ROBERTSThe Edward C. & Ann T.

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Guitar Under the Arts at iQuilt's EnvisionfestPhoto: Break MacNab

Art mirrors the community. It reflects our values, aspirations and challenges.

The 33 projects funded by The Edward C. & Ann T. Roberts Foundation

in 2016 also reflect Greater Hartford’s extraordinarily rich cultural diversity. Each of the grants, ranging from $2,500 to $25,000, represents the foundation’s ongoing commitment to help local arts organizations thrive – even in the most challenging of environments.

The small music festival that celebrates the works of women composers. The award-winning theater company that reinvents Shakespeare. A weekend jazz festival that brings 70,000 enthusiasts to Bushnell Park. Arthur Miller’s Crucible re-envisioned as an opera. An international piano competition that launches the career of an eight year old Chopin prodigy.And a library that showcases the influences of our Hip Hop Nation. These are but a few of the significant arts programs funded by the Roberts Foundation – programs that contribute to the city’s vibrancy and makes the greater Hartford region not just a destination, but an ideal place to live, work and raise of family.

Hip Hop Nation at Hartford Public LibraryPhoto: BKS Photographs

With AppreciationThe Edward C. & Ann T. Roberts Foundation wishes to acknowledge Jack Kennedy and R. Kelley Bonn who retired from the board in December after several years ofservice. Jack and Kelley were invaluable resources, and the foundation thanks themfor their commitment and significant contributions.

The foundation also extends its appreciation to Ron Lyles, Hartford Jazz Society board president, who completed his two-year term on the board as Arts Representative. In December, Freddie McInerney, Director of Marketing/Communications for TheaterWorks, assumed the Arts Representative role for a two-year term. The Roberts Foundation board created theArts Representative board position in 2000 to enable the foundation to benefit from the expertise of arts leaders who are currently working in the community.

We welcomed new Board member Nancy G. Dean to serve as the new Chair of the Investment Committee.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR 2016

Jack Kennedy, President

Carol Terry, Vice President

Doug Boains,Treasurer

Elizabeth Normen, Secretary

R. Kelley Bonn, Chair, Investment Committee

Michael Campbell

Carlos Hernandez Chavez

Olivia White

Ronald Lyles, Arts Representative

StaffLisa M. Curran,Executive Director

Night Fall 2016

2016 GrantsExcellence in the Arts Program Grants

Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival $2,500Funding to support 19th Annual Festival

Artists Collective, Inc. $13,000Funding to support The Larry Willis Quintet

Ballet Theatre Company $5,000Funding to support Speranza

Capital Classics, Inc. $5,000 Funding to support Othello

CitySingers of Hartford $4,000Funding to support the 2016/2017 Concert Series

Connecticut Chopin Competition $8,000Funding to support the 2017 International Piano Competition

Connecticut Choral Artists Inc. $7,500 Funding to support the 2016/2017 Great Performances Concert Series

Connecticut Forum $5,000Funding to support the Creative Artists Showcase

Connecticut Guitar Society $5,500Funding to support the Romantic Languages Guitar Series

Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra $10,000 Funding to support the 2016-2017 Concert & Opera Season

First Night Hartford $6,000Funding to support Bated Breather Theatre performance

Womens Composers Festival of Hartford

Sonia Plumb Dance Company's Fire or IcePhoto: Thomas Giroir

Moon for the Misbegottenat Playhouse on Park Photo: Rich Wagner

Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz, Inc. $15,000Funding to support the 2017 Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz

HartBeat Ensemble $10,000Funding to support Jimmy and Lorraine

Hartford Chorale $15,000 Funding to support Letters from Italy: 1944

Hartford Jazz Society $7,500Funding of The Paul Brown Monday Night Jazz Series

Hartford Opera Theater, Inc. $5,000Funding of The Crucible

Hartford Public Library $6,000Funding to support Hip Hop Nation

Hartford Stage $25,000Funding to support The Comedy of Errors

Hartford Symphony Orchestra $25,000Funding to support the 2016/2017 Masterworks Concert Series

iQuilt $7,500Funding to support Envisionfest’s Guitar Under the Arts

Mark Twain House $4,500Funding to support Six by Twain

Night Fall $10,000Funding to support its 5th Annual Night Fall

The Comedy of Errors at Hartford StagePhoto: T. Charles Erikson

Larry Willis Quintet at The Artists Collective

Playhouse Theatre Group $7,000Funding to support the 2017 Main Stage Series

Real Art Ways $20,000Funding to support Surveillance exhibition

Sonia Plumb Dance Company $7,500Funding to support Fire or Ice

TheaterWorks $20,000Funding to support the production of Raging Skillet

University of St. Joseph $5,000Funding to support HANGA NOW: Japanese Printmakers exhibition

Wadsworth Atheneum $20,000Funding to support 2017 Education Programs

West Hartford Art League $5,000Funding to support the Second Emerging Artists exhibition

Windsor Art Center $1,500Funding to support Made in the Shade exhibition

Women Composer Festival of Hartford $3,000Funding to support the 2017 Women Composer Festival

CONCORA performs at The Wadsworth Atheneum

Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival

Ballet Theatre Company's Speranza

Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz

Capital Grants

New Britain Museum of American Art $19,500Third Installment towards $50,000 grant for new Collections Staff Office

Creation of New Work

TheaterWorks $15,000Funding to support the play, Raging Skillet by Jacques Lamarre

Total Awarded in 2016 $325,500

Bated Breath performs Freedom in Three Acts at First Night Hartford

Capital Classics' Othello

Creation of New WorkEstablished in 2003, the Foundation’s Creation of New Work Initiative seeks to fostercreativity in Greater Hartford by supporting the collaboration of local artists and artsorganizations. In its December, 2015 meeting, the board considered applications fornew works in the performing arts. The board approved a grant to TheaterWorks tocommission a new play by Jacques Lamarre. The play, Raging Skillet, tells the humorous yet touching story of Chef Rossi, a woman who finds a passion for cookingafter growing up with microwaved meals in a traditional orthodox Jewish home.

The Foundation will consider proposals in the performing arts this fall.

2017 Grant OutlookAt its December 2016 meeting, the Board set a 2017 grant budget of $332,500 which reflects the projected performance of the foundation’s assets during 2017.

Financial StatementsStatements of Support, Revenue, Expenses, and Other Changes in Net Assets, Modified Cash Basis

For the years ended December 31, 2016 and 20152016 2015

Changes in operating net assets:Revenues:

Interest & dividends $ 154,442 $ 158,801Net realized & unrealized gains/ 303,744 (132,839)

(losses) on securities Less investment and custodial fees (45,910) (44,432)Miscellaneous refund 4,015 2,760

Net revenues and (losses) 416,291 $ (15,710)

Expenses:Grants 325,500 340,634Administrative 44,794 45,972Excise tax payment 1,500 6,620

Total expenses $ 371,794 $ 393,226

Change in net assets 44,497 (408,936)

Net assets, beginning of the year 6,912,306 7,321,242

Net assets, end of the year $ 6,956,803 $ 6,912,306

Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Photo: Ruth Sovronsky

Anne Cubberly's puppets entertain at Connecticut Forum's Creative Artists

HartBeat Ensemble's Jimmy and LorrainePhoto: Andy Hart

Founded in 1964, The Edward C. & Ann T. Roberts Foundation is a private, special purpose foundation. In accordance with the founders’ wishes, its mission is to support and encourage excellencein the arts. The Foundation focuses its giving in Hartford, Connecticut and the immediate surroundingarea. Deadlines for 2017 applications are February 1, May 1, August 1, and November 1. Applications for The Creation of New Work Initiative are due September 1, 2017.

Guidelines and information on the application process are available on the web at fdnweb.org/roberts/.Please see our web site for a history of the Foundation and listings of past grants.

The Edward C. & Ann T. Roberts FoundationP O Box 271588, West Hartford, CT 06127-1588(860) 233-0288 edwannroberts@att.net

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Hanga Now: Japanese Printmakersexhibition at University of St. Joseph Art Gallery