FY 2007 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.

ALABAMA

Alabama Dance Council, Inc.
Birmingham, AL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of the 2007 Alabama Dance Festival. The statewide festival will feature performances by River North Chicago Dance Company, showcases of Alabama artists, master classes, and dance education workshops.

Birmingham Summerfest, Inc. (aka Summerfest Musical Theatre)
Birmingham, AL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the creation of a new musical about the Civil Rights movement with accompanying educational activities. Executive director Keith Cromwell and Priscilla Hancock Cooper, writer/performance artist and partnership coordinator of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, will create Back to the Dream.

Forhan, Christopher
Auburn, AL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Space One Eleven, Inc. (aka SOE)
Birmingham, AL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Shifting Planes: Artists In and Out of the New South. The exhibition and public programming will feature work by contemporary artists who have emigrated from France, Singapore, India, Mexico, and Ireland to the American South - specifically Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina.

Number of Grants: 4          Total Amount: $75,000

 
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