FY 2012 Grant Awards: State Listings

Art Works II/Arts in Media/Partnerships

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

COLORADO

Boulder County Arts Alliance (aka BCAA)
Boulder, CO
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support Niwot's Arrow, including the Motus Theater presentation of Rocks Karma Arrows, a multimedia contemporary theater work exploring Boulder's history through the lens of race and class. The Niwot's Arrow program will also include a collaborative, improvisational performance by Motus Theater and Playback Theater West, reflecting on the life of Arapahoe Chief Niwot and the audience reaction to reading and viewing exhibits on his life.

Colorado Humanities
Greenwood Villag, CO
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Writers in the Schools Colorado. Trained master teachers and writers will conduct 6- to 10-week residencies. Student work will be published in bound anthologies presented to each participating student and school library and students will read their works aloud for an audience of peers, teachers, family, and friends.

Creative Industries Division (Colorado) (aka formerly CO Council on the Arts)
Denver, CO
$714,600
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Curious Theatre Company
Denver, CO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Curious New Voices Youth Playwriting Program, a program aimed at developing young playwrights ages 15-21. Project activities will include a Summer Writing Intensive, outreach classes, an opportunity for students to share their writing with their peers, and ongoing mentoring to develop and present original plays in a showcase performance at the theater.

Mizel Museum
Denver, CO
$17,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Stories Matter, a museum education project. Students will have the opportunity to work with acclaimed artist Dona Laurita for three months on several projects incorporating writing, photography, visual arts, and communication. Student-created art works will contribute to the museum's new traveling exhibit to be developed for local libraries and schools.

National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (aka NCECA)
Erie, CO
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support exhibitions related to the national conference for the ceramic arts to be held in Houston. NCECA will mount more than 100 exhibitions of ceramic art in the greater Houston area as part of the 2013 conference; additionally an exhibition in Santa Fe, New Mexico, will be planned to coincide with the 45th General Assembly of the International Academy of Ceramics.

Su Teatro
Denver, CO
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of The Gospel at Colonus 2050: A New Majority Production. A new interpretation of The Gospel at Colonus by Lee Breuer and Bob Telson will be created in partnership with Shadow Theater Company, Denver's only African American theater company.

University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, CO
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the integration of universal design into university curricula. University faculty and experts from a wide range of disciplines, including cognitive science, engineering, media design, environmental design, social sciences, writing, and rhetoric, will be brought together for an interdisciplinary two-day workshop to define specific strategies for incorporating universal design into the curriculum.

Western States Arts Federation (aka WESTAF)
Denver, CO
$1,624,800
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Number of Grants: 9          Total Amount: $2,561,400

 
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