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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.

NORTH CAROLINA

American Dance Festival, Inc.
Durham, NC
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Where Ballet and Modern Meet, a series that will explore the influences modern dance and ballet have had on each other. American Dance Festival will present a variety of American companies and commission new works as well as offer French and Israeli mini-festivals.

Asheville Art Museum Association, Inc. (aka Asheville Art Museum)
Asheville, NC
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support an exhibition of the work of American artist Ruth Asawa (b.1926), with accompanying education programs. Asawa is strongly associated with the Black Mountain College art colony in North Carolina and its influence on American avant-garde art from the 1930s through the 50s.

Charlotte Symphony Orchestra Society, Inc.
Charlotte, NC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a Martin Luther King Jr. concert and associated community events.

Davidson College (on behalf of Van Every/Smith Galleries)
Davidson, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Re/Formations: Disability, Women, and Sculpture. The exhibition will include the work of Nancy Fried, Rebecca Horn, Harriet Sanderson, Judith Scott, and Laura Splan.

Dischell, Stuart
Greensboro, NC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Doc Arts, Inc. (aka Full Frame Documentary Film Festival)
Durham, NC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 12th Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. The event will showcase work by emerging, established, and international documentarians.

Greensboro Symphony Society, Inc. (aka Greensboro Symphony Orchestra)
Greensboro, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Annual Community Gospel Concert featuring Kurt Carr, the Kurt Carr Singers, and choristers selected from area colleges and churches. The concert celebrates Greensboro's historic civil rights sit-in events.

Koo, Jason Y.
Davidson, NC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Light Factory (aka The Light Factory Contemporary Museum of Photography and Film)
Charlotte, NC
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a curated film exhibition series. More than 26,000 people are expected to attend.

McColl Center for Visual Art
Charlotte, NC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support residencies for visual artists. Participating artists will be provided housing, workspace, technical assistance, transportation costs, a materials budget, and a monthly stipend for a three-month residency.

Museum of the New South, Inc. (aka Levine Museum of the New South)
Charlotte, NC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Newcomer Project online exhibit. The project will document and present the continuity and change of cultural expressions among immigrant communities in an online exhibit.

North Carolina Dance Theatre
Charlotte, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of the company's winter program, A Night at the Movies, and its spring program, Othello and Snow White, and related education and outreach activities. The performances will take place at the North Carolina Blumenthal Performing Arts Center.

North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the publication of Bridging the Gap: Architectural Internships in Public Service, a collection of essays that will present innovative models and best practices in public service architectural internships. 

North Carolina State University (on behalf of Obsidian III)
Raleigh, NC
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of the literary journal Obsidian III: Journal of African and African Diaspora Literature. Upcoming issues will focus on South Carolina literature and Zora Neale Hurston's legacy.

North Carolina Theatre
Raleigh, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the development and production of The Existents, a new rock musical by Douglas Crawford, Ty Taylor, and Jason Wooten. The fast-paced, modern musical tells the story of a rock band's climb to superstardom and the dynamics that determine their success or failure.

Roanoke Island Historical Association (aka The Lost Colony)
Manteo, NC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the presentation of the 73rd season of Paul Green's The Lost Colony. The historical outdoor drama will be presented at the Waterside Theatre at Fort Raleigh National Historic Site in the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

Shearin, J. F.
Kitty Hawk, NC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre, Inc. (aka SART)
Mars Hill, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Home Again, a new play about the writer Thomas Wolfe, with outreach and educational activities. Artistic Director Bill Gregg, playwright Robert Miller, and commissioned writer Perry Deane Young will develop the fifth drama in the theater's Heritage Plays series.

Stecoah Valley Arts, Crafts & Educational Center, Inc. (aka Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center)
Robbinsville, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support An Appalachian Evening concert series featuring traditional entertainment connected to Appalachian heritage. Past artists include banjo player Marvin Gaster, storyteller Orville Hicks, musician and NEA National Heritage Fellow Wayne Henderson, fiddler and NEA National Heritage Fellow Joe Thompson, and gospel singers The Wilson Brothers.

University of North Carolina at Wilmington (on behalf of Ecotone)
Wilmington, NC
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of a special issue of the literary journal Ecotone. The expanded issue will focus on evolution and Charles Darwin in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Darwin's Origin of Species.

Western Piedmont Symphony - The Unifour Orchestra
Hickory, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the regional premiere of the concerto "Terra Terribilis" by Laura Kaminsky. The work will be performed by the symphony's percussion section. Kaminsky will participate in rehearsals and community outreach.


Number of Grants: 21          Total Amount: $447,500

 
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