FY 2005 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence/Literature Fellowships

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

TENNESSEE

Ballet Memphis Corporation
Cordova, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the New Works+New Artists series. The project enables aspiring choreographers from the company to develop choreography using professional dancers.

Michael Blumenthal
Clarksville, TN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Circuit Playhouse, Inc.
Memphis, TN
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support a production of a stage adaptation of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men directed by Drew Fracher and featuring members of the resident company. The production will be accompanied by an educational component including teaching guides, matinees, and a discussion series.

Jubilee Community Arts, Inc.
Knoxville, TN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support live presentations, broadcasts, and documentation of traditional music. The project will include a series of weekly concerts, performances at the Jubilee Festial, programs focusing on the traditional music of the southern Appalachian region, and research and documentation of traditional artists in east Tennessee.

Knoxville Opera Company
Knoxville, TN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera 
To support productions of Gaetano Donizetti's The Daughter of the Regiment and Robert Ward's one-act opera Roman Fever, double-billed with Gioacchino Rossini's chamber opera Il cambiale di matrimonio. The productions will form the centerpiece of the Fourth Annual Rossini Festival in April 2005, a free Italian Street Fair in downtown Knoxville.

Nashville Independent Film Festival
Nashville, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support the 36th Nashville Film Festival, featuring student films and videos, documentaries, narrative films, and experimental work. The festival will also present workshops and seminars on writing screenplays, film scores, and distribution issues.

Nashville Opera Association
Nashville, TN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera 
To support the world premiere of a new opera based on Elmer Gantry, the Sinclair Lewis novel about a charismatic businessman turned preacher. The music combines a melange of arias, hymn tunes, chorus spirituals, operatic duets, and musical ensembles.

TENNESSEE total grants: 7
TENNESSEE total dollars: $98,000

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