CORPUS CHRISTI, Tx — Texas Women for the Arts, a state program of the Texas Cultural Trust, has awarded more than $319,000 in grants to provide access to the arts and education to children across Texas.
Two of those grants will go directly to the Corpus Christi Symphony Society and the Corpus Christi Harbor Playhouse Company.
Texas Women for the Arts is made up of more than 220 arts philanthropists, leaders and changemakers whose goal is to raise funds for various arts programs in Texas.
They have awarded more than 400 grants statewide, totaling more than $4.3 million and impacting approximately 3.7 million children.
“These grants provide impactful support for the arts in Texas, ensuring that children have access to the arts and a quality arts education, regardless of potential barriers,” says Heidi Márquez Smith, executive director of the Texas Cultural Trust. “We congratulate this year’s recipients and thank our TWA members for their unwavering and invaluable support in raising the next generation of Texans.”
Texas Women for the Arts 2024 recipients:
- ALMAAHH, Defenders of a Latino Museum of Visual and Cultural Arts and Archives Complex, Houston
- Anderson Center for the Arts (formerly known as Harris County Cultural Arts Council), Houston
- Anthropos Arts, Austin
- Austin Opera, Austin
- Austin Theater Alliance, Austin
- Bexar County Performing Arts Center, DBA Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, San Antonio
- Bishop Arts Theater Center, Dallas
- McAllen Boys & Girls Club, Inc, McAllen
- Center for Women and Their Work, Austin
- Corpus Christi Symphony Society, Corpus Christi
- East Lubbock Art House, Lubbock
- East Texas Symphony Orchestra, Tyler
- Ellen Noel Museum of Art of the Permian Basin, Odessa
- Harbor Playhouse Company, Corpus Christi
- IEA – Inspire, Encourage, Achieve, Beaumont
- Kaleidoscope Youth Development Services, DBA Rhodes School of Performing Arts, Houston
- Lubbock Community Theatre, Lubbock
- Swan Ropes, Dallas
- Texas Commission on the Arts, statewide
- Texas Cultural Trust, statewide
- Thank you Darlin’ Foundation, Fort Worth
- Contemporary Austin, Austin
- Moody Foundation, Austin
- The Opera Co., DBA El Paso Opera, El Paso
- The Periwinkle Foundation, Houston
- Tom Lea Institute, El Paso
- Young Northeast Texas Audience, Tyler
- San Antonio Youth Orchestras, San Antonio
The Texas Women for the Arts 2024 Executive Committee:
- Linda LaMantia, President, Laredo
- Isha Rogers Santamaría, Vice President, El Paso
- Leslie Blanton, immediate past president, Houston
- Eliza Duncan, Membership Co-Chair, Houston
- Nina Seely, Membership Co-Chair, Austin
- Muffin Lemak, vice president of membership, Dallas
- Ana Montoya, Vice President Co-President of Membership, San Antonio
- Karen Foster, nominations chair, El Paso
- Leslie Ward, vice president of nominations, Austin
- Michelle Bonton, Grants Chair, Houston
- Lisa Ivie Miller, Vice President of Grants, Austin
- Lawton Cummings, President of Governance, Austin
- Nancy Murray, vice president of governance, Longview
- Elia del Carmen Mares, president of Legacy, El Paso
- Jan McKee, vice president of legacy, Fort Worth
- Natasa Valocchi, Travel Chair, New York
- Marielle Lamy Quaid, VP of Travel, Austin
- Lawton Cummings, Jessica Karlsruher, Laura M. Matz, Janna Paulson, Marielle Lamy Quaid and Leslie Ward, 2024 Annual Meeting Chairs
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