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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.

GEORGIA

Alternate ROOTS, Inc. (Consortium)
Atlanta, GA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Bridging Communities component at the Annual Meeting. In partnership with the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, artists and arts administrators will participate in presentations, panel discussions, and professional development seminars.

Alternate ROOTS, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Aesthetics and Diversity in the New South Initiative. Artists and presenters will explore how changing demographics impact communities in the South.

Atlanta Ballet, Inc. (Consortium)
Atlanta, GA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Centre Dance program. Planned in partnership with Fulton County Public Schools, professional dance educators will provide weekly in-school and after-school dance instruction to kindergarten through fifth-grade students.

Atlanta Chamber Players, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances of American chamber repertoire, radio broadcasts, and related educational activities. Repertoire will include works by composers Aaron Copland, Ned Rorem, Adam Schoenberg, Anne LeBaron, and John Harbison.

Atlanta Shakespeare Company (aka The New American Shakespeare Tavern)
Atlanta, GA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Shakespeare performance residencies. High school students, grades 9 through 12, will learn all aspects of performance and technical theater and produce a Shakespearean play.

City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs (Consortium)
Atlanta, GA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the Cultural Experience Project (CEP), providing youth with exposure to local arts and culture performances. A partnership with the Atlanta Public School System, CEP will provide Atlanta schoolchildren the opportunity to attend a performance at selected arts or cultural venues throughout the city.

City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs
Atlanta, GA
$29,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support ARTSCooL, a summer arts employment program. During a two-month period, high school students will research, study, perform, and exhibit works of art that they create with guidance from professional artists.

Columbus Museum, Inc.
Columbus, GA
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a conference titled Visual Thinking Strategies for Teachers and Museum Professionals. The major project activity will be a conference targeted toward educators and museum professionals that explores Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) as a teaching methodology.

Georgia Council for the Arts
Atlanta, GA
$878,300
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Georgia State University Research Foundation (on behalf of Rialto Center for the Arts)
Atlanta, GA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Rialto International Series and related educational programs at the Rialto Center for the Arts. World music and dance artists will perform and participate in pre-concert lectures, narrative programming, question-and-answer sessions, master classes, demonstrations, residencies, and audience discussions.

Horizon Theatre Company, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the New South Young Playwrights Festival to develop the next voices of American dramatists. Literary Manager Caleb Boyd and Atlanta-based playwright Addae Moon are lead teacher/mentors and founder/co-Artistic Director Jeff Adler will direct the final showcase of students' work.

IndepenDANCE, Inc. (aka Moving in the Spirit)
Atlanta, GA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Moving in the Spirit's Stepping Stones dance program. Professional dance instructors will teach weekly, after-school dance classes and will provide leadership training for students at community sites around the Atlanta region.

Kennesaw State University
Kennesaw, GA
$15,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a series of performances, master classes, and lectures on D-Man in the Waters, choreographed by Bill T. Jones. The work will be staged on the Kennesaw State University Dance Company, and will be accompanied by a variety of educational outreach activities.

Morgan County Foundation, Inc.
Madison, GA
$10,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Madison Chamber Music Festival, featuring works by American composers. Concerts will be presented at the Madison-Morgan Cultural Center, the Steffen Thomas Museum, and other venues in Madison.

National Black Arts Festival, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$75,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the revival of Voodoo Macbeth, accompanied by documentation from the original 1936 production. An adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth to 19th-century Haiti, the play will be presented by Atlanta's Allaince Theatre.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc. (on behalf of High Museum of Art) (Consortium)
Atlanta, GA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the conservation of works by the African American artist Hale Woodruff (1900-1980). Working in partnership with Talladega College, where the six murals were installed in 1938, the High Museum will oversee the project.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc. (on behalf of Atlanta Symphony Orchestra)
Atlanta, GA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support ASO Around Georgia, a community partnership initiative of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. The tour will include performances and outreach activities as a means to cultivate meaningful partnerships between the orchestra and communities across the state.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc. (on behalf of High Museum of Art)
Atlanta, GA
$60,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring exhibition of the work of Danish American photographer Peter Sekaer (1901-1950), with accompanying catalogue. Highlighting the artist's pivotal but largely unknown contribution to Depression era photography, the High Museum of Art exhibition will underscore the importance of the documentary tradition in 20th-century photography and add to the scholarship of the field.

Savannah College of Art and Design
Savannah, GA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the conservation treatment of colonial American paintings in the permanent collection. Following treatment, the paintings will be exhibited for the first time in a newly created Early American Gallery at the college's Museum of Art in colonial Savannah.

Southern Arts Federation, Inc. (aka SAF)
Atlanta, GA
$1,675,000
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

UNIMA-USA
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production and distribution of Puppetry International and the Puppetry Yellow Pages, and to expand website services. The publications serve as comprehensive sources of information for the puppetry field and professional puppeteers.

University of Georgia (on behalf of Georgia Museum of Art) (Consortium)
Athens, GA
$140,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Art Interrupted: Advancing American Art and the Politics of Cultural Diplomacy, with accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will reassemble a group of modernist paintings purchased by the U.S. State Department in 1946 for a goodwill tour.

University of Georgia Research Foundation
Athens, GA
$15,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the restaging and presentation of Tete en l'air, by choreographer Jacques Heim. Students at the University of Georgia will perform the work with the choreographer's Los Angeles-based Diavolo Dance Theatre company.

University of Georgia Research Foundation
Athens, GA
$10,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a festival of American chamber music. The Tokyo String Quartet, Verdehr Trio, and composer and pianist Lera Auerbach will join university faculty and student artists in performances at the University of Georgia Performing Arts Center, with accompanying lectures, master classes, and outreach concerts in schools.

Urban Youth Harp Ensemble, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$24,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support harp instruction for high school students in Atlanta Public Schools. Students develop ensemble and solo performance skills and build their appreciation for harp and orchestral music by attending concerts and master classes.

Youth Ensemble of Atlanta
Atlanta, GA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Workshop Training Program. Youth will audition to participate in beginning, intermediate, and advanced-level classes in music, dance, theater, creative writing, and storytelling.


Number of Grants: 26          Total Amount: $3,342,300

 
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