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.

UTAH

Bad Dog Rediscovers America (aka Bad Dog, BDRA)
Salt Lake City, UT
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Teen Apprenticeship Program. Targeted to low-income youth between the ages of 14 and 19, the program is designed to prepare the participants for a career in the arts.

Dance Theatre Coalition
Salt Lake City, UT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Proving Ground Artist Development Program. The project will serve emerging artists in the Salt Lake City area through an annual concert, grant writing workshops, help sessions, and a professional development program for modern dance teachers.

Moab Music Festival, Inc. (aka Moab Music Festival)
Moab, UT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support concerts featuring the music of William Bolcolm and John Musto. Bolcolm and Musto will also perform in American Project, the Festival's free public performance.

Moab Music Festival, Inc.
Moab, UT
$7,500
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support a composer residency project with American composers William Bolcom and Derek Bermel. In addition to the chamber music of Bolcom and Bermel, programming will include works by John Adams, Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, and Rebecca Clarke.

Repertory Dance Theatre (aka RDT)
Salt Lake City, UT
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the reconstruction, notation, and performance of Castor and Pollux, choreographed by Elizabeth Waters. The work is choreographed to music by Harry Partch, and will incorporate originally designed percussion instruments by Partch with live musicians on stage.

Ririe-Woodbury Dance Foundation (aka Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company)
Salt Lake City, UT
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support dance residency activities in communities across the United States. The project will include lecture-demonstrations, creative movement classes, teacher workshops, open rehearsals, master classes, parent/child workshops, lectures, and performances.

Salt Lake Arts Council Foundation
Salt Lake City, UT
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Living Traditions Festival: A Celebration of Salt Lake's Folk and Ethnic Arts. The project will present traditional crafts, dance, music, and foods of the ethnic groups that make Salt Lake City their home.

Spy Hop Productions, Inc.
Salt Lake City, UT
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Youth Documentary Arts Program. The project will include Reel Stories, a summer documentary filmmaking workshop; Documenting Communities, a year-long exploration of communities; Loud and Clear, a youth-produced radio program; and Pitch-Nic Young Writer/Director, a mentorship program.

Sundance Institute (aka Sundance Institute for Film & Television)
Park City, UT
$140,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Feature Film Program. The program offers emerging screenwriters, directors, producers, and composers the opportunity, support, and resources needed to successfully create new work.

University of Utah (Consortium)
Salt Lake City, UT
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the Urban Gallery Project of site-specific installations and performances in New Orleans. In partnership with the Broadmoor Improvement Association in New Orleans, LA, the project will allow local citizens to celebrate their neighborhoods.

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
$58,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Side-by-Side Teacher Training Residency. Students in kindergarten through sixth grades and their teachers will acquire and practice dance skills on a weekly basis through in-school residencies and professional development workshops for teachers.

Utah Arts Council
Salt Lake City, UT
$737,800
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Utah Humanities Council
Salt Lake City, UT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the 11th annual Utah Humanities Book Festival. The free, three-day festival will feature readings and writing workshops by Utah writers.

Number of Grants: 13          Total Amount: $1,108,300

 
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