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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.

VIRGINIA

Amazement Square
Lynchburg, VA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a community-based mosaic mural project. Guided by artist Beryl Solla, and undertaken in stages due to its size (300 feet long and 16 feet high), the project will serve as a mentoring program, pairing at-risk and underserved youth with artists and arts educators.

Arlington Arts Center
Arlington, VA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Public Art Learning Project. Middle school students will learn about, respond to, and create public art through site visits and visual arts workshops.

Arlington County Cultural Affairs Division
Arlington, VA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Mongolian Cultural Heritage Program. The project includes a series of public presentations that will raise awareness of traditional Mongolian culture.

Association of Writers & Writing Programs (aka AWP)
Fairfax, VA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the 2011 AWP conference; the production, printing, and distribution of The Writer's Chronicle; and the continued development of the AWP website, including the web-based AWP Job List. 

Barter Foundation, Incorporated State Theatre of Virginia (aka Barter Theatre) (Consortium)
Abingdon, VA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and world premiere of Swamp Gas and Shallow Feelings, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Barter Theatre Producing Artistic Director Richard Rose will direct with book and lyrics by Randy Buck and music by Jack Eric Williams.

Blue Ridge Traditional Arts, Inc. (aka Blue Ridge Music Center)
Galax, VA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Roots of American Music Tour. The project will present a concert tour of traditional musicians, in conjunction with an exhibit at the Blue Ridge Music Center and the 75th anniversary of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Chateauville Foundation
Castleton, VA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support outreach activities and training for pre-professional musicians during the Castleton Festival. The three-week summer chamber opera festival will offer young opera singers and instrumentalists training and mentoring opportunities by professional artists through coaching and public performances.

Choralis Foundation
Falls Church, VA
$12,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the 2010 Choralis Summer Choral Festival (Summerfest), an intensive, week-long choral instruction program for teens. Students will participate in individual and group instruction in choral literature and history, music theory and sight singing, and have the opportunity to perform a master choral work.

City of Roanoke (on behalf of Roanoke Arts Commission)
Roanoke, VA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the survey and conservation of selected pieces in the city's public art collection. The city has, since the late 1970s, built an art collection of more than 80 two- and three-dimensional works that range from paintings to a monumental sculpture.

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Williamsburg, VA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the installation of a permanent furniture exhibition. Style, Decoration, and Price: Buying Furniture in the 18th Century will include antique objects as well as graphics, images, and interactive virtual resources.

Fairfax County Public Schools
Falls Church, VA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Voices of Now. Professional teaching artists from Washington, DC-based Arena Stage will work with middle school youth in a year-long theater arts after-school program in which students will learn about theater, playwriting, and performance.

Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association, Inc. (aka WETA)
Arlington, VA
$150,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support WETA's production of a series of arts news reports. Each six- to 10-minute report will be included on The PBS NewsHour, which airs five nights a week on PBS.

Northern Virginia Youth Symphony Association (aka American Youth Philharmonic Orchestras)
Annandale, VA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Music Buddies Mentorship Program of the American Youth Philharmonic Orchestras. Participating advanced high school musicians will provide free private instruction for underserved middle school students from the Washington, DC metropolitan area.

Richmond Symphony
Richmond, VA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Come and Play, a community outreach and engagement project. Musicians of every skill level will join the orchestra for a day of rehearsal and performance.

Roanoke College
Salem, VA
$15,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a performance and recording project of chamber music by NEA Jazz Master Gunther Schuller and John D'earth. The Kandinsky Trio, the college's resident ensemble, will perform in concert in Roanoke, Virginia, and tour to Blacksburg, Virginia, and Lewisburg, West Virginia.

Sycamore Rouge, Inc.
Petersburg, VA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Professional Theatre for the Community Initiative. The project will include a free production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Battersea Plantation and the opportunity for every eighth-grade student in the city of Petersburg, Virginia, to experience a production of The Velveteen Rabbit.

Venture Richmond
Richmond, VA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Richmond Folk Festival. The project will support an event designed to capitalize on the success of the National Folk Festival's three-year run in Richmond.

Virginia Commission for the Arts
Richmond, VA
$803,600
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA
$15,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the restaging of Shelter, choreographed by Urban Bush Women's Artistic Director Jawolle Willa Jo Zollar, on Virginia Commonwealth University Dance majors. Community engagement projects will be structured around the performance.

Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy (aka Virginia Folklife Program)
Charlottesville, VA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program. The program will ensure that Virginia's folkways continue by engaging new learners and reinvigorating master practitioners.

Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy (Consortium)
Charlottesville, VA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the 2011 Virginia Festival of the Book, including free author readings, panel discussions, lectures, writing workshops, school visits, and youth conferences. In partnership with the Charlottesville City Schools, the festival will also offer adult education programs.

Virginia Stage Company
Norfolk, VA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Military Family Project. The theater will create and produce a new play by Deborah Brevoort exploring the dynamics of family life in our nation's military.

Virginia Symphony
Norfolk, VA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a recording project featuring the works of American composer Adolphus Hailstork. Titled Americana: An American Port of Call, the compact disc recording will be released on the Naxos label.

Washington Area Performing Arts Video Archive
Arlington, VA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the recording and archiving of professional theater productions at small, Washington, DC, area theaters. Archival DVDs will be housed in the James J. Taylor Collection at the University of Maryland and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, DC.

Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts
Vienna, VA
$10,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Inspired by America, a presentation of the Cypress String Quartet in concert at The Barns at Wolf Trap. The ensemble will perform chamber works by Samuel Barber, Charles Tomlinson Griffes, Dan Coleman, and Elena Ruehr.

Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts
Vienna, VA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and distribution of the radio series Center Stage from Wolf Trap. The series provides national audiences with chamber music performances recorded at the Barns of Wolf Trap near Washington, DC.

Young Audiences of Virginia, Inc
Norfolk, VA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Curriculum Plus: Getting the Blues, a music education outreach program. The project will reach children and youth in rural, agricultural, and underserved regions of Virginia.


Number of Grants: 27          Total Amount: $1,515,600

 
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