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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.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Americans for the Arts, Inc.
Washington, DC
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the expansion of the annually-curated Year in Review CD-ROM and the digitization of analog slide images for the Public Art Network database. The Year in Review highlights the nation's most innovative and successful contemporary public art projects.

Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Inc. (aka Arts Presenters)
Washington, DC
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Arts Presenters Professional Development Initiative. The series of rregional institutes will target underserved constituents and emerging leaders.

Capital Concerts, Inc.
Washington, DC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support staging and related costs for The National Memorial Day Concert and A Capitol Fourth, two patriotic concerts at the United States Capitol to be nationally broadcast live on PBS in 2009. A national television audience of 10 to 12 million watches these 90-minute programs each year.

Choral Arts Society of Washington (aka Choral Arts, CASW) (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$26,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support artsACESS. The project will provide professional development for teaching artists and kindergarten to 12th grade classroom teachers in partnership with the District of Columbia Public School's public and charter schools using an arts-integrated curriculum.

CityDance Ensemble, Inc.
Washington, DC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the restaging and presentation of Dust, created in 1977 by choreographer Paul Taylor. The work will premiere at the Harman Center for the Arts in Washington, DC.

Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington
Washington, DC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support CultureCapital.com, an online regional arts calendar. The resource will provide cost-effective marketing for arts organizations throughout the Washington, DC metropolitan region.

Cultural Development Corporation of the District of Columbia
Washington, DC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Business Centers at Flashpoint and at Source Theatre. Each center's network of management tools and capacity-building services for artists and arts organizations will provide residency and technical assistance programs, as well as opportunities for affordable exhibition, performance, and office spaces in conjunction with other business amenities.

D.C. Wheel Productions, Inc. (aka Dance Place)
Washington, DC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of dance performances and accompanying residency activities. Touring and local artists selected represent African, step, and contemporary dance forms.

Dance Heritage Coalition, Inc.
Washington, DC
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support an upgrade to the Web site. The Dance Heritage Coalition will work with a three-person team, consisting of a Web editor, Web designer, and programmer, to make the Web site more user-friendly, flexible, and consistent with state-of-the-art encoding.

Daniel Phoenix Singh & Company (aka Dakshina)
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the restaging and presentation of Dreams and Rooms, by choreographer Anna Sokolow. The company will tour the works locally and nationally following the residency.

District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Washington, DC
$755,400
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Ellington Fund
Washington, DC
$60,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Creating Opera from Classroom to Stage. Students will work with opera professionals to create an original opera, using the 2009-2010 Washington National Opera production of Porgy and Bess as a starting point.

Festivals DC, Ltd. (aka Duke Ellington Jazz Festival)
Washington, DC
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the fifth annual Duke Ellington Jazz Festival, with accompanying educational activities. The 11-day event will take place on the National Mall, at the Lincoln Theater, and at 38 other venues in Washington, DC, including libraries, theaters, museums, schools, and universities.

Festivals DC, Ltd. (aka Duke Ellington Jazz Festival)
Washington, DC
$25,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support performances of works by American pianist and composer Jelly Roll Morton during the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival. As part of the June 2009 annual festival, these performances will celebrate New Orleans and its musical heritage, spotlight Morton's works, and explore the rhythms and history of his music.

Film Odyssey, Inc.
Washington, DC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production costs for a documentary film on the artist James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). The one-hour film, to be produced by Karen Thomas, is intended for national broadcast on PBS.

Fondo Del Sol (aka Fondo del Sol Visual Arts Center / MOCHA)
Washington, DC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support community outreach activities related to the exhibition Issues of Freedom. Outreach activities will be bilingual and include documentation, artist talks, and residencies.

GALA Inc., Grupo de Artistas Latinoamericanos (aka GALA Hispanic Theatre)
Washington, DC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the GALA Hispanic Theatre production of Los Títeres de Cachiporra: Tragicomedia de don Cristóbal y la señá Rosita (The Billy-Club Puppets: Tragic-comedy of don Cristóbal and Miss Rosita) by Federico García Lorca, with accompanying educational activities. Renowned Argentine theater director Adhemar Bianchi will direct with project director Hugo Medrano.

International Arts & Artists, Inc.
Washington, DC
$75,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts Touring
To support the touring exhibition Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition examines the role Man Ray's (1890-1976) photographs of African art played in the process by which African objects came to be perceived as the stuff of modern art.

Levine School of Music
Washington, DC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Early Childhood Music. Music educators will provide free, weekly music classes to young children in five underserved neighborhoods in Washington, DC.

National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
Washington, DC
$742,945
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support national leadership services in the area of education and technical assistance, development of new partnerships, and advanced information services.

National Public Radio, Inc. (aka NPR)
Washington, DC
$70,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production, acquisition, and distribution of music programming. Through its Digital Music Initiative, NPR has created an extensive online Web site as a music resource for public radio stations and the public, and will offer new and archival musical performances to stations for broadcast.

National Public Radio, Inc. (aka NPR)
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and national broadcast of the public radio series World of Opera. Hosted by Lisa Simeone, the series reaches as many as 250,000 weekly listeners on 89 stations.

National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States
Washington, DC
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the Modernism + Recent Past Initiative, a national initiative that will address issues facing America's 20th-century design heritage. The project will include public lectures, discussions, and special events in several cities across the United States.

Patricia M. Sitar Center for the Arts (aka Sitar Arts Center)
Washington, DC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Instrumental Music Education Project. Professional musicians will provide free after-school instrumental music lessons targeted to inner-city students.

PEN/Faulkner Foundation
Washington, DC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the annual PEN/Faulkner Reading Series and the Writers in Schools Program. In addition to a series of readings held at public venues in Washington, DC, the foundation will bring writers to local high school classrooms, working with teachers to prepare them for the visit, and distributing resource materials and books to the participants.

Post-Classical Ensemble, Inc. (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a fully staged production of Igor Stravinsky's A Soldier's Tale and a related conference, in consortium with Georgetown University.

Society for the Arts in Healthcare
Washington, DC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Online Artists in Healthcare Registry and Showcase. An interactive Web-based program will be created to support a national network of artists, art consumers, and curators through the documentation and showcasing of the best of arts in healthcare.

Textile Museum of D.C.
Washington, DC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support an exhibition of Central Asian ikats, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will feature 19th- century men's and women's coats as well as other forms of ikat textiles.

Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Peer-to-Peer Jazz Education Tour. Gifted students from leading performing arts high schools in Washington, DC, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Miami will join renowned jazz musicians for a week-long tour of performances at underserved public high schools in Boston, Detroit, Indianapolis, and Seattle.

Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support BeBop to Hip-Hop. Professional musicians will introduce students to the latest recording technologies and software and teach students composition, music theory, arranging, improvisation, lyric writing, turntable scratching, and sampling.

Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (aka The Corcoran)
Washington, DC
$50,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts Touring
To support the touring exhibition Sargent and the Sea, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will focus for the first time on American artist John Singer Sargent's (1856-1925) marine paintings, watercolors, and drawings.

Washington Ballet
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support an increase in performances of The Nutcracker for public school children, and upgrading sets of The Nutcracker for the Town Hall Education Arts & Recreation Campus in Anacostia. The Nutcracker will also be used as part of a teaching tool for DanceDC, a community engagement program in public schools that integrates language arts and creative movement.

Washington Chorus, Inc.
Washington, DC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a  New Music for a New Age concert. Plans include a performance of works by composer Nico Muhly, an emerging American composer, and education and outreach activities involving the composer and other artists.

Young Playwrights' Theater, Inc.
Washington, DC
$32,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the In-School Playwriting Program. Teaching artists will provide interactive workshops in which students learn to craft a play using improvisation, writing, editing, rehearsal, and performance.


Number of Grants: 34          Total Amount: $2,486,345

 
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