Summary of ArtsNL Grants, Awards, and Peer Assessors

2018-19 Fiscal Year (April 2018 to March 2019)

Table of Contents

Annual Operating Grant Program for Professional Arts Organizations 3

ArtsSmarts 4

Community Arts Program 5

Professional Artists’ Travel Fund 6

Professional Project Grants Program 7

School Touring Program 9

Sustaining Program for Professional Arts Organizations 10

Comprehensive List of Award Recipients 11

Comprehensive List of Peer Assessors/Jury Members 12 for all ArtsNL Grant Programs/Awards

2 Annual Operating Program for Professional Arts Organizations For annual operations starting after April 15, 2018

Total Number of Grants: 18 Total Awarded: $150,000

GRANT GRANT LOCATION RECIPIENT AMOUNT Cape St. Mary’s Arts $9,000 St. John’s Craft Council Gallery $8,000 St. John’s Friends of Writers at Woody Point $6,500 Corner Brook Gros Morne Summer Music $10,000 Corner Brook Irish Newfoundland Traditional Music Foundation $9,000 St. John’s Labrador Creative Arts Festival $10,000 Happy Valley-Goose Bay Lady Cove Women’s Choir $9,000 St. John’s Lawnya Vawnya $8,500 St. John’s Museum of the Flat Earth $4,600 Seldom Come By, Fogo Island The New Curtain Theatre Company $9,000 Milton Persistence Theatre Company $8,500 St. John’s Riddle Fence Publishing $10,000 St. John’s St. John’s Storytelling Festival $9,000 St. John’s Trails Tales and Tunes Festival $9,000 Norris Point White Rooster Theatre $10,000 St. John’s Winterset in Summer $9,000 Eastport Wintertide Music Festival $5,000 Corner Brook Women’s Work Festival $5,900 St. John’s

3 ArtsSmarts May 31, 2018 deadline for projects within the upcoming school year of September 2018 to June 2019.

Total Number of Grants: 28 Total Awarded: $146,500

GRANT GRANT LOCATION RECIPIENT AMOUNT Bishop Field Elementary $4,400 St. John’s Baltimore School $5,000 Ferryland Carbonear Collegiate $5,500 Carbonear Conrad Fitzgerald Academy $2,000 English Harbour West École Notre-Dam-du-Cap $5,500 Cape St. George Holy Trinity Elementary $6,500 Torbay Larkhall Academy $6,000 St. John’s Leary’s Brook Junior High School $2,700 St. John’s Long Range Academy $5,500 Cow Head MacDonald Drive Elementary $6,000 St. John’s Mobile Central High School $4,500 Mobile Random Island Academy $6,500 Hickman’s Harbour Riverside Elementary $6,000 Clarenville Sandstone Elementary $5,500 Ladle Cove Se’t A’newey School $6,800 Conne River St. Andrew’s Elementary $6,500 St. John’s St. Anne’s Academy $4,500 Dunville St. Bonaventure’s College $2,400 St. John’s St. Edward’s School $5,500 Conception Bay South (Kelligrews) St. Francis School $6,000 Harbour Grace St. Joseph’s Academy $6,500 Lamaline St. Joseph’s Elementary $6,500 Harbour Breton St. Mary’s Elementary $6,000 St. John’s St. Peter’s Academy (Benoit’s Cove) $5,200 Benoit’s Cove St. Peter’s Academy (West Port) $6,700 West Port St. John Bosco School $3,700 St. John’s St. Therea’s School $6,000 St. John’s Vanier Elementary School $2,600 St. John’s

4 Community Arts Program October 1, 2018 deadline for projects starting on/after December 1, 2018.

Total Number of Grants: 20 Total Awarded: $75,000

GRANT GRANT LOCATION RECIPIENT AMOUNT Association for the Arts in Mount Pearl $4,600 Mount Pearl Burin Folk Arts Council Corporation $2,276 Burin Bay Arm CB Nuit $4,937 Corner Brook Churchill Falls Arts and Crafts Club Inc. $4,000 Churchill Falls Girls Rock NL $4,975 St. John’s Isle Aux Morts Theatre Festival $4,985 Isle aux Morts Mummers Festival Incorporated $5,000 St. John’s Newfoundland and Labrador Drama Society $4,000 Gander Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra $4,000 St. John’s Newfoundland Writers’ Guild $1,000 St. John’s Northern Lights Theatre Company $5,000 Labrador City PlayPianoNL Group, Inc. $4,000 St. John’s Project Grace $4,000 St. John’s Shakespeare by the Sea Festival Inc. $5,000 St. John’s St. John’s Northwest Rotary Music Festival $4,000 St. John’s Strong Harbour Strings Program $1,578 St. John’s Suzuki Talent Education Program $2,026 St. John’s Tombolo Multicultural Festival NL Inc. $3,000 St. John’s Trout River Heritage Committee $4,000 Trout River Twilight 50+ Club $2,623 Port au Port East

5 Professional Artists’ Travel Fund

Total Number of Grants: 31 Total Awarded: $28,457

GRANT GRANT LOCATION RECIPIENT AMOUNT Jackie Alcock $1,000 Corner Brook Carol Bajen-Gahm $895 Torbay Mark Bragg $1,000 St. John’s Patrick Condon $1,000 St. John’s Heidi Coombs $1,000 St. John’s Elisabeth de Mariaffi $1,000 St. John’s Anahareo Doelle $1,000 St. John’s Shane Dwyer $597 St. John’s Michael Flaherty $1,000 Port Union Halfhandsome $1,000 St. John’s Danielle Hamel $603 St. John’s Michael Hammond $483 St. John’s Kenneth Harvey $1,000 St. John’s Daryl Hopkins $1,000 St. John’s Darren Ivany $920 Conception Bay South Andrew Jones $707 St. John’s Joshua Kielley $1,000 St. John’s Kate Lahey $750 St. John’s Lo Siento $1,000 St. John’s Michael Massie $1,000 Kippens Stephanie McKenzie $1,000 St. John’s Louise Moyes $1,000 St. John’s Heather Nolan $1,000 St. John’s Tabitha Payzant $975 St. John’s Michael Pittmann $527 Grand Falls-Windsor Nicole Rousseau $1,000 St. John’s Devin Shears $1,000 St. John’s Bernadine Stapleton $1,000 St. John’s Sara Tilley $1,000 St. John’s Cody Westman $1,000 St. John’s Monica Walsh $1,000 St. John’s

6 Professional Project Grants Program

Spring Session (March 15, 2018 deadline for projects starting on/after May 15, 2018) Total Awarded Grants to Established Artists and Groups: $220,212 to 34 projects Total Awarded Grants to New Artists and Groups: $48,089 to 15 projects

GRANT GRANT LOCATION RECIPIENT AMOUNT Frank Barry $5,760 St. John’s Tabitha Blake $700 St. John’s Martine Blue $8,834 Epworth Bridget Canning $8,720 St. John’s Megan Gail Coles $9,098 St. John’s Michael Connolly $8,500 St. John’s Neil Conway $6,979 St. John’s Steve Coombs $5,011 St. John’s Amelia Curran $6,600 St. John’s The Daly Family Collective $3,000 St. John’s Janet Davis $8,500 Wesleyville Terry Doyle $3,634 St. John’s Earle and Coffin $4,000 St. John’s Eastern Owl $7,500 Mount Pearl Family Video $2,294 St. John’s Kerry Gamberg $3,630 St. John’s Joshua Goudie $2,730 St. John’s Michael Harlick $3,073 Conception Harbour Wesley Harris $6,237 Corner Brook Delf Maria Hohmann $4,669 St. John’s Andy Jones $8,800 St. John’s Philippa Jones $7,500 St. John’s Alli Johnston $2,400 Corner Brook Willow Kean $8,800 St. John’s Alan Klaus and Stephen Candow $4,071 Paradise The Kubasonics $7,500 St. John’s Jane Leibel $2,000 St. John’s Tara Manuel $7,250 Corner Brook Maria Martinez $5,330 St. John’s Trudy J. Morgan-Cole $6,000 St. John’s Meagan Musseau $4,000 Corner Brook Jennifer May Newhook $10,000 St. John’s Benjamin Noah $3,630 St. John’s Wanda Nolan $1,565 St. John’s Justin Oakey $7,810 Petty Harbour Melanie Oates $10,000 St. John’s

7 Ouroboros $7,500 St. John’s Lynn Panting $8,696 St. John’s Rhonda Pelley $7,041 St. John’s Chris Pond $4,000 St. John’s Lisa Porter $6,500 St. John’s David Quinton $3,634 St. John’s Rube & Rake $7,500 St. John’s Daniel Rumbolt $3,071 St. John’s Nicholas Aiden Ryan $2,998 St. John’s Sherry Ryan $2,247 St. John’s Susie Taylor $3,634 Harbour Grace Keely Whitelaw $2,280 St. John’s Christine Wight $3,074 St. John’s

Fall Session (September 17, 2018 deadline for projects starting on/after November 15, 2018) Total Awarded Grants to Established Artists and Groups: $226,059 to 26 projects Total Awarded Grants to New Artists and Groups: $50,227 to 15 projects

GRANT GRANT LOCATION RECIPIENT AMOUNT Sharon Bala $9,880 St. John’s Candice Pike Barry $7,000 Corner Brook Vessela Brakalova $10,000 Portugal Cove-St. Phillips Stephen Brown $4,000 St. John’s Rhonda Buckley $10,000 St. John’s Kay Burns $6,000 Seldom Come By, Fogo Island Duo Concertante $8,309 St. John’s Andrea Cooper $10,000 St. John’s Charis Cotter $9,880 Western Bay Marlene Creates $10,000 Portugal Cove-St. Phillips Emily Critch $2,295 Corner Brook Eva Crocker $4,000 St. John’s Janet Cull $8,219 St. John’s Prajwala Betaraya Swamy Dixit $3,500 St. John’s Hazel May Eckert $8,928 St. John’s Louise Gauthier $4,000 Corner Brook Will Gill $10,000 St. John’s José González $4,575 St. John’s Mike Gough $10,000 Corner Brook Florian Hoefner $6,600 St. John’s Brittney Hollett $4,000 St. John’s Sharon King-Campbell $3,512 St. John’s Marc Losier $9,969 Corner Brook Timothy Matson $2,130 St. John’s

8 Jennifer Morgan $9,630 St. John’s Heather Nolan $4,000 St. John’s Charles Picco $8,175 Carbonear Chris Picco $7,500 St. John’s David Picco $4,320 St. John’s Marie Pike $1,600 Mount Pearl Michael Pittman $8,504 Grand Falls-Windsor Percy Ponniuk $3,220 Happy Valley-Goose Bay Craig Francis Power $6,000 St. John’s Alex Saunders $3,000 Happy Valley-Goose Bay Jamie Skidmore $9,100 St. John’s Mimi Stockland $3,975 St. John’s Erika Squires $2,600 St. John’s Anna Swanson $7,459 St. John’s Sara Tilley $7,500 St. John’s Martin Vallée $7,788 Conception Bay South Ian Vardy $3,219 St. John’s Megan Wells $3,306 Grand Falls-Windsor Nelson White $8,593 St. John’s

School Touring Program June 15, 2018 deadline for tours within the upcoming school year of September 2018 to June 2019.

Total Awarded: $75,000 to 5 projects Tours to Take Place: October 2018 to June 2019

GRANT GRANT LOCATION RECIPIENT AMOUNT Florian Hoefner $8,000 St. John’s Nickel Independent Film Festival $16,000 St. John’s RCA Theatre Company $17,000 St. John’s Soundbone Traditional Arts Foundation $17,000 Ladle Cove White Rooster Theatre $17,000 St. John’s

9 Sustaining Program for Professional Arts Organizations

Total Awarded: $511,000 to 17 professional arts organizations Year Two of Three

GRANT RECIPIENT GRANT AMOUNT LOCATION Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland $30,000 St. John’s Eastern Edge Gallery $42,000 St. John’s Newfoundland Dance Presents Inc. St. John’s (Neighbourhood Dance Works) $31,000 Newfoundland Independent Filmmaker’s Cooperative $40,000 St. John’s Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra Association $50,000 St. John’s New World Theatre Project Cupids (Perchance Theatre at Cupids) $15,000 Nickel Independent Film Festival $15,000 St. John’s Opera on the Avalon $22,000 St. John’s Resource Centre for the Arts (RCA Theatre) $40,000 St. John’s Rising Tide Association $50,000 Trinity Sound Arts Initiatives (Sound Symposium) $18,500 St. John’s Soundbone Traditional Arts Foundation $21,000 Ladle Cove St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival $22,000 St. John’s St. Michael’s Artists-Printmakers Association $25,000 St. John’s Theatre Newfoundland Labrador $40,000 Corner Brook Tuckamore Festival $22,000 St. John’s Wonderbolt Productions $27,500 St. John’s

10 Comprehensive List of Award Recipients Period Covered: April 1, 2018 to March 31, 2019

33rd ArtsNL Arts Awards (held in Labrador City on April 28, 2018)

BMO Bank of Montreal Artist of the Year Award Duane Andrews Cox & Palmer Arts Achievement Award Beni Malone Memorial University Arts in Education Award Eric West CBC Emerging Artist Award Sharon Bala ArtsNL Hall of Honour Award Jacinta Mackey-Graham ArtsNL Patron of the Arts Award Newfoundland and Labrador Credit Union

2018 BMO Winterset Award (presented March 28, 2019) Heather Smith

2018 Lawrence Jackson Writers’ Award (presented June 6, 2019) Susie Taylor

2018 Rhonda Payne Theatre Award (presented January 4, 2019) Monica Walsh

11 Comprehensive List of Peer Assessors/Jury Members for all ArtsNL Grant Programs and Awards Period Covered: April 1, 2018 to March 31, 2019

Geoff Adams Catherine Hogan Safer Roger Moore

Jacinte Armstrong Matthew Hollett Richard Neville

Mark Bragg Jason Holley Esther Oosterbaan

Adam Brake Amy House Rhonda Pelley

Donna Butt Joel Thomas Hynes Candice Pike

John Cosgroove Brad Jefford Lisa Porter

Elisabeth de Mariaffi Jennifer Johnson Sherry D. Ramsey

Louis-Philippe Dionne Jonathon Kennedy Diedre Gillard Rowlings

Igor Dobrovolskiy Christine Koch Kira Sheppard

Barbara Doran Calla Lachance Jerry Stamp

Andrea Dunne Denise Lear Tim Tracey

Robin Durnford Pierre LeBlanc Virginia Trieloff

Deanne Foley Nancy Lynch Anne Troake

Bess Forrestall Logan MacDonald Robert Tsonos

Louise Gauthier Meghan McCabe Andrea Tucker

Randy Glynn Lou McDonald Marie Wadden

Robert Hallett Tara Manuel Kristin Harris Walsh

Todd Hennessey Nigel Markam Russell Wangersky

Stan Hill Sarah Mian Marian Frances White

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