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FY 2008 Grant Awards: State Listings

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

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

ALABAMA

Alabama Blues Project, Inc.
Northport, AL
$27,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support after-school and summer classes in blues music. Professional, Alabama-based blues musicians will teach weekly beginning and advanced level classes in blues music performance and history, as well as prepare an advanced student ensemble for public performances.

Alabama Folklife Association, Inc. (Consortium)
Birmingham, AL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the identification and documentation of traditional artists and artistic resources. With the Alabama Center of Traditional Culture, activities will include additional fieldwork and the development of educational materials in preparation for the 2010 Smithsonian Folklife Festival featuring Alabama traditions.

Alabama State Council on the Arts
Montgomery, AL
$772,300
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Alabama Symphonic Association, Inc.
Birmingham, AL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music

To support Reflect and Rejoice: A Community Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The three-day celebration of the life and message of King will include a concert, an open rehearsal, and participation by the winner of the Sphinx Competition, an organization that seeks to increase the participation of African American and Latino musicians in classical music.

Auburn University Main Campus
Auburn, AL
$14,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Alabama Prison Arts and Education Project. Undertaken by Auburn University's arts and humanities department in partnership with Space One Eleven, the project will deliver visual arts workshops for those currently incarcerated as well as those recently released.

Birmingham Summerfest, Inc. (aka Red Mountain Theatre Company)
Birmingham, AL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a production of Beauty and the Beast. Abe Reynold will direct the production by the Red Mountain Theatre Company, with music director Carolyn Violi and choreographer Jacob Toth.

Children's Dance Foundation
Birmingham, AL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Community Partnership Program. Students in the Movement to Music program and Dance and Science Initiative will learn movement concepts and perform in dance presentations.

Mobile Symphony, Inc. (Consortium)
Mobile, AL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support outreach concerts of symphonic repertoire. In partnership with and coordinated by the Washington County Public Library, the orchestra will perform in rural and underserved communities of Alabama.

Mobile Symphony, Inc.
Mobile, AL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Preludes, a strings instruction program. Mobile Symphony musicians will teach weekly strings classes and perform chamber music concerts for students in fifteen Mobile-area elementary schools.

Rural Members Association Inc.
Aliceville, AL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support the Freedom Creek Blues Festival. The two-day event will be held at the home of Willie King in rural Old Memphis, Alabama.

Sloss Furnaces Foundation, Inc. (aka Sloss)
Birmingham, AL
$67,700
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Sloss Youth Apprenticeship program a visual arts education program. High school students from the Birmingham area will apprentice with professional artists to create cast-metal sculptures.

South Mobile County Educational Center, Inc
Irvington, AL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the presentation and preservation of Merging of Cultures. A collection of photographs, video and audio documentation, and stories created by youth residing in towns demolished by Hurricane Katrina will be exhibited, archived, and presented on a Web site.


Number of Grants: 12          Total Amount: $1,026,000

 
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