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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.

ARIZONA

Arizona Commission on the Arts
Phoenix, AZ
$806,900
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Arizona State University (on behalf of Art Museum)
Tempe, AZ
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support an artist in residence program with contemporary Brazilian artist Paulo Nenflidio (b. 1976), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The artist will establish a studio in a gallery at the university's art museum, where he will develop artwork in collaboration with university's art museum visitors and community groups.

Ballet Arizona
Phoenix, AZ
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support free ballet performances in local parks in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Ballet Under the Stars will be performed in Sahuaro Ranch Park, Glendale; Tempe Center for the Arts Amphitheatre, Tempe; Estrella Mountain Ranch Park, Goodyear; Fountain Park, Fountain Hills; Red Mountain Park, Mesa; and Steele Indian School Park, Phoenix.

Chamber Music PLUS, Inc. (aka Chamber Music PLUS)
Tucson, AZ
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support the creation and performance of a new chamber theater work, "Mesmeric Mozart." The work, featuring an original score by composer Libby Larsen, will be based on the life of Marie Paradis, a blind pianist, composer and acquaintance of W.A. Mozart.

Grand Canyon Chamber Music Festival, Inc.
Grand Canyon, AZ
$27,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Native American Composer Apprentice Project. Students will study one-on-one with composers-in-residence and create original works that will be performed by the Ethel String Quartet while on tour to reservation schools.

Heard Museum
Phoenix, AZ
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the Art Racks Project. The project will provide for increased storage capacity for safe storage of paintings on canvas, paintings on board, and oversized works on paper.

Phoenix Bach Choir
Phoenix, AZ
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and national distribution of a 13-week radio series devoted to choral music. Hosted by Bill McGlaughin, the series will feature the work of six professional choirs.

Phoenix Theatre, Inc.
Phoenix, AZ
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the expansion of the Phoenix Theatre's Technical Theatre Training Program. In existence for two years, the program will expand to include musical theater performers for the first time.

Red Rocks Music Festival
Phoenix, AZ
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support performances of music inspired by the Holocaust. Related poetry readings, lectures, and visual arts presentations will accompany the performance.

Scottsdale Cultural Council (aka Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art)
Scottsdale, AZ
$60,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support American Masterpieces: The Blood Memories Project, a reconstruction of the work Blood Memories (1976) by choreographer Donald McKayle and composer Howard Roberts. The work incorporates dance and choral and orchestral music to express the African American experience.

Tucson Symphony Society (aka Tucson Symphony Orchestra)
Tucson, AZ
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Young Composers Project (YCP). Students will learn to compose music for orchestra, culminating in a reading and recording of their newly composed pieces by the Tucson Symphony Chamber Orchestra or the Tucson String Quintet.

University of Arizona (on behalf of Poetry Center)
Tucson, AZ
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the 46th Visiting Poets and Writers Reading and Lecture Series. The University of Arizona Poetry Center will support the free series with lesson plans to K-12 teachers, community reading groups prior to each event, and an audio anthology of poems read by visiting poets.

University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Transculturations Cultural Hybridity in American Art, a free lecture series.  Artists and scholars will engage students, faculty, and the general public in a discussion of contemporary American art, focusing on how it relates and reflects our country's evolving ethnic diversity.

West Valley Fine Arts Council (aka West Valley Arts Council)
Avondale, AZ
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support performances and related activities by Ailey II dancers. The company, which began in 1974 as the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble, will perform and conduct lecture-demonstrations for students throughout the Phoenix metropolitan area, including those in the Tolleson School District.


Number of Grants: 14          Total Amount: $1,038,900

 
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