FY2016 Missouri Arts Council Annual Awards City Organization Art Area Grant Funds Arrow Rock Arrow Rock Lyceum Theater $10,890 Village of Arrow Rock Festivals $2,000 Ballwin Sangeetha Music Vocal & Music Presenters $2,000 Soorya Performing Arts Minority Arts $10,483 Bethel Historic Bethel German Colony Folk Arts $6,200 Boonville Friends of Historic Boonville Community Arts Operating $14,353 Branson Branson Arts Council Community Arts Operating $8,581 Downtown Branson Betterment Association Folk Arts $5,058 Cape Girardeau Southeast Missouri Council on the Arts Community Arts Operating $13,989 Southeast Missouri State University (Theatre & Dance Dept.) Dance $8,326 Southeast Missouri State University (Big Muddy) Literature $2,639 Southeast Missouri State University (Music Dept.) Music Instrumental $9,591 Southeast Missouri State University (Theatre & Dance Dept.) Theater $8,880 Southeast Missouri State University (Rosemary Berkel and Harry L. Crisp II Museum) Visual Arts $6,875 Carthage Carthage Convention & Visitor's Bureau Festivals $2,000 Community Theatre for Southwest Missouri (Stone's Throw Theater) Theater $4,826 Chesterfield Abhinaya Dance $3,146 Alexandra Ballet Company Dance $10,086 Saint Louis Ballet Company Dance $10,380 Stages St. Louis Established Institutions $38,936 YMCA of Greater St. Louis (West County Branch-Arts & Humanities Dept.) Multidiscipline $9,005 Chillicothe Chillicothe Fine Arts Council Community Arts Operating $13,436 Clarksville Raintree Arts Council Community Arts Project $6,968 Clayton Cultural Festivals Festivals $11,062 Saint Louis Artists' Guild Visual Arts $8,967 St. Louis Chamber Chorus Music Vocal & Music Presenters $4,593 Columbia Boone County Historical Society Multidiscipline $9,453 City of Columbia (C.A.R.E. Program) Arts Education $7,136
City of Columbia (Office of Cultural Affairs) Community Arts Operating $12,567 City of Columbia (Parks and Recreation Dept.) Festivals $6,470 Columbia 93 School District (Grant Elementary School) Arts Education $4,508 Columbia Access Television Electronic Media Arts $10,607 Columbia Art League Festivals $10,828 Columbia Chorale Music Vocal & Music Presenters $10,317 Columbia Civic Orchestra Music Instrumental $6,265 Columbia Entertainment Company Theater $9,571 Columbia Eve Fest Festivals $9,151 Country Dance and Song Society (Mid-Missouri Traditional Dancers) Folk Arts $3,448 Maplewood Barn Association Theater $9,320 Missouri Artisans Association Arts Services $4,032 Missouri Contemporary Ballet Dance $10,498 Missouri Symphony Society Music Instrumental $10,750 Odyssey Chamber Music Series Music Instrumental $8,096 Performing Arts In Children's Education Theater $8,541 Ragtag Programming for Film and Media Art (Ragtag Film Society) Electronic Media Arts $12,272 School of Service (Access Arts) Visual Arts $10,644 Stephens College (Filmmaking Dept.) Electronic Media Arts $11,137 Stephens College (TRYPS Institute) Theater $9,847 Talking Horse Productions Theater $8,768 University of Missouri-Columbia (Folk Arts Program) Arts Services $105,120 University of Missouri-Columbia (Folk & Traditional Arts Partnership) Arts Services $18,000 University of Missouri-Columbia (Storytelling Festival) Festivals $10,676 University of Missouri-Columbia (Missouri Review) Literature $9,288 University of Missouri-Columbia (Theatre Dept.) Theater $9,383 We Always Swing Music Vocal & Music Presenters $10,079 Ellisville City of Ellisville (Parks & Recreation Dept.) Music Vocal & Music Presenters $2,269 Eminence Eminence Area Arts Council Community Arts Project $6,651 Fayette Boonslick Area Tourism Council Folk Arts $3,289
Ferguson PAKT Community Resource Center Minority Arts $11,019 Florissant Circus Day Foundation (Circus Harmony) Multidiscipline $11,029 City of Florissant (Civic Center Theatre) Festivals $8,954 Daybreak Corporation Minority Arts $2,896 Florissant Fine Arts Council Community Arts Operating $12,804 Hispanic Festival Festivals $2,000 Junior League of St. Louis Multidiscipline $9,173 Foristell Saint Louis Brass Band Music Instrumental $5,499 Galena Ozark Mountain Music Folk Arts $10,724 Hamilton Caldwell County Arts Community Arts Project $2,000 Hannibal Hannibal Arts Council Community Arts Operating $15,064 Missouri Association of Community Arts Agencies (Community Arts Development) Arts Services $72,000 Missouri Association of Community Arts Agencies (Poetry Out Loud & Poet Laureate) Arts Services $40,000 Missouri Association of Community Arts Agencies (Professional Development Presentations & MO Arts Awards) Arts Services $6,720 Missouri Association of Community Arts Agencies (Rural Initiative) Arts Services $28,800 Harrisburg National Audio Theatre Festivals Electronic Media Arts $10,360 Innsbrook Innsbrook Institute Festivals $4,737 Ironton Arcadia Valley Chamber of Commerce Festivals $2,000 Jefferson City City of Jefferson (Cultural Arts Commission) Community Arts Project $3,930 Missouri Mansion Preservation (Friends of the Missouri Governor's Mansion) Arts Services $13,809 Joplin Connect2Culture Community Arts Operating $11,761 George A. Spiva Center for the Arts Visual Arts $10,729 Missouri Southern State University (Theatre Dept.) Theater $2,000 Pro Musica Music Vocal & Music Presenters $9,676 Kansas City American Jazz Museum (Jammin' at the Gem) Arts Services $10,358 American Jazz Museum Multidiscipline $10,823 Art in the Loop Foundation Visual Arts $9,469 Bach Aria Soloists Music Instrumental $10,634
Black Archives of Mid-America Multidiscipline $8,811 Black Economic Union of Greater Kansas City Electronic Media Arts $7,691 Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Arts $10,558 City In Motion Dance Theater Dance $10,262 City of Kansas City, Missouri (Parks & Recreation Dept.) Festivals $9,891 Coterie Theatre Mid-Sized Arts Organizations $17,249 Foundation of the Metropolitan Community Colleges (Metropolitan Community College Maple Woods Campus ) Festivals $11,027 Friends of Chamber Music Mid-Sized Arts Organizations $13,007 Gem Theater Cultural and Performing Arts Center Minority Arts $11,550 Heart of America Shakespeare Festival Mid-Sized Arts Organizations $12,023 Heartland Men's Chorus Music Vocal & Music Presenters $10,744 Ivanhoe Neighborhood Council Arts Education $7,714 Kacico Dance Dance $4,907 Kansas City Actors Theatre Theater $10,701 Kansas City Art Institute (H&R Block Artspace) Visual Arts $10,313 Kansas City Artists Coalition Visual Arts $9,702 Kansas City Ballet Association Established Institutions $71,511 Kansas City Boys Choir Minority Arts $12,121 Kansas City Chalk and Walk Festival Festivals $5,908 Kansas City Chamber Orchestra Music Instrumental $10,622 Kansas City Chapter of Young Audiences Multidiscipline $11,514 Kansas City Chorale Music Vocal & Music Presenters $11,029 Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee Electronic Media Arts $9,965 Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey Arts Education $8,614 Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey Mid-Sized Arts Organizations $16,231 Kansas City Repertory Theatre Established Institutions $63,123 Kansas City Symphony Established Institutions $100,675 Kansas City Volunteer Lawyers and Accountants for the Arts Arts Services $8,218 Kansas City Women's Chorus Music Vocal & Music Presenters $4,459 Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts Festivals $10,770 KC Creates Festivals $9,739 KC Women in Film Electronic Media Arts $8,794
Kemper Museum Operating Foundation (Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art) Established Institutions $40,297 Lyric Opera of Kansas City Established Institutions $49,278 Mattie Rhodes Memorial Society (Mattie Rhodes Center) Arts Education $7,635 Mattie Rhodes Memorial Society (Mattie Rhodes Center) Minority Arts $12,480 Metropolitan Arts Council of Greater Kansas City Arts Services $22,805 Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre Theater $10,865 Mid-America Arts Alliance (Regional Programs & LIVE! in the Crossroads) Arts Services $49,896 Midwest Center for the Literary Arts (The Writers Place) Literature $9,247 Mutual Musicians Foundation International Minority Arts $12,519 Nelson Gallery Foundation dba Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Established Institutions $103,114 New Music Institute of Kansas City (newear) Music Instrumental $5,010 North American Folk Music and Dance Alliance (Folk Alliance International) Folk Arts $16,701 Northland Symphony Orchestra Association Music Instrumental $7,567 Owen/Cox Dance Group Arts Education $8,831 Owen/Cox Dance Group Dance $10,888 Paul Mesner Puppets Theater $10,727 Performing Arts Foundation of Kansas City (Folly Theater) Mid-Sized Arts Organizations $16,287 Philharmonia of Greater Kansas City Music Instrumental $7,182 Quality Hill Productions Music Vocal & Music Presenters $10,483 Reel Images Film and Video Group Minority Arts $5,425 Rockhurst University (Midwest Poets Series) Literature $2,748 Show-Me Pride Ensembles (Mid America Freedom Band) Music Instrumental $8,186 Society for Friendship with China Festivals $2,736 Spinning Tree Theatre Theater $8,105 Spire Chamber Ensemble Music Vocal & Music Presenters $10,839 StoneLion Puppet Theatre Festivals $10,184 Summerfest Concerts and/or Recordings Music Instrumental $10,078 Te Deum Music Vocal & Music Presenters $4,796 Theatre for Young America Theater $10,086 TYCOR Community Development Corporation Minority Arts $11,776
Unicorn Theatre Mid-Sized Arts Organizations $15,165 University of Missouri-Kansas City (Artist INC) Arts Services $15,523 University of Missouri-Kansas City (KCUR-FM) Arts Services $3,456 University of Missouri-Kansas City (BkMk Press) Literature $6,403 University of Missouri-Kansas City (New Letters) Literature $10,993 Westport Center for the Arts Multidiscipline $4,306 Whispering Prairie Press Literature $2,000 Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Company Dance $10,286 Youth Symphony Association of Kansas City Music Instrumental $10,831 Kingsville Powell Gardens Visual Arts $9,237 Kirksville Kirksville Arts Association Community Arts Operating $12,725 Truman State University (Chariton Review) Literature $2,000 Truman State University (University Art Gallery) Visual Arts $9,702 Kirkwood Kirkwood Children's Chorale Music Vocal & Music Presenters $9,486 Kirkwood Theatre Guild Theater $9,320 Lee's Summit Independence Symphony Orchestra (Heritage Philharmonic) Music Instrumental $3,244 Lee's Summit Symphony Orchestra Music Instrumental $9,499 Missouri Alliance for Arts Education Arts Services $39,840 Summit Theatre Group Theater $5,277 Liberty Historic Downtown Liberty Festivals $3,319 Liberty Symphony Orchestra Music Instrumental $3,340 William Jewell College (Harriman-Jewell Series) Multidiscipline $10,944 Macon City of Maples Repertory Theatre Theater $10,802 Maryland Heights City of Maryland Heights (Cultural Arts Commission) Community Arts Project $2,442 Maryville Northwest Missouri State University (Campus Activities Office) Multidiscipline $8,520 Mexico Presser Hall Restoration Society Community Arts Operating $14,590 Moberly Moberly Area Council on the Arts Community Arts Project $6,329 Mound City State Theater Arts Council Community Arts Project $6,610 Mt. Vernon Mt. Vernon Community Betterment Council Community Arts Project $6,083 Nevada Cottey College (Campus Activities Office) Multidiscipline $6,085 O'Fallon City of O'Fallon (Cultural Arts Division) Community Arts Operating $11,744 St. Charles Riverfront Arts Community Arts Project $3,906 Tamil Sangam of Missouri Minority Arts $11,510
Osage Beach Lake Arts Council Community Arts Project $8,080 Park Hills Mineral Area Council on the Arts Community Arts Project $8,307 Parkville Park University (Ethnic Voices Poetry Series) Literature $2,000 Synergy Services Minority Arts $11,723 Poplar Bluff City of Poplar Bluff (Margaret Harwell Art Museum) Visual Arts $9,175 Three Rivers Community College (Tinnin Fine Arts Center) Multidiscipline $9,999 Rolla Arts Rolla Community Arts Project $8,033 Ozark Actors Theatre Theater $9,759 Rolla Choral Arts Society Music Vocal & Music Presenters $9,937 Missouri University of Science and Technology (Leach Theatre) Multidiscipline $9,126 Saint Charles Art Festival Association Festivals $8,300 Foundry Art Centre Visual Arts $9,273 St. Charles Municipal Band Music Instrumental $2,496 Saint James Fine Linen Drama Theater $9,860 Saint Joseph Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art Visual Arts $9,640 Allied Arts Council of St. Joseph Community Arts Operating $14,748 Creative Arts Productions Theater $2,706 MidCity Excellence Community Learning Center Minority Arts $10,979 Missouri Western State University (Center for Community Arts) Arts Education $7,693 Performing Arts Association of St. Joseph Multidiscipline $9,696 Robidoux Resident Theatre Theater $11,304 St. Joseph Community Chorus Music Vocal & Music Presenters $9,248 St. Joseph Symphony Society Music Instrumental $10,843 Saint Louis African Heritage Association of St. Louis Festivals $9,973 ANNONYArts Dance $8,987 Art St. Louis Visual Arts $10,154 Artica Festivals $3,099 atrek Educational Corporation (Leverage Dance Theater) Dance $10,062 Bach Society of Saint Louis Music Vocal & Music Presenters $10,578 Better Family Life Dance $4,539 Big River Association Literature $10,520 Bread & Roses Missouri Arts Education $6,512
Cabaret Project of St. Louis Music Vocal & Music Presenters $2,000 CHARIS-The St. Louis Women's Chorus Music Vocal & Music Presenters $3,280 Cinema St. Louis Electronic Media Arts $11,507 Circus Flora Theater $9,434 Clayton Symphony Orchestra (Saint Louis Civic Orchestra) Music Instrumental $9,476 COCA-Center of Creative Arts Arts Education $7,843 COCA-Center of Creative Arts (Interchange) Arts Services $20,664 COCA-Center of Creative Arts Multidiscipline $10,968 Community Health-In-Partnership Services Minority Arts $6,242 Community Women Against Hardship Minority Arts $4,103 Compton Heights Band Music Instrumental $10,171 Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis Mid-Sized Arts Organizations $17,471 Continuity Electronic Media Arts $8,596 Craft Alliance Visual Arts $10,803 Dance Saint Louis Arts Education $8,168 Dance Saint Louis (Spring to Dance) Arts Services $10,358 Dance Saint Louis Mid-Sized Arts Organizations $17,138 Dances of India Minority Arts $11,510 December Publishing Literature $9,030 Design Build Workshop Arts Education $7,278 Diaspora Connections Unlimited (Griot Museum of Black History) Minority Arts $7,413 Double Helix Corporation (KDHX Community Media) Folk Arts $18,404 Fair St. Louis Foundation Festivals $9,739 First Civilizations Minority Arts $11,152 Fontbonne University (Mustard Seed Theatre) Theater $10,136 Gateway Festival Orchestra of St. Louis Music Instrumental $9,162 Gateway Men's Chorus Music Vocal & Music Presenters $7,291 Gene Slay's Boys' Club of St. Louis Arts Education $7,319 Gitana Productions Arts Education $7,610 Gitana Productions Minority Arts $10,153 Grand Center Festivals $6,756 HEARding Cats Collective Multidiscipline $9,999
Herbert Hoover Boys & Girls Club of St. Louis (Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis) Arts Education $3,909 House of Pais Minority Arts $5,099 Insight Theatre Company Theater $9,910 International Institute of Metropolitan St. Louis Festivals $10,945 Jamison Memorial Human Resource & Development Agency Minority Arts $3,748 Jazz Edge Minority Arts $11,620 Jazz St. Louis Mid-Sized Arts Organizations $17,008 Jewish Community Center Theater $10,928 Karlovsky & Company Dance Dance $3,185 Kuchipudi Art Academy Dance $9,083 Laclede's Landing Merchants Association Festivals $6,025 Laumeier Sculpture Park Mid-Sized Arts Organizations $17,175 Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center Arts Education $7,386 Luminary Visual Arts $11,047 Metro Theater Company Mid-Sized Arts Organizations $12,918 Metropolitan Orchestra of Saint Louis Music Instrumental $3,425 Mid-America Dance Company (Modern American Dance Company) Dance $11,501 Midwest Center for Media Literacy (Studio-e) Electronic Media Arts $7,095 Missouri Women's Chorus Music Vocal & Music Presenters $2,896 New Line Theatre Theater $10,073 New Music Circle Music Instrumental $6,298 Opera Theatre of Saint Louis Established Institutions $85,751 Opojaz (Boulevard Magazine) Literature $10,110 Peter & Paul Community Services Minority Arts $11,816 Philharmonic Society of St. Louis Music Instrumental $4,127 Primo Concerts Music Instrumental $4,119 Prison Performing Arts Theater $5,344 Repertory Theatre of St. Louis Established Institutions $62,295 Rise Community Development Festivals $9,633 Robert L. Reed Tap Heritage Institute Dance $10,852 St. Lou Fringe Festivals $10,512
St. Louis Actors' Studio Theater $10,450 St. Louis African Chorus (African Musical Arts) Music Vocal & Music Presenters $10,151 Saint Louis Art Museum Established Institutions $100,675 St. Louis ArtWorks Multidiscipline $11,308 St. Louis Cathedral Concerts Music Vocal & Music Presenters $10,910 St. Louis Children's Choirs Music Vocal & Music Presenters $11,219 St. Louis City Juvenile Detention Center Arts Education $7,677 St. Louis Classical Guitar Society Arts Education $7,830 St. Louis Classical Guitar Society Music Instrumental $11,271 St. Louis Cultural Flamenco Society Dance $6,268 St. Louis Dance Theatre (Big Muddy Dance Company) Dance $6,999 St. Louis Poetry Center Literature $3,121 St. Louis Public Schools Foundation (Central Visual and Performing Arts High School) Arts Education $3,784 St. Louis Shakespeare Company (St. Louis Shakespeare) Theater $10,890 Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra Established Institutions $104,223 St. Louis Volunteer Lawyers and Accountants for the Arts Arts Services $10,358 St. Louis Women's Hope Chorale Music Vocal & Music Presenters $7,306 Scottish Partnership for Arts and Education Arts Education $7,633 Shakespeare Festival St. Louis Mid-Sized Arts Organizations $17,193 Shaw Neighborhood Improvement Association Festivals $9,809 Sheldon Arts Foundation (Sheldon Concert Hall and Art Galleries) Established Institutions $30,206 Sherwood Forest Camp Arts Education $7,444 Show-Me Sound Organization Minority Arts $10,581 South Broadway Art Project Arts Education $7,136 Springboard to Learning Multidiscipline $9,166 Stray Dog Theatre Theater $10,601 That Uppity Theatre Company Theater $10,639 Union Avenue Opera Theatre Music Vocal & Music Presenters $10,435 University of Missouri-St. Louis (KWMU-FM) Arts Services $3,456 University of Missouri-St. Louis (Natural Bridge) Literature $8,170 University of Missouri-St. Louis (Center for Humanities) Multidiscipline $10,750
University of Missouri-St. Louis (Touhill Performing Arts Center) Multidiscipline $10,338 University of Missouri-St. Louis (Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival) Music Vocal & Music Presenters $10,032 University of Missouri-St. Louis (Gallery 210) Visual Arts $9,665 Upstream Theater Theater $10,538 Urban Artist Alliance for Child Development Minority Arts $5,795 VSA arts of Missouri Arts Services $20,664 Washington University (African & African American Studies) Minority Arts $3,524 Washington University (Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum) Visual Arts $10,827 Winter Opera St. Louis Music Vocal & Music Presenters $9,391 World Chess Museum Visual Arts $10,485 Saint Peters City of St. Peters (Cultural Arts Centre) Community Arts Operating $13,247 Missouri Ballet Theatre Dance $2,489 Sedalia Liberty Center Association for the Arts Community Arts Operating $12,930 Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (Iglesia Luterana Amigos de Cristo) Arts Education $3,537 Missouri State Fair Arts Services $5,443 Scott Joplin International Ragtime Foundation Festivals $6,998 Sedalia Symphony Society Music Instrumental $6,194 State Fair Community College (Daum Museum of Contemporary Art) Visual Arts $10,949 Sikeston Sikeston Cultural Development Corporation Community Arts Project $7,556 Springfield Boys Choir of Springfield Music Vocal & Music Presenters $3,242 City of Springfield (Springfield Art Museum) Visual Arts $10,069 Downtown Springfield Association Festivals $2,383 Downtown Springfield Community Cinema (Moxie Cinema) Electronic Media Arts $9,706 Drury University (Gingko Tree Review) Literature $2,000 Drury University (Springfield-Drury Civic Orchestra) Music Instrumental $4,927 Drury University (Theatre Dept.) Theater $2,000 Messiah Project Music Vocal & Music Presenters $4,124 Mid-America Performing Arts Foundation (Springfield Mid-America Singers) Music Vocal & Music Presenters $6,194 Missouri State University (Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts) Multidiscipline $10,156
Springfield Ballet Arts Education $3,433 Springfield Ballet Dance $9,885 Springfield Little Theatre Mid-Sized Arts Organizations $15,992 Springfield Regional Arts Council Arts Education $8,043 Springfield Regional Arts Council Community Arts Operating $14,179 Springfield Regional Opera Music Vocal & Music Presenters $10,317 Springfield Symphony Association Mid-Sized Arts Organizations $16,509 Sugar Creek Sugar Creek Fair and Festival Board Folk Arts $3,771 Versailles Royal Arts Council Community Arts Operating $12,783 Warrensburg University of Central Missouri (Communication Dept.) Electronic Media Arts $9,990 University of Central Missouri (Sociology, Gerontology, and Cross-Disciplinary Studies Dept.) Folk Arts $16,994 University of Central Missouri (Pleiades) Literature $10,321 University of Central Missouri (Performing Arts Series) Multidiscipline $10,483 University of Central Missouri (Gallery of Art & Design) Visual Arts $9,848 Warrenton Warren County Fine Arts Council Community Arts Project $6,950 Washington Downtown Washington Festivals $8,602 Waynesville Pulaski Fine Arts Association Theater $4,377 Webster Groves Webster Arts Festivals $10,512 Webster University (Film Series) Electronic Media Arts $9,719 Webster University (Music Dept.) Multidiscipline $9,853 Webster University (Cecille R. Hunt Gallery) Visual Arts $10,619 Webster University (May Gallery) Visual Arts $10,154 West Plains West Plains Council on the Arts Community Arts Project $8,370 Willow Springs Willow Springs Arts Council Community Arts Project $2,956 63 communities 360 grantees $4,215,028