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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.

LOUISIANA

Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge, Inc.
Baton Rouge, LA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a residency by the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. The residency is part of the Arts Council's River City Jazz Masters concert series and will include a public performance and an opportunity for local students to interact with the artists.

Contemporary Arts Center (Consortium)
New Orleans, LA
$17,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the new Jazz Journeys - A Collaborative Concert Series. The joint project with the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation will showcase well-known jazz artists, chosen based on a history or connection with New Orleans, to perform collaboratively with local artists.

Contemporary Arts Center
New Orleans, LA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of music and theater performances and visual arts exhibitions. Activities will include workshops, lectures, student field trips, and demonstrations.

CubaNOLA Collective
New Orleans, LA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support VECINOS, a series of festivals in ethnically diverse neighborhoods. The festivals will feature musical performances by regional artists such as the Rebirth Brass Band, Som Brasil/Casa Samba, and Rumba Buena.

French Quarter Festivals, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the French Quarter Festival, the Southeast's largest free music festival. The event celebrates Louisiana and New Orleans's musical heritage with live music.

Friends of A Studio in the Woods
New Orleans, LA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artists Communities
To support the residency program Changing Landscape: A Dialogue Between Arts and the Environment. Lodging, meals, materials expenses, transportation, stipends, and studio space in a rustic setting will be provided.

Junebug Productions, Inc. (Consortium)
New Orleans, LA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of I Want My Money Back!, a multidisciplinary, multimedia project about the conditions in New Orleans resulting from Hurricanes Rita and Katrina. The company will collaborate with Urban Bush Women of Brooklyn to develop a project about displaced, black New Orleans residents.

Louisiana Folk Roots, Inc.
Lafayette, LA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 2010 Dewey Balfa Cajun and Creole Heritage Week. The project will feature a comprehensive cultural immersion program that teaches, interprets, and celebrates Cajun and Creole cultural heritage.

Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
New Orleans, LA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Made in Louisiana: A Musical Quilt. The concert will examine the ethnically diverse musical repertoire of New Orleans as experienced by the composer Louis Moreau Gottschalks.

National Performance Network, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support national dance programs including Performance Residencies, the Creation Fund, Community Fund, and Freight Fund projects. The programs will enable the National Performance Network (NPN) partners to create, commission, tour, and present contemporary dance artists around the country.

New Orleans Ballet Association
New Orleans, LA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of a series of dance performances and related education and outreach programs. The performances and related events will close the New Orleans Ballet Association's 40th anniversary.

New Orleans Food and Farm Network
New Orleans, LA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the development of the New Orleans Urban Farming Toolkit. The project will promote the development of a sustainable urban farming infrastructure while providing access to fresh food and responding to vacant land issues in the post-Katrina urban landscape.

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 6th Annual Crescent City Blues and BBQ Festival. The project will present the tradition blues music of Louisiana and the Delta South as well as local crafts and foodways.

New Orleans Museum of Art
New Orleans, LA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Ancestors and Descendants: Ancient Southwestern America at the Dawn of the 20th Century, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will consist of selections from the Pepper Native American Archive at Tulane University's Middle America Research Institute.

Northwestern State University of Louisiana
Natchitoches, LA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the 2010 Natchitoches-NSU Folk Festival celebrating the power of music and community to overcome adversity. Artists will include NEA National Heritage Fellow guitarist D.L. Menard, saxophonist Hardrick Rivers, accordionist Goldman Thibodeaux, and fiddlers Terry Huval and Hadley J. Castille.

Southern Rep
New Orleans, LA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the presentation of Ameriville by Universes, in partnership with Junebug Productions and Tulane University, and the development and production of With A Bang by Pete McElligott. The projects are designed to develop new audiences through dynamic theatrical experiences and generate audience and artistic crossover between the partner organizations.

Swine Palace Productions, Inc.
Baton Rouge, LA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Self Defense...Or Death of Some Salesmen by Carson Kreitzer. The project will be directed by Associate Artistic Director George Judy.


Number of Grants: 17          Total Amount: $362,500

 
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