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.

TEXAS

Alley Theatre
Houston, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of Journey's End by R.C. Sherriff, a play about life on the front lines duirng World War 1.

ArtLies (ARTLIES - The Texas Art Journal)
Houston, TX
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the reviews section of the journal ArtLies. A quarterly publication that covers the visual arts in Texas, ArtLies includes an average of 30 reviews per issue and is distributed in more than 30 Texas cities and towns.

Aurora Picture Show
Houston, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a curated film and video series. Media Archeology: Software Cinema will feature live film and video performance with artists who employ digital technologies and an accompanying symposium and program book.

Austin Film Society
Austin, TX
$23,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the presentation of a curated film and video series. More than 55 films will be shown to an estimated audience of 20,000 people.

Austin Lyric Opera
Austin, TX
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Dmitri Shostakovich. Additional activities will include pre-curtain lectures, a symposium on the opera's themes, a tour of the opera's scene shop, and community outreach.

Ballet Austin, Inc.
Austin, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support New American Talent, which will provide each of three emerging American choreographers with the opportunity to create and premiere a new work for Ballet Austin. Each choreographer will receive a two-week residency at Ballet Austin, including funds for choreography, costumes, and set and lighting design. The project's educational programs will include performance lectures, post-performance dialogues with the artists, and the production of a documentary film that will be presented at each performance.

Blue Lapis Light, Inc. (on behalf of Blue Lapis Light/Sally Jacques)
Austin, TX
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a site-specific work by choreographer Sally Jacques, incorporating aerial acrobatics. The piece will use ropes, cloth, bungee cords, and scaffolding.

Carver Development Board (aka Carver Community Cultural Center)
San Antonio, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of the Explorations in African Diaspora Dance project, an exploration of the rich heritage of dance in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. Participating artists include Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble (United States); Peru Negro (Peru); and Jant-Bi (Senegal).

Casares, Oscar
Austin, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Center for Women & Their Work
Austin, TX
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a series of solo exhibitions for young and emerging women artists of Texas. The exhibitions will be accompanied by catalogues, educational programs, and outreach activities.

City of Austin, Texas (on behalf of Economic Growth & Redevelopment Services Office, Cultural Arts Division)
Austin, TX
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support a community-wide cultural planning process. The Cultural Arts Division will work with a broad range of cultural industry resources in the development of a plan to strengthen and sustain Austin's fast-growing arts resources. Serving a population of 1.3 million, the Cultural Arts Division supported nearly 200 artists and cultural organizations last year.

Contemporary Arts Association of Houston (aka Contemporary Arts Museum Houston)
Houston, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring exhibition of the work of contemporary Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. It will be the first American survey of Rist's work, documenting her pioneering work in film and video over the past two decades.

Da Camera Society of Texas, Inc. (Da Camera of Houston)
Houston, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support The String Quartet in America: Then and Now and Music & Art: A Celebration of the Menil Collection's 20th Anniversary. The project will feature chamber music performances, panel discussions, and lectures, including a celebration of the development of the string quartet as a performing ensemble in America from post-World War II to present.

Dallas Children's Theater, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the second annual Young Adult Initiative, a series of programming for teen audiences. Activities will include the creation and production of The Secret Life of Girls by Linda Daugherty and Interplay II by Ted Perry and Hans Breder.

Dallas Museum of Art (Consortium)
Dallas, TX
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
A consortium project to support the touring exhibition, Matisse: the Painter as Sculptor, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. Co-organized with the Baltimore Museum of Art, the exhibition will present approximately 160 works including 24 of the artists's most significant sculptures.

Dallas Opera
Dallas, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Verdi's Nabucco. The operatic drama surrounding tensions between diverse ethnicities will serve as the basis for outreach and educational programs at the Holocaust Museum of Dallas and other community venues.

Dallas Symphony Association, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the creation and premiere of a new work for orchestra by Jonathan Bailey Holland and related educational activities. The new work will be based on African American heritage and will include jazz, gospel, blues, and hip-hop influences.

Dallas Theater Center
Dallas, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the commissioning, development, and production of a play. Douglas Langworthy will be commissioned to adapt Frank Wedekind's play Spring Awakening.

Dance Umbrella
Austin, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of dance companies including Tania Isaac Dance Projects, Catalyst dances by Emily Johnson, John Jasperse Company, and Dance Kumikokimoto in Austin, Elgin, and Marfa, Texas. Each residency will include professional-level and community-based master classes, community discussions, lecture-demonstrations, and educational activities in middle and high schools.

DiverseWorks, Inc. (DiverseWorks Art Space)
Houston, TX
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the commissioning and presentation of new works by artists including choreographers Mabel Dai Chee Chang and Miguel Gutierrez. The project will include visual arts exhibitions, performances, artist residencies, public sessions and classroom visits.

Fort Worth Opera Association, Inc.
Fort Worth, TX
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the Opera Studio. Performers in the young artist program will participate in artistic, professional, and business development training, including comprimario and principal roles in mainstage productions and outreach performances of the Children's Opera Theatre.

FotoFest, Inc.
Houston, TX
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support FotoFest 2006, a biennial photography festival includes exhibitions, new media art events, artist portfolio review, and a catalogue. The event attracts more than 500,000 people in the Houston area.

Friends of Fair Park, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the recreation of two sculptures known as Tenor and Contralto. Originally created by Lawrence Tenney Stevens for the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition and subsequently demolished, the reconstructed art deco sculptures will be the basis for educational programs on Fair Park's history.

Houston Ballet Foundation
Houston, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a world premiere by Houston Ballet Associate Choreographer Christopher Bruce. The work will be performed at the Wortham Theater Center in Houston, Texas.

Houston Grand Opera Association, Inc. (Houston Grand Opera)
Houston, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the Discover Opera: Community Connections Initiative. In its fourth year the program aims to educate and nurture new audiences through educational outreach in schools and community centers, including a program of portable operas for elementary school students, Opera Camps, and a year-long training program for high school voice students.

Houston Symphony Society (Houston Symphony)
Houston, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances of a new work by composer Pierre Jalbert along with related educational activities. Prior to the performances at the Jesse H. Jones Hall, the composer will speak about his work to community groups and in area schools.

International Accordion Festival
San Antonio, TX
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 6th Annual International Accordion Festival. The festival is designed to celebrate the instrument's local identity and global reach; preserve and present accordion music traditions of ethnic, regional, and national cultures; and educate audiences about free-reed instruments central to the music.

Jump-Start Performance Company
San Antonio, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and presentation of the Electric Performance Lab, a series of new performance works-in-progress. The company-created works will range from multidisciplinary solo performances to small, dramatic group pieces.

Lyric Stage, Inc.
Irving, TX
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the revival and production of a classic musical work. Sheilah Vaughn Walker will conduct the music for Cabin in the Sky with book by Lynn Root, lyrics by John Latouche, and music by Vernon Duke.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH)
Houston, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Singular Multiples: The Peter Blum Archive, 1980-1994, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will document the contribution made by Blum's workshop to the production of prints by major artists of the period.

Philippine Dance Company of San Antonio, Inc.
San Antonio, TX
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support performances at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio and the Texas State Fair in Dallas. Performances will represent the rural, mountain provinces, and Spanish and Muslim influences in the Filipino culture.

Project Row Houses (PRH)
Houston, TX
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a residency program for artists to undertake projects in Houston's Third Ward. The project's three components are installation opportunities for artists in shotgun-style row houses, residency opportunities with Houston organizations, and the participation of artists in a permanent public art program.

Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance, Inc.
Austin, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support a series of music and dance workshops. Activities will include beginner and master-level workshops on plena dance and music, the history and tradition of pregones (street cries), and other Puerto Rican artistic and cultural traditions.

Rude Mechanicals-A Theatre Collective (Rude Mechanicals/Rude Mechs)
Austin, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of a play. Ensemble members in collaboration with playwright Kirk Lynn and director Shawn Sides will develop and produce an original adaptation of Giovanni Boccacio's The Decameron.

Southwestern Alternate Media Projects, Inc.
Houston, TX
$27,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and distribution of The Territory. As the longest running showcase of media art in the United States, the public television series has presented independent film and video works to more than 12 million viewers per year throughout Texas. In 2006, the project plans to expand to national distribution through the National Educational Telecommunications Association.

Symphony Society of San Antonio (San Antonio Symphony)
San Antonio, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support orchestral and choral concerts featuring Music Director Larry Rachleff. Performances will be held in San Antonio's Majestic Theatre.

Theatre Under The Stars
Houston, TX
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the recreation and revival of a classic musical. In collaboration with original creators Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, Associate Artistic Director Roy Hamlin will direct 110 in the Shade, which is based on the play The Rainmaker.

University of Houston (on behalf of Arte Publico)
Houston, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of a new translation project that will issue novels from leading U.S. Hispanic authors in both English and Spanish language editions. The press will publish Spanish translations of successful English-language novels, such as Graciela Limon's The Song of the Hummingbird, and simultaneous bilingual editions of a previously unpublished novel by Eduardo Gonzlez Viana.

University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support performances and residency activities as part of the ArteAmericas program. Artists will conduct master classes, youth performances, and workshops for students and community members.

Video Association of Dallas, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$14,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 20th Dallas Video Festival. The event will present more than 200 screenings of work by national and international artists in all genres ranging from documentary to new video art. Educational activities include workshops, installations, hands-on demonstrations, seminars, panel discussions, programs for children, and a comprehensive program book.

Visions In Rhythm (aka Tapestry Dance Company)
Austin, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a tap dance festival. The Soul to Sole Festival will include performances and a wide range of education and outreach activities, such as master classes, workshops, lecture-demonstrations, and artist and faculty concerts.

WaterTower Theatre, Inc.
Addison, TX
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Out of the Loop Festival. The festival will present full productions and staged readings of new, ensemble-created theater works by emerging theater artists.

Number of Grants: 42          Total Amount: $890,000

 
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