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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.

NEW MEXICO

Cultural Services Department, City of Albuquerque, New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Arte Encantado, a series of performances and demonstrations by local artists. Guest artists will perform and conduct lecture-demonstrations for youth at Cleveland Middle School, a Title I school. The artists will provide programming that emphasizes the interplay of art, music, history, science, and ecology as it relates to Albuquerque.

Khakpour, Porochista
Santa Fe, NM
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Lensic Performing Arts Center Corporation (aka The Lensic)
Santa Fe, NM
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of dance, theater, and world music presentations. Past participating artists have included performing group Black Grace (New Zealand), Suzanne Farrell Ballet, the Acting Company, Children of Uganda, music group the Klezmatics, and singer/songwriter Lila Downs.

Mimbres Region Arts Council, Inc.
Silver City, NM
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Youth Mural Program, pairing youth with professional artists to create murals that express the culture and history of the Grant County region. Selected artists will work with students to interview area residents and incorporate local history and aesthetics into the mural design.

Music at Angel Fire, Inc.
Angel Fire, NM
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Music from Angel Fire's 29th Anniversary Chamber Music Festival. Presentations will include artists such as the Miami String Quartet and violinists Daniel Phillips, Benny Kim, Ani and Ida Kavafian.

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (aka New Mexico Tech)
Socorro, NM
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a performance of Feet Don't Fail Me Now by Rhythmic Circus, a percussive tap dance and music ensemble, and related outreach. Activities will include lecture-demonstrations and workshops for students in the Socorro, Magdalena, and Alamo-Navajo communities.

New Mexico Literary Arts
Santa Fe, NM
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Alzheimer's Poetry Project. Poet Jimmy Santiago Baca will train local artists to facilitate poetry workshops, conducted in both Spanish and English, for individuals with Alzheimer's disease. A culminating event, held at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, will include readings of poems created by the patients.

NewArt New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Global DanceFest 2012. Artists to be presented include Junior Zafialison (Madagascar), Radhoune El Meddeb and Hafiz Dhao (Tunisia/France), and Andreya Ouamba/Cie 1er Temps (Dakar).

Outpost Productions, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Creative Soundspace Festival. Established and emerging touring and resident artists specializing in improvised creative music (e.g., avant-garde, free jazz, world music) will perform and participate in educational presentations and workshops with local artists.

Parallel Studios, Inc.
Santa Fe, NM
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support currents 2012. To be held in June and presented at El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, this event will include video art, single- and multi-channel installations, web art, gaming, sound installations, and multi-media performances.

Santa Fe Art Institute
Santa Fe, NM
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support programmatic activities for Half-Life: Patterns of Change, a theme based program to encourage continued community participation and engagement with art. The program New Life: Redevelopment and Community Engagement will propose possibilities for the conversion of a neighborhood into a creative center for Santa Fe; Outsider: Borders and Boundaries will examine the movement of people, ideas, and art in the context of tourism, migration, and exile.

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
Santa Fe, NM
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 40th annual Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival featuring a diverse range of repertoire, guest composers, and world premieres, as well as free community and youth concerts. Key artists will include artistic director Marc Neikrug and 2012 Festival artist-in-residence Alan Gilbert, music director of the New York Philharmonic.

Santa Fe Opera
Santa Fe, NM
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of King Roger by composer Karol Szymanoski. The creative team will comprise director Stephen Wadsworth, scenic designer Thomas Lynch, lighting designer Duane Schuler, and conductor Evan Rogister as well as an international roster of singers including Mariusz Kwiecien, Erin Morley, William Burden, and Raymond Aceto.

Theatre Grottesco North America, Inc.
Santa Fe, NM
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and remounting of This is Life as We Know It, an ensemble-created work, in preparation for a national tour. Originally created in 2001, the piece explores the effects of American pop-culture on individual isolation, and will be re-examined to explore the evolution of the work's themes in the context of the meteoric rise of social media.

VSA arts of New Mexico, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Wild Dance West festival. The annual festival presents dance works created by artists from the Mountain and Pacific West, always incorporating New Mexican professional choreographers, dancers, and students. With a goal to reach out to other U.S. artists, the festival will include Wally Cardona (New York City) and Victoria Marks (Los Angeles) to be presented along with Meshi Chavez (Alburquerque/Portland) and Donna Jewell (Alburquerque).

Wise Fool New Mexico
Santa Fe, NM
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support InMigration, an outdoor theater work.


Number of Grants: 16          Total Amount: $290,000

 
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