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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.

TEXAS

Amon Carter Museum of Western Art
Fort Worth, TX
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the Works on Paper Digitization and Documentation Project. The project is part of museum's strategic plan to digitally document its entire collection.

Amon Carter Museum of Western Art
Fort Worth, TX
$90,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts Touring
To support the touring exhibition American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will demonstrate how American photographers in the 1930s reinvented the documentary genre.

Austin Classical Guitar Society
Austin, TX
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Educational Outreach Program. Classical guitar instructors will provide weekly individual lessons for economically disadvantaged students and will assist with the direction and curriculum planning of guitar classes in Austin-area schools.

Ballroom Cultural Arts Foundation (aka Ballroom Marfa) (Consortium)
Marfa, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Ballroom Marfa's Education and Outreach Program. In partnership with the Marfa Independent School District, K-12 students will attend in-school and off-campus performances and lectures by visual, music, and media artists; create work and participate in an annual exhibition; and attend a series of film screenings and concerts.

Big Thought (Consortium)
Dallas, TX
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Family Access to Artistic Excellence program. In partnership with the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs, the inter-generational project will provide excursions to arts centers, museums, and cultural organizations for economically disadvantaged community members.

Big Thought
Dallas, TX
$80,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Creative Solutions Program. Artist teachers from the Young Artists of North Texas artist roster will conduct eight community-based, after-school art education residencies and one intensive summer program in visual arts, dance, filmmaking, theater, and design targeting disadvantaged teens in Dallas.

Brownsville Society for the Performing Arts
Brownsville, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Brownsville Latin Jazz Festival. Activities will include a free outdoor concert, a Latin Dance night, a visual arts exhibition, Capitol Theater street party, and community activities, such as music and dance clinics, master classes, school presentations, and artist talks for high school and college music students.

Centro Cultural Aztlan, Inc.
San Antonio, TX
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of community arts projects involving Chicano/Latino artists. Activities will include exhibitions, workshops, literary events, and performances that preserve cultural traditions and support new and evolving art forms.

Conspirare, Inc.
Austin, TX
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a compact disc recording of a new choral-orchestral work by composer Eric Whitacre. The concert-length oratorio will merge classical, jazz, and rock idioms.

Da Camera Society of Texas
Houston, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support a jazz series and related educational activities. The series will include performances by saxophonist Charles Lloyd and his quartet, vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater in a tribute to Billie Holiday, trumpet player Wallace Roney in a tribute to NEA Jazz Master Miles Davis, vocalist and bassist Esperanza Spalding and her trio, and the Brandon Lee Quintet.

Dallas Chamber Music Society, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$5,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support the Claremont Trio's performance of American chamber music and related educational activities. The concert will include repertoire of composers Leon Kirchner, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Paul Schoenfeld, and Mason Bates.

Diaz Music Institute
Houston, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 10th annual Latin Jazz/Afro Caribbean Summer Workshop at McArthur High School in Houston. The four-week program is designed for K-12 students in underserved communities and will be taught by local Diaz Music Institute staff and guest artists.

Documentary Arts, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the touring exhibit Masters of Traditional Arts. The exhibit will celebrate the lives and careers of folk and traditional artists who have been awarded the NEA National Heritage Fellowship between 1982 and 2008.

EmilyAnn Theatre Inc.
Wimberley, TX
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Shakespeare Under the Stars, a summer youth theater program. High school students will learn all aspects of performance and technical theater through this hands-on program.

Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
San Antonio, TX
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Arte es Vida Westside Cultural Grounding Project. The project will aim to revitalize San Antonio's Westside community life by organizing and presenting public events, concerts, dance performances, and workshops that will engage community members in cultural activities stemming from that neighborhood's historical highlights.

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association, Inc.
Fort Worth, TX
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a touring program of concerts and educational activities in rural communities of Texas.

Gemini Series, Inc. (aka Gemini Ink)
San Antonio, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the University Without Walls program, a series of classes, workshops, readings, and special events for local writers and community members. Writing classes led by teachers and published authors are offered in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction.

Hope Stone, Inc.
Houston, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of Village of Waltz, by choreographer and Artistic Director Jane Weiner. The work will be performed to music by pianist Peter Jones, soprano Ana Godfrey, and violinist Sergei Galperin.

Inprint, Inc.
Houston, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series, which features readings and post-reading interviews with distinguished writers. Now in its 28th year, the project has brought more than 300  writers to Houston.

Lamar University
Beaumont, TX
$15,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the restaging and presentation of choreographer Donald McKayle's Games. The work will be set on Lamar University dance students and presented to the university population, area secondary school students, and southeast Texas audiences.

Lyric Stage, Inc.
Irving, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the preservation and production of the 1939 musical comedy Too Many Girls by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Bruce Pomahac, music director of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization, will restore Hans Spialek's orchestrations and Hugh Martin's vocal arrangements for a premiere performance.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (aka MFAH)
Houston, TX
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support Documents of 20th Century Latin American and Latino Art. The project is dedicated to the recovery, digitalization, and publication of primary source documents related to Latin American/Latino art history.

Musiqa Inc.
Houston, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Around the World with Musiqa and Music Transformed, two educational outreach programs. The chamber ensemble will perform concerts for Houston-area youth and their families at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts.

National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (aka NALAC)
San Antonio, TX
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support NALAC's Leadership Institute and the Seventh National Conference, which will offer Latino cultural organizations opportunities for organizational and professional development.

Northwest Vista College
San Antonio, TX
$15,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of Performing History, Act II: Discovering Cross-border influences in Contemporary Arts, which will focus on reconstructing choreographer Anna Sokolow's Mural. The work will be restaged on Northwest Vista College students, sister colleges of the Alamo Community College District, and the Escuela Nacional de Danza Contemporanea dance company in Mexico.

Project GRAD Houston
Houston, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support City Jazz Kidz and Junior City Jazz Kidz. Students will study jazz weekly during in-school and after-school sessions and in two summer programs.

Riverwalk Jazz
San Antonio, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the weekly public radio jazz series Riverwalk Jazz. Distributed by Public Radio International to 153 stations nationwide, each hour-long program combines live performance with interviews, oral histories, and historical recordings to celebrate important artists and eras in jazz history.

Rude Mechanicals-A Theatre Collective (aka Rude Mechs)
Austin, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a national tour of The Method Gun, an original, company-developed work. The piece will explore the life, ethos, and techniques of a fictional actor-training guru as recounted through the eyes of her students.

Sul Ross State University
Alpine, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production ofPetra's Sueño by Rupert Reyes.

Texas Commission on the Arts
Austin, TX
$1,025,500
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

University of Texas at Dallas (on behalf of Center for Translation Studies/American Literary Translation Association)
Dallas, TX
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support professional development opportunities and publications for literary translators. Activities include the American Literary Translators Association conference, the publication of Translation Review and other materials, and the continued development of the Web site.

Writers In the Schools
Houston, TX
$34,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Writing Power. Professional writers will provide year-long creative writing workshops for approximately 3,000 students in 90 elementary and middle school classrooms.


Number of Grants: 32          Total Amount: $1,884,500

 
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