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FY 2012 Grant Awards: State Listings

Art Works I | Challenge America Fast-Track Grants | Literature Fellowships (Prose)

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

COLORADO

Anderson Ranch Arts Foundation (aka Anderson Ranch Arts Center)
Snowmass Village, CO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artist Communities
To support an artist residency program for emerging and established artists. Visual and media artists will receive studio space, equipment and materials, meals, housing, travel and exhibition opportunities.

Aspen Santa Fe Ballet
Aspen, CO
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a national tour of dance performances. Other touring activities will include question-and-answer sessions, master classes with local dance schools and universities, and open rehearsals. Dance works performed on tour will include a ballet by choreographer Nacho Duato, the reconstruction of an Aspen Santa Fe original ballet by Nicolo Fonte, and the commissioning of a new work by emerging artist Norbet de la Cruz.

Bravo! Colorado at Vail-Beaver Creek (aka Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival)
Vail, CO
$12,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 25th annual Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival. The summer festival will feature chamber music; orchestral concerts by the Dallas Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, and New York Philharmonic; open rehearsals; public workshops; the Young Artists Program; and educational outreach concerts.

Central City Opera House Association
Denver, CO
$22,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of The Turn of the Screw by composer Benjamin Britten. Based on the novella by Henry James, the 20th-century English chamber opera--a suspenseful masterpiece containing a prologue and 16 scenes, each preceded by a variation on the twelve-note 'crew theme, the production will launch a season celebrating the 100th anniversary of the composer's birth.

Creede Repertory Theatre, Inc.
Creede, CO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Young Audience Outreach Tour (YAOT). The 2012 YAOT will provide professional children's theatrical performances for kindergarten through sixth-grade children in rural and underserved communities throughout Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Utah.

Crestone Performances, Inc. (aka Crestone Music Festival)
Crestone, CO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Crestone Music Festival's Cultural Enrichment Initiative. Bringing performing arts originating from around the world to the rural San Luis Valley of Colorado, proposed artists for the series include Tito Puente Jr., Frank London's Klezmer Brass All-Stars, and Vieux Farka Toure, among others.

Denver Center for the Performing Arts
Denver, CO
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere of Lisa Loomer's Two Things You Don't Talk About at Dinner, directed by Wendy Goldberg. Featuring a large, multicultural cast, the play tells the story of a Seder dinner gone wrong, as the conversation drifts into a heated discussion of politics, religion, culture, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management, Inc.
Denver, CO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Indigenous Film & Arts Festival, a showcase of documentaries, shorts, and feature films by and about Native American peoples. Actor and director Gary Farmer will appear alongside a retrospective of his work.

Music Associates of Aspen, Inc. (aka Aspen Music Festival and School)
Aspen, CO
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Aspen Music Festival and School's summer festival The Americans, directed by artistic director Robert Spano. Programming will explore American music from the 1800s to today, featuring works by composers such as Edward MacDowell, Charles Ives, Harry Partch, Paul Hindemith, John Harbison, Leonard Bernstein, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Philip Glass, and Steve Reich.

New Dance Theatre, Inc. (aka Cleo Parker Robinson Dance)
Denver, CO
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of new works by choreographers Jeanguy Saintus and Jeffrey Page, as well as the re-staging of In the Valley of the Nile, choreographed by artistic director Cleo Parker Robinson. Jeffrey Page's work, Star of the Show, highlights the music of James Brown; and In the Valley of the Nile is a tribute to the women of the Nile Valley civilization, set to music by Egyptian composer Halim El Dabh.

PlatteForum
Denver, CO
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support ArtLab + Learning Lab: Integrated Experiences in Creating and Presenting Art. Professional artist-in-residence, guest artists, and university professors lead after-school, weekend, and summer classes and workshops in theater, media, and visual art that culminate in project for students to apply artistic skills learned in creative ways to interact with the public.

Pueblo Performing Arts Guild, Inc.
Pueblo, CO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the development of architectural designs for the Pueblo Creative Industry Building Complex. Proposed sites to undergo adaptive reuse include the Pueblo Ice House, Holmes Hardware Company Building, and the Colorado Building. Local arts organizations that commit to being housed at the facility will collaborate with the selected architects to finalize the design.

Sheffield, Elisabeth
Denver, CO
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Vail Valley Foundation
Vail, CO
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of dance residencies and performances. The Vail International Dance Festival will feature performances by New York City Ballet's newly formed touring company, MOVES, and the Martha Graham Dance Company.


Number of Grants: 14          Total Amount: $259,500

 
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