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.

TEXAS

Alley Theatre
Houston, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the premiere production of the Gershwins' An American In Paris, directed by artistic director Gregory Boyd with accompanying education and outreach activities. The musical comedy will feature songs and words written by George and Ira Gershwin with a new book by Ken Ludwig.

Amarillo Opera, Inc.
Amarillo, TX
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a production of Carlisle Floyd's Cold Sassy Tree. The work will be conducted by James Lowe who worked with the composer on the original production.

ArtLies (aka ARTLIES - The Texas Art Journal)
Houston, TX
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the reviews section of the journal ArtLies. A quarterly publication that covers the visual arts in Texas, ArtLies includes an average of 20 reviews per issue and is distributed in more than 30 Texas cities and towns.

Aurora Picture Show
Houston, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Aurora Library and related activities. The library houses more than 1,800 video art works by historic and contemporary media artists.

Austin Film Society
Austin, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the presentation of several curated film and video series. More than 75 films will be shown to an estimated audience of 17,000 people.

Ballet Austin, Inc.
Austin, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the second biennial New American Talent/Dance, a juried choreographic competition. Emerging choreographers Viktor Kabaniaev, Sidra Bell, and Amy Seiwert will create and premiere a new work.

Ballroom Cultural Arts Foundation (aka Ballroom Marfa)
Marfa, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Marfa Sessions. A curated series of installation sound works, the project seeks to amplify the city of Marfa itself, calling the audience to "tune into" what is usually known as a profoundly visual setting.

Conspirare, Inc.
Austin, TX
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the creation and presentation of a new choral work by composer Eric Whitacre. The premiere of the concert-length oratorio will merge jazz and rock idioms within classical structures.

Da Camera Society of Texas
Houston, TX
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a series of chamber music concerts. Six concert programs with related educational activities are planned that will focus on the experiences and influences of composers in exile—whether fleeing war or exploring creative opportunities.

Dallas Children's Theater, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the commissioning, readings, and production of EAT by playwright-in-residence Linda Dougherty, with accompanying educational outreach activities. The play will explore eating disorders in young people and engage teen audiences as part of the Young Adult Initiative.

Dallas Opera
Dallas, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Donizetti's Roberto Devereux with accompanying outreach activities. The project is the company's second production of a trilogy comprising Donizetti operas set in Elizabethan England.

Dallas Symphony Association, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Steven Stucky and librettist Gene Scheer based on the life of President Lyndon Baines Johnson. The work will be scored for orchestra and chorus.

Dance Umbrella
Austin, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of dance companies in Austin. Discover Dance companies will include Compagnie Julie Dossavi, Tere O'Connor Dance, Headlong Dance Theater, and Roko Kawai.

Dominic Walsh Dance Theater
Houston, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of Jiri Kylian's Double You, along with a new creation by artistic director and choreographer Dominic Walsh. The works will be performed at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts in Houston.

Dorst, Douglas
Austin, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Fort Worth Opera Association, Inc.
Fort Worth, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Angels in America by Hungarian composer Peter Etvs and librettist Mari Mezei. Designed as a highly cinematic production, the opera will make use of video projections to fit the contemporary nature of the music and Tony Kushner's original play.

FotoFest, Inc.
Houston, TX
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support FotoFest 2008. The biennial photography festival includes exhibitions, new media art events, artist portfolio reviews, and a catalogue.

Furman, Laura J.
Austin, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Houston Ballet Foundation
Houston, TX
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of artistic director Stanton Welch's A Doll's House and choreographer Christopher Bruce's Swansong. The ballets will be performed at the Wortham Theater Center in Houston.

Houston Grand Opera Association, Inc.
Houston, TX
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the commissioning and development of Brief Encounter by composer Andre Previn and librettist John Caird. Education components will include a program with the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, featuring film excerpts from the 1945 movie Brief Encounter contrasted with those from the new opera.

Houston Institute for Culture
Houston, TX
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Folk Arts and Cultural Traditions of Houston: Who We Are project. Presenting a series of collaborative folk art events featuring hurricane survivors and longtime Houstonians, the project will showcase traditions such as storytelling, music, costume, foodways, and architectural crafts.

Houston Symphony Society (aka Houston Symphony)
Houston, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support The Beethoven Experience. The day-long investigation of Beethoven's life and music will include concerts, a lecture, and a film screening.

International Accordion Festival
San Antonio, TX
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 8th Annual International Accordion Festival. The festival is designed to celebrate the instrument's local identity and global reach and to preserve and present accordion traditions of ethnic, regional, and national cultures.

Jump-Start Performance Company
San Antonio, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation, development, and presentation of works-in-progress in the Electric Performance Lab. Company artists will create and develop original pieces using the Critical Response Process developed by choreographer Liz Lerman.

Kaukonen, Scott A.
Huntsville, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Kitchen Dog Theater Company
Dallas, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the New Works Festival, featuring a full production of a new work and a series of staged readings. The festival will include the Playwrights Under Progress Festival (PUP Fest), which offers local high school playwrights developmental workshops and staged readings of their original short plays.

Kolosov-Wenthe, Jacqueline A.
Lubbock, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Lubbock Arts Alliance, Inc.
Lubbock, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the development of a cultural district plan for Lubbock, Texas. The project will further enhance the downtown redevelopment efforts currently underway.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (aka MFAH)
Houston, TX
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet, with accompanying education programs. This is the first major exhibition in the United States to explore the significance of the Forest of Fontainebleau as the veritable crucible of 19th-century French landscape painting and photography.

Orange Show Foundation
Houston, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Art Car Weekend. Events will include the Houston Art Car Parade, Main Street Drag, Art Car Shoptalk, and an awards ceremony.

Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance, Inc.
Austin, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Celebrando 2008, Rediscovering Boriken. Through a series of master workshops and performances, the project will teach Taino (native Puerto Rican) traditions, history, music, and dance.

Rude Mechanicals-A Theatre Collective
Austin, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation, workshop production, and world premiere of After Before, with accompanying educational activities. Founder and co-producing artistic director Shawn Sides will direct, and playwright Kirk Lynn will oversee the ensemble development process with the creative team of playwright Rebecca Beegle and directors Barney O'Hanlan and Carlos Trevino.

Sala Diaz
San Antonio, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the presentation of a series of solo exhibitions. The exhibitions will feature the work of local, national, and international contemporary artists.

Southern Methodist University (on behalf of Southwest Review)
Dallas, TX
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of the Southwest Review. One issue will be devoted to "modern fiction from Arabic women."

Southwestern Alternate Media Projects, Inc. (aka SWAMP)
Houston, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and distribution of The Territory. As the longest running showcase of media art in the United States, the public television series has presented independent film and video works to more than 12 million viewers per year throughout Texas.

Symphony Society of San Antonio (aka San Antonio Symphony) (Consortium)
San Antonio, TX
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the San Antonio Symphony's residency at St. Philip's College, a historically black and Hispanic college in San Antonio. In partnership with the Alamo Community College School District, the project will include master classes, open rehearsals, lectures, and concerts for primary and secondary school children.

Symphony Society of San Antonio (aka San Antonio Symphony)
San Antonio, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support concerts performed by the San Antonio Symphony, featuring flutist Sir James Galway. Performances will coincide with the Texas Music Educators Association annual convention and will be held in San Antonio's Lila Cockrell Theatre and the Majestic Theatre.

Texas Folklife Resources (Consortium)
Austin, TX
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support The South Texas Project: Apprenticeships and Folklore in Hidalgo and Cameron Counties. The project is a collaboration with the Llano Grande Center for Research and Development that will culminate in performances, radio journalism training, and radio programming.

Texas Panhandle Heritage Foundation, Inc. (aka TEXAS Musical Drama)
Canyon, TX
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the presentation of the TEXAS Musical Drama. Performances will be held at the Pioneer Amphitheater in Palo Duro Canyon State Park during the summertime.

University of Houston-Victoria (on behalf of American Book Review)
Victoria, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, promotion, and distribution of issues of American Book Review. The journal also will co-sponsor a reading series with the university featuring lectures, roundtable discussions, workshops, and podcasts.

University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the exhibition Claiming Space: Mexican Americans in U.S. Cities. The exhibition will feature site-specific works by artists addressing the notion of how urban dwellers claim, mark, and record their place in the world.

Video Association of Dallas, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Dallas Video Festival 2.2. The event will screen works that highlight technological innovations.

Visions In Rhythm (aka Tapestry Dance Company)
Austin, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the eighth annual Soul to Sole Tap Festival. The festival will include performances and a wide range of education and outreach activities.

William Marsh Rice University (on behalf of Rice Design Alliance)
Houston, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support a national design competition for affordable housing prototypes. An exhibition and catalogue will document and disseminate the competition results.

Number of Grants: 44          Total Amount: $837,500

 
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