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The Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund board awarded $677,768.79 to 35 grant projects around Wyoming at their recent grant review meeting.

Awards were given to a wide variety of projects, including historic preservation and interpretive signage, public art, art exhibitions, theatre renovation, folk festivals, concerts in the park, chamber music, and archaeological research. Below is a complete listing of awards by county.

Albany County

  • Laramie Community Foundation, Touchstone Laramie 2025 Biennial Arts Exhibition, $6,140
  • Quadra Dangle Society of Laramie, Wyoming, Accessible Restroom Addition, $15,826.26

Carbon County

  • Little Snake River Museum, Jim Baker Cabin Preservation/Restoration Project, $40,379

Fremont County

  • Central Wyoming College – Archaeology, OSL Dating the Wiggins Fork Bison Jumps Complex, $50,000
  • Dubois Chamber Music, Dubois Chamber Music 2025 Season, $4,141
  • The American Mountain Men, South Pass Historical Marker Sign, American Mountain Men, $4,997.89
  • The Center for Popular Research, Education and Policy, Ancestral Elders Garden and Cultural Celebration on the Wind River Reservation, $11,500

Johnson County

  • Johnson County Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum, 1909 Carnegie Building Restoration Phase Four, $50,000

Laramie County

  • Arts Cheyenne, Cheyenne Artwalk 15 Year Anniversary, $2,450
  • Cheyenne Airport Board, Cheyenne Arts & Aviation Center, Canopy Replacement Phase 1, $50,000
  • Cheyenne Civic Center Foundation, Sound, Light and Display Technology Improvements, $27,259.74
  • Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra, “Land that I Love” Concert, Outreach and Recording Session, $15,000

Lincoln County

  • Salt River Arts Society, Building the Ford Theater Façade, $50,000
  • The Star Valley Arts Council, 2025-26 Arts Programming for Star Valley, $10,530

Natrona County

  • Casper Civic Chorale, 2025-2026 Concert Season, $3,000
  • Citizens for a Civic Auditorium, The Lyric: Plan Verifications, Concept & Operational Model Evaluation, $50,000
  • Wyoming Symphony Orchestra, 2025 Pops in the Park: Once Upon a Symphony, $47,500

Park County

  • City of Cody/Parks, Recreation & Public Facilities Department, 2025 Concerts in the Park, $2,500

Sheridan County

  • The New Museum at The Bradford Brinton Ranch (Brinton Museum), “Shadow & Light: Contemporary Native American Printmakers from Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts” Exhibition and Demonstration, $10,875.
  • Sheridan Community Education Foundation, Inc., Sheridan High School Fall Drama Club 2025, $3,000
  • Ucross Foundation, Bighorn Collective Arts Festival 2025, $12,500

Sublette County

  • Pinedale Fine Arts Council, 2025 Soundcheck Summer Music Series/Folk for Kids Series with Expanded Kids Concerts, $6,000
  • Sublette County Historical Society, Site and Facilities Plan for the Museum of the Mountain Man Expansion, $50,000

Teton County

  • Art Association of Jackson Hole, Ceramics Studio Kiln Replacement, $15,000
  • Community Entry Services, “Music for All” Music Therapy, $5,400
  • Dancers’ Workshop of Jackson Hole, 2025 Presenting Series LINES Ballet, $10,000
  • The Jackson Hole Chorale, Celebrate America with Song, $15,000
  • Jackson Hole Public Art, Gateway to Sustainability: A Sculpture Celebrating Transit & Ecology, $15,000
  • Vista 360°, Inc., “Saddle Up! Celebrating and Preserving Traditional Cowboy Crafts” Jackson Workshop, $14,000

Uinta County

  • Evanston STARS, Evanston STARS Brightening Sound Equipment, $20,000

Washakie County

  • Washakie Museum, “Metaphor, Myth & Politics: Art from Indigenous Printmakers” Exhibit and Related Events, $7,875

Statewide

  • Culture Conservation Corps, Uinta County Silversmith Workshop, $7,650
  • Wyoming Music Educators Association, WMEA Non-Profit Office Set-up, $5,231.90
  • Wyoming PBS Foundation, “Call of the West” A Documentary Tracing a Century of Dude Ranching, $34,750
  • Wyoming SHEEP Foundation, 2025 Wyoming Sheep & Wool Festival, $4,263

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Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund
A Division of Wyoming State Parks & Cultural Resources
2301 Central Avenue, 3rd Floor, Cheyenne, WY 82002
307-777-6312wyospcr.state.wy.us/CTF

 
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