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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.

GEORGIA

Albany State University Foundation, Inc.
Albany, GA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a concert performance and a master class by the Imani Winds Ensemble. Imani Winds, a chamber music ensemble, will perform in concert at the Albany Municipal Auditorium, as well as conduct a master class for students from Albany State University and area junior and senior high school students from Dougherty and Lee Counties.

American Jewish Committee
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, a cinematic examination of Jewish life, culture, and history. The festival will showcase narrative and documentary films, and present guest speakers and panel discussions featuring actors, filmmakers, academics, and authors correlated to the selected film lineup.

Art Papers, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Art Papers print, online, and public lecture series. Project activities include the publication of six issues of Art Papers magazine; the expansion of archival issues on the Art Papers Web site; as well as, the commissioning of new content for Web and mobile devices; and the expansion of the Arts Papers Live!, a national public lecture series offered free-of-charge.

Athens-Clarke County, Georgia
Athens, GA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support India: Land of Enchantment, a festival featuring the arts and culture of India. Festival activities will include a theatrical production, The Little Clay Cart, directed by Farley Richmond, performances of North and South Indian classical and folk dance, and poetry and literature readings for an audience drawn from Athens and surrounding communities.

Atlanta Ballet
Atlanta, GA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a full-length story ballet set to music by Franz Schubert by choreographer Twyla Tharp. The ballet will be performed by Atlanta Ballet dancers and children from the Centre of Dance Education. Student audiences will be provided study materials prior to the performance.

Atlanta Chinese Dance Company
Norcross, GA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the presentation of an original Chinese dance production Celebrating the company's 21st anniversary, performances will include choreography combining both Chinese and Western dance vocabularies and will feature guest artists from the Atlanta Ballet and gloATL, a contemporary dance company based in Atlanta.

Center for Puppetry Arts
Atlanta, GA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and performances with related educational activities of Ruth and the Green Book, a fully-staged puppet theater work adapted and directed by artistic director Jon Ludwig in collaboration with the book's author Calvin Alexander Ramsey. A combination of black light puppetry and animated projections will portray an African American family traveling from Illinois to Alabama in the Jim Crow era.

Dad's Garage, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of Wrath of Con and the creation of videos to engage online audiences. Integrating online video pieces with its play development process, the theater will create new works about people who attend the Atlanta-based Dragon Con, one of the world's largest science fiction conventions.

Dermont, Amber
Decatur, GA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Friends of the Orchestra, Inc.
Hawkinsville, GA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Bringing Them Home, a concert featuring pianist Margery McDuffie Whatley and guitarist Ben Altman, both Georgia natives. Performances will be held at the Hawkinsville Opera House and at Wesleyan College's Porter Hall in Macon, Georgia.

Georgia Shakespeare Festival, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the creation of blind.Ed, a musical retelling of the Oedipus story with hip hop, rap, and soul influences, co-created by Neal A. Ghant, Jahi Kearse, Eugene H. Russell, IV, and producing artistic director Richard Garner. Created as part of the theater's Icarus Lab Project, the piece will deconstruct the Oedipus character, and use rhythms, rap, and hip hop to explore the story in a contemporary setting.

Georgia Tech Research Corporation
Atlanta, GA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the development of the Electronic Textiles Interface Swatch Book. The electronic book will include a computer interfacing book, a swatch binder, and manufacturing and technical guidelines for electronic textiles; exposing fashion designers to new ways of incorporating technology textiles into their designs.

LaGrange Art Museum Inc (aka formerly: Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum)
LaGrange, GA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Your Place, My Place, Our Place. Artists will assist local youth in making artwork based on their understanding of local and regional history.

National Black Arts Festival
Atlanta, GA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new dance work by choreographer Alonzo King and LINES Ballet. The company will engage in community-based arts education activities including a pre-performance talk, a dialogue with Alonzo King and educators, and a community master class.

North Georgia College & State University
Dahlonega, GA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Affrilachia in Words and Images: The African American Experience in Appalachia. Activities include a reading and creative writing workshop by poet Frank X Walker, as well as an art installation and lecture by Marie Cochran.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc. (on behalf of Alliance Theatre)
Atlanta, GA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere production of Fairytale Lives of Russian Women by Meg Miroshnik, the winning play of the Alliance Theatre's National Graduate Playwriting Competition, and a reading series of finalists' work in Atlanta and New York. Using ancient Russian fairy tales as a device to propel the plot of an all-female cast, the play examines the modern perils and complexities of life for women in contemporary Moscow.

Sautee Nacoochee Community Association, Inc.
Sautee Nacoochee, GA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the commission and development of Didja Hear?, a new play in the Headwaters Community Story Performance Series. Residents will participate in collecting stories that explore ability/disability issues.

Savannah Music Festival, Inc.
Savannah, GA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the annual Savannah Music Festival presenting artists in diverse programming, including world music, gospel, classical, blues, and jazz. The 18-day, 100-program festival with more than 500 artists will take place in Savannah's Historic District.

Seven Stages, Inc. (aka 7 Stages)
Atlanta, GA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support an original adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula, made accessible to modern audiences in the form of a rock opera by composer/lyricist Rob Thompson of the Little 5 Points Rockstar Orchestra and directed by artistic director Del Hamilton. The work will remain true to the structure and characters of the original novel and will incorporate pre-recorded and live video projections integrated with puppets to create Dracula's dark and magical world.

Telfair Museum of Art, Inc. (aka Telfair Museums)
Savannah, GA
$34,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support planning and implementation for the exhibition, Spanish Sojourns: Robert Henri and the Spirit of Spain. The exhibition will bring together 42 of Henri's (1865-1929) works and will focus on his Spanish subjects, created between 1904 -23.

True Colors Theatre Company, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of William Rose’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.


Number of Grants: 21          Total Amount: $464,000

 
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