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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.

TENNESSEE

Arts Center of Cannon County
Woodbury, TN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support a project to document sacred music traditions. Vernacular music from the region's ethnic religious traditions will be recorded and made available to the public.

Beale Street Caravan, Inc.
Memphis, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and national broadcast of the public radio series Beale Street Caravan. Weekly, one-hour programs featuring performances by blues artists will be broadcast on more than 300 public, community, and college radio stations nationwide.

Cumberland County Playhouse, Inc.
Crossville, TN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the development and premiere of Home Sweet Home To Me: The Rocky Top Musical. The musical, drawing from the songs of the late Felice and Boudleaux Bryant, will be performed in repertory with other works on the main stage.

Humanities Tennessee
Nashville, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the 21st Annual Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, Tennessee. The multi-day literary festival will present more than 250 authors from around the nation, representing genres including fiction, history, mystery, food, biography, travel, poetry, and children's literature.

Hunter Museum of American Art
Chattanooga, TN
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the implementation of a collections management system. The project includes new hardware and software, a Web interface module, and digital documentation of the museum's permanent collection.

Knox County, Tennessee (on behalf of Knox County Public Library)
Knoxville, TN
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Sixth Annual Children's Festival of Reading at the Knox County Public Library. The free public event features children's authors, illustrators, and entertainers.

Nashville Ballet
Nashville, TN
$50,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the reconstruction and presentation of Lew Christensen's Filling Station (1938). Nashville Ballet will premiere the ballet during its Winter Series at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center.

St. Andrews Center
Chattanooga, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Latino Arts Project. The project will identify and document local Latino culture while also producing public programming and educational workshops.

Tennessee Arts Commission
Nashville, TN
$819,200
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

University of Memphis
Memphis, TN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the Strengthening Communities Summit, with an accompanying video and publications. Hosted by the University of Memphis School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy, the two-day  conference will promote awareness of and disseminate practical scholarship about neighborhood-based design.

University of Memphis (on behalf of University of Memphis Art Museum)
Memphis, TN
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support educational activities related to the exhibition Paul R. Williams: The Power of Example. Project activities will focus on  educational activities for K-12 art educators, including a workshop for creating curriculum materials and resources based on the exhibit.


Number of Grants: 11          Total Amount: $1,059,200

 
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