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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.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

American Architectural Foundation
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the Architecture + Design Education Network (A+DEN) National Conference for design educators. The goal is to connect design educators across the country for networking and professional development training in areas such as volunteer management, curriculum creation, and successful use of new media.

American Planning Association
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the provision of technical assistance activities in association with the Energy Climate Partnership of the Americas. The project will take place in Brazil and Latin America and will focus on a set of sustainability issues such as transit oriented development, historic neighborhood revitalization, cultural and heritage preservation, affordable housing, sanitation, and community arts.

Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Inc. (aka Arts Presenters)
Washington, DC
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Leadership Development Institute and related activities.

Atlas Performing Arts Center
Washington, DC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the third annual Intersections: A New America Arts Festival. Performances in dance, music, theater, poetry, spoken word, and film will be presented by regional artists; audiences will be engaged in post-performance discussions and hands-on arts activities.

Capital Concerts, Inc.
Washington, DC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support staging and related costs for The National Memorial Day Concert and A Capitol Fourth, two patriotic concerts at the United States Capitol to be broadcast nationally live on PBS in 2011. A national television audience of as many as 12 million watches these 90-minute programs each year.

City Arts, Inc.
Washington, DC
$23,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Urban Arts Mentoring Program. High school students in underserved District of Columbia Public Schools receive paid training and arts instruction while working with professional muralists and mosaic artists to create public art throughout the city.

Cultural Development Corporation of the District of Columbia (aka Cultural Development Corporation (CuDC))
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Flashpoint and Source Business Centers. Each center's network will provide residency and technical assistance programs as well as opportunities for affordable exhibition, performance, and office space in conjunction with other business amenities.

D.C. Wheel Productions, Inc. (aka Dance Place)
Washington, DC
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of dance performances and accompanying residency activities at Dance Place. Artists to be presented include Rennie Harris, Illstyle & Peace Productions, Paul Zaloom, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Lionel Popkin, DanceAfrica DC, Dana Tai Soon Burgess, Daniel Phoenix Singh, Wally Cardona, and Cleo Parker Robinson.

Dance Heritage Coalition, Inc. (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a free, user-friendly online database to match artists with appropriate archival partnerships for the preservation of their work. In a partnership with the Los Angeles Dance Foundation, the coalition will develop and encourage the use of the "Dance Collections Database" as a means for safeguarding the artistic legacies of dance companies.

Daniel Phoenix Singh & Company (aka Dakshina) (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Dakshina's reconstruction and presentation of Anna Sokolow's Frida and Homage to David Alfaro Siqueiros. In partnership with the Baltimore Theatre Project, and in close association with the Sokolow Foundation, the company will present performances, each accompanied by post-performance discussions and an educational exhibition about Sokolow's vision, body of work, and her place in the modern dance continuum.

District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Washington, DC
$744,500
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

GALA Inc., Grupo de Artistas Latinoamericanos (aka GALA Hispanic Theatre)
Washington, DC
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of El vergonzoso en palacio (The Shy Courtier) by Tirso de Molina. The Spanish Golden Age classic uses wit and ingenuity to weave a story of mistaken identity and political intrigue, uncovering the social mores and prejudices in 17th-century Spain.

Heritage Preservation, Inc.
Washington, DC
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a website resource to help artists and public arts programs create and maintain murals. The website will offer information regarding Heritage Preservation's Rescue Public Murals program that works with conservators and artists to develop best practices regarding outdoor mural surfaces, paints, coatings, application of mural materials, and steps to maintain outdoor murals.

National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (aka NASAA)
Washington, DC
$710,520
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support national leadership services in the area of education and technical assistance, development of new partnerships, and advanced information services.

National Building Museum (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support Unbuilt Washington exhibitions. Unbuilt Washington, along with adjunct exhibitions in collaboration with the Washington Architectural Forum, American Institute of Architects, and Washington Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, will examine significant architectural projects that were proposed for the Washington, D.C. area, but for some reason were never executed, revealing dramatically alternate architectural histories for the city.

National Center for Creative Aging
Washington, DC
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Creativity Matters: Arts & Aging Core Training for Teaching Artists. The pilot core training program will have sessions in Pinellas County, Florida; Princeton, New Jersey; and statewide in North Carolina.

National New Play Network, Ltd. (aka NNPN) (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the National New Play Network Annual Conference. Hosted in partnership with Marin Theatre Company of Mill Valley, California, the conference will provide an opportunity for NNPN member theaters to discuss and approve a long-range plan for the organization's next five years, which will focus on increasing the impact of the organization on the field of new play development.

National Public Radio, Inc. (aka NPR)
Washington, DC
$40,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and expansion of a multimedia arts project that explores Latin alternative music and culture. National Public Radio's Alt.Latino is a weekly, 15-minute multi-lingual podcast program, a website, and blog about Latino Alternative Music, a combination of genres (alternative rock, electronic, metal, funk, new wave, reggae, heavy metal, and others) with traditional Latin American songs.

National Public Radio, Inc. (aka NPR)
Washington, DC
$125,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a music website. The NPR Music site offers all genres of music (jazz, classical, hip-hop, rhythm and blues, rock, pop, folk, world) and provides content from NPR and 12 NPR public radio member stations, including live performances, studio sessions, first listens to new albums, interviews, reviews, and blogs.

PEN/Faulkner Foundation
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a reading series, literary programming for at-risk groups, and writers in the schools. The foundation will present 60 one-day author visits to 19 District of Columbia high schools, as well as a book group for teenage unwed mothers and a book group to be held at the D.C. Jail.

Split This Rock, Inc.
Washington, DC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the 2012 Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness. The four-day festival in Washington, D.C. will feature readings, workshops, panel discussions, youth programming, open mics, and other events with such poets as Marilyn Nelson, Sonia Sanchez, and Alice Walker.

Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz
Washington, DC
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the New Orleans Community Outreach Program. Internationally renowned jazz musicians will present 24 master classes at 12 public schools and six colleges and universities in New Orleans; eight public performances; as well as a Jazz Education Series in partnership with the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival (Jazzfest).

Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Peer-to-Peer Jazz Education Tours. In partnership with the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts Foundation, the institute will connect young musicians from the nation's leading public performing arts high schools with renowned jazz musicians to conduct school assembly programs, jazz workshops, and public performances.

Transformer, Inc.
Washington, DC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Framework Panel Series. The series will promote critical dialogue about contemporary visual art, educate emerging artists, and engage audiences through moderated discussions with a diverse range of respected leaders in the contemporary visual arts field.

Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (aka The Corcoran)
Washington, DC
$47,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support Corcoran Connect, a mobile technology application that supports the interpretation of the museum's permanent collection. Visitors will be able to select and build tours around themes of their choice.

Young Playwrights' Theater, Inc. (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Express Tour, a two-month professional tour of plays written by young playwrights. In partnership with GALA Hispanic Theatre, the playwrights receive dramaturgical support, and actively participate in the rehearsal process in collaboration with professional theater artists prior to touring.

Young Playwrights' Theater, Inc.
Washington, DC
$36,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the In-School Playwriting Program. Teaching artists will provide interactive workshops in which students learn to craft a play using improvisation, writing, editing, rehearsal, and performance. Each student will write a short play, which will be performed by professional actors in the classroom to help students revise their work. Selected student work will be presented at the New Play Festival at Gala Hispanic Theater.


Number of Grants: 27          Total Amount: $2,359,020

 
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