As a one-time initiative marking the Juneau Community Foundation’s 25th Anniversary, over $100,000 has been awarded to twenty local arts and culture organizations in celebration of the arts. Funding for these grants was made possible by the Foundation’s Arts & Culture Community Impact Fund, along with generous support from the Blackwell, Gaguine, Akiyama Family, and Margaret Frans Brady Donor Advised Funds and the Foundation’s Youth & Education Community Impact Fund.
“This 25th anniversary year, the Juneau Community Foundation took the opportunity to recognize the beauty and importance of our creative sector with grants to assist local arts groups,” said Sandro Lane, Board Leader of the Foundation’s Arts & Culture Funds. “While we have been focused on supporting individual artists with grants for the past five years, the Arts Vibrancy Endowment we’re building was created to provide an annual source of support for arts groups in addition to individual artists. I hope these 25th anniversary grants bring awareness to the importance of local arts and demonstrate our support for them. We encourage community members to support our wonderful Juneau arts scene.”
The following nonprofit organizations are grant recipients:
Juneau Arts & Humanities Council
Sealaska Heritage Institute
Perseverance Theatre
Juneau Symphony
Juneau Alaska Music Matters
Juneau Jazz & Classics
Juneau Dance Theatre
Theater Alaska
Sitka Fine Arts Camp
Skagway Arts Council
Alaska Folk Festival
Orpheus Project
KTOO Public Media – Radio Plays
Juneau Lyric Opera
Theatre in the Rough
Thrush Hill Music
Juneau Makerspace
Juneau Ghost Light Theatre
Juneau Community Bands
Alaska Youth Choir
Benjamin Brown, Chairman of the Alaska State Council on the Arts, noted, “Alaska’s Capital City is so incredibly fortunate for the Juneau Community Foundation’s leadership at this time. With other sources of support at risk, this local investment in the artistic and cultural ecosystem will have a tremendous impact in ensuring that the people of Juneau and Southeast Alaska continue to benefit from the presence of arts and culture in their daily lives. The Juneau Community Foundation is directly making life better with this timely and visionary plan of action, for which we should all be grateful.”
“We are so grateful to the generous individuals with established funds at the Foundation. They stepped up to make these grants that celebrate local arts possible,” added Amy Skilbred, Executive Director.
Photo: Michael Penn
Caption: Grant recipients at the Shuká Hít (Clan House) at Sealaska Heritage Institute’s Walter Soboleff Building.
