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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.

TENNESSEE

Arts Center of Cannon County
Woodbury, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a marketing campaign using social media. Through the contracted services of Lotos Nile Marketing, project activity will include the production and dissemination of Web content highlighting traditional music programming drawn from Spring Fed Records, the music production wing of the Arts Center of Cannon County.

ArtsMemphis
Memphis, TN
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the Audience Development Initiative (ADI). Designed to strengthen audience building and organizational fiscal accountability, ADI project activities will include workshops, seminars, and further development of tools such as an app for the iPhone and the use of ArtsMemphis's dedicated YouTube channel.

Center for Southern Folklore
Memphis, TN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Annual Memphis Music & Heritage Festival. The two-day event will feature music, dance, crafts, stories, and traditional food that represent the cultures of long-time residents and recent immigrants to the Memphis region.

Conexion Americas
Nashville, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the creation and installation of Migration, a mosaic mural, under the creative leadership of artist Jairo Prado. The mural will be designed through a collaborative process with local residents and immigrant families from the Nashville area, participating through an ongoing partnership with Metro Nashville Public Schools.

Creative Aging Memphis (aka Creative Aging Mid-South)
Memphis, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a series of musical performances and arts workshops for older adults in nursing and assisted living facilities. Local professional artists will be hired to perform and conduct workshops for older adults, many of whom are low-income and in frail health.

Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Nashville, TN
$48,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the travelling exhibition Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Film. The exhibition will feature 150 photographs, videos, and installations by Weems (b. 1953) including fabric banners, text panels, and audio recordings that contemplate issues surrounding race, gender, class, and global justice.

Germantown Performing Arts Centre
Germantown, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support performances by Diavolo Dance Theatre and related outreach activities. In addition to a public performance, the artists will provide a lecture-demonstration for Title I middle and high school students and a master class for local businesses.

Jubilee Community Arts, Inc. (aka The Laurel Theater)
Knoxville, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support traditional music programming at the Laurel Theater and on local radio. Featuring music of the southern Appalachians, the weekly programming has previously presented NEA National Heritage Fellows Clyde Davenport, Ralph Stanley, and Kevin Burke.

Nashville Civic Design Center
Nashville, TN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support Designing Action, an ideas competition and exhibition for the creation of an alternative sports park in Nashville. The project's goal is to spark a conversation in Nashville about the role that beautifully designed spaces can play in shaping an active, healthy, and livable city.

Nashville Opera
Nashville, TN
$16,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Puccini's La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West). The composer created the opera as an homage to the U.S., presenting the Gold Rush and the American West through the form of the verismo opera with characters drawn from everyday life.

Pi Beta Phi Settlement School (aka Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts) (Consortium)
Gatlinburg, TN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artist Communities
To support the compilation and dissemination of best practices of residency programs for emerging artists. In partnership with the Alliance for Artist Communities, the Arrowmont School will conduct a research survey and engagement activities to document best practices and then publish the results online and in print.

Roxy Productions, Inc. (aka Roxy Regional Theatre)
Clarksville, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the production of The Red Badge of Courage, an adaptation of the Stephen Crane novel by John McDonald. Special performances will be targeted to military and student audiences.

Tennessee Women's Theater Project
Nashville, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the creation and tour of a new play by Regina Taylor examining the experience of breast cancer from the African American perspective. Partners will include the Tennessee Breast Cancer Coalition and the Susan G. Komen Foundation Greater Nashville affiliate.


Number of Grants: 13          Total Amount: $234,500

 
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