FY 2010 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.
ALABAMA
Alabama Blues Project, Inc.
Northport, AL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support after-school and summer classes in blues music. Professional local blues musicians will teach weekly beginning and advanced classes in blues music performance and history. Alabama Dance Council, Inc.
Birmingham, AL
$75,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company at the 2011 Alabama Dance Festival in Birmingham. The residency will be part of the company's Legacy Tour and their first and only performance in Alabama. Alabama State Council on the Arts
Montgomery, AL
$893,500
CATEGORY: Partnership
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities. Auburn University Main Campus
Auburn, AL
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Alabama Prison Arts and Education Project. Undertaken by Auburn University's arts and humanities department, the project will deliver visual arts workshops for those currently incarcerated. Mobile Symphony, Inc. (Consortium)
Mobile, AL
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support outreach concerts of symphonic repertoire. In partnership with the City of Monroeville, the orchestra will perform in Alabama's rural Monroe County. Mobile Symphony, Inc.
Mobile, AL
$26,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Preludes, a strings instruction program. Mobile Symphony musicians will teach weekly strings classes and perform chamber music concerts for students in ten Mobile area elementary schools. Red Mountain Theatre Company
Birmingham, AL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a production of the 1959 Tony and Theatre World Award-winning musical The Sound of Music, with music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Howard Lindsey and Russell Crouseas. Executive Director Keith Cromwell will direct and choreograph, with musical direction by Kevin Finn. Sloss Furnaces Foundation, Inc.
Birmingham, AL
$68,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Summer Youth Apprenticeship, a visual arts education program. High school students from the Birmingham area will apprentice with professional artists to create cast-metal sculptures. State of Alabama Ballet, Inc.
Birmingham, AL
$50,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the reconstruction and presentation of Agnes de Mille's The Other and Three Virgins and a Devil and Antony Tudor's Lilac Garden. The project will include master classes, lectures, and school performances, and will tour across the South. University of Alabama (on behalf of University Museums)
Tuscaloosa, AL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Fusing Red Earth. The museum project will examine traditional and contemporary ceramics of southeastern Native Americans in a gathering of artists, tribal representatives, scholars, and educators. University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL
$15,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the restaging of José Limón's There is a Time for the Alabama Repertory Dance Theatre. In addition to performances, Limón technique classes, lectures, and community outreach activities will be offered.
Number of Grants: 11 Total Amount: $1,240,000
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