The Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund board awarded $344,753 to 21 grant projects around the state at their recent grant review meeting.

Awards were given to a wide variety of projects, including historic preservation, archaeological research, theatre and music programming, public art, museum exhibits, and educational programming. Below is a complete listing of awards by county.

Albany County

Laramie Plains Civic Center Foundation, Inc., Gryphon Theatre House Audio System, $30,000

Laramie Public Art Coalition, Capacity Support for Expanding Public Art Program, $35,000

University of Wyoming Anthropology Department, Digitizing the Hell Gap National Historic Landmark, $49,873.12

University of Wyoming, George C. Frison Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Warren Mammoth Archaeological Project, $23,074

Fremont County

Eastern Shoshone Cultural Center, Eastern Shoshone Dictionary and Database Project, $24,100

Friends of South Pass, Ervin Store Exhibition Remodel, $3,500

Lander Performing Arts, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company Outreach, $8,000

Johnson County

Hoofprint of the Past, Display Case, $2,000

Laramie County

Arts Cheyenne, Developing the Cheyenne Emerging Artists & Creativity Center (CEACC), $13,500

Lincoln County

Star Valley Arts Council, Arts Programming, $20,000

Natrona County

Cadoma Foundation, Historic Bishop Home 2^nd & 3^rd Story Climate Control, $7,500

Platte River Trails Trust, Wind Cathedral, $15,300

Platte County

Chugwater Historical Unity Group, Historical Caboose Renovation, $19,906

Sheridan County

Sheridan County Historical Society, Wyoming Paleontology Exhibit Promotion, $3,966

Teton County

Art Association of Jackson Hole, Baldwin Endowment Enhancement, $15,000

Teton Music School, All Ages Program Expansion, $9,700

STATEWIDE

Central Wyoming College Foundation, Pathways to Indigenous Understanding, $12,500

Culture Conservation Corps, Uinta County Saddlemakers Symposium, $11,000

Relative Theatrics, Wyoming’s Homer: Touring and Teaching AN ILIAD, $3,000

The Wyoming Historical Society, WyoHistory.org – Increasing the Reach, $19,000

Wyoming Art Alliance, Developing a Statewide Network of Cultural Representatives, $19,534

 

For more information about the Cultural Trust Fund grant program, contact Renée Bovée, WCTF Program Coordinator, at 307-777-6312 or renee.bovee@wyo.gov.