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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.

TEXAS

Amarillo Symphony, Inc.
Amarillo, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Concert in the Canyon: American Musical Landscapes. Community concerts, recitals, master classes, and educational performances will be held in towns across the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles to celebrate American music inspired by the landscape of the region.

Art House at the Jones Center (aka Arthouse)
Austin, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Young Artists @ Arthouse. The project offers studio-based artistic skill development to Austin-area teens who have a serious interest in art but no access to advanced arts programs.

Artpace, Inc. (aka Artpace San Antonio) (Consortium)
San Antonio, TX
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support ArtElements, a series of outreach activities for youth. Undertaken in partnership with the San Antonio School District, the project is designed to engage youth with contemporary art in a substantive way.

Austin Chamber Music Center
Austin, TX
$12,500
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a residency with composer Michael Torke. Plans include performances of Torke's works with related educational activities during one week of the three-week Austin Chamber Music Festival and Workshop.

Austin Chamber Music Center
Austin, TX
$50,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support year-round chamber music instruction for students ages 5 to 19. Professional musicians will provide chamber music coaching, teach music theory and composition classes, and conduct master classes.

Austin Classical Guitar Society
Austin, TX
$44,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Educational Outreach Program. Classical guitar instructors will provide weekly, individual lessons for economically disadvantaged students and will assist with the direction and curriculum planning of guitar classes in Austin-area schools.

Austin Community Design and Development Center
Austin, TX
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support free seminars in green design and the development of a sustainable design curriculum. The Sustainable Design Outreach Initiative will provide low-income households in Austin with access to free design services and educational materials on sustainable design and building.

Big Thought (Consortium)
Dallas, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Family Access to Artistic Excellence program. In partnership with the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs, the inter-generational project will provide excursions to arts centers, museums, and cultural organizations for economically disadvantaged community members.

Brownsville Society for the Performing Arts
Brownsville, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Brownsville Latin Jazz Festival. Activities will include Jazz Jam, a free outdoor concert, Latin Dance Night, Capitol Theater Street Party, and community activities, such as music and dance clinics, master classes, school presentations, and artist talks for high school and college music students.

Capital of Texas Public Telecommunications Council (aka KLRU)
Austin, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of a nationally distributed television program on the arts. The series, iN CONTEXT.TV, will feature up to eight half-hour programs.

Casa Mañana Musicals, Inc. (Consortium)
Fort Worth, TX
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. The musical was written by the British team of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice, and this production will be directed by Richard Stafford.

Conspirare, Inc.
Austin, TX
$22,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the recording of African American spirituals. The recording will take place while the chorus is in residence at California State University at Fullerton and will be released on the Harmonia Mundi record label.

Da Camera Society of Texas (Consortium)
Houston, TX
$22,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a recording of works by Asian American composers. In collaboration with the performing ensemble Music From China, the compact disc will include works by composers Zhou Long and Shih-Hui Chen.

Da Camera Society of Texas
Houston, TX
$40,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a jazz series and related educational activities. The series will include performances by drummer Jeff "Tain" Watts with Terence Blanchard, Branford Marsalis, and Christian McBride; the SFJazz Collective with a tribute to Stevie Wonder; pianist Brad Mehldau's Trio; the Ellis Marsalis Quartet; Anat Cohen Quartet with a tribute to Benny Goodman; and Lionel Loueke Trio.

Dallas Black Dance Theatre
Dallas, TX
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the restaging and presentation of Escapades, choreographed by Alvin Ailey, and Pacing by Milton Myers. Escapades will be performed in the new performing arts center and Pacing will be performed in the Latino Cultural Center; both will also tour during the company's touring season.

Dallas Black Dance Theatre
Dallas, TX
$27,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the restaging of Vespers, by choreographer Ulysses Dove. The work will be performed in Dallas at the AT&T Performing Arts Center and while the company is on tour.

Dallas Chamber Music Society, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio's performance of American chamber music and related educational activities. The concert will include performances of works by composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.

Dallas Museum of Art
Dallas, TX
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the Dallas Museum of Art Exhibition Catalogues Online (DMA-ECO). The project will document and digitally share exhibition catalogues and unpublished checklists.

Dallas Wind Symphony, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a recording of American wind band music. The compact disc will feature new compositions previously commissioned and will commemorate the symphony's 25th anniversary season.

Documentary Arts, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support an updated version of the Masters of Traditional Arts DVD. The project will bring up to date the interactive DVD-ROM that chronicles the lives and artistry of the NEA National Heritage Fellows.

El Paso Symphony Orchestra Association, Inc.
El Paso, TX
$33,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the El Paso Symphony Youth Orchestra programs. The project includes yearly auditions, weekly rehearsals, master classes, and quarterly concerts for students in eight performing ensembles.

EmilyAnn Theatre, Inc. (aka The EmilyAnn Theatre & Gardens)
Wimberley, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Shakespeare Under the Stars, a summer youth theater program. High school students will learn all aspects of performance and technical theater through this hands-on program.

Fort Worth Independent School District
Fort Worth, TX
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Wall Visions. Professional artists and classroom teachers will collaborate to teach one team of students public art through the planning, design, and painting of three public murals, while another team learns documentary filmmaking and records the process.

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association, Inc.
Fort Worth, TX
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a touring program. Concerts and educational programs will take place in rural communities in Texas.

Galveston Historical Foundation
Galveston, TX
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support a symposium focused on the preservation and conservation of cast-iron storefronts in Galveston, Texas. The program will educate the community about preservation issues facing historic properties.

Houston Arts Alliance
Houston, TX
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Houston Folklife and Traditional Art Program. The project will identify, document, and present the varied folklife found in Houston.

Houston Symphony Society (Consortium)
Houston, TX
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Kaddish Project. In collaboration with Holocaust Museum Houston, an orchestrated version of composer Lawrence Siegel's Kaddish will be created and performed.

Inprint, Inc.
Houston, TX
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series. Now in its 29th year, the project has brought more than 300 distinguished writers to Houston.

International Tap Association
Austin, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the next phase of Tap History Then & Now. The project will include website upgrading, database editing, digitizing past publications, and the production of a new publication.

Junior Players Guild
Dallas, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Discover Theater Camps and Discover Shakespeare Camp, free summer theater education programs for youth, ages 7 to 18. The programs include theater camps, a Shakespeare camp, and a full production of a Shakespeare play produced in cooperation with Shakespeare Dallas.

Lyric Stage, Inc.
Irving, TX
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a production of the 1960s Broadway hit Bye Bye Birdie by Charles Strouse, Lee Adams, and Michael Stewart. Cheryl Denson will direct, and music director/conductor Jay Dias will conduct a full orchestra playing Robert Ginzler's original Broadway orchestrations.

Motion Media Arts Center (aka Austin School of Film @ Motion Media Arts Cen)
Austin, TX
$37,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Center for Young Cinema Program. With guidance from professional media artists, students will learn all aspects of filmmaking and will create, present, and distribute their work.

Musiqa Inc.
Houston, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the educational outreach programs Around the World with Musiqa and Music Transformed. The chamber ensemble will perform concerts for Houston-area youth and their families at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts.

Riverwalk Jazz
San Antonio, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the weekly public radio jazz series Riverwalk Jazz. Distributed by Public Radio International to 167 stations nationwide, each hour-long program combines live performance with interviews, oral histories, and historical recordings to celebrate important artists and eras in jazz history.

Rude Mechanicals-A Theatre Collective (aka Rude Mechs)
Austin, TX
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the production of the contemporary musical I've Never Been So Happy, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Company members Thomas Graves and Lana Lesley will co-direct, with book by Kirk Lynn and music by Peter Stopschinski.

Society for the Performing Arts
Houston, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Empowerment Through Self-Expression Dance Project. The project will include a dance residency program and related activities for inner-city middle school students in Houston.

Southwest School of Art & Craft
San Antonio, TX
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Visiting Artist Program. Artists with specialized knowledge in an arcane technical area, or who have applied a traditional method toward innovative ends, will be invited to conduct workshops.

Spacetaker
Houston, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Artist Resource Center (ARC) Professional Development Services for artists and arts organization in Texas. Services include workshops, a computer lab for conducting classes on web technology and software utilization, and the Houston Artist Field Guide.

Texas Commission on the Arts
Austin, TX
$1,075,500
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Texas Folklife Resources (Consortium)
Austin, TX
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support A Place at the Table: Foodways and Folkarts. In collaboration with the Texas Commission on the Arts, the project will use foodways as an entry point for researching the diverse ethnic groups in Texas.

Texas Folklife Resources
Austin, TX
$51,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Stories From Deep in the Heart. High school students will learn folklore, documentation, and radio journalism through 18-month in-school, after-school, and summer workshops led by professional folklorists, journalists, and radio producers.

University of Houston (on behalf of KUHF Houston Public Radio)
Houston, TX
$17,500
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Music at the Menil, American chamber music performed by the KUHF Houston Public Radio's Chamber Music Ensemble. Repertoire will include works by composers John Adams, Elliott Carter, Roque Cordero, Pierre Jalbert, and Christopher Theofanidis.

University of North Texas
Denton, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support concerts of American chamber music spanning the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The project will include lectures and roundtable discussions in the university's College of Music Concert Hall and other venues on campus.

University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances and educational events by the Young Professional String Quartet in Residence: Aeolus String Quartet. Repertoire will feature works by American composers Samuel Barber, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Dan Welcher, Alexandra Bryant, and Nico Muhly.

University of Texas at Dallas (on behalf of The Center for Translation Studies/ALTA)
Dallas, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support professional development opportunities and publications for literary translators. Activities include the American Literary Translators Association conference, publication of Translation Review and other materials, and the continued development of the website.

Voices of Change
Dallas, TX
$6,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support an artist residency by composer Bruce Adolphe. The ensemble and the composer will present performances of his work, workshops with young composers, and educational outreach events in Dallas area schools.

William Marsh Rice University
Houston, TX
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support Explosion: East Asia Architecture Today. Presented by the Rice Design Alliance, the lecture series and commissioned articles will discuss similarities between the surge of building projects in East Asia and Houston during the past three decades.

Writer's Garret (Consortium)
Dallas, TX
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support new tapings and rebroadcasts of The Writer's Studio, a radio show on KERA Public Radio FM. In partnership with North Texas Public Broadcasting, the show is taped in front of a live audience and features interviews with established authors.

Writers In the Schools (aka WITS)
Houston, TX
$72,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Writing Power. Professional writers will provide year-long creative writing workshops for approximately 3,000 students in 30 Houston-area elementary and middle schools.

Writers' League of Texas
Austin, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Literary Lone Stars Touring Program, which will brings Texas authors and free literary programs to culturally underserved regions throughout the state. The league also will serve far west Texas through the Way Out West Texas Book Festival in Alpine and school visits by Hispanic children's book authors.

Zachary Scott Theater Center (aka ZACH Theatre)
Austin, TX
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Metamorphoses by MacArthur Genius Award playwright Mary Zimmerman, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Producing Artistic Director Dave Steakley will direct.


Number of Grants: 51          Total Amount: $2,452,500

 
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