FY 2006 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence/Literature Fellowships

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

KENTUCKY

Actors Theatre Of Louisville, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater

To support the 30th annual Humana Festival of New American Plays. Seen by up to 30,000 people each year, festival highlights will include six fully produced, full-length plays, four ten-minute plays, an anthology project featuring the works of multiple writers, and panel discussions.

Kentucky Assembly of Local Arts Agencies (Arts Kentucky)
Louisville, KY
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the Kentucky Peer Advisory Network (KPAN). KPAN provides low-cost technical assistance to nonprofit arts organizations, community groups, and schools that offer arts programming throughout Kentucky.

Kentucky Dance Council, Inc. (aka Louisville Ballet)
Louisville, KY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the commissioning and presentation of new works. The company will present Val Caniparoli's Lambarena, and commission principal choreographer Adam Hougland to create a new work. The project will include extensive outreach to African Americans.

Lexington Children's Theatre, Inc.
Lexington, KY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the presentation and tour of plays. Señora Tortuga by Roxanne Schroeder-Arce and A Thousand Cranes by Kathryn Schultz-Miller will tour throughout Kentucky, Ohio, South Carolina, and Tennessee.

Media Working Group, Inc.
Lexington, KY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support post-production and editing costs for a documentary film titled The Hayloft Gang: The Story of the National Barn Dance. The film is based on a pioneering country music radio program that became a national phenomenon in the 1930s and 1940s.

Taylor-Hall, Mary Ann
Sadieville, KY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Number of Grants: 6          Total Amount: $123,000

 
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