FY 2008 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.

GEORGIA

Art Papers, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support reviews of contemporary artists' work in the journal Art Papers. The reviews section includes an average of 32 articles by writers, many of whom will be published for the first time.

Atlanta Opera
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support performance excerpts of Cold Sassy Tree by Carlisle Floyd in a student matinee program and educational tour. The company will develop a program tailored for ninth-grade students of area public schools and an educational touring production that will travel across Georgia reaching student and adult audiences.

Center for Puppetry Arts
Atlanta, GA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the final development and world premiere of Duke Ellington's Cat, a puppet work written and directed by associate artistic director Jon Ludwig. Concurrent education and museum activities for children and adults about puppetry, music, and American musical history will accompany the production.

Georgia Shakespeare Festival, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Shake at the Lake. Free outdoor performances of a fully mounted Shakespeare production will be presented on Lake Lawn in Atlanta's Piedmont Park.

Independent Media Artists of GA, Etc. Inc. (aka IMAGE)
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 32nd Atlanta Film Festival. The festival presents the best of current independent film and video to an audience of 20,000 people.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc. (on behalf of High Museum of Art)
Atlanta, GA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-68 at the High Museum of Art, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Road to Freedom will be the most comprehensive exhibition ever devoted to the photographic images that chronicle and define the civil rights movement in the United States.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc. (on behalf of Atlanta Symphony Orchestra) (Consortium)
Atlanta, GA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support A King Celebration, a project of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra that will celebrate the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In collaboration with Morehouse College, the project will include performances, educational outreach activities, and a national radio broadcast.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere of In the Red and Brown Water by Tarell McCraney at the Alliance Theater, with accompanying educational activities and a play reading series. Tina Landau will direct and collaborate with McCraney to develop the creative team of production designers and artists.

Seven Stages, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere production of A Song for Coretta by Pearl Cleage. The production will be directed by Crystal Dickinson.

Number of Grants: 9          Total Amount: $225,000

 
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