FY 2007 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/American Masterpieces/
Arts on Radio and Television/Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth/Partnership Agreements/Summer Schools in the Arts

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

TENNESSEE

Allied Arts of Greater Chattanooga (Consortium)
Chattanooga, TN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support a Native American festival. A collaboration with the Friends of Moccasin Bend National Park, the event will celebrate, promote, and preserve the folk and traditional arts of Southeast-affiliated Native American tribes.

Arts Center of Cannon County
Woodbury, TN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the restoration, production, and distribution of video documentaries created in the 1970s by filmmakers Sol Korine and Blaine Dunlap. The films Raw Mash, Mouth Music, and Showdown at the Hoedown, are part of the Southbound series, an 11-part documentary about the roots of Southern music.

Beale Street Caravan, Inc. (aka BSC)
Memphis, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and national broadcast of the public radio series Beale Street Caravan. Weekly, one-hour programs featuring performances by blues artists will be broadcast on more than 312 public, community, and college radio stations nationwide.

Center for Southern Folklore
Memphis, TN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support preservation of the Rev. L. O. Taylor Collection. Core activities will include indexing and transferring to digital format 16-mm film footage, audio discs, and photographs contained in the collection.

Knoxville Symphony Society, Inc.
Knoxville, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a family concert series and related educational activities. Targeting families with children between the ages of three and eight, the series will explore the basic elements of music.

Nashville Ballet (aka Nashville City Ballet) (Consortium)
Nashville, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Emergence 3, a collaboration with Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music. Choreographers will be paired with music faculty to collaborate and create new dance works.

Nashville Symphony Association
Nashville, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of a series of radio programs featuring performances by the Nashville Symphony. American Encores will be a new 13-week series of one-hour programs that will present largely neglected or little-performed music by American composers.

Nashville Symphony Association
Nashville, TN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support free-of-charge and discounted outreach concerts in rural areas of Tennessee and Alabama. In partnership with local community organizations, the orchestra will tour to diverse and underserved communities.

Pi Beta Phi Settlement School (aka Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts)
Gatlinburg, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the final phase of a comprehensive, online digital archive of Arrowmont School's permanent collection. The collection of more than 725 objects acquired during the past 90 years represents a variety of craft traditions, and has the potential to be a great resource and teaching tool.

Tennessee Arts Commission
Nashville, TN
$604,900
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

University of Memphis (on behalf of Art Museum)
Memphis, TN
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support a traveling exhibition and catalogue on the architect Paul R. Williams (1894-1980). The exhibition will include drawings, photographs, models, interior details, and personal ephemera of this prominent African American designer.

Number of Grants: 11          Total Amount: $779,900

 
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