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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.

MISSOURI

Better Family Life, Inc.
Saint Louis, MO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a national dance festival, Black Dance-USA: A Celebration of Movement The project will consist of dance workshops, concerts by Forces of Nature Dance Theatre Company and Sankofa Dance Theatre, discussion sessions, dance films, lecture-demonstrations, and African percussion and song classes.

Big River Association (aka River Styx)
St Louis, MO
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and distribution of issues of River Styx, St. Louis's oldest literary magazine. Contributors are selected from an annual pool of 6,000 submissions.

Cinema St. Louis
Saint Louis, MO
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the presentation of American independent, documentary, and foreign films at the 17th St. Louis International Film Festival. Approximately 200 short and feature-length films will be screened to an audience of 14,000.

Coterie, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the premiere of lyricist Lynn Ahrens' and composer Stephen Flaherty's Once On This Island. Artistic director Jeff Church will direct the musical with choreography by Ernie Nolan.

Curators of the University of Missouri at Columbia (on behalf of The Missouri Review)
Columbia, MO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, promotion, and related expenses for issues of The Missouri Review. The journal's Web site currently draws an average of 500,000 hits per month.

Dance Saint Louis
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the annual Spring to Dance Festival, as well as the presentation of Pilobolus, for a four-week residency in area schools. The three-day festival will present major dance companies of the Midwest, as well as emerging companies from St. Louis and the surrounding area.

Friends of Chamber Music
Kansas City, MO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support presentations of chamber music, solo piano, early music, and educational programs. Seven concerts and three "What Makes It Great?" educational programs will be presented.

Grand Center, Inc. (Consortium)
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Meredith Monk Festival. Plans include the commissioning of a new work by Monk for chamber chorus and orchestra to be performed in partnership with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and chorus.

Kansas City Ballet Association
Kansas City, MO
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Donald McKayle during the company's 50th anniversary. Hey-Hay, Going to Kansas City, will premiere a the Lyric Theater in Kansas City.

Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Inc. (aka KC Rep)
Kansas City, MO
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of Gee's Bend by Elizabeth Gregory, to be directed by Marion McClinton. Accompanying educational and community outreach activities will include post-performance forums with a scholar, cast members, and the play's design team.

Kansas City Symphony
Kansas City, MO
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the East-West Confluence Project. Plans include performances of works by composers Lou Harrison and Zhou Long, both known for incorporating elements of Asian music together with Western compositional approaches.

Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the premiere of John Brown by composer and librettist Kirke Mechem. The work has been commissioned as the centerpiece of the company's 50th-anniversary season.

Nelson Gallery Foundation (aka Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art)
Kansas City, MO
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Iron, Steam and Speed: The Artist and the Railway at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The works in the exhibition celebrate those aspects of the railroad that made it such a potent symbol of modern life.

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
St. Louis, MO
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Troilus and Cressida by composer William Walton and librettist Christopher Hassel. With this opera, the company continues to realize its commitment to produce 20th century works.

Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission (aka Regional Arts Commission)
St. Louis, MO
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support a marketing initiative for St. Louis arts organizations. The project is designed to assist arts organizations in the St. Louis region to increase the effectiveness of their marketing efforts in order to expand and diversify audiences.

Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
St. Louis, MO
$27,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances of the Doctor Atomic Symphony by American composer John Adams. Music director David Robertson will conduct the New York and St. Louis premieres of the new work - a suite of music from his opera Doctor Atomic.

Unicorn Theatre
Kansas City, MO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere of A House with No Walls by Thomas Gibbons. The play is a project of the National New Play Network's Continued Life of New Plays Fund (CLNPF).

Union Avenue Opera Theatre
St. Louis, MO
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support productions of Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore, Bizet's Carmen, Puccini's Il Tabarro, and Gilbert and Sullivan's The Sorcerer. The first two works will be fully staged and orchestrated operas, and the latter two works will be minimally staged with piano accompaniment.

Wylliams/Henry Danse Theatre
Kansas City, MO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of The City by Jennifer Muller. The work will premiere at the Performing Arts Center at the University of Missouri at Kansas City.


Number of Grants: 19          Total Amount: $390,000

 
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