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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.

MARYLAND

Artpreneurs, Inc. (aka Arts on the Block)
Silver Spring, MD
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Common Ground, an urban design project. Under the direction of urban designer/public art planner Todd Bressi, Arts on the Block will collaborate with the University of Maryland Landscape Architecture program and the YMCA's Youth and Family Services in a community design process to transform an under-utilized parking lot into a neighborhood plaza for cultural, artistic, and recreational purposes.

Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support The Land of the Free, performances and educational activities in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the events leading to the creation of The Star-Spangled Banner. Plans include a public performance featuring composer Ysaye Barnwell's Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem as well as two Community Sings events and a post-concert talk, both led by the composer.

Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts
Baltimore, MD
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support a marketing and public relations campaign designed to engage new audiences in meaningful arts experiences across all disciplines. The campaign will include online, television, radio, and print media, as well as a new initiative for public bus advertising.

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Orchestra Fellows Program for musicians of color. Plans for the second year of the program will include mentorship activities, private coaching, audition preparation, and training for outreach and educational events.

Center Stage Associates, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$55,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the presentation of Gleam, an adaptation by Bonnie Lee Moss Rattner of Zora Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God directed by Marion McClinton. This novel is considered one of the jewels of the Harlem Renaissance by one of America’s literary giants.

Class Acts Arts, Inc.
Silver Spring, MD
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Project Youth ArtReach. The program will provide multidisciplinary residencies and performances by such artists as poet Lyubomir Nikolov, visual artist Maria Anasazi, and drummer Kofi Dennis, to juvenile offenders in correctional facilities in Maryland.

Common Ground Music Harvest Ltd (aka Common Ground on the Hill)
Westminster, MD
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a residency featuring artists Kathy "Wan Povi" Sanchez and Gilbert Sanchez. The potters will exhibit their work and conduct lecture-demonstrations and classes for Carroll County, Maryland and Gettysburg, Pennsylvania residents.

Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.
Columbia, MD
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the third annual Affordable Housing Design Leadership Institute. Through the Institute, Enterprise Community Partners seeks to improve architectural design practices in low- and moderate-income communities via an interactive workshop.

Heifetz International Music Institute, Inc.
Ellicott City, MD
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performance and communication training for young musicians. The six-week summer program held in Staunton, Virginia, will train approximately 66 artists in the areas of voice, freedom of expression, public speaking, movement, and drama.

Imagination Stage, Inc.
Bethesda, MD
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere of P. Nokio, a new adaptation of the classic Pinocchio tale created by hip hop theater artist and playwright Psalmayene 24. The production will merge rap, break dancing, and graffiti art to tell the story of a computer-animated character's quest to become a real boy.

Lancelotta, Victoria
Baltimore, MD
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Maryland Institute (aka Maryland Institute College of Art)
Baltimore, MD
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Ceramic and New Technology Research Initiative that will explore the intersections between ceramics and new technologies of digital fabrication. New work will be created and exhibited during a three-week residency of a group of five ceramic artists and researchers with experience and a keen interest in collaboratively exploring the challenges and possibilities of new digital fabrication; residents will engage in a series of regular collaborative 'think tank' sessions throughout the residency to discuss the artistic concerns, technological issues and broader questions raised by the ongoing production of their works; there will be a panel discussion for the public on the topic of ceramics and new technology during the residency.

McCallum-Smith, Susan
Baltimore, MD
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

National Council for the Traditional Arts
Silver Spring, MD
$45,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 74th National Folk Festival in Nashville, Tennessee. The festival is a large outdoor event that showcases the nation's finest traditional artists, and will present a wide array of music and dance performances, workshops, storytelling, material culture, and regional and ethnic foods prepared by community members.

Round House Theatre
Bethesda, MD
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere of Crown of Shadows: the wake of odysseus by Jason Gray Platt, directed by artistic director Blake Robison. The play is a contemporary re-imagining of The Odyssey told from the perspective of the family waiting anxiously at home for a soldier's return from war abroad.

Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery (aka The Walters Art Museum)
Baltimore, MD
$34,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition, Saints, Slaves, and Diplomats: The African Presence in Renaissance Europe. The exhibition will reveal the unexpected and multifaceted roles played, by Africans in Renaissance Europe through the presentation of 75 art works drawn from collections across the United States and Europe.

Young Audiences of Maryland, Inc. (aka Young Audiences/ Arts for Learning)
Baltimore, MD
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Rural Access for All Opportunity Program. Performing and visual arts workshops and residencies will reach youth and families in rural communities across Maryland; venues will include recreation and community centers, libraries, cultural institutions, and schools in 18 counties.


Number of Grants: 17          Total Amount: $449,000

 
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