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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.

COLORADO

Anderson Ranch Arts Foundation (aka Anderson Ranch Arts Center) (Consortium)
Snowmass Village, CO
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Art Educator Institute. In partnership with the University of Northern Colorado, the project invites primary- and secondary-level art teachers from around the country to apply to the week-long institute.

Art Students League of Denver
Denver, CO
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support New Generation of Artists, a series of weekly after-school and summer art camps in the visual arts. Professional artists will serve as faculty and provide one-on-one and class instruction.

Colorado Council on the Arts
Denver, CO
$826,400
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Colorado Music Festival
Boulder, CO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support education and outreach programs. Plans include a Young People's Concert, workshops for children, pre-concert lectures, open rehearsals, and master classes.

Colorado Music Festival
Boulder, CO
$10,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances of American chamber music with related educational activities. Six programs are planned featuring music written in the early 19th century to the present.

Denver Art Museum (Consortium)
Denver, CO
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) Design Archives. The collection will be inventoried, assessed, photographed, stabilized, and integrated into the museum's database.

Denver Brass, Inc.
Denver, CO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Colorado Fusion, a series of concerts including commissioned works. Six sets of concerts are planned which will focus on developing more multi-generational and multi-cultural audiences.

Denver Office of Cultural Affairs
Denver, CO
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the documentation, preservation, and community access to public art through the Denver Public Art Digital Access Project. Project activity will generate enhanced digital content of the publicly accessible online database and expand the capabilities of the existing digital repository and user interface.

Frequent Flyers Productions, Inc.
Boulder, CO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the 12th annual Aerial Dance Festival. The festival will include performances and outreach activities including lecture-demonstrations, video presentations, post-performance sessions, and informal discussions with participating artists.

Imagination Makers Unlimited (aka Imagination Makers Theater Company)
Boulder, CO
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and tour of Lost and Found, a new play for children based on writing by students and performed by professional actors and musicians. The production will tour to elementary schools in the Denver metropolitan area.

Littleton Children's Chorale (aka Young Voices of Colorado)
Littleton, CO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support vocal music education programs. Young singers in the Traditional Education Program will learn choral music in one of five levels of performing ensembles. The Outreach Programs will provide scholarships for students, clinics for music teachers, a student honor choir, and a boys choir.

National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (aka NCECA)
Erie, CO
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support exhibitions associated with the 2011 national conference in Tampa, Florida. More than 35 exhibitions will be curated and hosted by organizations throughout the greater Tampa Bay area to showcase work by established and emerging ceramic artists.

National Repertory Orchestra, Inc.
Breckenridge, CO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support guest conductor and alumni soloist residencies. The artists-in-residence will conduct seminars and rehearsals and provide coaching as part of the orchestra's summer season.

New Dance Theatre, Inc. (aka Cleo Parker Robinson Dance)
Denver, CO
$100,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the restaging of Rites de Passage and Southland by choreographer Katherine Dunham. The Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble will premiere and tour the Dunham Legacy Suite as part of the company's 40th anniversary celebration.

Other Side Arts
Denver, CO
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support expanded arts programming and outreach. The project is designed to reach youth, senior citizens, recent immigrants, developmentally disabled adults, homeless women, single parent families, and cancer patients.

PlatteForum
Denver, CO
$32,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support ArtLab: Integrated Experiences in Creating and Presenting Art. Visiting resident artists from around the world will teach students literary, visual, and theatrical arts leading to the production of an original work for the general public.

Shakespeare Theatre Association of America
Boulder, CO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the 21st annual Shakespeare Theatre Association of America National Conference, hosted by Colorado Shakespeare Festival Boulder. The Shakespeare Theatre Association of America is a membership organization convening annually to provide support and mentorship as well as share best practices with colleagues.

Strings in the Mountains
Steamboat Springs, CO
$10,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a chamber music festival celebrating composers Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland. Programming will include works by Bernstein and Copland, as well as George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, David Stock, and Paul Schoenfield.

Western States Arts Federation (aka WESTAF)
Denver, CO
$1,917,500
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Wolverine Farm Publishing
Fort Collins, CO
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Matter Daily, a free online arts and cultural magazine for the Fort Collins community. The magazine will provide an arts and cultures calendar, ticketing links, creative fiction and nonfiction pieces, arts reporting and discussions, and a spotlight on a Fort Collins artist/writer of the week.


Number of Grants: 20          Total Amount: $3,200,900

 
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