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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.

TEXAS

Amon Carter Museum of Western Art
Fort Worth, TX
$105,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts Touring
To support the touring exhibition Sentimental Journey: The Art of Alfred Jacob Miller, with accompanying catalogue. Although Miller (1810-74) spent only six months in the American West, he painted western scenes for more than 35 years.

Art Museum of Southeast Texas
Beaumont, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support the exhibition "Bryan Collier: Defining Moments" and related programming. Mr. Collier's watercolor and collage designs will be derived from stories of individuals who have impacted contemporary American cultural identity. The Museum will work with the Beaumont Independent School District to conduct enrichment programs associated with the exhibit.

Artpace, Inc. (aka Artpace San Antonio) (Consortium)
San Antonio, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support ArtElements, a series of youth outreach activities. Undertaken in partnership with the San Antonio School District the project is designed to engage youth with contemporary art in a substantive way.

ARTPIX
Houston, TX
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support production of DVDs to document Nine Evenings: Theatre & Engineering. Held in 1966 at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York, and organized by artist Robert Rauschenberg and engineer Billy Kluver, the series of evenings featured performances by artists in collaboration with a group of laboratory engineers and scientists from Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Austin Classical Guitar Society
Austin, TX
$18,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Educational Outreach Program. Classical guitar instructors will provide weekly, individual lessons for economically disadvantaged students, and will assist with the direction and curriculum planning of guitar classes in five Austin-area schools.

Austin Symphony Orchestra Society, Inc.
Austin, TX
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the commissioning of a new work by composer Christopher Theofanidis. The premiere will take place in celebration of the opening of the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Center.

Big Thought
Dallas, TX
$65,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Creative Solutions Program. Artist teachers from the Young Artists of North Texas artist roster will conduct seven community-based, after-school art education residencies and one intensive summer program in visual arts, dance, or filmmaking targeting at-risk and probate teens in Dallas.

Binational Independent Film Festival
El Paso, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support components of a film festival including workshops and pre-event talks by independent film directors. Scheduled participants include filmmakers Andy Lauer, Steve Buscemi, and Mark Medoff. The Binational Independent Film Festival, a juried competition of independent films, involves organizations in El Paso and Juarez, Mexico.

Brownsville Society for the Performing Arts Inc
Brownsville, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Brownsville Latin Jazz Festival. Activities will include a free outdoor concert, a Latin Dance Night, an exhibition, and community activities such as music and dance clinics, master classes, school presentations, and artist talks for high school and college music students.

Centro Cultural Aztlan, Inc.
San Antonio, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of community arts projects involving Chicano/Latino artists. Activities will include exhibitions, workshops, literary events, and performances that preserve cultural traditions and support new and evolving art forms.

Centro del Obrero Fronterizo, Inc. (aka La Mujer Obrera)
El Paso, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support Elements of Mexican Design and Architecture, a civic design forum. The forum will serve as a foundation leading to the design of Plaza Mayachen, a proposed Mexican heritage cultural tourism center in El Paso, TX, a hub of the U.S. Mexico border region.

Cine Las Americas (aka CLA)
Austin, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support the Cine Las Americas International Film Festival. The 11th annual Festival will include documentary and narrative features, short films, and youth cinema made by or about Latin American and indigenous peoples of the Americas. Approximately 30 local, national, and international filmmakers will participate in the Festival.

City of El Paso, Texas
El Paso, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the El Paso Museum of Art's Art Enrichment Project. The project is a binational, bilingual program designed to research, develop, and produce a catalogue of the museum's collection of European art.

Creative Opportunity Orchestra, Inc.
Austin, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a tour of performances. Performances by the jazz ensemble will take place in Seattle, Portland (OR), Olympia (WA), San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Tucson, and Albuquerque.

Da Camera Society of Texas
Houston, TX
$15,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support The New Americans, a performance and residency project. Plans include a series of three concerts and educational activities that will examine the works of living composers who have immigrated to the United States from Asia and Latin America in both the classical and jazz traditions.

DiverseWorks, Inc.
Houston, TX
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the DiverseDialogues Series. Participating artists will engage the Houston community in the creative process through residency activities.

Documentary Arts, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the documentary series Masters Among Us: The National Heritage Fellowships. The project will complete television pilots, featuring recipients of NEA's National Heritage Fellowships, for national broadcast.

Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
San Antonio, TX
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Arte es Vida Westside Cultural Grounding Project. The project aims to revitalize San Antonio's Westside community life by organizing and presenting public events, concerts, dance performances, and workshops that will engage community members in cultural activities stemming from that neighborhood's historical highlights.

Express Theatre (aka Express Children's Theatre)
Houston, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support the production of "Beauty and the Beast," a musical adaptation in English and Spanish. This adaptation by Alex A.C. Garnder, featuring choreographer Cherita Judson, will be presented during the summer of the theater's 17th anniversary season.

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association, Inc.
Fort Worth, TX
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a touring program. Concerts and educational programs will take place in seven rural Texas communities.

Fund for Folk Culture
Austin, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the development of educational material and an information network that will link donors and nonprofit folk arts organizations. The educational and training materials will be available online to further the reach of the project.

Gemini Series, Inc. (aka Gemini Ink)
San Antonio, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a series of classes, readings, and special events led by published writers and teachers. The University Without Walls program will offer classes and craft workshops for local writers and community members.

Inprint, Inc.
Houston, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Inprint Brown Reading Series. Now in its 27th year, the project has brought more than 250 distinguished writers to Houston.

Irving Symphony Orchestra Association
Irving, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support youth concerts. Four free concerts for fifth- and seventh-grade students are planned.

Lyric Stage, Inc.
Irving, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a production of The King and I by Rodgers and Hammerstein. The classical American musical score will include a full 32-piece orchestra playing Robert Russell Bennett's original orchestrations.

Musiqa Inc. (Consortium)
Houston, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Around the World with Musiqa, an educational outreach program. In partnership with and coordinated by the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, the ensemble will perform concerts for Houston-area youth and families.

National Association of Latino Arts and Culture
San Antonio, TX
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support NALAC's Eighth Annual Leadership Institute and the Regional Arts Training Workshops. Both components will offer Latino cultural organizations opportunities for organizational and professional development.

Riverwalk Jazz
San Antonio, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the weekly public radio jazz series Riverwalk Jazz. Distributed by Public Radio International to 155 stations nationwide, each hour-long program combines live performance with interviews, oral histories, and historical recordings to celebrate important artists and eras in jazz history.

San Antonio Public Library Foundation
San Antonio, TX
$50,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts Touring
To support the touring exhibition The Winds and Words of War, with accompanying catalogue and educational activities. The exhibition will feature historic World War I era lithographs produced to promote the war effort.

Shakespeare Festival of Dallas (aka Shakespeare Dallas)
Dallas, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support productions of Othello and All's Well That Ends Well. The project will include educational programming, such as the Stage Notes Sessions that will review the plays in informational segments prior to each performance and the Shakespeare On The Go Education Tour that will bring the productions to students in grades 7 - 12.

Southwest School of Art & Craft
San Antonio, TX
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Visiting Artist Program. Artists with specialized knowledge in an arcane technical area, or who have applied a traditional method toward innovative ends, will be invited to conduct workshops.

Texas Commission on the Arts
Austin, TX
$962,700
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Texas Folklife Resources
Austin, TX
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support The Big Squeeze film project. The project will produce and edit a documentary film on young accordion players participating in the Accordion Kings & Queens Festival and competition.

University of Houston (on behalf of Arte Público Press)
Houston, TX
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a tour of Texas Latino authors to schools, towns, and libraries along the Texas/Mexico border. The tour of predominantly Mexican American communities will serve to increase awareness about Hispanic literature in these underserved areas.

University of North Texas
Denton, TX
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support literary readings and lectures for the 2008 Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writers Conference of the Southwest. The conference will feature leading nonfiction writers, journalists, and magazine and book editors of this artistic craft.

University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Shakespeare at Winedale Outreach. Students in grades three through six will participate in a year-long exploration of Shakespeare's language, stories, and characters.

University of Texas at Dallas (on behalf of American Literary Translators Association)
Dallas, TX
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support services provided by the American Literary Translators Association to enhance the professional development of literary translators. Activities include the 31st annual conference in St. Paul, Minnesota; the publication of a newsletter and issues of the Translation Review; and continued development of the Web site.

University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Buthan Festival 2008. The project will support a performance and a series of educational workshops presented by Bhutanese traditional artists.

Voices of Change
Dallas, TX
$5,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support a chamber music performance and educational outreach project. The seven-member ensemble and guest composers will present concerts and discussions in several Dallas public schools.

VSA arts of Texas
Austin, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support "Actual Lives," a community-based theater project in which adults with disabilities will create and perform original works. Guest artists include choreographer Allison Orr, director Robert Tolaro, and writing coach Chris Strickling.

Writer's Garret
Dallas, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support The Writer's Studio, a radio show broadcast on KERA Public Radio FM. Taped in front of a live audience, the show features interviews with established authors.

Writers In the Schools
Houston, TX
$55,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support WITS Impact: Creative Writing for Teachers and Students. Professional writers will provide in-service training for teachers and year-long, creative writing workshops for students in elementary and middle school classrooms.


Number of Grants: 42          Total Amount: $1,970,700

 
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