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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.

OHIO

American Folklore Society, Inc.
Columbus, OH
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Best Practices Technical Assistance Program. The project will provide technical assistance and cultural expertise to folk and traditional arts organizations throughout the country.

Apollo's Fire, The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra
Cleveland Height, OH
$15,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Come to the River: An Early American Gathering. Plans include national tour performances, educational workshops, radio broadcasts, and local outreach programs.

Cleveland Play House
Cleveland, OH
$17,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Full Contact: Center Stage Schools. Staff and teaching artists will work with diverse high school students to build theater skills and create original plays.

Cleveland Public Theatre, Inc. (aka CPT) (Consortium)
Cleveland, OH
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Y-Haven Theatre Project, a partnership between the Cleveland Public Theatre and the transitional home and treatment center Y-Haven. Participants will develop skills in theater arts, create an original play, and tour the production to social service and community settings.

GroundWorks Dancetheater
Cleveland Hghts, OH
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support artist residencies with David Parker and Jeffrey Kazin of the Bang Group, and Jill Sigman of jill sigman/thinkdance. Both residencies will feature master classes, artist talks, and open rehearsals, and each performance series will include multidisciplinary educational outreach programming.

Jazz Arts Group of Columbus
Columbus, OH
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Jazz Academy components: Jazz in the Community and Jazz in the Schools. Programming includes music theory classes, workshops, performance ensembles, a mentorship program, and music business sessions.

Mad River Theater Works
West Liberty, OH
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the creation of a new play with music in partnership with residents of farm communities and small towns in rural Ohio. The piece will explore the history of the participating communities by focusing on stories in the Works Progress Administration Ohio Guide published in 1939.

Madcap Productions, Inc. (aka Madcap Puppets)
Cincinnati, OH
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Madcap School Performance Tour. The project brings original puppet productions based on classic children's literature to elementary schools in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois.

Ohio Arts Council
Columbus, OH
$1,141,600
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Slowik Music Institute (aka Credo)
Oberlin, OH
$8,200
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Credo's community outreach activities for underserved audiences. In association with the Credo Chamber Music Festival, the program will comprise concerts featuring festival students as well as two professional ensembles —the Credo Trio and Jasper Quartet.

Toledo Museum of Art
Toledo, OH
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the creation of a new installation for the museum's Glass Study Gallery. The project will result in a unique and more accessible interpretive experience for this world-renowned glass collection.

University of Cincinnati Main Campus
Cincinnati, OH
$15,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the restaging of Twyla Tharp's Sweet Fields, created in 1996. The project will include master classes for dance majors, open rehearsals, and pre-performance discussions before culminating in the mainstage production of the work in the College Conservatory of Music's Patricia Corbett Theater.

Verb Ballets
Cleveland, OH
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support dance performances and educational activities in rural Ohio. The project will include mainstage performances of classics in contemporary dance and standards-based educational activities for children and schools utilizing Peter and the Wolf and The Nutcracker.

Westcott House Foundation
Springfield, OH
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support summer design studios for high school students. The design studios will include a combination of lectures, discussions, and hands-on exercises held in a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed historic house.

Wexner Center Foundation (aka Wexner Center for the Arts)
Columbus, OH
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support an artist residency program at the Wexner Center for the Arts. Artists will receive technical and professional services that will enable them to create, complete, and present works in the performing and media arts.

YS Kids Playhouse
Springfield, OH
$37,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support a summer theater arts program. Led by local, national, and international artists, students will write, produce, and perform two full-scale summer dramatic performances.


Number of Grants: 16          Total Amount: $1,501,300

 
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