Arts Grants Awarded to Community

Students in K-12 will benefit from several grants awarded to local organizations for arts-related projects. The Scott County Community Foundation, along with support from the Community Arts Program at Hanover College; the Indiana Arts Commission, a state agency; and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, awarded $13,275 for the creative projects.

• Austin High School Show Choir was awarded $1,218 to purchase costumes for the Dimensions and Ladies Choice show choirs.
• Grace Christian Academy/Scottsburg Imagination Station was awarded $1,218 to present a musical drama performance involving students in grades K-7 and homeschool students.
• Lyrics Alive was awarded $1,218 for the Lyrics Alive creative writing, music and enrichment program for fifth grade students at Scottsburg Elementary School.
• Scottsburg Middle School received $4,800 to purchase a tuba to allow middle school students to obtain more knowledge of the instrument.
• Scottsburg Elementary School received $4,824 to create Indiana’s first elementary digital music ensemble through I-Pad/I-Pod Touch tablets.

Organizations were invited to submit applications for creative, unique projects that will make an impact on students and the community, with any projects in the performing, visual and folk arts fields encouraged to apply.

“While we were pleased with the benefit provided to all the students in these applications,” said Scott County Community Foundation grants committee chairperson Hank Jentzen, “we were especially excited about the creativity of the digital music ensemble application presented by Doug Goodwin. We look forward to their ‘Scottsburg Rocks!’ concert at the end of this year to display the piano, guitar and other musical instruments knowledge they learned on the I-Pad/I-Pod Touch tablets.”