Opera House, as a strategy to expand the audience for opera in Baltimore. A series of eight operas will be scheduled Saturday afternoons.

Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts

Five-year funding for support of the Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize, awarded annually at Artscape. The purpose of the prestigious award is to encourage artists to live and work in Baltimore.