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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.

NORTH CAROLINA

Alleghany County Schools (aka Junior Appalachian Musicians)
Sparta, NC
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Junior Appalachian Musicians (JAM). The project will provide after-school classes in Appalachian traditional folk music for students in third through eighth grades in the Alleghany County JAM program; periodic planning and professional development conferences for artists in the JAM program; and a day-long summer gathering of youth participants from around the region.

Art in the Public Interest
Saxapahaw, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support writing and editing fees for the Web-based Community Arts Network. Through continued expansion and maintenance of the network, the organization will broaden its online resources for and about community-based art and artists.

Arts & Science Council of Charlotte/Mecklenburg
Charlotte, NC
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the commissioning of a monumental artwork for installation in Romare Bearden Park. An artist will be selected through a nationwide competition to create a public artwork that will honor renowned 20th-century artist Romare Bearden, a Charlotte native.

Design Corps (Consortium)
Raleigh, NC
$17,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the Structures for Inclusion X conference. The 10th- anniversary national conference about public service architecture and community design will be held in partnership with Howard University over two days in Washington, DC.

Eastern Music Festival, Inc.
Greensboro, NC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support educational outreach activities, including performances, a summer institute for adults, and a range of camps for children and youth. Plans include student, faculty, and guest artist performances throughout North Carolina and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

Friends of Carl Sandburg at Connemara, Inc.
Flat Rock, NC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support post-production costs for a documentary film about writer Carl Sandburg. Intended for PBS's American Masters series, The Day Carl Sandburg Died will examine the life and work of this Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival
Winston-Salem, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support American chamber music concerts, a residency with composer William Bolcom, and outreach performances by festival student musicians. Performances will take place in the summer at the Southwick Music Complex Recital Hall of the University of Vermont.

Lake Eden Arts Festival (aka LEAF)
Black Mountain, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support LEAF's Expressiones Latinas Project, a series of performances, residencies, master classes, and workshops by Latino music and dance artists. Activities will take place at Camp Rockmont, as well as in schools and community centers in Asheville, North Carolina.

Mint Museum of Art, Inc. (aka Mint Museums)
Charlotte, NC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the conservation treatment of American paintings in the permanent collection. The project is the result of a recent survey to identify works most in need of treatment.

North Carolina Arts Council
Raleigh, NC
$947,200
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

North Carolina Folklife Institute (Consortium)
Durham, NC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Community Folklife Documentation Institute. In collaboration with the North Carolina Arts Council, the project will support a training session for community-based documentation.

North Carolina Folklife Institute
Durham, NC
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Infrastructure Program. The project will facilitate folklife and heritage initiatives in the state.

North Carolina School of the Arts Foundation, Inc. (on behalf of Magnolia Baroque Festival)
Winston-Salem, NC
$15,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support Unexpected Genius: The Chamber Music of Johann Friedrich Peter (1746-1813). The Magnolia Baroque Festival will present the American composer's string quintets and sacred chamber works for voice and string quartet with accompanying educational activities in the Gray Auditorium in Old Salem and at Calvary Moravian Church in Winston-Salem.

Opera Carolina (Consortium)
Charlotte, NC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the  Music! Words! Opera! program. Through a partnership between Opera Carolina and Cabarrus County Schools, students will learn about opera by creating an original opera and attending professional opera performances.

University of North Carolina at Asheville
Asheville, NC
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the <100K Project. The initial phase of the project will include convening professionals to create the groundwork for a national organization to improve geographic diversity within American theater.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (on behalf of Playmakers Repertory Company)
Chapel Hill, NC
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Parts 1 & 2, based on the book by Charles Dickens and adapted for the stage by David Edgar. PlayMakers Repertory Company Artistic Director Joseph Haj and Tom Quaintance will co-direct.

University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro, NC
$15,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the reconstruction and presentation of choreographer Martha Graham's Steps in the Street. The project will include a residency by a Martha Graham Dance Company member.

University of North Carolina School of the Arts
Winston-Salem, NC
$15,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the restaging and presentation of Gallery, a dance created by Alwin Nikolais (1910-93), in celebration of Nikolais's 100th birthday. The project will include workshops, master classes, lectures, pre-concert talks on the Nikolais technique, as well as performances of Gallery in North Carolina and in New York at Hunter College as part of the Nikolais Sharing the Legacy Centennial Celebration.


Number of Grants: 18          Total Amount: $1,309,200

 
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