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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.

MARYLAND

Center Stage Associates, Inc. (aka CENTERSTAGE)
Baltimore, MD
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the American premiere of Let There Be Love, a new play by British playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah. The production will be accompanied by outreach opportunities, including post-show discussions and community engagement sessions.

Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.
Columbia, MD
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the Rose Architectural Fellowship Affordable Housing Design Leadership Institute. The institute will present design challenges facing nonprofit developers of affordable housing through the exhibition and discussion of projects that highlight strong design excellence, green building, and community engagement.

Frostburg State University
Frostburg, MD
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a production of Verdi's Requiem featuring the Maryland Symphony Orchestra. Participating groups will include the FSU University Chorale and Cumberland Choral Society.

Heifetz International Music Institute, Inc.
Ellicott City, MD
$11,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performance and communication training for young musicians. Activities will take place during the summer institute held in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire.

Morgan State University (on behalf of James E. Lewis Museum of Art)
Baltimore, MD
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition William H. Johnson: An American Modern, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The James E. Lewis Museum of Art exhibition will trace Johnson's (1901-1970) career as an African American artist from his arrival in New York City in 1918 to his later work in the 1950s.

Museum for Contemporary Arts, Inc. (aka Contemporary Museum)
Baltimore, MD
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring exhibition of the work of the American artists Bradley McCallum (b. 1966) and Jacquelin Tarry, (b. 1963), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project includes a multi-venue exhibition and a Baltimore-based, community-engaged commission.

National Council for the Traditional Arts
Silver Spring, MD
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 72nd Annual National Folk Festival. To be held in Butte, Montana, in August 2010, the festival is the longest running multi-ethnic traditional arts festival in the United States.

Quest:arts for everyone, Inc. (Consortium)
Lanham, MD
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support QuestFest, a two-week international festival of theater. The project will include a series of community engagements to promote visual theater and encourage the participation of hearing and deaf people in the artistic process.

Round House Theatre
Bethesda, MD
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of My Name Is Asher Lev adapted by Aaron Posner from Chaim Potok's novel. A co-production with Delaware Theatre Company, the production will be part of the theater's Literary Works Project, bringing a fresh modern perspective to a classic piece of literature.


Number of Grants: 9          Total Amount: $241,000

 
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