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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.

OREGON

CALYX, Inc. (aka CALYX, A Journal of Art & Literature by Women)
Corvallis, OR
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of the journal Calyx. The project also includes a promotional program with direct mailings, special Web site offers, and author readings across the country.

City of Eugene, Oregon
Eugene, OR
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the creation of a public art master plan. The City of Eugene, Oregon, will conduct a cultural planning process to define vision, direction, and strategy for its public art program.

Eugene Symphony Association, Inc.
Eugene, OR
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support American Encounters: Jennifer Higdon. The series will include performances of Higdon's recent compositions, a radio broadcast, and residencies by the composer and guest artist and percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie.

Miracle Theatre Company
Portland, OR
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of The Shrunken Head of Pancho Villa, written by Chicano theater pioneer Luis Valdez. First performed in 1964, the play represents a watershed moment in the development of Chicano identity in the United States.

Northwest Professional Dance Project
Portland, OR
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of three new dance works from choreographers Sarah Slipper, James Canfield, and Thaddeus Davis. The works will premiere at the Portland Center for the Performing Arts.

Oregon Ballet Theatre
Portland, OR
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the commissioning and performance of a new work by choreographer James Kudelka. The work will be performed at the Newmark Theatre in Portland, Oregon, and a variety of outreach activities will surround the project.

Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association
Ashland, OR
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Equivocation by Bill Cain, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Artistic Director Bill Rauch will direct the production, with sound design by Andre J. Pluess.

Portland Center Stage
Portland, OR
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the 11th annual JAW (Just Add Water): Playwrights Festival. Artistic Director Chris Coleman and Associate Artistic Director Rose Riordan will lead the festival, supporting playwrights in the development of new works to enhance the repertoire of the American theater.

Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
Portland, OR
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Time Based Art Festival and related educational activities. The 10-day festival will feature local, national, and international artists working in dance, theater, music, visual art, film, and multidisciplinary forms.

Portland Opera Association, Inc.
Portland, OR
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the Portland Opera Studio Artists (POSA) and the POSA Chamber Opera. The training program provides education and performance opportunities for young artists, while the chamber ensemble provides audiences access to more intimate chamber operas.

Society of North American Goldsmiths (aka SNAG)
Eugene, OR
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support production and expanded distribution of Metalsmith magazine. Solicited articles will focus on current work in art jewelry, design, and metalsmithing.

Szybist, Mary
Portland, OR
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

University of Oregon (on behalf of Oregon Bach Festival)
Eugene, OR
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the commission and performance of a choral and orchestral work by Swedish composer Sven-David Sandstrom at the Oregon Bach Festival. A co-commission with Internationale Bach Academie-Stuttgart, the work will receive its world premiere at the Silva Concert Hall at the Hult Center for the Performing Arts in Eugene.

White Bird
Portland, OR
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of dance companies in the White Bird Uncaged series. The project will include master classes and lecture-demonstrations.

Willamette University
Salem, OR
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support workshops and demonstrations by regalia makers at the Umatilla and Warm Springs Reservations. Regalia makers from across the state and the general public will be invited to each venue.

Wisdom of the Elders, Inc.
Portland, OR
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Northwest Indian Storytellers Association Festival and Symposium. The project will present a festival featuring Native American storytellers, drumming, and dance, as well as a traditional salmon dinner honoring tribal culture-bearers.


Number of Grants: 16          Total Amount: $287,500

 
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