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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.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Inc. (aka Arts Presenters)
Washington, DC
$70,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support APAP/NYC, the Leadership Development Institute, and the Emerging Leadership Institute. APAP/NYC, Arts Presenters' annual conference, is the largest performing arts gathering in the country.

City Arts, Inc.
Washington, DC
$24,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Urban Arts Mentoring Program. High school students in underserved District of Columbia Public Schools will receive paid training and arts instruction while working with professional muralists and mosaic artists to create public art throughout the city.

Contemporary Music Forum
Washington, DC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the John Cage Centennial Festival. Plans include concerts, workshops, recitals, lectures, and panel discussions in celebration of the composer's 100th birthday in venues including the Phillips Collection, La Maison Française (Cultural Center of the Embassy of France), University of California Washington Center, American University, and the Kreeger Museum, and featuring performances by the new music ensemble red fish blue fish, Percussion Group Cincinnati, toy pianist Margaret Leng Tan, pianist Stephen Drury, and cellist Alexis Descharmes.

Cultural Development Corporation of the District of Columbia (aka CuDC)
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Flashpoint and Source Business Centers. Each center's network will provide residency and technical assistance programs as well as opportunities for affordable exhibition, performance, and office space in conjunction with other business amenities.

D.C. Wheel Productions, Inc. (aka Dance Place)
Washington, DC
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of dance performances and accompanying residency activities at Dance Place. Artists to be presented include Kyle Abraham, Lionel Popkin, LEVYdance, Pearson Widrig, Camille Brown, Dana Tai Soon Burgess & Company, Daniel Phoenix Singh & Company, Junk, Dance Exchange, Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers, Karen Sherman, and the Dance Africa, DC Festival.

Daniel Phoenix Singh & Company (aka Dakshina)
Washington, DC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Dakshina's reconstruction and presentation of Anna Sokolow's Lyric Suite and Magritte Magritte. Marking the fifth year of partnership with the Sokolow Foundation, the performances will be accompanied by post-performance discussions and an educational exhibition about Sokolow's vision, body of work, and her place in the modern dance continuum.

District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Washington, DC
$704,100
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Festivals DC, Ltd. (aka DC Jazz Festival) (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the expansion of the DC Jazz Festival's Jazz for a Healthier Generation program. This free year-long program encompasses visits by jazz musicians and certified music practitioners to the Children's National Medical Center, Georgetown University Hospital's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Smith Center for Healing and the Arts for performances in hospital atrium areas as well as a culminating free public program at the Atlas Performing Arts Center featuring NEA Jazz Master Paquito D'Rivera and Atlas jazz curator Brad Linde.

FotoWeek DC, Inc.
Washington, DC
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support educational programs related to the annual FotoWeek DC festival. Programming for the week-long festival will include photographic exhibitions, lectures, seminars, workshops, symposiums and portfolio reviews. Workshops and lectures will be filmed and made available online.

Future of Music Coalition
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Future of Music Policy Summit. The three-day conference will engage speakers and panelists to discuss and examine key issues making an impact on independent professional musicians such as digital technology, artists' rights, and the current state of the music industry.

GALA Inc., Grupo de Artistas Latinoamericanos (aka GALA Hispanic Theatre)
Washington, DC
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of the United States Spanish-language premiere of the comedy El desdén con el desdén (Spite for Spite) by Agustín Moreto y Cavana. Using company members and guest actors from Spain, the play will serve as a vehicle to introduce diverse, young audiences to a Spanish classic and its contemporary relevance.

Landscape Architecture Foundation (aka LAF) (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the Case Study Investigation initiative. In collaboration with Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, the initiative will document and develop methods to quantify benefits of landscape projects.

National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (aka NASAA)
Washington, DC
$792,455
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

National Building Museum (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the dissemination of teacher training for Green Community Teaching Kits. In collaboration with the California University of Pennsylvania (located in California, PA), the educational kits will reach new school audiences through targeted teacher training that will be available online. The Green Community Teaching Kit is an innovative tool for introducing youth to urban planning and sustainable principles through hands-on activities and a standards-based curriculum that can be incorporated into a yearly academic plan.

National Center for Creative Aging (aka NCCA)
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the NCCA Research Center for Arts and Culture's ART CART. An intergenerational arts legacy project, ART CART connects 20th-century visual artists with teams of graduate fellows to document their lifetimes of creative work.

National Public Radio, Inc.
Washington, DC
$40,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and distribution of a multimedia arts project that explores Latin alternative music and culture. National Public Radio's Alt.Latino is a weekly, 30-minute multilingual podcast program, a website, and blog about Latino alternative along with traditional Latin American songs. Plans for the project include a radio program for NPR member stations, a 24/7 music channel, and live events.

National Public Radio, Inc.
Washington, DC
$70,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the website NPR Music. The website offers all genres of music and provides content to NPR and public radio member stations, including live performances, studio sessions, first listens to new albums, interviews, reviews, and blogs. The website receives 1.5 million page views per week and the NPR Music iPhone app gets more than 750,000 page views per week.

National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the production of a short film on the Farnsworth House. The new film will document Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois, and the influence it has had around the world during the past 60 years.

PEN/Faulkner Foundation (aka PEN Faulkner)
Washington, DC
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a reading series, literary programming targeting at-risk groups, and writers in the schools. The foundation will present 70 one-day author visits to 19 high schools,  a book group for teenage unwed mothers, and book groups to be held at the D.C. Jail and the New Beginnings Development Center.

Post-Classical Ensemble, Inc. (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Mexican Revolution, a festival with multifaceted programming that explores the role of artists, particularly composer Silvestre Revueltas, as catalysts for change. In partnership with the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington, DC, the festival performances and events, conducted by Music Director Angel Gil-Ordoñez and directed by Artistic Director Joseph Horowitz, will highlight works by Mexican composer, violinist, and conductor Revueltas (1899-1940) and will include the participation of Mexican singer Eugenia Leon, scholar Roberto Kolb-Neuhaus, lecturer and historian Gregorio Luke, Director of Film Programs at the National Gallery of Art Margaret Parsons, and the Maryland Classic Youth Orchestra.

Society for the Arts in Healthcare
Washington, DC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of eight regional arts in health care training sessions. This program will support artists and healthcare providers in identifying partners and resources, as well as sharing best practices and strategies for developing the arts in healthcare environments.

Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz
Washington, DC
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the New Orleans Community Outreach Program. Internationally renowned jazz musicians will present 27 master classes at 12 public schools and 6 colleges and universities in New Orleans, six free public performances, as well as a Jazz Education Series, in partnership with the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival (Jazzfest).

Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Peer-to-Peer jazz education tour. In partnership with the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts Foundation, the institute will connect young musicians from the nation's leading public performing arts high schools with renowned jazz musicians that will tour together to conduct school assembly programs, jazz workshops, and public performances.

Women in Film & Video, Inc.
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support post-production and national outreach for the documentary Essakane Film. Focused on the 2011 Festival au Desert, an annual concert showcasing Taureg and other world music, the film will follow festival director Manny Ansar from Bamako to Timbuktu, where the festival takes place. Once completed, the film will be offered at film festivals, screened at educational and community centers, broadcast on international television, and distributed through a streaming or video-on-demand outlet.

Young Playwrights\' Theater, Inc.
Washington, DC
$62,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the In-School Playwriting Program. Teaching artists will provide interactive workshops in which students learn to craft a play using improvisation, writing, editing, rehearsal, and performance. Each student will then write a short play, which will be performed by professional actors in the classroom to help students revise their work. Select student work will be presented at the New Play Festival at Gala Hispanic Theater.


Number of Grants: 25          Total Amount: $2,282,555

 
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