2005 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/American Masterpieces/
Folk Arts Infrastructure/Learning in the Arts/Partnerships

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

TEXAS

Austin Circle of Theaters
Austin, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary 
To support Let's Go Austin2's online bilingual ticketing service and marketing training for performing arts organizations The project will build a new interactive functionality into the AusTIX website.

Cactus Pear Music Festival
San Antonio, TX
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the presentation of tour concerts to rural communities by the Cactus Pear Music Festival. Plans include four concerts in the nearby rural Texas communities of Georgetown, Kerrville, Fredericksburg, and Boerne.

Centro Cultural Aztlan, Inc.
San Antonio, TX
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary 
To support a series of community arts programs. Through exhibitions, workshops, and performances, underserved audiences will be given the opportunity to participate in Chicano and Latino art and culture.

Contemporary Art for San Antonio (Blue Star Art Space)
San Antonio, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts 
To support WAX II, a symposium and workshops focusing on the importance of public art in San Antonio. The symposium will focus on the importance of art and culture in the built environment, and will include forums for college and university students in journalism and art criticism.

Dallas Museum of Art
Dallas, TX
$125,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support the touring exhibition Modernism in American Silver: 20th Century Design, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition, organized for a national tour, will present the stylistic history of silver design in America between 1925 and 2000.

DiverseWorks, Inc. (consortium)
Houston, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary 
To support the consortium project, the annual DiverseWorks Artists Retreat and Creative Capital Professional Development Workshop for visual and performing artists. The project will provide intensive professional training on the business of being an artist.

Documentary Arts, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support an updated version of the Masters of Traditional Arts DVD. The project will focus on more than 350 NEA National Heritage Fellows who have mastered culturally diverse artistic styles and who represent a vast scope of ethnic, tribal, religious, and regional traditions.

Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
San Antonio, TX
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary 
To support Arte es Vida. The series will continue to develop and strengthen this cultural grounding project, which focuses on the predominately Latino community of San Antonio's West Side.

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association, Inc.
Fort Worth, TX
$22,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support a state-wide touring program. Concerts and educational programs will take place in five rural communities.

Gemini Series, Inc.
San Antonio, TX
$7,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support a series of classes, readings, and special events led by published writers and teachers. The University Without Walls program will offer classes for local writers and community members combining both on-site mentoring and distance learning.

Houston Symphony Society (consortium)
Houston, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support school residency activities, a consortium project. Plans include professional development, instrument instruction, ensemble performances, and student attendance at concerts, in partnership with the Houston Independent School District and the Crockett Charter School (CCS).

Inprint, Inc.
Houston, TX
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support the 25th anniversary of the Inprint Brown Reading Series. Inprint will send brochures to more than 100 print and broadcast media groups and 5,400 households throughout Houston, and place posters and postcards at area bookstores, theaters, cafes, schools, libraries, and universities.

Lone Star Ballet, Inc.
Amarillo, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support performances and outreach activities for school children. The company will present The Nutcracker and offer free performances to school children and people with disabilities.

Menil Foundation, Inc.
Houston, TX
$55,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support the touring exhibition Klee and America, with accompanying education materials. The exhibition will explore the American response to Paul Klee's (German, 1879-1940) work, and the museum's efforts to introduce Klee and other early European modernists to American audiences.

Midland-Odessa Symphony and Chorale, Inc.
Midland, TX
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the Senior Series. Brass, string, and woodwind ensemble performances will take place in area senior centers, retirement facilities, and long-term care homes.

National Association of Latino Arts and Culture
San Antonio, TX
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary 
To support the fifth Leadership Training Institute and Regional Field Training Workshops. The two-part project will offer Latino cultural organizations opportunities to develop organizational and leadership skills.

Society for the Performing Arts
Houston, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting 
To support Percussion: A Worldwide Celebration. The project will bring together the diverse Houston community with a celebration of percussion.

Southwest School of Art & Craft
San Antonio, TX
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts 
To support workshops by visiting artists. Artists with specialized knowledge in an arcane technical area, or who have applied a traditional method toward innovative ends, are invited to lead workshops that complement the programs in ceramics, fiber, painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, metals, paper, and book arts.

Texas A&M Research Foundation
College Station, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support Writing the Self and Community, a series of public readings and writing workshops organized by the journal Callaloo. The journal will sponsor summer workshops at Texas A&M University and additional workshops at historically black colleges and universities around the country.