FY 2009 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence I/Challenge America Fast-Track Grants/Creativity & Aging/Literature Fellowships (Poetry)

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

ALABAMA

Alabama Dance Council, Inc.
Birmingham, AL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of the 2009 Alabama Dance Festival. The statewide festival will feature performances by Complexions Contemporary Ballet, showcases of Alabama dance companies, master classes, and dance education workshops.

Alabama Moving Image Association, Inc. (aka Sidewalk)
Birmingham, AL
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival. More than 150 films will be screened to an estimated audience of 14,000 people.

Coleman Center for the Arts
York, AL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the One Mile Garden, an environmental public art project. Artists Bob Bingham, Ally Reeves, and Robin Hewlett will work with community participants to create the work for installation in the town of York, Alabama.

Marshall County Retired Senior Volunteer Program, Inc.
Guntersville, AL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity & Aging   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: AccessAbility
To support Melodies and Musings-Our Appalachian Legacy. Older adults will participate in dulcimer classes and sacred harp vocal classes, as well as writing circles about Appalachian memories; the project will conclude with a regional workshop and festival event.

Red Mountain Theatre Company
Birmingham, AL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a production of Stephen Sondheim's 1979 classic musical Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street. The production will be directed by Chan Harris, with musical direction by Kevin Finn.

Rural Members Association, Inc.
Aliceville, AL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Freedom Creek Blues Festival. The two-day event will be held at the home of blues historian and musician Willie King in rural Old Memphis, Alabama. Proposed artists include musicians Charlie Musselwhite and Kenny Neal.

Number of Grants: 6          Total Amount: $47,500

 
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