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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.

MISSOURI

Center of Creative Arts (aka COCA)
St. Louis, MO
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Dance Outreach and Pre-Professional Dance Programs. The Pre-Professional Dance program will provide intensive dance training and comprehensive support services to students ages 11 through 1modern, hip-hop, and tap to elementary school children in St. Louis Public Schools.

Circus Day Foundation (aka Circus Harmony)
Florissant, MO
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Circus Harmony, a theatrical circus arts program. Students in the year-long program will work with professional circus educators, choreographers, costume designers, and musicians to learn theatrical circus skills thorough sequential, skills-based classes and perform for the public.

Curators of the University of Missouri at Columbia (Consortium)
Columbia, MO
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Missouri Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program, with master artists' honoraria, supplies, and performance fees. In partnership with the Missouri Arts Council, the university will provide technical assistance to masters and apprentices as they demonstrate and display folk arts at festivals held at the state capitol.

Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support AileyCamp and AileyCamp/The Group. AileyCamp is an intensive summer dance program in jazz, tap, modern, and ballet. The Group takes place during the school year and is a continuation of this summer training.

Metro Theater Company
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a regional tour of two productions for young audiences. The tour is scheduled to include performances of Tomato Plant Girl by Wesley Middleton and Super Cowgirl and Mighty Miracle (working title), a new play commission by José Cruz González.

Mid-America Arts Alliance (aka M-AAA)
Kansas City, MO
$1,264,700
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Missouri Historical Society (aka Missouri History Museum )
St. Louis, MO
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the preservation of costumes from the Katherine Dunham Dance Company's collection, primarily those created by scenic and costume designer John Pratt. Once conserved, these pieces will be photographed, catalogued in museum records, digitized on the museum's online database, and made available for exhibition.

Missouri State Council on the Arts
St. Louis, MO
$743,700
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Robert L. Reed Tap Heritage Institute
Saint Louis, MO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of the 20th annual St. Louis Tap Festival. The festival will feature artists such as Arthur Duncan, Omar Edwards, Avi Miller, Ofer Ben, Jason Samuels-Smith, Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards, and Robert L. Reed.

Saint Louis Ballet Company
Chesterfield, MO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of Romeo and Juliet choreographed by Artistic Director Gen Horiuchi. The company will collaborate with the Variety Children's Charity of St. Louis to offer free tickets to disabled children and their families.

Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
Saint Louis, MO
$27,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the expansion of Music Without Boundaries, a community outreach program. The project will result in deeper partnerships with the diverse communities of immigrants living in the St. Louis metropolitan area.

Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis
Saint Louis, MO
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Shakespeare in the Streets. The community immersion initiative through street performance of Shakespeare and block parties will re-energize the socio-economically distressed Gravois Park neighborhood of South St. Louis.

St. Louis African Chorus (aka African Musical Arts, Inc.)
St. Louis, MO
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a community outreach and education program by African Musical Arts. The project, directed by Artistic Director Fred Onovwerosuoke, will feature the Songs of Africa Ensemble and include interactive workshops and concerts for children and adults in underserved communities of St. Louis and the village of Elsah, Illinois.

St. Louis ArtWorks
St. Louis, MO
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the summer arts apprenticeship program. Through paid apprenticeships, teenagers from the St. Louis metro area will receive instruction and hands-on experience in specific artistic disciplines, such as painting, printmaking, and sculpture, in the ArtWorks studios.

St. Louis Children's Choirs
St. Louis, MO
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Ensemble Training and Performance Program. Students will participate in one of six performing groups, rehearse weekly, and perform throughout the year. They will learn sight-reading, music theory, vocal technique, and will perform original commissioned works.

Theatre for Young America Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the development and production of Fair Ball: Negro Leagues in America. The musical will explore the history of the players who played against racial segregation and "Jim Crow" laws in the Negro Leagues.

Washington University
St. Louis, MO
$23,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Architecture for Young People, a problem solving workshop about architecture, community, and the environment for fourth- through ninth-grade students. Students will do 2-D and 3-D hands-on problem solving, use the libraries and computer labs on campus, and be welcomed to the field of architecture through seminars with professional designers.

Webster University (on behalf of Community Music School)
St. Louis, MO
$28,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Community Music School's Pre-College Student Preparatory Program. Designed to augment the individual study by exceptionally talented music students in the St. Louis area, the program trains students in chamber music, music theory, music history and literature, and provides performance opportunities and artistic mentoring.

Wylliams/Henry Danse Theatre
Kansas City, MO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the reconstruction and presentation of Anna Sokolow's Session for Six. Sokolow Dance Theater/Dance Ensemble's Artistic Director Jim May will be in residence with the company for three weeks introducing the dancers and the general public to Sokolow's history, point of view, and movement style.


Number of Grants: 19          Total Amount: $2,351,900

 
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