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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.

TENNESSEE

Allied Arts of Greater Chattanooga (Consortium)
Chattanooga, TN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support pARTicipate Chattanooga. In partnership with the City of Chattanooga, local teaching artists will implement a multidisciplinary arts curriculum during after-school hours in inner-city recreation centers for children, ages 6 to 15.

Arts Center of Cannon County
Woodbury, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Springfed Media/Cedar Glades Productions Documentary Project. The project will support the preservation, production, and distribution of documentary films about the region's folk culture.

Beale Street Caravan, Inc.
Memphis, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and national broadcast of the public radio series Beale Street Caravan. Weekly, one-hour programs featuring performances by blues artists will be broadcast on more than 302 public, community, and college radio stations nationwide.

Carpetbag Theatre, Inc.
Knoxville, TN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Pullin' Door Tour of Linda Parris-Bailey's new play titled Between a Ballad & a Blues. Steve Kent will direct the production, with musical direction by James "Sparky" Rucker and Nancy Brennen Strange.

Cultural Development Foundation of Memphis
Memphis, TN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Check Out a Ticket program. In partnership with local libraries, free tickets to performing arts events will be provided to underserved families.

Frist Center for the Visual Arts (aka The Frist Center)
Nashville, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support the juried exhibit, "Artists with Disabilities." The Frist Center will partner with VSA arts of Tennessee and Full Circle Art to provide a series of professional development workshops to help artists develop their portfolios and write artist statements.

Knox County Government District Public Defender's Community Law Office (on behalf of Knox County Public Library)
Knoxville, TN
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To the 5th Annual Children's Festival of Reading at the Knox County Public Library. This free public event hosts children's authors, illustrators, and entertainers on four performance stages.

Knoxville Symphony Society, Inc. (aka Knoxville Symphony Orchestra)
Knoxville, TN
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support KSO On-the-Road. Ten touring concerts are planned in east Tennessee and southwest Virginia.

Memphis Orchestral Society, Inc. (aka Memphis Symphony Orchestra)
Memphis, TN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Harmony, an educational outreach program for schoolchildren The project will include in-school ensemble performances and youth concerts at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts.

Pi Beta Phi Settlement School (aka Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts)
Gatlinburg, TN
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Arrowmont School Arts and Crafts programming. Designed to supplement school-based arts education, the project offers two types of arts programs for students in the Sevier County School District.

Tennessee Arts Commission
Nashville, TN
$774,600
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.


Number of Grants: 11          Total Amount: $914,600

 
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