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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.

NORTH CAROLINA

Appalachian State University (on behalf of An Appalachian Summer Festival)
Boone, NC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support An Appalachian Summer Festival. Music, dance, theater, film, and visual arts presentations will be complemented by education and outreach activities, with past performing artists including the Paul Taylor Dance Company and NEA National Heritage Fellow Ralph Stanley.

Asheville Art Museum Association, Inc.
Asheville, NC
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the digitization and interpretation of the museum's collection of work by Black Mountain College students and faculty. The project will include the documentation and interpretation of approximately 2,700 works by artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, Buckminster Fuller, Josef and Anni Albers, and many lesser- known, but equally important, Black Mountain College artists.

City of Wilson, North Carolina
Wilson, NC
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the design of the Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park. The park will be an outdoor museum of the colorful, wind powered kinetic "whirligig" structures by the well-known folk artist Vollis Simpson.

Davidson College
Davidson, NC
$75,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and distribution of Concierto, a bilingual (Spanish and English) classical music service. In September 2011, WDAV Classical Public Radio will launch Concierto, the first bilingual classical radio service that includes a 24 hour, seven-day-a-week combination of "fresh" and repeated hours on a full-featured website.

Davidson College
Davidson, NC
$90,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the recording and production of classical-music and opera concerts. The Listen Live Initiative will capture performances at Carolinas festivals, concert halls, churches, and opera houses, and make them available nationally via traditional radio programming and innovative online technologies, including smartphones and tablet applications.

East Carolina University
Greenville, NC
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a residency by the JACK Quartet at the NewMusic@ECU Festival. Activities will include score reading and critique sessions, pre- and post-concert discussions, and a public performance.

Eastern Music Festival, Inc.
Greensboro, NC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support artists fees for the 50th Anniversary Eastern Music Festival. The five-week summer festival of more than 100 performances of orchestral, chamber, and jazz will feature artists including soprano Susan Graham; violinist Nadja Solerno-Sonnenberg; pianists Andre Watts, Mischa Dichter, and Jon Nakamatsu; cellist Robert Vernon; and NEA Jazz Master Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra.

Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum
Wilmington, NC
$6,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support The Conversation: Bearden and the Arts. Using Romare Bearden's (1911-88) painting The Conversation (c. 1979), the pilot program with a middle school will explore the connections between visual art, jazz, and creative writing and include art-making activities, lectures, artist-demonstrations, and exhibitions at both the museum and the school.

North Carolina Arts Council
Raleigh, NC
$964,800
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

North Carolina Black Repertory Company, Inc.
Winston-Salem, NC
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the presentation and documentation of the 2011 National Black Theatre Festival. Over the course of six days, the festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, will present performances, free workshops, film screenings, education activities for youth, and an International Colloquium on Black Theatre, with a special focus on documentation to preserve and celebrate the heritage and works of professional Black theater companies, artists, playwrights, designers, and technicians.

North Carolina Folklife Institute
Durham, NC
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support several folklife programs, as well as professional and administrative folk arts positions. Programs include field research and documentation for the institute's Statewide Heritage Initiative, archive upgrades, website development, and a traditional artist directory.

North Carolina Folklife Institute (Consortium)
Durham, NC
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Community Folklife Documentation Institute, which provides instruction in fieldwork techniques and digital documentation to counties that are presenting traditional artists for inclusion in the African American Music Heritage Trail. In partnership with the North Carolina Arts Council, NCFI will use documented projects as web presentations and exhibitions to attract tourists and local audiences.

Penland School of Crafts, Inc. (Consortium)
Penland, NC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Teaching Artist in the Schools program. Penland's professional teaching artist Meg Peterson will work with 23 Mitchell County Public Schools teachers to integrate painting, collage, the art of bookmaking, poetry, and creative writing with specific units of study in the 3rd, 4th, and 10th grades.

PineCone - The Piedmont Council of Traditional Music, Inc. (Consortium)
Raleigh, NC
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the production of the documentary film A Singing Stream II: A Black Family Chronicle Continues. In partnership with Folkstreams, PineCone's sequel will explore the changes in the lives of a musical family and their community in the 25 years since the first film appeared.

Reynolda House, Inc. (aka Reynolda House Museum of American Art)
Winston-Salem, NC
$43,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the second phase of a collections database project. This phase will include the creation and enhancement of 500 content-rich collection records and digital photography of 100 art objects.

Sampson Arts Council
Clinton, NC
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the design, fabrication, and installation of Milling Around Glass Wall, a public art project. Guided by public art consultant Janet Kagan, the project will feature the work of visual artist Heidi Lippman.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (on behalf of Ackland Museum of Art)
Chapel Hill, NC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a catalogue to document the museum's Ancient Mediterranean collection. The publication will feature 225 images of objects in the collection, representing the cultural developments of Egypt, the Near East, and Cyprus in the 3rd to 1st millennia BCE, Greece in the Bronze Age and Archaic through Hellenistic periods, Etruria, and Rome.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (on behalf of Playmakers Repertory Company)
Chapel Hill, NC
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support production and outreach activities for the rotating repertory of William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Parts I and II, and Henry V. Outreach activities will include partnerships with The Army's Army, a local organization dedicated to supporting the military community, as well as peace and social justice organizations including UNC's certificate program in International Peace and Conflict Studies, Triangle-based Elders for Peace, and NC Peace Action to create a dialogue surrounding issues of war, loyalty, and leadership.


Number of Grants: 18          Total Amount: $1,686,300

 
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