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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.

MASSACHUSETTS

Arts Boston, Inc.
Boston, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Arts Boston Summer Sizzle, an initiative to promote a new comprehensive online arts calendar. Targeted to residents, tourists, and tourism professionals, the service will provide the public with greater access to information about arts activities in the region at affordable ticket prices.

Association of Independents in Radio, Inc. (aka AIR)
Boston, MA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support America Listens, a program of professional development services for independent radio producers. Activities will include mentorships, residencies, and workshops.

Atlantic Public Media
Woods Hole, MA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Transom.org. The project encourages both emerging and experienced independent audio producers to tell their stories on public radio.

Barrington Stage Company, Inc.
Pittsfield, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic work Carousel, directed by Artistic Director Julianne Boyd.

Boston Chamber Music Society, Inc. (Consortium)
Cambridge, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support concerts of American chamber music during the Winter Festival and Forum Series. Performances and discussion forums will feature repertoire chosen as an avenue for discussions about music, time, memory, and architecture.

Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Inc.
Malden, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support compact disc recordings of works by American composers. The world-premiere releases of orchestral works by composers Lisa Bielawa, John Cage, and Alan Hovhaness will be recorded on three separate discs.

Boston Musica Viva, Inc.
Somerville, MA
$17,500
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support concerts of chamber works by American composers with related educational activities. Repertoire will include works by composers Joseph Schwantner, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Andy Vores, Michael Gandolfi, and John Harbison.

Boston University
Boston, MA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Tanglewood Institute's Young Artists Orchestra and Young Artists Wind Ensemble programs. Students will receive extensive rigorous instrumental music training, including individual instruction, master classes, and performance opportunities.

Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, Inc.
Boston, MA
$72,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Intensive Community Program. Targeted to inner-city and minority youth, the program offers a two-week summer music workshop, followed by weekly music lessons, ensemble classes, and performance opportunities during the school year.

Cloud Foundation (aka Cloud Place) (Consortium)
Boston, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of free workshops for teens at Cloud Place. In partnership with UrbanArts, Inc. and other community partner organizations, workshops in a variety of genres also will include performances and exhibitions by the teaching artists.

Cloud Foundation (aka Cloud Place)
Boston, MA
$54,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Teen Curatorial Program at Cloud Place. Professional artists will lead workshops in film, visual arts, design, and spoken word performance for teens. Participating youth will become curators of their own work by planning and implementing the Youth Fusion Series, a 10-night public event showcasing their work through exhibitions, screenings, and performances.

Community Access to the Arts, Inc.
Great Barrington, MA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Community Access to the Arts Transitions. Faculty artists will collaborate with special education administrators and teachers in local high schools to provide arts activities for students with disabilities in order to teach students to access artistic and cultural resources in their communities after they graduate from the public school system.

Danforth Museum Corporation
Framingham, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support collaboration between the Danforth Museum of Art and the Framingham public schools. Framingham public school educators and museum staff will work closely to update integrated visual arts and social studies curriculum and programming for approximately 650-750 third-grade students.

DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park (aka DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park)
Lincoln, MA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Sculpture Park Teacher Institute: New Media Art and Technology--Nam June Paik. Teachers will connect technology and pedagogy by exploring a work in the museum's permanent collection, Requiem to the 20th Century, a sculpture by artist Nam June Paik that fuses art, technology, and social and political history.

Federated Dorchester Neighborhood Houses, Inc. (aka FDNH)
Dorchester, MA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Art a la Carte, a visual arts education program. Urban Boston teens will connect with the local cultural community through classes, internships, work experiences, and field trips.

Filmmakers Collaborative, Inc.
Waltham, MA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary film about the musician Johnny Cash (1932-2003). Intended for national broadcast on PBS, the 90-minute film will weave together a wide selection of Cash's songs, film clips of his performances, home movies, and interviews with family, friends, and fellow musicians as it traces the story of his life and career.

Five Colleges, Inc.
Amherst, MA
$15,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the restaging of choreographer Mark Morris's Gloria. The project will involve a collaboration of dance, orchestra, and choral groups of the Five Colleges.

From the Top, Inc.
Boston, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support educational outreach activities. Youth musicians that appear on the weekly classical radio program will take part in Cultural Leadership workshops and also perform concerts in schools and community venues.

From the Top, Inc.
Boston, MA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production of the public radio series From the Top. The weekly, hour-long radio program features performances by young classical musicians ages 8 to 18.

From the Top, Inc.
Boston, MA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production of the television series From the Top: Live From Carnegie Hall. The series will consist of 13 programs featuring young classical musicians performing for a live audience.

Hyde Square Task Force, Inc.
Jamaica Plain, MA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Ritmo en Acción, an Afro-Latin and contemporary youth dance troupe. With guidance from Boston's HYM Dance Company instructors, a core group of teens will study a variety of Latin and contemporary dances, and will be trained as instructors to teach dance to other students in Hyde Square Task Force after-school and summer programs.

Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion (aka IBA) (on behalf of Casa de la Cultura/Center for Latino Arts)
Boston, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Center for Latino Arts' Café Teatro Latino Performance Series. Activities will include public performances, school matinees, symposia, jam sessions with students and faculty, workshops, and master classes.

Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc. (aka The Pillow)
Becket, MA
$60,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company as part of its 50-year history with Jacob's Pillow and Merce Cunningham's 90th birthday. The celebration will include audience engagement programming and exhibits drawn from materials in the Pillow's archives.

Massachusetts College of Art
Boston, MA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Summer Studios, an intensive summer visual arts program for high school students. Scholarship opportunities will be expanded to more than 20 underserved youth students in Boston, Lawrence, and Lynn public school districts.

Massachusetts Cultural Council
Boston, MA
$922,200
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

New England Foundation for the Arts
Boston, MA
$1,095,600
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

New Repertory Theatre, Inc. (aka New Rep)
Watertown, MA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support New Rep On Tour. The program will bring adaptations of classic plays to high school students throughout Massachusetts.

Project STEP, Inc.
Boston, MA
$72,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the String Training and Educational Program (STEP). The project will prepare gifted African American and Latino children for careers in classical music as soloists, teachers, and orchestra members.

Raw Art Works, Inc. (aka RAW)
Lynn, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Real to Reel, a media arts education project. Underserved teens will learn all aspects of narrative and documentary filmmaking.

Revolving Museum, Inc.
Lowell, MA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Artbotics, a visual arts education program. High school students will explore the intersection between visual arts and computer science through project-based learning and public exhibitions.

Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Inc.
Rockport, MA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support residencies by the ensembles So Percussion and Harlem Quartet. Performances in public schools and free community concerts will take place in Rockport and Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Shakespeare & Company, Inc.
Lenox, MA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Shakespeare in Action, a theater arts residency program. The series of classroom and after-school sessions will focus on a language-based exploration of a Shakespearean play through master classes, rehearsals, text analysis, and student performances.

Springfield Library & Museums Association (on behalf of Springfield Art Museums)
Springfield, MA
$65,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts Touring
To support the touring exhibition The Legacy of Currier and Ives: Shaping the American Spirit, with accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will explore the impact the Currier and Ives lithographic printing firm had on 19th-century American society and culture.

Underground Railway Puppets & Actors, Inc. (aka Underground Railway Theater) (Consortium)
Cambridge, MA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Harriet Jacobs, a new play by Lydia Diamond based on Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. The theater will co-produce the New England premiere of the work in collaboration with Providence Black Repertory Company.

WGBH Educational Foundation
Boston, MA
$65,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the WGBH Lab. The mission of the WGBH Lab is to invite the broader public into public media by encouraging creative expression and opening the door to new voices.

WGBH Educational Foundation (aka WGBH Radio)
Boston, MA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and distribution of short video segments of poetry to public television stations across the country. The Poetry Everywhere interstitials are designed to make poetry available to the public on a regular basis during hourly station breaks between PBS programs.

Young at Heart Chorus, Inc. (aka Young@Heart)
Northampton, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the creation of We're Still Here. Artistic Director Bob Cilman will direct a musical montage of previous works created by more than 100 chorus members combined with new music and material.


Number of Grants: 37          Total Amount: $3,260,800

 
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