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.

NEVADA

Artown
Reno, NV
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of festival events featuring local and touring artists. Activities will include presentations of music, dance, and opera; hands-on arts programs; film screenings; and theater performances.

Nevada Opera Association
Reno, NV
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of the critical edition of Emmerich Kalman's Die Zirkusprinzessin (The Circus Princess). Outreach activities will include previews with the artists, free discussions with the artists at libraries, and background kits for schools.

Reno Chamber Orchestra, Inc.
Reno, NV
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the premiere of a new work by composer Joseph Schwantner, the second round of Made in America, a collaborative commissioning, performance, and outreach project. The work will be performed by as many as 60 small-budget orchestras throughout the United States.

Western Folklife Center
Elko, NV
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Out West, Back East Tour. In honor of the center's 25 years of presenting the arts of ranch culture, the project will bring some of the West's most respected poets, narrators, singers, and songwriters to urban centers in the East, Midwest, and West for performances and short residencies.

Number of Grants: 4          Total Amount: $110,000

 
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