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.

UTAH

Center for Documentary Arts
Salt Lake City, UT
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition examines the works of men and women who joined the movement and documented it from within.

Moab Music Festival, Inc.
Moab, UT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the performance Music at Monticello - The Evolution of American Music from Europe and Africa. Related activities will include school assemblies as well as discounted and free tickets for area students.

Salt Lake Arts Council Foundation (aka Salt Lake City Arts Council)
Salt Lake City, UT
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 25th Anniversary of the Living Traditions Festival: A Celebration of Salt Lake's Folk and Ethnic Arts. The project will present traditional crafts, dance, music, and foods of the ethnic groups that make the Salt Lake Valley their home.

Southern Utah University (on behalf of Utah Shakespearean Festival)
Cedar City, UT
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a production of Great Expectations, a new musical based on the novel by Charles Dickens adapted by Margaret Hoorneman. The musical features a book by Brian VanDerWilt and Steve Lozier, music by Richard Winzeler, lyrics by Steve Lane, and direction by Jules Aaron.

Sundance Children's Theatre Inc. (aka Sundance Theatre Program)
Park City, UT
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Sundance Theatre Lab for the development of new work by emerging and mid-career theater artists. The Sundance Theatre Program Lab provides an environment and the resources to advance new play scripts toward full productions.

University of Utah (on behalf of Utah Museum of Natural History)
Salt Lake City, UT
$65,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the commissioning of a site-specific, multimedia installation by Dutch artist Simon Heijdens (b. 1978). The work will be designed specifically for the Utah Museum of Natural History's new building which will open in early 2011.

University of Utah (on behalf of Kingsbury Hall)
Salt Lake City, UT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support performances by the Martha Graham Dance Company. Prior to the public performance, the Company will participate in a matinee presentation targeted to low-income students from rural schools.

Number of Grants: 7          Total Amount: $260,000

 
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