Project Support grants are non-recurring grants used to support arts organizations in providing activities that engage new audiences in the arts and contribute to the vibrancy and quality of life in Fairfax County. These grants will not fund operating expenses.

Arts in Education

City of Fairfax Band
City of Fairfax Band will form a Youth Division featuring the Northern Virginia Youth Winds, an auditioned High School level band directed by Mr. Denny Stokes.  This new wind ensemble will offer a unique opportunity for young brass, woodwind, and percussion musicians who are looking for symphonic band experience to complement their High School band experience.  Auditions will be held in the fall of 2011, and the inaugural concert is planned for December.

Greater Reston Art Center
Greater Reston Art Center(GRACE) will present Until every shape has found its city with Evan Reed from September 29 through November 12, 2011.  Borrowing his title from Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, Reed will explore the intersection of art, literature, and architecture through complex structures and drawings that transcend literal interpretations.  One work, a human-sized camera obscura, will extend outside the gallery walls and on to the surrounding sidewalk.  This exhibition will be used as the basis for Inter-Action: Enrichment through Art, a program that brings Fairfax County youths to GRACE for tours, workshops, and multi-sensory learning programs.

Read more: 2012 Recipients

Project Support grants are non-recurring grants used to support arts organizations in providing activities that engage new audiences in the arts and contribute to the vibrancy and quality of life in Fairfax County. These grants will not fund operating expenses.

Art In Education

The Amadeus Concerts
for the project "Amadeus Side-by-Side Concerts"
Amadeus Side-by-Side Concerts are presented in Fairfax County elementary schools. First, student musicians from the school orchestra rehearse alongside the professional musicians of the Amadeus Orchestra. Next, the combined group performs for the entire school. Finally, the Amadeus Orchestra plays its own repertoire with the accompaniment of sights, sounds, and stories. A Side-by-Side Concert brings together students, teachers, administrators, parents, and professional musicians in an exciting event that showcases developing talent and opens young eyes and ears to the power of live orchestral music.

Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts
for the project "STEM/STEAM Institute Programs in Fairfax County, VA"
The Wolf Trap Institute’s STEM/STEAM project addresses the national call for the increased study of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and the arts (STEM + the arts = STEAM) for young children.  The project will connect and correspond to math and science elements such as geometry, addition/subtraction, and measurement with the arts-based teaching method the institute has refined over 25 years.  The project includes a 5-day Summer Institute program for Teaching Artists and teachers, 12 Fall/Spring Residencies, and 2 Professional Development Workshops.

Read more: 2011 Recipients

 Project Support grants are non-recurring grants used to support arts organizations in providing activities that engage new audiences in the arts and contribute to the vibrancy and quality of life in Fairfax County. These grants will not fund operating expenses.

Arts in Education

Amadeus Concerts
Amadeus Side-by-Side Concerts are presented in Fairfax County elementary schools. First,
student musicians from the school orchestra rehearse alongside the professional musicians of
the Amadeus Orchestra. Next, the combined group performs for the entire school. Finally, the
Amadeus Orchestra plays its own repertoire with the accompaniment of sights, sounds, and
stories. A Side-by-Side Concert brings together students, teachers, administrators, parents, and
professional musicians in an exciting event that showcases developing talent and opens young
eyes and ears to the power of live orchestral music.

Greater Reston Arts Center
The Greater Reston Arts Center will present Divining Nature: An Elemental Garden by artist
Rebecca Kamen from October 1 to November 14, 2009. Ms. Kamen will transform the open,
hexagonal gallery into a luminous sculptural installation based on the Periodic Table of
Elements. Eighty-three of the naturally occurring elements will be represented as white Mylar
flowers supported on thin stems and arranged as a radiating spiral that visitors can walk
through. Ms. Kamen is recognized in the mid-Atlantic region for her thoughtful sculptures that
integrate science and art. The Greater Reston Arts Center will use Divining Nature as the basis
for Inter-Action: Enrichment through Art, a program that brings Fairfax County youth to the arts
center for tours, workshops, and extended programs.

Read more: 2010 Recipients