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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.

LOUISIANA

Acadiana Arts Council, Inc.
Lafayette, LA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of a television series intended for national broadcast. Named for the 12-year-old radio program, Louisiana Crossroads, the television series will feature the indigenous music and cultural influences of southwest Louisiana. The six, one-hour programs include concert footage, interviews, and images that convey the nature of the people and place.

Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge, Inc.
Baton Rouge, LA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the River City Jazz Masters concert series and the Listening Room, an accompanying pay-what-you-can jazz series. Proposed artists David Holland, Brad Mehldau, Jane Monheit, and Chucho Valdes, among others, will conduct master classes and participate in artist residencies for local K-12 and college students, as well as perform in two concerts scheduled to be held at the Manship Theatre.

Contemporary Arts Center (aka CAC) (Consortium)
New Orleans, LA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the presentation of the EMERGE series. A partnership with the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation, the project will present works and related educational activities by music, theater, and visual artists who have migrated to New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina, including musicians Khris Royal and Leon "Kid Chocolate" Brown, visual artists Alyssa Dennis and Grace Mikell, and theater companies Goat in the Road Productions and Artist International Connection.

Division of the Arts, Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation, & Tourism (Consortium)
Baton Rouge, LA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support a professional development retreat and residency program in Imagination, Creativity, and Innovation pilot schools. In partnership with KID smART, each school will receive arts integration strategic planning support, full faculty professional development focused on music and language arts, a two-week residency conducted by a professional artist, and two intensive professional development institutes for each school's leadership team.

Division of the Arts, Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation, & Tourism
Baton Rouge, LA
$738,200
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Friends of NORD, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a tuition-free youth and senior citizen dance education program. The program is organized by the NORDC/NOBA Center for Dance, a cultural community partnership of the New Orleans Recreation Development Commission and the New Orleans Ballet Association.

Houma Regional Arts Council
Houma, LA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support Stories from the Good Earth, an experimental documentary film project by emerging south Louisiana artists. Under the direction of Andrea Dupree, and in consultation with technical and creative advisor Walter Williams, the project will use documentary filmmaking, animation, music, puppetry, visual art, storytelling, and community collaboration to explore the past, present, and potential future of south Louisiana.

Junebug Productions, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Free Southern Theatre Institute, an educational program designed to instruct and support artists, organizers, educators, and managers in techniques for developing community-based theater. The program will offer a formal training curriculum and serve as a community-centered laboratory for the creation of new work.

MotherShip Foundation (aka Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo Festival)
New Orleans, LA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo Festival. The music and arts festival includes live performances on three stages, featuring nearly 300 musicians of the blues, jazz, zydeco, Cajun, and rock genres, such as Cyril Neville & Tribe 13 and Beausoliel avec Michael Doucet (NEA National Heritage Fellow); as well as a kids' stage for children's entertainment and activities.

New Orleans Video Access Center, Inc. (aka NOVAC)
New Orleans, LA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Community Filmmakers Education Program. To be held in conjunction with the 2013 Jazz and Heritage Festival, the Community Filmmakers Education Program will be a conference with panels and seminars ranging from concept development to alternative distribution methods.

Shreveport Opera
Shreveport, LA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the production and tour of Shreveport Opera Xpress (SOX) which will offer performances at schools and community centers. The company will travel 330 miles south to reach underserved schools in New Orleans' Jefferson Parish that are still recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.

Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the 27th annual Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival and the 11th annual Saints and Sinners Literary Festival. Both festivals feature readings, panel discussions, master classes, playwriting and fiction writing contests, a book fair, and adjunct components such as touring visiting writers to area high schools.

Tulane University (aka Adminstrators of the Tulane Educational Fund)
New Orleans, LA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and national distribution of American Routes, a weekly radio series devoted to the roots of popular music and popular roots music. Folklorist Nick Spitzer hosts the two-hour, weekend program, in which he combines recordings with in-studio performances, field recordings, and interviews. Public Radio International distributes the series to 268 public radio stations, reaching 375 cities and towns.

Young Audiences of New Orleans, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support a series of online seminar and critique sessions for a professional development program for teachers and teaching artists across Louisiana, Mississippi, and in Knoxville, Tennessee. The project will provide extensive training and ongoing support in the use of improvisational theater games to engage students in learning subject matter from Common Core Standards in English, theater arts, and other subjects, as well as key developmental and 21st-century workplace skills.


Number of Grants: 14          Total Amount: $1,018,200

 
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