Recent Grantees | 2024-2025

General Support Grantees

Chamber Orchestra Ogden

Chamber Music Orchestra

Proposal

To support Chamber Orchestra Ogden’s 2024-2025 concert season which includes four performances, as well as performances with community collaborators.


Eccles Community Art Center

Eccles Community Art

Proposal

To support the general operations of the Eccles Art Center which includes an arts pantry, exhibits, art competitions, educational classes, workshops, outreach, and an August Summer Outside Art Fair.


Good Company Theatre

Good Company Theatre

Proposal

To support Good Company Theatre’s (GTC) 2024-2025 season which includes three Utah premieres, a GCT original production, and a comedic operetta.

Imagine Ballet Theatre

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Proposal

To support the general operations of Imagine Ballet Theatre, a pre-professional ballet company, which includes public performances and outreach activities throughout the company’s season.   


Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery

Mary Elizabether Dee Shaw Gallery

Proposal

To support the general operations of the Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery at Weber State University including programming at the Dumke Arts Plaza and exhibits and lectures at the Gallery's on-campus location.


NEXT Ensemble

NEXT Ensemble Arts in the Park

Proposal

To support NEXT Ensemble’s 2024-2025 season which includes 5 concerts throughout Ogden and outreach activities at local Title One schools.


Ogden Contemporary Arts

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Proposal

To support Ogden Contemporary Arts’ general operations which include free public art experiences, exhibitions, an artist-in-residence program, Artist Factory youth programs, youth classes, and community events.


Ogden Friends of Acoustic Music (OFOAM)

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Proposal

To support the general operations of Ogden Friends of Acoustic Music (OFOAM) which includes Dia de los Muertos en Ogden 2024; youth outreach; the 17th Annual Ogden Music Festival to be held May 30 - June 1, 2025 at Fort Buenaventura; and the WILL & WAY youth instrument lending library.


Onstage Ogden

Onstage Ogden

Proposal 

To support Onstage Ogden’s 2024-2025 season of 27 events including performances at The Monarch and Peery’s Egyptian Theater, community engagement, workshops, and field-trip performances.


Treehouse Children's Museum

Treehouse Childrens Museum

Proposal

To support the general operations of Treehouse Children’s Museum which includes STEAM exhibits, ParticiPlays® programming, an Art Garden, school tour experiences, summer workshops, outreach activities, and more.

Weber State University String Project

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Proposal

To support the general operations of The String Project, a stringed instrument youth education program which includes classes, free public concerts, a two-week summer intensive, instrument repair, and more.

Project Support Grantees

9th Muse Academy of Art

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Proposal

To support the 4th Annual Ogden Chalk Walk, a community event in which emerging artists create chalk murals on 25th Street to celebrate the beginning of summer.


Cultura & Craft

Cultura and Craft.

Proposal 

To support the Dia De Los Muertos Utah festival to be held October 26, 2024 at Union Station.   


Happy Magpie Book & Quill

Happy Magpie


Proposal

To support the Happy Magpie's montly Writer-in-Residence program. Residents will be responsible for creating one free public lesson/craft talk/workshop and one archived blog/article.


The LQ Zine

The LQ

Proposal

To support 2 issues of the LQ Zine, a handheld, full color art publication featuring the LGBTQ+ creative community for a general public audience.


Ogden Concert Band

Ogden Concert Band

Proposal

To support two free family-friendly Ogden Concert Band concerts to be held at the Ogden High School Auditorium.


Ogden Nature Center

Ogden Nature Center Watercolor

Proposal

To support Ogden Nature Center’s 21st annual Earth Day Celebration which includes visual and performing arts demonstrations, activities, live performances, a youth Earth Day art contest, and more.


Ogden School Foundation

Ogden School Foundation

Proposal

To support the annual Ogden School District Festival of the Arts to be held April - May 2025. Artwork will be displayed at the Eccles Community Art Center and Union Station.

Ogden Shakespeare Festival

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Proposal

To support the Ogden Shakespeare Festival’s debut performance of "As You Like It" by William Shakespeare at the Ogden Outdoor Amphitheatre July 19-21, 2024.


Railtown Readings

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Proposal 

To support Railtown Readings, a local reading series at Weber County Main Library, featuring local writers and those from the larger West.

Samantha Killinen

Samantha Killinen On Solid Ground

Proposal 

To support the creation and fabrication of "On Solid Ground," a public art sculpture to be installed on 25th Street across from Ogden Contemporary Arts.



The Banyan Collective

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Proposal

To support Van Sessions at The Monarch, a free live audience music and video podcast produced monthly during Ogden’s First Friday Art Stroll.

The Boys & Girls Club of Weber-Davis

Boys and Girls Clubs of Weber Davis

Proposal

To support The Boys & Girls Clubs of Weber Davis’s Create @ The Club, an afterschool and summer art program featuring art classes and free music lessons.

Tribalovedancer

Tribalovedancer

Proposal

To support the choreographic creations and public performances of Tribalovedancer at various venues throughout Ogden City. 

Utah Neighborhood Connection

Utah Neighborhood Connection

Proposal

To support a new year-round after-school art program by Utah Neighborhood Connection for Highland Junior High students in grades 7th-9th. Offerings will include a weekly visual art class and music lessons, quarterly cultural field trips, and more.   


Weber Community Foundation

Excellence in Community

Proposal 

To support the Weber Community Foundation’s Excellence in the Community Series which includes eight free public concerts to be held at Peery’s Egyptian Theater.  

Youth Impact

Youth Impact

Proposal

To support Youth Impact's art programming which includes ballet folklorico, pottery, stained glass, murals, industrial art, jewelry making, guitar, photography, film-making, painting, digital arts, and more.