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FY 2010 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence | Challenge America Fast-Track Grants | Literature Fellowships (Prose)

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

FLORIDA

ACA of Central Florida, Inc. (aka aka Asian Cultural Association of Central Florida, Inc.)
Longwood, FL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a concert featuring internationally-known sitartist Pubayan Chatterjee. In addition to the concert performance, Chatterjee will present a free lecture demonstration on a local college campus.

Aequalis, Inc. (aka The Core Ensemble)
Lake Worth, FL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Harvest of Voices, an artist residency with the Core Ensemble featuring actor/playwright Akin Babatunde. The musical theater work will incorporate oral histories of residents of central Palm Beach County.

African Caribbean Dance Theatre, Inc.
Tallahassee, FL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 13th Annual Florida African Dance Festival. The event will include workshops in dance and drum taught by African immigrant artists as well as a final performance concert.

Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival, Inc
Fernandina Beach, FL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival. The three-week festival will present 50 nationally and internationally known chamber musicians performing in 18 concerts with related educational activities.

Artist Series of Tallahassee, Inc.
Tallahassee, FL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support school performances and workshops with the Ensō Quartet. The string quartet will provide recitals and workshops throughout the Leon County and Gadsden County school districts.

Arts & Business Council of Miami, Inc.
Miami, FL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support Bravo: Boomers and Retired Arts Volunteers. Bravo will connect arts organizations in South Florida with retired business executives and professionals who will share their skills as volunteers and their time as pro bono consultants.

Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community, Inc.
Eatonville, FL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Outdoor Festival of the Arts. As the culminating event of the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities, activities will include performances, demonstrations, educational programs, museum and historic landmark tours, and an international marketplace.

Atlantic Center for the Arts, Inc.
New Smyrna Beach, FL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artists Communities
To support interdisciplinary residencies for emerging and mid-career artists. Master artists will collaborate with resident artists in the disciplines of visual, literary, music, and performing arts.

Broward County Board of County Commissioners (aka Broward County Cultural Division)
Fort Lauderdale, FL
$42,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the design and implementation of a series of specialized professional development workshops and services. The workshops will focus on enhancing the management acumen and professional skills of local arts and cultural leaders.

Enzian Theatre, Inc.
Maitland, FL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 19th annual Florida Film Festival. Held in the spring, the event presents more than 160 films to an audience of 25,000.

Florida Dance Association, Inc.
Miami, FL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Florida Dance Festival in Tampa, the Florida Dance Festival WinterFest in Miami Beach, and the Florida Dance Festival on Tour Workshop for Young Dancers in Gainesville. Major components include public performances and education, training, and professional development programs for students, teachers, choreographers, and other dance professionals.

Florida Grand Opera, Inc.
Miami, FL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support performances of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. Performances are planned at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami and the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale.

Florida Studio Theatre, Inc.
Sarasota, FL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Shotgun, a new play by John Biguenet. The production will be the play's third in a series of rolling premieres under the auspices of the National New Play Network.

Good Community Alliance, Inc. (aka Community Stepping Stones)
Tampa, FL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the creation of an outdoor mural at the Harbor Club in the Sulphur Springs neighborhood. The mural will examine the contributions of African Americans to the surrounding neighborhood.

Greater Pensacola Symphony Orchestra
Pensacola, FL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a pre-concert talk and public performance with pianist Read Gainsford. Students at Pensacola High School will be invited to participate in an in-school performance and lecture by Gainsford as well as attend the dress rehearsal for the public performance.

Hermitage Artist Retreat, Inc.
Englewood, FL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artists Communities
To support artist residencies. Participants will be drawn from accomplished playwrights, composers, and creative artists from other disciplines.

Miami Art Museum of Dade County Association, Inc.
Miami, FL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Brick By Brick, an after-school program for at-risk teens. Held at multiple community centers, youth will receive instruction on such topics as landscape design, architecture, signage, and surface design.

Miami City Ballet, Inc.
Miami Beach, FL
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the premiere of John Cranko's Romeo and Juliet, as part of Miami City Ballet's 25th anniversary season. Performances will take place at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts (Broward County), the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts (Palm Beach County), and the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts (Miami-Dade County).

Miami Dade College (on behalf of Miami International Film Festival)
Miami, FL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 2010 Miami International Film Festival. Held in March, the event presents more than 137 films to an audience of 75,000 people.

Pensacola Opera, Inc.
Pensacola, FL
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a semi-staged concert version of Jerome Kern's Show Boat. Educational community outreach programs will complement the performances.

Rhythm Foundation, Inc.
Miami, FL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the TransAtlantic Festival. Presentations will include the Curated Listening Series, film screenings, and performances by artists who will reinterpret traditional music from the Americas and Europe.

Sarasota Opera Association, Inc.
Sarasota, FL
$17,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support performances of Giuseppe Verdi's Giovanna d'Arco (Joan of Arc). The scheduled work marks the 26th production of the company's multi-year commitment to the Verdi Cycle initiative.

School Board of Alachua County
Gainesville, FL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a collaboration between professional artists and the music ensemble at Sidney Lanier School, a public school for students with disabilities. Musicians Lansara Camara and David Akombo, the Santa Fe College Jazz Band, and music education majors from Syracuse University will perform alongside Lanier students at Carnegie Hall in New York.

Stage Aurora Theatrical Company, Inc.
Jacksonville, FL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a performance by Daniel Beaty of his one man show Emergence-SEE!. Beaty's performance will be part of the Aurora Jacksonville Black Arts Festival.

Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center
Tampa, FL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Culture Quest: World Music & Dance Series. The project will feature performances, community and educational outreach, master classes, and workshops.

Tigertail Productions, Inc.
Miami, FL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of dance and music presentations and outreach activities. Components will include week-long artist residencies, performances, and outreach activities targeting Miami's diverse Caribbean, Central American, and South American communities.

United Arts Council of Collier County
Naples, FL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a residency by Step Afrika. Step Afrika will perform and conduct workshops for Collier County students that feature work based in a dance tradition that grew out of the song and dance rituals practiced by historically African American fraternities and sororities.

University of South Florida (on behalf of Contemporary Art Museum)
Tampa, FL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring exhibition by the Contemporary Art Museum of the work of contemporary American artist Trenton Doyle Hancock (b. 1974), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Hancock is known for his ever-evolving, absurdist narratives created in a wide variety of media.


Number of Grants: 28          Total Amount: $497,000

 
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