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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.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

American Architectural Foundation
Washington, DC
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support a forum and video/resource guide on school design. The project will present effective learning environments in historic and non-traditional school facilities.

Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Inc. (aka Arts Presenters)
Washington, DC
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Leadership Initiative of Arts Presenters. Based on recommendations in the strategic plan, activities will be developed to provide enhanced technology and educational and research resources for member organizations.

Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Inc. (aka Arts Presenters) (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation of case studies that document and guide the resolution of issues and challenges experienced by exemplary ensemble theaters in consortium with Irondale Productions.

Black Women Playwrights' Group
Washington, DC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Annual Reading event. The project will focus on the development of plays by African American women playwrights who are creating work for the professional theater.

Capital Concerts, Inc.
Washington, DC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support staging and related costs for The National Memorial Day and A Capitol Fourth, two patriotic concerts at the United States Capitol to be nationally broadcast live on PBS in 2008. A national television audience of 10 to 12 million watches these 90-minute programs each year.

Choral Arts Society of Washington (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the ArtsACCESS program. In collaboration with the District of Columbia Public Schools, project activities will include professional development for teachers and the development of a curriculum that will integrate music learning into other subjects for elementary school students.

Ciesla Foundation, Inc.
Washington, DC
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support post-production costs for a documentary film by Aviva Kempner. Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg will tell the story of Gertrude Berg, the creator, writer, and star of the radio and television series The Goldbergs.

Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington
Washington, DC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support CAGWs Online Regional Arts Calendar. The calendar will be licensed, built, and implemented to provide cost-effective marketing for arts organizations throughout the metropolitan region.

Cultural Development Corporation of the District of Columbia
Washington, DC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Business Centers at Flashpoint and at Source Theatre. The centers' network of management tools and capacity-building services for artists and arts organizations will provide residency and technical assistance programs, as well as opportunities for affordable exhibition, performance, and office spaces in conjunction with other business amenities.

Dance Heritage Coalition, Inc.
Washington, DC
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the continuation of the establishment of Dance Heritage Preservation hubs to transfer analogue dance videotapes to digital formats for preservation purposes. The project will involve staff training and digitization of 200 hours of videotape at the first hub site, Ohio State University.

Dance/USA (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$51,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the fourth U.S. delegation of artists, presenters, and managers at the Internationale Tanzmesse, in Düsseldorf, Germany. The project, in collaboration with Dancers Group, will provide opportunities for American dance artists and companies to perform, teach, and collaborate in Europe and around the world.

District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Washington, DC
$711,100
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Festivals DC, Ltd. (aka Duke Ellington Jazz Festival)
Washington, DC
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival. The six-day event will take place on the National Mall, at the Lincoln Theater, and at other venues in Washington, DC.

GALA Inc., Grupo de Artistas Latinoamericanos (aka GALA Hispanic Theatre)
Washington, DC
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the adaptation and U.S. premiere of El perro del hortelano (The dog in the manger) by Lope de Vega. The play will be directed by GALA Hispanic Theatre's producing artistic director Hugo Medrano.

Heritage Preservation, Inc. (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Rescue Public Murals! The project, designed to respond to the fragility of public art murals in the United States, will provide preservation treatment for three highly endangered murals.

Levine School of Music
Washington, DC
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Early Childhood Music. Guest artists and Levine School music educators will provide free, weekly music classes to young children using diverse musical repertoire including traditional children's songs, folk music, world music, classical, and jazz idioms.

National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (aka NASAA)
Washington, DC
$638,290
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

National Building Museum (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support presentation of the exhibition Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future, with accompanying educational programs. Presented in partnership with the Finnish Cultural Institute, the exhibition will examine architect Eero Saarinen's (1910-61) influence on 20th-century design.

National Museum of Women in the Arts, Inc.
Washington, DC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Role Models: Photography by American Women, 1980-2005, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The ways in which female identity is constructed and mediated through the art of photography is the central theme of the exhibition.

National Public Radio, Inc.
Washington, DC
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production, acquisition, and distribution of music programming. Through its Digital Music Initiative, NPR has created an extensive online Web site as a music resource for public radio stations and the public, and will offer new and archival musical performances to stations for broadcast.

National Public Radio, Inc.
Washington, DC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and national broadcast of the public radio series World of Opera. Hosted by Lisa Simeone, the series reaches nearly 500,000 weekly listeners on 134 stations.

PEN/Faulkner Foundation
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the fall 2008/spring 2009 fiction reading series and writers-in-the-schools program. The foundation will distribute to classrooms free copies of books preceding each author's visit.

Phillips Collection
Washington, DC
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the online collection database project. The museum is digitizing its permanent collection in preparation for the launch of a searchable collections database via its Web site.

Post-Classical Ensemble, Inc. (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$17,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Mexican Odyssey project. In partnership with the Mexican Cultural Institute, the orchestra will perform the concert program at the Harman Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.

Shakespeare Theatre (aka Shakespeare Theatre Company)
Washington, DC
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of a television documentary by Michael Pack The Shakespeare Wars, based on the book by Ron Rosenbaum, will examine the various interpretations of Shakespeare's works.

Shakespeare Theatre (aka Shakespeare Theatre Company) (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Text Alive! Curriculum Enhancement Program. In partnership with the District of Columbia Public School System, the program will enable high school teachers and students to explore Shakespeare's work through a series of in-school, humanities-based workshops and an in-depth rehearsal and performance process.

Sustainable Development Institute
Washington, DC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support the Environmental Film Festival. Related activities include discussions with filmmaker Deirdre Towers and a performance by storyteller Antonio Rocha, recognized for his tales concerning jungle animals and ecological themes.

The 21st Century Consort
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support an archival project of the 21st Century Consort. The ensemble's recordings of significant works by composers of the 20th and 21st centuries will be made available through the Performing Arts Library at the University of Maryland-College Park.

Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Peer-to-Peer jazz education tour. In partnership with the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts Foundation, activities will include performances and educational programs for jazz students with professional musicians.

Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz
Washington, DC
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support BeBop to Hip-Hop. Professional musicians will introduce students to the latest recording technologies and software and teach students composition, music theory, arranging, improvisation, lyric writing, turntable scratching, and sampling.

Washington Ballet
Washington, DC
$22,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support dance education programs at the Town Hall Education Arts and Recreation Campus (THEARC) in Southeast Washington, DC. Known as the neighborhood of Anacostia, this area of Washington is a historically underserved area of the city where more than 8,000 of the city's youth reside.

Washington Chorus, Inc.
Washington, DC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support an outreach initiative. The chorus will reach out to new audiences and communities through collaborations reaching youth and underserved populations of greater Washington, DC.


Number of Grants: 32          Total Amount: $2,339,390

 
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