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FY 2009 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.
ALASKA
Alaska Arts Southeast, Inc. (aka Sitka Fine Arts Camp)
Sitka, AK
$50,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Sitka Fine Arts Camp. A residential summer arts camp will enable middle and high school students from throughout Alaska to study Alaskan Native arts, dance, music, theater, writing, and visual arts with professional artists from Alaska and other states. Alaska Junior Theater, Inc.
Anchorage, AK
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support performing arts presentations for children and families, with accompanying educational activities. Ragamala Music and Dance Theater and Japan's Wadaiko Ensemble Tokara will perform Sva (Vital Force) and children's theater group Visible Fictions (Scotland) will perform Jason and the Argonauts in schools and at the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts. Alaska State Council on the Arts
Anchorage, AK
$729,200
CATEGORY: Partnership
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities. Sitka Summer Music Festival Inc.
Anchorage, AK
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support concert tours of chamber music in cities and rural towns of Alaska. The concerts will serve audiences in Anchorage, Gustavus, Kenai, Sitka, Talkeetna, and Tenakee Springs. VSA arts of Alaska (aka Out North)
Anchorage, AK
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and tour of the play trilogy Exploring Migration in Alaska by Hmong playwright May Lee Yang and Y'upik Eskimo playwright Emily Johnson. The trilogy will address issues of migration, identity, and the concept of home, and will tour to rural Alaskan communities.
Number of Grants: 5 Total Amount: $809,200
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