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.

NORTH CAROLINA

American Dance Festival, Inc.
Durham, NC
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Pioneers and Frontiers: Tradition and Beyond, a project that will include the commissioning and presentation of work by American and international modern dance choreographers. Free education and outreach activities will include seminars with choreographers and dancers, post-performance discussions, tours to classes and workshops, and open rehearsals and master classes.

Carolina Ballet, Inc.
Raleigh, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of A Tempest Fantasy, a ballet choreographed by artistic director Robert Weiss. Educational activities include participation in Carolina Ballet's Dancer in Schools program, an outreach program for public school fifth graders throughout North Carolina.

Doc Arts, Inc. (aka Full Frame Documentary Film Festival)
Durham, NC
$19,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 9th Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. The event will showcase 100 films by emerging, established, and international documentarians, with accompanying panel discussions and symposia.

Light Factory
Charlotte, NC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Fabricated Harmony. The exhibition and related outreach activities will investigate the movement from segregation to integration in both the United States and South Africa.

McColl Center for Visual Art
Charlotte, NC
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support three-month residencies for approximately 12 artists. A residency also will be extended to a local art teacher in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District.

North Carolina Central University (on behalf of University Art Museum)
Durham, NC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support an exhibition of the work of African American artist William H. Johnson, (1901-1970), with an accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will trace Johnson's career from his arrival in New York City in 1918 to his later work in the 1950s.

North Carolina Dance Theatre
Charlotte, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of new works and the restaging of past works, during the company's 35th anniversary. A comprehensive program of educational and outreach offerings will include curriculum-based programming, residencies, behind-the-scenes field trips, educational performances in the theater, and lecture-demonstrations in the schools.

Rash, Ron V.
Cullowhee, NC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Sun Publishing Company, Inc. (aka The Sun)
Chapel Hill, NC
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support free, year-long subscriptions of The Sun to 600 community college libraries throughout the country. The Sun is an advertisement-free monthly magazine of essays, short stories, poems, interviews, and photography.

Triad Stage, Inc.
Greensboro, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of Brother Wolf by director and writer Preston Lane will include original music composed by singer/songwriter Laurelyn Dossett. The play explores the plot of the classic text Beowulf, setting the story in a southern Appalachian community.

Wake Forest University (on behalf of Wake Forest University Press)
Winston-Salem, NC
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication of an anthology of Irish poetry. The anthology will contain the work of poets such as John Deane, Sean Lysaght, and Thomas McCarthy.

Number of Grants: 11          Total Amount: $227,000

 
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