PINEDALE — The Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund recently awarded $195,678 to 30 cultural organizations around the state at their recent grant review board meeting held in Pinedale.

This grant round was very competitive with 45 excellent grant applications requesting essentially $1 million in grant support. Awards were given to support a wide variety of projects, including historic preservation activities, community performances and marketing, exhibitions and museum equipment, folk arts programming, oral histories, and endowment challenges. Below is a completing listing of awards by county.

Albany County

• City of Laramie, Edgar J. Lewis Bandshell Renovation, $10,000
• Laramie Main Street Alliance, Alive in Laramie, $5,000
• Wyoming Women’s Business Center, WyoFiber Live!, $3,000

Big Horn County

• The American Legion, Greybull Post 32, Legion Hall Historic Renovation, 2015 Phase, $5,000

Carbon County

• Carbon County Museum, 2015 High Plains Pow Wow, $2,000
• Town of Medicine Bow, Historical Museum Security System, $2,500
• Wyoming Frontier Prison, Gallery Upgrades, $5,518

Crook County

• Crook County Museum District, Old Stoney Window Replacement Project, Phase II, $10,000

Fremont County

• Lander Community Foundation, Lander Valley Ranching Oral History Project, $4,040
• Central Wyoming College, Anthropology Department, Dinwoddy Glacier Archaeology, $1,760
• Wind River Visitors Council, Native American Folkways and Horse Culture, Double D Wild Horse Sanctuary, $12,000

Johnson County

• Johnson County Library Foundation, Zelestrina Urza in Outer Space, Author David Romtvedt Educational Tour in Wyoming; $5,000

Hot Springs County

• Hot Springs Greater Learning Foundation, Big Horn Basin Folk Festival, $8,000

Laramie County

• Boulder Community Media, Virtual Art of the Hunt – Digital Convergence, $13,500
• Cheyenne Arts Council, Wyoming: Landscapes, Soundscapes & Dancescapes Wyoming Tours, $8,000
• Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum, Focus on Parades’ Exhibit Interpretation Plan, $5,710
• Cheyenne Greenway Foundation, Wildlife Landscapes for Holliday Park Greenway Underpass, $5,500
• Cheyenne Historic Preservation Board, Warren Rest House Restoration Project, $10,000
• Cheyenne Little Theatre Players, Inc., Mary Godfrey Playhouse Exterior Rehabilitation, Phase 1, $5,000

Natrona County

• The Casper Artists’ Guild, Inc., ART 321: Building an Endowment for the Future, $15,000

Park County

• Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation, Bring a Barrack Back to Heart Mountain WWII Japanese American Confinement Site, $10,000
• Northwest College Foundation, Establishing a Steel Band Ensemble at Northwest College, $5,000

Sheridan County

• Sheridan Artist Guild Et Al, Miss Indian American Invitational Art Show and Exhibit, $2,500

Teton County

• Dancers’ Workshop, Outreach Residency Programs, $5,000
• Grand Teton National Park Foundation, Historic Preservation Work on the T.A. Moulton Barn, $7,000
• Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, WILD Music Interactive Installation & WILD Festival, $4,000

Statewide

• Division State Parks, Historic Sites and Trails, Camp Douglas Window Restoration Project, $10,000
• George C. Frison Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, Endowment, $5,000
• Wyoming Chapter, American Institute of Architects, Computer Modeling for WY PBS, $2,000
• Wyoming State Historical Society, Wyoming Oral History Online Database, $8,650