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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.

WASHINGTON

Artist Trust: A Resource for Washington
Seattle, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Information Services, a variety of professional development resources for Washington state artists and online resources for artists nationwide. Information will be shared with artists through comprehensive training sessions, print publications, Web sites, biweekly e-mail bulletins, a toll-free phone line, and community workshops.

Arts Northwest
Port Angeles, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support professional development services. Activities will include seminars, workshops, roundtables, forums, peer networking, mentoring, and job-alike sessions targeted to arts administrators.

Broadway Center for the Performing Arts
Tacoma, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support performances and outreach activities by Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars. The Refugee All Stars create a fusion of traditional West African music, roots reggae and rhythmic traditional folk. They will participate in lecture demonstrations for general audiences, including residents of Tacoma's Hilltop neighborhood.

Central District Forum for Arts and Ideas
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support CD Forums series of multidisciplinary performances by African American artists. Multimedia artist DJ Spooky (Paul Miller), composer/performer Pamela Z, and video artist James Scruggs will perform and participate in community workshops and artist talks.

City of Seattle, Washington (on behalf of Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture)
Seattle, WA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support Celebrating the Past, Creating the Future. The project will include visual and performing arts presentations celebrating the centennial of the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition and the 50th anniversary of Alaska's admission into the Union.

Cornish College of the Arts
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support Drums Along the Pacific, a festival of American percussion chamber music and a tour. The four-day festival, focusing on the music of John Cage, Henry Cowell, and Lou Harrison, will be followed by tour concerts throughout the Northwest region.

Cultural Development Authority of King County (aka 4Culture)
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support Media/Access. The project will interpret Seattle-based artists' contemporary artworks, exhibits, and arts performances as Web-based media content.

Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle
Seattle, WA
$7,500
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support performances of a work by jazz composer and pianist Wayne Horvitz, with associated residency activities. These Hills of Glory by Horvitz, scored for string quartet and improviser, will be performed by the odeonquartet and violinist Carla Kihlstedt.

Esoterics
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances and a compact disc recording of The Seven Creations, a new choral work by composer and founding director Eric Banks. The new work for a cappella chorus and soloists will use a libretto created by the composer based on ancient sacred Persian texts.

Historical Architecture Development Corporation (aka Kirkman House Museum) (Consortium)
Walla Walla, WA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support Walla Walla Cover to Cover, an exhibition project jointly organized by the Kirkman House Museum and the Fort Walla Walla Museum. The project will examine the culturally and historically significant American traditions of coverlet weaving and quilt making.

Intiman Theatre
Seattle, WA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the King's Men, adapted by Adrian Hall for the stage. The production will be the theater's fifth and final American Cycle play, with accompanying educational and outreach activities.

Jack Straw Foundation (aka Jack Straw Productions)
Seattle, WA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Artist Support Program. Artists will participate in residencies, workshops, mentorships, and public presentations involving sound.

Jack Straw Foundation (aka Jack Straw Productions) (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Do Tell: Multicultural Family Stories, a media arts education project. Developed and implemented in partnership with SouthEast Effective Development, the project will involve students creating oral history-based audio vignettes and radio theater about family stories and cultural celebrations.

Methow Arts Alliance
Twisp, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support marketing efforts promoting the region's cultural offerings. Project plans include enhancing the Alliance's website and expanding distribution of the Methow Valley Arts Magazine.

Music of Remembrance
Seattle, WA
$7,500
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support performances of American chamber works commemorating the Holocaust. Concerts and education and community outreach programs will be held in Seattle and Los Angeles.

Penn Cove Water Festival Association
Coupeville, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support the Penn Cove Water Festival. Folk and traditional arts, including the showcase of traditional Native American canoes, are the focus of the event.

Pomegranate Center
Issaquah, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support the creation of decorative tiles at Pear Tree Place, a residential rehabilitation facility. Artist Milenko Matanovic will lead elementary students and their families in the design, fabrication, and installation of the tiles.

Pratt Fine Arts Center
Seattle, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Master Artist Program. Artists of national renown will conduct workshops for Pratt artists, and free lectures and exhibitions will be offered to the public.

Puget Sound Educational Service District
Renton, WA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Arts Impact: Artistic Pathways to Learning. Elementary classroom teachers will be trained to provide instruction in standards based dance, theater, and visual arts lessons that have shared concepts in other core content areas.

Richard Hugo House
Seattle, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support New Work, New Ideas, a series of programs to encourage the creation of new work and introduce new work to broader audiences. Activities include intensive writing classes; one-on-one consultations with a writer-in-residence; and the Hugo Literary Series, which brings writers to Seattle to create new work and discuss it with the public.

Seattle Arts & Lectures (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support poetry readings and on-stage interviews with poets in Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington. In partnership with Literary Arts Inc., in Portland, the organizations will mail promotional brochures to more than 26,000 individuals.

Seattle Arts & Lectures
Seattle, WA
$42,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Getting the Word Out. The project will advance student writing through publications, recordings, readings, performances, and collaborations with community partners.

Seattle International Children's Festival
Seattle, WA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Seattle International Children's Festival, the Festival in Tacoma, and related education and outreach activities. The combined festivals will feature an array of world cultures and disciplines including traditional and contemporary music, dance, theater, puppetry, circus arts, and storytelling.

Seattle Opera (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$48,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Opera Goes to School. In partnership with the Auburn Arts Commission, the program will provide week-long residencies to elementary schools in which Seattle Opera staff, teaching artists, and professional singers teach students about opera.

Seattle Repertory Theatre (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Bringing Theater Into the Classroom. In partnership with the Seattle Children's Theatre, the program will provide classroom residencies in which professional artists and teachers combine theater education and concepts of literacy into their classroom curriculum.

Swinomish Indian Tribal Community
La Conner, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support the "Superfly Filmmaking Experience." Professional filmmakers from throughout the region will work with youth to create film shorts which will be showcased at the Seattle International Film Festival.

Town Hall Association
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series titled Global Rhythms. Traditional and international artists will perform in concert and take part in ancillary activities such as lecture-demonstrations, classes at local high schools and universities, panel discussions, teacher workshops, and mini-performances at community centers.

University of Washington (on behalf of UW World Series)
Seattle, WA
$35,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Director's Choice: American Masterpieces program of the UW World Series. Masterworks will be performed by the Paul Taylor Dance Company, pianist Terrence Wilson, Emerson String Quartet, and pianist Leon Bates, singer La-Rose Saxon, and actor Cedric Cannon.

Velocity Dance Center
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of the Strictly Seattle Summer Dance Intensive. The project will provide dance education for dancers across the West Coast region, the nation, and the world.

Washington State Arts Commission
Olympia, WA
$809,500
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Wing Luke Memorial Foundation (aka Wing Luke Asian Museum)
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the Wing Luke Asian Museum's Access to Cultural Arts program. The project aims to enable low-income and underserved populations to learn about and experience hands-on Asian Pacific American art.

Youth in Focus
Seattle, WA
$33,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Core Curriculum Photography Classes program. Underserved high school students will work with professional artists after-school and during summer months to improve their proficiency in photography.


Number of Grants: 32          Total Amount: $1,517,500

 
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