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| https://www.menendez.senate.gov/news-and-events/press/menendez-booker-applaud-290k-for-nj-arts-projects | Menendez, Booker Applaud $290K for NJ Arts Projects | 2015-12-09 | 2015 | 2015-12 | Democrat | House | NJ | Robert Menendez | M000639 | www.menendez.senate.gov | legacy | Menendez, Booker Applaud $290K for NJ Arts Projects Menendez, Booker Applaud $290K for NJ Arts Projects Wednesday, December 9, 2015 WASHINGTON, DC U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker (both D-NJ) today applauded the awarding of $290,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for fifteen arts programs and productions across New Jersey. Programs and productions receiving funding are located in Camden, Fort Lee, Hamilton, Madison, Millville, Montclair, Morristown, Newark, Princeton, Red Bank and Union. Enhanced opportunities in the arts enhance our communities, local economies and cultural future, said Sen. Menendez. New Jersey is home to a plethora of talented people, as well as vibrant music and arts groups, and Im glad these investments will allow New Jerseyans to express their creativity and share their artistic gifts with all of us. Supporting New Jerseys art community helps preserve our diverse culture and rich history while showcasing the Garden States creative talent, said Sen. Booker. As organizations across the country continue to face budget constraints, this federal investment will help New Jerseys thriving art community flourish and continue to capture imaginations for generations. These projects, from all over the nation, will make a difference in their communities, said NEA Chairman Jane Chu. "We know from experience as well as through hard evidence that the arts matter and these projects will provide more opportunities for people to learn, create, and experience the value of the arts in so many different ways. The 15 grants for New Jersey are part of the NEAs $27.7 million announcement that will support 1,126 projects in 49 states plus American Samoa, the District of Columbia and Guam. In its first 50 years, the NEA has awarded more than $5 billion in grants and this announcement launches the next 50 years of arts funding. Grant Details: Rutgers-Camden $35,000 Camden To support an exhibition, catalogue, and residency project that examines urban design issues in Camden, New Jersey. Contemporary artists will create new work that reimagines the city's built environment, focusing on the surface qualities of the urban landscape and the restructuring of the city's layout. Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, Inc. $10,000 Fort Lee To support a multidisciplinary festival that will celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year through traditional and contemporary visual arts, music, and dance performances. Guest artists will include pipa musician Hong Tao Sun, kuaiban (a traditional form of rap or storytelling) artist XingYe Ma, visual artist Hotien Chang, and dancers Shi Ying, Min Zhou, and Yao Zhong Zhang. The festival will also present the premiere of "Calligraffiti," a commissioned multimedia visual arts, dance, and music piece that explores the similarities between Chinese calligraphy and American graffiti art, featuring a composition by Huang Ruo. Outreach activities, intended to serve Chinese-American and African-American communities in New Jersey and New York City, will include lectures, pre-and post-performance discussions featuring the guest artists, and a bilingual marketing campaign. International Sculpture Center, Inc. $20,000 Hamilton To support the Dialogues and Discoveries initiative. Designed to facilitate conversations about contemporary sculpture, the initiative includes the production of "Sculpture" magazine in print and versions designed for web browsers and tablet apps, as well as expansion of additional online digital content and a weekly blog. Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Inc. $10,000 Madison To support a production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The play will be the inaugural production in the Free Shakespeare in Liberty State Park program. Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center, Inc. $20,000 Millville To support artist residencies for U.S. emerging and/or mid-career glass artists at the Creative Glass Center of America. Participants will be provided with 24-hour access to studio and residencies will be flexible. Montclair Art Museum $40,000 Montclair To support the exhibition Matisse and American Art with a catalogue and related educational programming. The exhibition will examine Henri Matisse's (1869-1954) influence on the development of American modern art from 1907 to the present. Featuring approximately 60 paintings, archival objects, and works on paper, the exhibition will bring together as many as 19 works by Matisse, juxtaposing them with approximately 42 works by American artists such as Max Weber, Alfred Maurer, Willem de Kooning, Richard Diebenkorn, Robert Motherwell, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Romare Bearden, John Baldessari, and Sophie Matisse. Arts Council of the Morris Area $20,000 Morristown To support Our Heritage is Our Future, The Gateway Totem Project. Stone carver and sculptor Gabriele Hiltl- Cohen will create a new site-specific public art installation in the historic Speedwell section of Morristown. New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation $20,000 Newark To support the World of Sarah Vaughan a performance project celebrating the life and legacy of NEA Jazz Master Sarah Vaughan. The project will be part of the week-long James Moody Jazz Festival at NJPAC and several other Newark venues. New Jersey Symphony Orchestra $10,000 Newark To support a winter festival exploring music inspired by William Shakespeare's plays. The orchestra will collaborate with The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Montclair State University Chorale, and Manhattan School of Music Symphonic Chorus and will perform works by composers such as Hector Berlioz and Felix Mendelssohn. Festival concerts, as well as related educational and community engagement activities, will take place in Newark, Morristown, New Brunswick, and Princeton. Arts Council of Princeton $30,000 Princeton To support the Witherspoon Public Art Project. The arts council will commission an artist to create a sculpture for placement in the Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood of Princeton. McCarter Theater Company $20,000 Princeton To support the premiere of "All the Days" by Sharyn Rothstein. Its about a contemporary Jewish family that is broken by death and divorce unites to celebrate a bar mitzvah. The theater will host community outreach events including pre-show talks before every performance, post-show conversations with members of the cast and the artistic team, student matinees with pre- and post-show conversations, and a curriculum guide. Princeton Symphony Orchestra $10,000 Princeton To support a performance and community engagement project celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra, under the artistic direction of Rossen Milanov, will perform the Portraits of Women concert program featuring a new work by Princeton-based composer Sarah Kirkland Snider. Count Basie Theatre, Inc. $15,000 Red Bank To produce a series of programs celebrating jazz as a uniquely American art form from April through May 2016. Offerings will include weekly discussions, a free film series of jazz biopics and a special "No Shush" History of Jazz interactive community program for children and their families featuring the Red Bank Jazz Orchestra and Louis Prima Jr. (son of jazz legend Louis Prima) and his band. Two River Theater Company $20,000 Red Bank To support the production of "The Ballad of Little Jo," with lyrics by Sarah Schlesinger and music by Mike Reid. The production will be supported by supplementary programming that focuses on the women of Frontier America, including discussions, student matinees, and an educational guide for classroom teachers. Theater Project $10,000 Union To support performances of "Crowns" by playwright by Regina Taylor, post-performance question-and-answer sessions with the cast, and related outreach activities. In addition to the public performances, the project will also include a matinee for low-income youth. ### | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |