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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.

VIRGINIA

American Focus, Inc. (Consortium)
Charlottesville, VA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the documentary film Heartland Passage. In collaboration with the Cultural Resources Council of Syracuse and Onondaga County, the project will highlight the folk culture of the 20th- and 21st-century Erie Canal.

Arts and Cultural Council of the Twin Counties (Consortium)
Galax, VA
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the documentary film From Wood to Singing Guitar about NEA National Heritage Fellow guitarist and luthier Wayne Henderson. In collaboration with Appalshop, Inc., the film will be distributed to public broadcast affiliates.

Assitej/USA, Inc. (aka Theatre for Young Audiences/USA)
Alexandria, VA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the publication and distribution of Theatre for Young Audiences/USA's TYA Today, the Marquee directory, the NEXT blog, and the Ann Shaw Fellowships. The project will encourage development of professional theater for young audiences.

Association of Writers & Writing Programs (aka AWP)
Fairfax, VA
$65,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the 2010 AWP conference in Denver; the production, printing, and distribution of The Writer's Chronicle; and the continued development of the AWP Web site, including the online AWP Job List.

Carter Family Memorial Music Center, Inc. (aka The Carter Family Fold)
Hiltons, VA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support professional curators/registrars to catalog the collections in the Carter Family Memorial Museum. The project will include plans for stabilizing the collection, prioritizing preservation, and developing an exhibit plan for the museum.

Charlottesville Community Design Center (Consortium)
Charlottesville, VA
$31,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support Designing Community: A Social and Design History of Charlottesville's Pedestrian Downtown Mall. With Preservation Piedmont, the Charlottesville Community Design Center will document, research, exhibit, and publish the social and design history of the Charlottesville Pedestrian Downtown Mall, which was designed by landscape architect Lawrence Halprin.

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Williamsburg, VA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support conservation of the Carolina Room, a rare, early 19th-century painted interior from a rural North Carolina planter's house.

Daily Poetry Association (aka Poetry Daily)
Charlottesville, VA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the weekly Poetry Daily e-mail newsletter and to support poet honoraria for the special Poets' Pick series. Poetry Daily encourages a general audience for poetry by bringing readers a poem each day and offering other news related to poetry and prose.

Folkstreams, Inc. (aka Folkstreams.net)
Delaplane, VA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the preservation of and public access to documentary films about American traditional arts and culture. The project will add new films to the Folkstreams Web site.

Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association, Inc. (aka WETA)
Arlington, VA
$150,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support WETA's production of a series of arts news reports. Each six- to ten-minute report will be included on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, which airs five nights a week on PBS.

James River Writers
Richmond, VA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Virginia Arts & Letters LIVE, an evening featuring literature and live readings by Virginia actors of short stories by Virginia authors. The event, which also features performances by local musicians, will be broadcast on public radio.

Jefferson Center Foundation, Ltd. (Consortium)
Roanoke, VA
$28,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Sisters of the Circle. In partnership with Virginia Tech's Department of Theatre Arts, the project will bring professional artists together with teenage girls from Roanoke's refugee and immigrant communities to create an interdisciplinary performing arts piece that will be performed for the public.

Public Broadcasting Service (aka PBS)
Arlington, VA
$100,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Showcase Online. This interactive initiative will complement Showcase On-Air, a primetime series that will cover a broad range of artistic genres. Showcase Online will feature thematically programmed performances and documentaries hosted by a guest artist.

Twentieth Century Consort (aka 21st Century Consort)
Round Hill, VA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the development and implementation of a Web-based audio archive by the 21st Century Consort. The ensemble's recordings of significant works by composers of the 20th and 21st centuries will be made available through online public access to material housed at the University of Maryland-College Park.

Venture Richmond
Richmond, VA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Richmond Folk Festival. The project will support an event designed to capitalize on the success of the National Folk Festival's three-year run in Richmond.

Virginia Arts Festival, Inc. ( Consortium)
Norfolk, VA
$35,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the remounting of Leonard Bernstein's Mass, with accompanying educational activities. In collaboration with the Virginia Orchestra Group, the multidisciplinary work will be performed by the Virginia Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Virginia Children's Chorus, and Todd Rosenlieb Dance.

Virginia Commission for the Arts
Richmond, VA
$762,700
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy (aka Virginia Folklife Program)
Charlottesville, VA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Folklife Apprenticeship Program. The program will ensure that Virginia's folkways continue by engaging new learners and reinvigorating master practitioners.

Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy (aka Virginia Folklife Program) (Consortium)
Charlottesville, VA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the annual Virginia Festival of the Book, including free author readings, panel discussions, lectures, writing workshops, school visits, and youth conferences. In partnership with the Charlottesville City Schools, the festival also will offer adult education programs.

Washington Area Performing Arts Video Archive (Consortium)
Arlington, VA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support an archiving project to preserve productions by small theaters in the Washington, DC area. In partnership with the Helen Hayes Awards, the project will document professional productions and encourage awareness of the archive.

Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts
Vienna, VA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and distribution of the radio series Center Stage from Wolf Trap. The series provides national audiences with chamber music performances recorded at the Barns of Wolf Trap near Washington, DC.

Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts
Vienna, VA
$80,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts. Wolf Trap teaching artists and early childhood classroom teachers will collaborate in training workshops and residencies. Students will benefit from the project through classroom residencies and field trips.


Number of Grants: 22          Total Amount: $1,504,200

 
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