Stage Notes: TACA grants $125,000 to area theaters; ‘Book of Mormon’ announced for 2023
Erin Malone Turner is among the recipients of TACA’s New Works 2.0 grants (Courtesy photo) Stage Notes is a weekly aggregate post about theater, classical music and stage news, events, reviews and other pertinent information. TACA announces $125,000 in New Works 2.0 grants On Tuesday, The Arts Community Alliance (TACA) – announced the 2022 recipients of its New Works Fund that focuses support on new works of performing, literary and visual art in varying stages of development by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color), LGBTQ+, and female artists.
The five arts organization recipients with multidisciplinary new works will share the $125,000 distribution made possible by Anne Davidson, The Texas Instruments Foundation and The Sapphire Foundation. “I am overjoyed to support these exciting new works as the Presenting Sponsor of the 2022 TACA New Works Fund,” Anne Davidson said in the announcement. “New artistic work is the lifeblood of our community and I look forward to seeing these five projects come to life.” Launched in 2012, the TACA New Works Fund was established to support innovative new works of art in Dallas County with the intention to amplify and cultivate artists underrepresented in their respective artistic genres and endeavors.
Since its inception, the fund has provided $1,025,000 in grants to support 33 new works of art in North Texas. “We are humbled to provide support to such an exciting slate of new work projects being developed by organizations and artists of diverse backgrounds,” Terry D.
Loftis, Donna Wilhelm Family president and executive director of TACA mentioned in the press release. “We are also excited that this year’s fund is supporting new works in varying stages of development.
