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Moody Fund for the Arts distributes $450,000 in funding to dallas arts organizations

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Aug. 8, 2024

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Moody Fund for the Arts distributes $450,000 in funding to dallas arts organizations

This year will mark 7 years of MFA grantmaking to Dallas Arts organizations

DALLAS -On Wednesday, August 7, 2024 the Moody Fund for the Arts (MFA) announced it is awarding grants to 59 Dallas arts organizations. The grants, which range from $3,000 to $12,000 support groups representing a broad cross-section of small, emerging and ethnic arts organizations across numerous art forms including theatre, music, dance, visual arts, film, multimedia and more. Many of the programs provide cultural programs to historic under-served communities in Dallas, and seven of the recipients were new applicants for MFA grants.

"When we created the Moody Fund for the Arts in 2017, our vision was to support - in perpetuity - the diverse range of small arts organizations in Dallas," said Moody Foundation Chairman Francie Moody-Dahlberg. "It's especially impressive to see so many new groups applying for grants and receiving them. That's an exciting sign of all the cultural growth this is bringing to Dallas."

2024 marks the 7thyear of MFA grantmaking. Since its first awards in 2018, MFA has awarded a total of $2,380,000 through 362 unique grants to 99 organizations. MFA recipients must be based in Dallas, have budgets under $1M and are supported by the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture (OAC).

These grant funds supplement the investment that comes from the city of Dallas each year," said Martine Elyse Philippe, OAC Director and a member of the MFA Executive Review Committee. "This helps ensure that Dallas continues to have a diverse and vibrant arts scene providing equitable access to cultural experiences for years to come."

The fund awards flexible grants within five categories. This year saw entries in each category: General Program and Operating Cost Support(38); New Works, Commissions, and Unique

Presentations(11); Community Focus Performances/Artist-in-Residency Programs(4); Cultural Equity, New Initiatives(2); Capacity Building(4).

Moody Fund Recipients:

  • Agora Artists
  • American Baroque Opera Company
  • Art House Dallas
  • Arts Mission Oak Cliff
  • Artstillery
  • Arttitude
  • Avant Chamber Ballet
  • B. MOORE DANCE
  • Ballet North Texas
  • Basically Beethoven
  • Beckles Dancing Company
  • Bombshell Dance Project
  • Color Me Empowered
  • Dallas Arts District
  • Dallas Chamber Symphony
  • Dallas International Film Festival
  • Dallas Metroplex Musicians' Association
  • Dance Council of North Texas
  • DFW Play
  • Echo Theatre
  • Emerge Coalition, Inc.
  • Flamenco Fever
  • Greater Dallas Choral Society
  • Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra
  • Indian Cultural Heritage Foundation
  • Indique Dance Company
  • Kitchen Dog Theater Company
  • kNOwBOX dance
  • Lone Star Wind Orchestra
  • Lyric Stage
  • New Texas Symphony Orchestra
  • Oak Cliff Society of Fine Arts
  • Ollimpaxqui Ballet Co
  • Orchestra of New Spain
  • Orpheus Chamber Singers
  • OutLoud Dallas
  • Over the Bridge Arts
  • Pegasus Contemporary Ballet
  • Pegasus Media Project
  • Prism Movement Theater
  • Sammons Center for the Arts
  • Second Thought Theatre
  • Soul Rep Theatre Company
  • South Dallas Concert Choir
  • SPARK! Dallas
  • Swan Strings
  • Teatro Dallas
  • Texas Winds Musical Outreach
  • The Artist Outreach
  • The HighArt Foundation
  • The No Limits Arts Theatre
  • The Writer's Garret
  • Theatre Three
  • Undermain Theatre
  • Uptown Players
  • Urban Arts Collective
  • USA Film Festival
  • Verdigris Ensemble
  • Watering Hole Collective

The AT&T Performing Arts Center administers the fund and its application and review process. Award decisions are made through a two-level review process. The first level, the MFA Advisory Review Panel is a peer-review judging process. The second level of review is provided by the MFA Executive Review Committee.


2024 MFA Advisory Review Panel

Mickie Bragalone - Arts and Cultural Advisory Commission Member, Place 9, retired attorney, arts patron and advocate
Sierra Noelle Jones - Dancer and teacher at Dallas Black Dance Theatre - 7 years as Company Artist and 2 years with DBDT! Encore
Terry Martin - Acting teacher, Head of Fine Arts at Greenhill School and former Producing Artistic Director of WaterTower Theatre
Jaquain Sloan - Musician and teacher - Dallas Symphony Orchestra, bassoon
Cynthia Santiago - Actor, filmmaker, ballet dancer


2024 Executive Review Committee

Stephen Gilhooly - Arts patron, advocate, business and transactional attorney
Tracey Nash-Huntley - Arts patron, advocate, philanthropist
Martine Elyse Philippe - City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture, Director

For more information on the Moody Fund for the Arts please visit: www.moodyartsfund.org.

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