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.

PENNSYLVANIA

African American Museum in Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support landscape architectural design services for the museum's outdoor program space. With the recent completion of a $4.2 million renovation of its interior and main facade, the redesign of the museum's rear courtyard will further improve the building's appearance, as well as provide additional programming space.

Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support instruction in summer camps and year-round out-of-schools time in Arab music, theater, dance, and storytelling. Beginning and intermediate level workshops are held daily during the camp and weekly in community-based settings, and advanced students perform with profession musicians as members of the Arabesque Music Ensemble.

Arden Theatre Company
Philadelphia, PA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the world premiere of Tulipomania, a new musical by Michael Ogborn about the Dutch tulip craze of 1636, directed by Terrence J. Nolen. Inspired by an actual historical event and set in the present day, Tulipomania is a modern twist on the traditional morality play that exposes the danger of obsession and greed, featuring a contemporary score with harmonic underpinnings of 17th-century music and folk ballad forms.

Artreach, Inc. (aka Art-Reach)
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Community Senses Marketing Initiative that will focus on marketing accessible arts events to persons who are blind or visually impaired. Working in partnership with arts organizations and service providers such as the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance and VSA Pennsylvania, the cultural tourism project will assist with marketing accessible events to the identified population.

Asian Americans United, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 17th annual Chinatown Mid-Autumn Festival. The festival will feature a day of arts and crafts activities for youth and concludes with an evening performance of Chinese folk and traditional artists from the neighborhood and the larger region.

Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra, Inc
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support The Black Mozart: Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint George and his Contemporaries, a concert program with related educational activities and radio broadcast. Plans include a concert of works by Boulogne, a prominent musical figure of African descent in Paris in the second half of the 18th-century, along with works by Mozart and Haydn; an open rehearsal with mini-conducting lessons for area school children; and a radio broadcast on Philadelphia based WRTI-FM.

Brandywine Graphic Workshop, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a visiting artist residency in printmaking with accompanying exhibition and catalogue celebrating Brandywine's 40th anniversary. During each two-week residency, 10 artists selected by curator Cheryl Finley will produce new print-based works to be exhibited alongside the work of five former artists-in-residence.

Bristol Riverside Theater Company
Bristol, PA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere of A Raw Space by John Marans with direction by Susan D. Atkinson. The play depicts an interior design competition while exploring two career-driven contemporary relationships and the interplay between design and marriage.

City of Asylum Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support COAP's 8th annual free Jazz-Poetry concert. American jazz ensembles and international poets, with an emphasis on poets censored in their home countries, perform collaboratively and individually in this street festival.

City Theatre Company, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the development and production of POP!, a new musical about the shooting of Andy Warhol, with book and lyrics by Maggie-Kate Coleman and music by Anna K. Jacobs. The piece is a fictional rock opera murder mystery that takes place as a ""fever dream"" in which Warhol contemplates which members of his entourage could be responsible for his demise.

COSACOSA art at large, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Indivisible, a series of community-building art projects. Professional artists will teach community members artistic techniques in sound art, dance, new media, and visual arts, resulting in the design and creation of permanent public art projects for public and neighborhood spaces.

Creative Nonfiction Foundation
Pittsburgh, PA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the digitization of back issues from the journal Creative Nonfiction. This project will provide readers with access to back issues through their website as well as print-on-demand and e-reader technologies.

Endless Mountain Music Festival
Wellsboro, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Endless Mountain Music Festival, a series of concerts and related activities in venues throughout Northern Pennsylvania and Southern New York. Proposed artists pianist Santiago Rodriguez and violinist Robert Bokor will perform throughout the region and participate in outreach activities including pre- and post-concert discussions, master classes, and educational programs.

Etruscan Press, Inc.
Wilkes-Barre, PA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a marketing campaign to expand readership and increase book sales for Etruscan Press literature. The project will include a web-based peer-mentorship program designed to directly connect authors with potential readers.

Fabric Workshop and Museum, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support an Artist-in-Residence program. Participating artists may include Nick Cave, Aminah Robinson, Allora and Calzadilla, Theaster Gates, and Sarah Sze; each artist will receive project materials, research and production support, an honorarium, per diem, travel, and housing support to realize a project they could not complete on their own, and that will be exhibited at the Fabric Workshop and Museum to an audience of approximately12,700 people.

Fairmount Park Art Association
Philadelphia, PA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the presentation of Open Air, an interactive public art installation by Mexican Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. The installation will use 24 robotic searchlights to create a canopy of light along a half-mile stretch of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway; the fanning lights visible from as far as 15 miles away will respond to a community of voices and will be activated by the participants' spoken words and GPS locations; an accompanying day-long symposium will explore the possibilities of technology in the service of art.

GALA Choruses
Pittsburgh, PA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the GALA Choruses Festival. Held every four years, the GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender) festival will bring together 140 choirs and ensembles from around the world for performances and workshops.

Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support electronic marketing initiatives: Phillyfunguide, an online entertainment event calendar, and Funsavers, a discount ticket program. Project activity will include the addition of a new mobile phone app and enhanced website features that will broaden user experiences.

Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council
Pittsburgh, PA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the ProArtsTickets centralized ticketing, marketing, and data management service. The service provides online and telephone box office services, marketing support, and a shared marketing database for the benefit of approximately 40 small and mid-size arts organizations in the Pittsburgh area.

Headlong Dance Theater
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of the Citizens Dance Project, in which Headlong co-directors will work with a team of artists and thinkers to create contemporary dances on non-dancers who live in Philadelphia. The works will be performed in the homes of the non-dancers, which will include a meal prepared by the residents and performers.

Hendrickson, Paul
Havertown, PA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Hoque, Abeer
Monroeville, PA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Kulu Mele African American Dance Ensemble (aka Kulu Mele African Dance & Drum Ensemlbe)
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Dance to the Rhythm of the Drum: A Celebration of African Dance & Drumming. The project will explore the interaction between Afro-Cuban and Guinean dance traditions through workshops led by choreographers Danys Perez (Afro Cuban) and Moustapha Bangoura (Guinean).

Lafayette College
Easton, PA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 2012-13 Jazz Masters Series at the Williams Center for the Arts. Four performances of internationally acclaimed jazz musicians including NEA Jazz Master Dave Liebman (2011) with his Quartet, Miguel Zenon's ensemble, the Stefon Harris with David Sanchez and Nicholas Payton, and Joe Lovano with Randy Brecker, will be complemented by educational programs and residency work in connection with the Lafayette College Music Department.

Manchester Craftsmen's Guild (aka MCG Jazz)
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the MCG Jazz 25th anniversary Once In A Lifetime concerts. Showcased artists will be the Jon Faddis Quintet, Don Sebesky with a retrospective of his work, and the 21st Century Swing Band premiering a new work by a team of MCG Jazz composers and arrangers commissioned by the Carnegie Museum of Art to write a work capturing the essence of the "Pittsburgh sound."

Marlboro School of Music, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Invited Master Artist Project. Student musicians will participate in a series of workshops, open rehearsals, concerts, master classes, and lecture-demonstrations led by a group of concert artists, composers, and scholars during the Marlboro Music Festival.

Mattress Factory, Ltd.
Pittsburgh, PA
$34,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a residency and exhibition of new work by female artists. The residency program will attempt to demonstrate that feminism is multi-vocal, multi-generational, and multi-cultural and will feature American artists Betsy Damon, Lorraine Leeson, Carrie Mae Weems, Ayanah Moor, Julia Cahill, and international artists Parastou Forouhar (Iran) and Teresa Margolles (Mexico).

Network for New Music, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the commissioning and performance of The Sleepers, a new chamber music work by composer Sebastian Currier and poet Sarah Manguso. The project will be part of American Poets/American Composers, a season-long series that will explore connections between narrative poetry and contemporary music, and will include educational outreach events.

New Paradise Laboratories Theatre, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and presentation of Fatebook Prague, a Czech-language version of a cyberspace/real-space work produced in conjunction with the 4 + 4 Days in Motion Festival and HoME Theatre in Prague. The work will weave the stories of 12 Czech young adult characters into a Web site narrative that will mesh with a variety of social networks in an audience/performer interplay.

Opera Company of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the world premiere of Dark Sisters by composer Nico Muhly and librettist Stephen Karam. The work will feature singers Caitlin Lynch, Kevin Burdette, Jennifer Check, Eve Gigliotti, Jennifer Zetlan, Kristina Bachrach, and Margaret Lattimore, who will be conducted by Neal Goren, directed by Rebecca Taichman, and will perform on a set designed by Mark Grimmer and Leo Warner of 59 Productions.

Partners for Sacred Places, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support Making Homes for the Arts in Sacred Places. The project goal is to encourage long-term mutually beneficial space-sharing relationships by tapping underused facilities in historic, sacred places to meet the chronic need among arts groups for affordable space.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Philadelphia, PA
$34,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Peter Blume: Nature and Metamorphosis, and accompanying catalogue. The first retrospective of the American modernist Peter Blume (1906-92) since 1976, the exhibition will include 50 paintings, 80 drawings, plus sketchbooks, archival materials, and sculpture, demonstrating the artist's central role in the development of American modernism and his impact on late 20th-century narrative painting.

Pennsylvania Ballet
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of Peter Pan, choreographed by Trey McIntyre. The project will include the company's Accent on Dance outreach and education program.

People's Light & Theatre Company
Malvern, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere of Fallow, a new play by Kenneth Lin, and directed by Jackson Gay. Fallow chronicles the parallel journeys of a young man who has abandoned his Ivy League education to travel the country as a migrant worker, and his mother who goes to search out the men who murdered him in a hate crime of mistaken identity.

Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Community Engagement Project of performances and educational workshops at community venues in Philadelphia. The chamber concerts and recitals will feature national and international artists such as pianists Lydia Artymiw, Robert Levin, Peter Orth, and Anna Polonsky; violinist Benjamin Beilman; violist Kim Kashkashian; cellist Sophie Shao; and the Johannes Quartet.

Philadelphia Folklore Project (Consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Liberian Community Drama Project. In an inaugural collaboration with the Roadside Theater from Kentucky, Philadelphia Folklore Project will collect traditional stories, songs, and dances from the local Liberian immigrant community and fashion this material into an original drama that reflects the issues of importance to this community.

Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates (aka Mural Arts Program)
Philadelphia, PA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Mural Arts Program. Students develop personal portfolios and collaborate with professional artists and community members and stakeholders to plan, design, and execute large-scale, sophisticated murals and other works of public art.

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, PA
$61,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition, Van Gogh Up Close. The exhibition will examine the innovative ways that Vincent van Gogh (1853-90) represented nature in his landscapes and still lifes, and his experimentation with perspective, point of view, and focus.

Philagrafika
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Doing Time, an exhibition of artwork by Spanish artists María Jesús González and Patricia Gómez. The exhibition, curated by José Roca and presented at the Galleries at Moore College of Art and Design, will feature large-scale prints, photographs, and related videos created by the artists at the decommissioned Holmesburg Prison in Northeast Philadelphia.

Pig Iron Theatre Company
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a collaborative project with Japanese novelist, director, and playwright Toshiki Okada to create his first English-language play. The work will involve the Pig Iron ensemble, translator Aya Ogawa, and resident designers Mimi Lien and James Clotfelter, and will explore Japanese and American ideas about space, seclusion, and happiness.

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the North American premiere of A Streetcar Named Desire, choreographed by John Neumeier, at the Benedum Center for the Performing Arts in Pittsburgh. The ballet is based on the Tennessee Williams' play of the same name and first debuted in 1983 at the Stuttgart Ballet in Germany.

Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support performances by the Imani Winds Ensemble. In addition to a public performance, the artists will perform a concert at Mr. Small's Theatre in Pittsburgh targeted to Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh Charter School students and accompanying adults.

Pittsburgh Opera, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$22,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio. Presented on Pittsburgh Opera's mainstage for the first time in nearly 30 years, this opera will continue the company's exploration of Mozart's works, with a cast that features soprano Lisette Oropesa, bass Paolo Pecchioli, and tenors David Portillo and Joseph Gaines.

Pittsburgh Symphony Society
Pittsburgh, PA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Composer of the Year project, an artist residency with composer Steven Stucky. The orchestra will perform the composer's Spirit Voices with percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie, Son et Lumiere (Sound and Light), and a new commissioned work celebrating the 50th anniversary of the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.

PlayPenn, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support an annual new play development conference. The project's primary activities will include six 29-hour developmental workshops through which competitively selected playwrights will work with directors, designers, and dramaturgs to develop plays, culminating in public readings of the new work.

Print Center
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Makeready residencies for emerging visual artists. Artists Katie Grinnan and Demetrius Oliver will receive studio space, housing, honoraria, access to equipment, materials, travel funds, a solo exhibition, and an accompanying publication; community outreach efforts will include public presentations; and the resulting exhibitions will be documented in publications containing a critical assessment of the projects.

Quantum Theatre, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and world premiere of The Electric Baby by Stefanie Zadravec with direction by Daniella Topol. This contemporary, urban story unites a Romanian mother, a Nigerian father, with Americans in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Silk Screen
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Silk Screen: Asian American Film Festival. Films previously presented came from India, Iran, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, South Korea, China, England, the Philippines, the United States, and Japan.

Squonk Opera, Inc.
Turtle Creek, PA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the creation and tour of the Travelling Flatbed Trailer Show. Squonk Opera will parade through various cities, including Pittsburgh (PA), Cleveland (OH), San Francisco (CA), St. Joseph (MN), and Baltimore (MD) on a flatbed trailer and will stage a multidisciplinary performance that will include video footage of local community residents.

Tempesta di Mare, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Art of the Prophets, a performance project featuring vocal and instrumental music of 17th-century Germany. The orchestra will perform works by four major composers: Johann Christoph Bach, Nicolaus Bruhns, Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, and Johann Christoph Pez.

Young Men & Women's Hebrew Association & Irene Kaufmann Centers (aka Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh)
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support It's A Bird, It's A Plane, No, It's A Joke!: Superman Creators' Funnyman, an exhibit of work by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Outreach efforts will include workshops for high school students led by artists Maritza Mosquera and Luqman Abdus-Salaam. Youth will develop comic books from images and storylines in their lives, print the books, and distribute them throughout the city.

Number of Grants: 51          Total Amount: $1,127,500

 
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