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2004 Grant Awards: State Listings

Creativity/Leadership Initiatives/Literature Fellowships
Services to Arts Organizations & Artists

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

TENNESSEE

Assitej/USA, Incorporated
Nashville, TN
CATEGORY: Services to the Field FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$25,000
To support the publication and distribution of TYA Today, the Marquee directory, and the expansion of the Observership Program. The project will encourage critical development of professional theatre for young audiences.

Country Music Hall of Fame (Country Music Foundation, Inc.)
Nashville, TN
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Save America's Treasures
$214,000
To support the conservation and preservation of the Country Music Foundation's audio collection. The collection includes over 14,000 transcriptions from the 1930s to the 1960s.

Delta Axis, Inc.
Memphis, TN
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$20,000
To support the presentation of a series of solo exhibitions in the Power House, a circa 1914 renovated historic building. The exhibitions, shown in the 4,700 square-foot brick and glass structure, will feature the work of Kara Walker, Terri Jones, Brad Kalhamer, and Frances Alys.

Humanities Tennessee
Nashville, TN
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$10,000
To support The Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word. With an annual audience of 30,000, this free, three-day festival has featured readings and panel sessions by more than 200 authors.

Knoxville Opera Company
Knoxville, TN
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
$10,000
To support the The Barber of Seville by Gioacchino Rossini and The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The operas will be performed as the centerpiece of the third Rossini Festival in Knoxville.

Nashville Ballet
Nashville, TN
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. The work will be choreographed by Julia Adam in collaboration with singer/songwriters Tricia Walker, Ashley Cleveland, and Karen Stanley from the Bluebird Cafe, a venue for emerging artists.

Nashville Chamber Orchestra
Nashville, TN
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$12,500
To support the biennial guitar festival. American composer David Balakrishnan will be commissioned to write a new work for two guitars, violin, and chamber orchestra, and the work will be premiered during the 2004 festival.

Nashville Cultural Arts Project
Nashville, TN
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
$10,800
To support a lecture series. Nationally recognized designers will make public presentations on cross disciplinary projects in the arts, architecture, and urban development.

Nashville Independent Film Festival
Nashville, TN
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$7,500
To support the Nashville Film Festival. The event features student films and videos, documentaries, narrative films, and experimental work.

Tennessee Arts Commission
Nashville, TN
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$25,000
To support, through a Chairman's extraordinary action award, the statewide coordinator's position and related costs for the National Symphony Orchestra's American Residency Program in Tennessee.

University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Knoxville, TN
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$15,000
To support the creation, development, and production of Babel. Resident designers Marianne Custer and Kenton Yeager will design the physical production and artistic director Blake Robison will oversee the collaboration between writer-director Alain Timar of Teatro de Hal of Avignon, France and an international ensemble of partners.

Tennessee Total Dollars Awarded: $359,800
Tennessee Total Grants Awarded: 11


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