Sponsored Projects
Throughout its history, The Arts Company provided fiscal sponsorship and other services for a number of projects. Here are some of them:
Sabai Sabai Sesame 2003-2005
From the introduction to the Sabai Sabai Sesame pilot
The Arts Company helped raise funds and provided fiscal services for production of the pilot episode of Sabai Sabai Sesame (Hello Hello Sesame), the Khmer-language (Cambodian) version of the popular PBS children's series Sesame Street. The pilot, produced by Alan Morgan for Educational Television Cambodia (ETC) was based on Season 2, Episode 8, "Cooperation," of the American Sesame Street and contained a live-action sequence shot in Cambodia as well as the familiar animated Sesame Street Muppets dubbed in Khmer. Later, a full season was produced by ETC under the auspices of the World Education Foundation with funding from the US Embassy in Phnom Penh. The 12-episode series premiered on Apsara TV-11 in Phnom Penh on December 13, 2005. According to ETC's CEO Peter Wilson, Sabai Sabai Sesame was the first television show for children shown in Cambodia and spurred the creation of subsequent children's television in the country.
Stills from the Sabai Sabai Sesame pilot
New Television Artbytes 1998-2001
An offshoot of WGBH's New Television Workshop, Artbytes was initiated by longtime New Television director Susan Dowling as a way to encourage artists to create art work for the new medium of the Internet. Among the art works created under the auspices of The Arts Company were Found Sound by Alan Berliner and Be A Spy (2001) by Marie Cieri and Tom Estilow.
Among The Arts Company's other sponsored projects were:
Artists' Conference 1993
In 1993, The Arts Company received funding from the Massachusetts Cultural Council to organize a one-day conference for contemporary artists about funding and production of new work.
Opium 1995
Artist Barbara Broughel's Opium was a series of sculptural works exploring the history of the opium trade. Funding for the initial phase of Broughel's came to The Arts Company from The Herschbach Fund for the Arts and the LEF Foundation.
Outside In 2016
A project based on artist JR's worldwide Inside Out large-scale outdoor photo installations, Outside In aimed to benefit homeless youth in Harvard Square, Cambridge. Project director: Rikk Larsen.