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.

PENNSYLVANIA

Academy of Community Music
Fort Washington, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the annual Celebrate the Children Concert. The concert will feature the Voices of Africa, percussionist Leonard "Doc" Gibbs and his African drum ensemble, and jazz violinist John Blake, Jr., and his jazz ensemble.

Arden Theatre Company
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a world premiere production of My Name Is Asher Lev, adapted and directed by Aaron Posner from the novel by Chaim Potok. Using a cast of three, the adaptation will bring the novel's themes of art, duty, faith, and family to theatrical life.

Asian Americans United, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 14th Annual Chinatown Mid-Autumn Festival. The festival will take place in Philadelphia's Chinatown in the fall of 2009 and will feature a day of arts and craft activities and performances.

Astral Artistic Services
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support solo recitals and orchestral solos in Philadelphia and New York City. Plans include recital performances by clarinetist Jose Franch-Ballester, violinist Saeka Matsuyama, soprano Angela Meade, and pianist Spencer Myer; and orchestral solos with Symphony in C (formerly Haddonfield Symphony) by harpist Bridget Kibbey, pianist Di Wu, and Meade.

Berks Filmmakers, Inc.
Reading, PA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the exhibition of several curated film and video series. Programs will focus on avant-garde cinema, documentary and animation work, presentations by filmmakers, and screenings of films by artists from the region.

Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, Inc.
Bloomsburg, PA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Theater in the Classroom, an arts education program that will tour adaptations of world folk literature and American history to elementary and middle schools. The 2009 tour will include an original show about American ingenuity in the sciences titled Eureka!: Inventors and Their Inventions.

Bohince, Paula J.
Greensburg, PA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Bristol Riverside Theater Company
Bristol, PA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the final phase of development and a production of What You Will, an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, with accompanying educational activities. Artistic Director Keith Edward Baker will collaborate with theater/dance artist Donald Byrd and composer/violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain.

Children's Museum of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support Reaching Great Heights: A Design Process for the Creation of an Interactive Climbing Sculpture. The museum plans to install a structure that will invite visitors to explore and experience art physically.

City of Asylum Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Annual Jazz Poetry Concert. The fifth annual concert will present jazz musicians and poets from around the world. Previous guest artists have included the Oliver Lake Jazz Quintet, the Flux Quartet, and poets Gerald Stern and Patricia Jabbeh Wesley.

City Theatre Company, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a world premiere production of Speak American, a new play by Eric Simonson. The play will follow a group of Eastern European immigrant steel workers in Pittsburgh who are learning English together in 1904.

Creative Nonfiction Foundation (aka Creative Nonfiction)
Pittsburgh, PA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the redesign of the literary journal Creative Nonfiction. The journal will also launch a promotional campaign to increase visibility, influence, and readership.

Curtis Institute of Music
Philadelphia, PA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the creation and tour performances of a new work for chamber ensemble by composer David Ludwig with related educational activities. Performed by faculty and student musicians, the work will premiere in Camden, Maine, and then tour to venues around the country.

Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the creation and presentation of Escape, a site-specific installation by filmmaker Bill Morrison and composer Vijay Iyer. Created for the historic 19th-century prison museum, the work will incorporate virtual reality technology, film, and music to re-create an escape experience in a cell built for solitary confinement.

Fabric Workshop and Museum, Inc. (aka The Fabric Workshop and Museum)
Philadelphia, PA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support an artist-in-residence program. Each participating artist will create new work using innovative fabrics, materials, and construction techniques in experimental ways.

Gamut Theatre Group, Inc. (aka Harrisburg Shakespeare Festival)
Harrisburg, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a production of William Shakespeare's Cymbeline. The free, outdoor performances will take place at Reservoir Park in Allison Hill, a largely low-income, multi-ethnic neighborhood.

Gibb, Robert
Homestead, PA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Greater Philadelphia Asian Culture Center
North Wales, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a presentation of the New Tang Dynasty Television Chinese Spectacular. Guest artists will include the Divine Performing Arts Orchestra, featuring conductor Rutang Chen, concertmaster Chia-Chi Lin, and tenor Guimin Guan.

Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance
Philadelphia, PA
$42,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support PhillyFunGuide.com, an online entertainment events calendar, and FunSavers, a weekly e-mail program offering ticket discounts. Funds will be used to upgrade the electronic marketing initiative that serves cultural institutions in the 10-county greater Philadelphia metropolitan area.

Headlong Dance Theater
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work, Unbraided. The work will premiere at the 2009 Live Arts Festival in Philadelphia.

Huntingdon County Arts Council
Huntingdon, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Folk College 2009. Resident ensemble Simple Gifts will be joined by performer Steven Greenman, as well as folk ensembles including Crowfoot and Appalasian, for a series of concerts and workshops focused on traditional American and international folk music.

Institute for Cultural Partnerships
Harrisburg, PA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Creativity as Catalyst in Community: An Exhibition of Traditional Arts of Pennsylvania. The project will include an exhibition that will travel statewide and present traditional artists whose work exemplifies Pennsylvania's traditions.

InterAct, Inc. (aka InterAct Theatre Company)
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a world premiere production of The Rant, a new play by Andrew Case. The project will be directed by Producing Managing Director Seth Rozin.

Kasdorf, Julia
Bellefonte, PA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Kimmel Center, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of Rennie Harris Puremovement and Philadanco. Each company will present a world premiere.

Lafayette College
Easton, PA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support jazz performance residencies. Jazz ensembles of diverse musical styles, ranging from big band (Van Guard Jazz Orchestra), and large "all star" ensembles (SF Jazz Collective), to leader-based ensembles (Dave Holland Sextet, Gonzalo Rubalcaba Quartet, and the Anat Cohen Quartet) will participate.

Mann Center for the Performing Arts
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Arts in the Park series and performances by the Philadelphia Orchestra. Activities will include dance and music performances by international artists at Fairmont Park.

Marlboro School of Music, Inc. (aka Marlboro Music Festival)
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Invited Master Artist Project. Students (ages 18 to 32) will participate in a series of workshops, open rehearsals and concerts, master classes, and lecture-demonstrations led by a group of world-class concert artists, composers, and scholars.

Mattress Factory, Ltd.
Pittsburgh, PA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support Likeness, an exhibition of new site-specific installations by as many as six nationally and internationally known contemporary artists, with accompanying education programs. The exhibition will present work that explores identity and resemblance in a variety of media.

New Paradise Laboratories Theatre, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Fatebook: A Cyberspace Ghost Story. Co-created by Artistic Director Whit MacLaughlin, the New Paradise Laboratories ensemble, scenic designer Matt Saunders, and media designer Jorge Cousineau, the project will premiere at the 2009 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival.

Opera Company of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
$22,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support performances of Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia at the Kimmel Center's Perelman Theater. Education and outreach activities will be offered for audiences.

Opera North
Fort Washington, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the premiere of Transitions (Sung Stories), by composer Leslie Savoy Burrs and librettist Jules Tasca. The newly created opera, created in partnership with NewCourtland Elder Services, will feature stories of the local residents.

Pennsylvania Ballet Association
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of Cinderella by choreographer Ben Stevenson with related education programs. The company premiere of the work will be presented at Philadelphia's Academy of Music.

Pennsylvania Youth Theatre
Bethlehem, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the production of Maggie Magalita, a play by Wendy Kesselman. The bilingual production will appeal to the area's large Latino student population.

People's Light & Theatre Company
Malvern, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of The Day of the Picnic by Russell Davis, directed by Artistic Director Abigail Adams. The project will be part of the Philadelphia New Play Festival sponsored by the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia.

Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
Philadelphia, PA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support an art song concert series. The project's exploration of vocal music will include performances of renaissance works through contemporary music, along with master classes and lectures by guest artists and scholars.

Philadelphia Classical Symphony, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support First Pennsylvanians, a commission and performance project based on the culture of the Lenni-Lenape Indians of Delaware. Composers Curt Cacioppo and Maurice Wright each will compose new works and will participate in an artist residency that will include educational programming for school children in Philadelphia and surrounding counties.

Philadelphia Folklore Project (Consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Art Happens Here. In collaboration with the Kulu Mele African American Dance Ensemble the project will present Philadelphia folk artists to audiences throughout the region and enhance the presentations with publications, broadcasts, and online exhibits.

Philadelphia Fringe Festival
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the presentation of works at the Philadelphia Live Arts and Philly Fringe festivals. Artists will perform new works and participate in residency activities such as workshops and post-performance discussions.

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, PA
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring exhibition Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, with accompanying education programs. Gorky (b. Armenia c. 1907-48) was a seminal figure in the movement toward abstraction that ultimately transformed American art.

Philadelphia Orchestra Association
Philadelphia, PA
$65,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Philadelphia Firsts, the orchestra's first performances of works by composers Thomas Ades, Guillame Conneson, and Matthias Pintscher. The concerts will be performed at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.

Philadelphia Theatre Company
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the New Works/New Audiences Project. The audience development program will include the world premiere production of Resurrection, a new play by Daniel Beaty.

Philagrafika (Consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious. A joint project with the Moore College of Art and Design, the exhibition will include the work of approximately 100 printmakers and special commissions for 15 other artists.

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot's Romeo et Juliette. The work will be set to Serge Prokofiev's score and will be played live by the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Orchestra.

Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Bridges: A Festival of String Quartets, Part 2, which will focus on work by composers living and working in Pittsburgh. Performances by the Biava String Quartet will be held at Pittsburgh's renovated New Hazlett Theater.

Pittsburgh Dance Alloy
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support resetting choreographer Victoria Marks' Dancing to Music and the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Nora Chipaumire, with related education and outreach activities. The works will be presented as part of Dance Alloy Theater's Inner Voices: The Language of Women at the New Hazlett Theater in Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh Opera Theater, Inc. (aka Opera Theater of Pittsburgh)
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a production of Gershwin?s Porgy & Bess .

Pittsburgh Opera, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a production of Rossini's L'Italiana in Algeri. The company will develop education and community engagement programs and corresponding written materials focusing on the theme and content of the opera.

Pittsburgh Opera, Inc. (consortium)
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the student matinee performance of Puccini's La Bohème. In partnership with Pittsburgh public schools, the opera will bring thousands of students from more than 25 area high schools to view the performances.

Pittsburgh Public Theater Corporation
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and world premiere of Harry's Friendly Service, a new play by Pittsburgh playwright Rob Zellers. The production will be directed by Producing Artistic Director Ted Pappas.

Pittsburgh Symphony Society
Pittsburgh, PA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Composer of the Year, an artist residency with composer John Adams. With guest artist violinist Leila Josefowicz, Adams will conduct the orchestra in the Pittsburgh premiere of his work for electric violin and orchestra, The Dharma at Big Sur.

PlayPenn, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the 2009 Summer Conference. The conference will provide in-depth workshops, bring leading theater artists to Philadelphia, and enhance the network of local artists.

Settlement Music School of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity & Aging   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: AccessAbility
To support Settlement's Program for Seniors. The project will include a comprehensive music instruction and performance program.

Susquehanna Folk Music Society, Inc.
New Cumberland, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support The Global Rhythms Project. Guest artists will include the Kulu Mele African American Dance Ensemble, Bulgarian dancers Illian Bozhavova and Tudor Vasilev Yanknov, and Indian musician Shafaatullah Khan.

Sweetwater Art Center (aka Sweetwater Center for the Arts)
Sewickley, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Mavuno Festival of African American Art and Culture. Singer and storyteller Charlotte Blake Alston will perform at the festival and travel to local, low-income areas to help students learn about African culture. Project activities also will include jazz performances, visual arts exhibitions, and a film series.

Tempesta di Mare, Inc. (Consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support From Wealth of Tears to Cheerful Hearts: Odes by Bach and Blow. In partnership with the Philadelphia Singers, Tempesta di Mare will perform Johann Sebastian Bach's cantata Trauer-Ode (1727) and John Blow's With Festive Hearts (1690) in Philadelphia and the Chestnut Hill neighborhood.

Williamsport Symphony Orchestra
Williamsport, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a performance of David Stock's Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra featuring percussionist Lisa Pegher. Pegher will also participate in a master class for college students, a pre-concert demonstration for middle school students, and a workshop for low-income families.

Wilma Theater, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Scorched by Wajdi Mouawad, translated from French by Linda Gaboriau. The production will be directed by Blanka Zizka.

Wood Turning Center
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the International Turning Exchange. Artists will be given the opportunity to create new work during an eight-week residency program.

Number of Grants: 59          Total Amount: $1,233,000

 
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