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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.
KANSAS
Chamber Music At The Barn, Inc.
Maize, KS
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the New Zealand String Quartet (NZSQ) in residence in Central Kansas. In addition to performances, the NZSQ will provide youth concerts and master classes focused on classical and contemporary string chamber music shared with children from inner-city and rural communities. Friends of the Mulvane Art Museum
Topeka, KS
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Metamorphosis, a pair of concurrent exhibits. Industrial Nature will feature the moth and lichen found-object sculptures of Michelle Stitzlein, and Many-Fold Manifolds will feature the origami sculptures of Robert J. Lang. Hesston College
Hesston, KS
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a residency by the Rose Ensemble. The three-day residency will feature outreach performances, lectures, school visits, and master classes culminating in a concert titled Cantigas from the Land of Three Faiths: Voices of Ancient Mediterranean Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Salina Art Center, Inc.
Salina, KS
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a theme-based residency program focusing on themes relating to place. The Center will host as many as six artists for residencies lasting 4-12 weeks; artists will receive an honorarium, materials budget, live/work space, a travel stipend, and technical and administrative support to research and create new work related to the history, politics, culture, and geography of North-Central Kansas. University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc. (on behalf of Spencer Museum of Art)
Lawrence, KS
$34,000
CATEGORY: Art Works
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support Ann Hamilton + Cynthia Schira, a commission for the Spencer Museum of Art. The artists will create works focusing on their mutual interests in the role of the hand and the meanings of thread in our culture. William Inge Festival Foundation
Independence, KS
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support extended residencies and surrounding activities in Independence, Kansas, for professional playwrights from across the country. Activities will include week-long development workshops with professional guest artists, public readings, instruction of high school and college students in playwriting, professional writing workshops, and subsidized time for writing and reflection.
Number of Grants: 6 Total Amount: $139,000
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