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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.

LOUISIANA

Arts Council of New Orleans
New Orleans, LA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support Arts Business in Your Town, a series of arts business development workshops. The workshop series will be offered in six locations throughout Louisiana and include topics such as board development, social media and e-mail marketing, copyright, and nonprofit incorporation.

Louisiana Folk Roots, Inc.
Lafayette, LA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Dewey Balfa Cajun and Creole Heritage Week. The project will teach, present, and celebrate Cajun and Creole cultural heritage---including music, dance, foodways, crafts, and storytelling---through participatory workshops, artist presentations, dances, and performances.

Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
New Orleans, LA
$22,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Louisiana Musical Treasures, a concert celebrating 200 years of Louisiana statehood and related educational activities. The concert will examine the polyphonic classical music tradition of New Orleans from the early 19th-century to the 1930s in works by composers Andre Ernest Modeste Gretry, Vincente Martin y Soler, and Georg Schmitt, and will culminate with a big band-style performance of Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton's GanJam.

Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
Baton Rouge, LA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the exhibition On Land/With Water: A Mobile Museum in the Mississippi Delta. The exhibition will include a design simulation station, audio listening/recording stations, and a geo-spatial visualization laboratory.

National Performance Network, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support national dance programs including the Performance Residency Program and the Creation Fund, Community Fund, and Freight Fund projects. The programs will enable NPN partners to create, commission, tour, and present contemporary dance artists around the country.

New Orleans Ballet Association
New Orleans, LA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of dance performances and related education and outreach programs. Presentations will include Shen Wei Dance Arts, Stephen Petronio Company, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Komenka Ethnic Dance and Music Ensemble, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, and the Limón Dance Company.

New Orleans Film and Video Festival, Inc. (aka New Orleans Film Society)
New Orleans, LA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support screenings of Malcom X by Spike Lee and Rebirth of a Nation by DJ Spooky. The filmmakers will also participate in question-and-answer sessions following each film. Venues will include Ashe Cultural Arts Center, the Porch, and the Carver Theater.

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the seventh annual Crescent City Blues and BBQ Festival. Staged in the heart of downtown New Orleans, the festival will feature the blues music of Louisiana and the Delta South as well as local crafts and foodways; additionally, a narrative stage is scheduled where blues artists will be interviewed by scholars.

New Orleans Museum of Art
New Orleans, LA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support Inspired By New Orleans, a multi-faceted project. A series of exhibitions, commissions, and artist lectures are planned, including a commissioned work by Dario Robleto exploring music and public ritual and a riverfront project conceived by architects David Adjaye and Michael Maltzan.

Northwestern State University of Louisiana
Natchitoches, LA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Natchitoches-NSU Folk Festival. The theme will be "celebrating Louisiana's folk music" and will include performances by Henry Gay and the Cats, as well as Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band.

Shreveport Regional Arts Council
Shreveport, LA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the development and activities of the Arts Business Resource Center. Project activities will include staff support, constituent assessment, and professional development opportunities.

Southern Rep
New Orleans, LA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the staging of new works, a commission and workshop of an autobiographical play with music by Ruby Bridges, and a workshop of the play selected as the winner of the annual Ruby Prize, during The New Play Bacchanal festival. Educator, civil rights activist, and author Ruby Bridges will write an autobiographical play based on her life in the Florida neighborhood of New Orleans and the challenges met during an era of segregation.

Tulane University (aka Adminstrators of the Tulane Educational Fund) (on behalf of Newcomb Art Gallery)
New Orleans, LA
$34,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support staff salaries, consultant fees and catalogue printing costs for the exhibition, Women, Art, and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise. More than 250 objects from the Newcomb Art Gallery collection and loans from public and private collections will comprise the exhibition.


Number of Grants: 13          Total Amount: $366,500

 
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