From the Masterwork blog.
Recent news and announcements from the Foundation’s blog.
Attention NYC Friends: Treat Yourself to a Day Trip to the Hudson Valley Dance Festival
This year our friends at the Hudson Valley Dance Festival, benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, are offering a day trip to the event. Treat yourself and your best dance friend to extraordinary dance for an extraordinary cause — find out more at dradance.org.
Read on our blog →A Life in the Arts with R. Wayne Walters and Father Kenneth E. Lasch
A special edition featuring our first-ever A Life in the Arts awardee, R. Wayne Walters — a former Board member with an impressive career across performance, direction and composition — and Father Kenneth E. Lasch, who inspired Wayne’s new choral work, “Ode to the Sea.”
Watch & read more →Flawless: A Premiere Stages Theatrical Premiere
Our friends at Premiere Stages at Kean University present Flawless, written by John Wooten — part of the Foundation’s 2026 Premier Award to Premiere Stages.
Read on our blog →Applications open for the 2026–2027 Community Arts Grants
Community Arts Grants for the 2026–2027 cycle opened this spring, with entries due by midnight on May 1 to MasterworkArts@gmail.com. See this cycle’s grantees on our Community Arts Grants page.
See this year’s grantees →Post dates and excerpts reflect the Foundation’s public Blogger archive as of September 2026.