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.

KENTUCKY

Appalshop, Inc. (on behalf of Roadside Theater)
Whitesburg, KY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Wilderness Project, a year-long community cultural development residency that will culminate in the creation of a new play. The residency will explore the diverse cultural traditions of the historic Daniel Boone Wilderness Trail by giving voice to the stories of Native Americans, the descendants of African slaves, European indentured servants, and European explorers, land speculators, and settlers.

Appalshop, Inc.
Whitesburg, KY
$75,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Thousand Kites radio series and web platform for The Prison Poetry Workshop. Each one-hour radio program will focus on poetry composed by prisoners in jails across the country and will feature interviews, commentary, workshop recordings, and readings. Once completed, the radio series will be broadcast on approximately 80 stations.

Central Kentucky Youth Orchestras
Lexington, KY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Friends in Music program. Plans include youth orchestra members serving as mentors during the school year, teaching free weekly after-school string instrumental lessons to children from low income families at two public schools.

Kentucky Arts Council
Frankfort, KY
$734,900
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft
Louisville, KY
$39,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support Sin Fronteras (Without Borders): Building Community Connections Through Craft Art. An exhibition and community art education project targeted to Louisville's Latino population, the project will include art-making workshops, lectures, artist residencies, and an art exhibition.

Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the 53rd Shakespeare in Central Park festival. The festival will include productions of Much Ado About Nothing, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Picasso at the Lapin Agile, as well as the Camp Shakespeare summer youth program for children ages 4-18.

Pioneer School of Drama (aka Pioneer Playhouse)
Danville, KY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Northpoint Performance and Workshop Project, led by Executive Artistic Director Holly Henson in collaboration with playwright Elizabeth Orndorff and instructor Curt Tofteland. Located at Northpoint Education Center, a medium-security prison, the project will employ theater professionals (trained in working with the incarcerated) to stage a production of Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile and present talk-back discussions and workshops to enhance communication and life skills.

Number of Grants: 7          Total Amount: $918,900

 
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