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FY 2011 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/ 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.

ARIZONA

Arizona Commission on the Arts
Phoenix, AZ
$858,300
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Arizona State University (on behalf of Public Events -- Gammage)
Tempe, AZ
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Beyond Series. Performances and residency activities will take place in schools, public spaces, and community centers throughout the metropolitan area.

Arizona Theatre Company (Consortium)
Tucson, AZ
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Theatre Education Residency program. In collaboration with Santa Cruz County Young Audiences, the company will develop and present 20 theater arts workshops in Santa Cruz and Cochise County Schools and offer discounted admission and free transportation to young people and adults from rural Arizona communities near the U..S./Mexico border to Tucson for six performances.

Ballet Arizona
Phoenix, AZ
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Ballet Under the Stars, free ballet performances in local parks in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The company will perform classical and contemporary works at each performance.

Compass Behavioral Health Care
Tucson, AZ
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Clean and Sober Theatre program. The project will provide a series of workshops for youth in Pima and Santa Cruz counties in which participants will develop original, issue-based plays to be performed for community audiences.

Grand Canyon Chamber Music Festival
Grand Canyon, AZ
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Native American Composer Apprentice Project. Students will study one-on-one with a composer-in-residence for three weeks and create original work that will be performed by the New York City-based ETHEL String Quartet.

Sonoran Art Foundation, Inc. (aka Sonoran Glass Art Academy)
Tucson, AZ
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Youth Glass Arts Education Program. Students will learn centuries-old glass making techniques, how to properly use tools and equipment, application of various coloring methods, and how to create a wide range of forms.

Tucson Symphony Society (Consortium)
Tucson, AZ
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Southern Arizona Residency. In collaboration with the Bisbee Community Chorus, the project will consist of a public concert with an accompanying educational component and in rural communities in southern Arizona.

Tucson Symphony Society (aka Tucson Symphony Orchestra)
Tucson, AZ
$17,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Young Composers Project. Students will learn to compose original works for orchestra and their training will culminate in a reading and recording of their pieces by the Tucson Symphony Chamber Orchestra or the Tucson String Quintet.

University of Arizona (on behalf of The Poetry Center)
Tucson, AZ
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the 49th Annual Reading Series and Off the Page Symposium, featuring poets who use other media to enhance or inform their poetry. Poets selected for Off the Page see performance and demonstration as poetic techniques, and will present their work using film, digital and audio arts, theater, music, and/or other media.

Yoemem Tekia
Tucson, AZ
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the documentation of traditional Yaqui crafts found in Rio Yaqui, Sonora, Mexico. Sonora Yaqui will work with the Yaqui of Arizona to preserve traditional crafts through video documentation and workshops.


Number of Grants: 11          Total Amount: $1,045,300

 
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