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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.

MARYLAND

Baltimore Museum of Art, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$65,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support reinstallation of the museum's American art collection. The collection, which is the largest in Maryland and one of the finest on the East Coast, will be reinstalled in the newly outfitted galleries originally designed in 1929 by American architect John Russell Pope.

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (Consortium)
Baltimore, MD
$65,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the OrchKids program. In partnership with the Baltimore City Public School system, OrchKids provides free training to students in instrumental and choral music throughout the school year.

Cambodian-American Heritage, Inc.
Fort Washington, MD
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Cambodian American Heritage Arts Program. Students will be instructed in traditional Cambodian classical and folk dances and music under the supervision of master Cambodian heritage arts teachers, including NEA National Heritage Fellows Madame Sam-Oeun Tes and Master Chum Ngek.

CityLit Project
Baltimore, MD
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the 2013 CityLit Festival in downtown Baltimore, a free day-long series of events held at the Enoch Pratt Free Library. The organization will partner with Urbanite magazine and WYPR, Baltimore's local NPR affiliate, to promote the festival, and tour some of the invited authors to schools prior to the event.

Dance Exchange, Inc.
Takoma Park, MD
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the second phase of How to Lose a Mountain, a multimedia work choreographed by Artistic Director Cassie Meador. The project will involve full production of the work and will include stories documented on a 500-mile walk from Meador's home in Washington, DC, to the mountains of West Virginia.

Korean American Cultural Arts Foundation
Waldorf, MD
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the seventh annual Korean American Cultural Arts Festival and seventh annual Korean American Lunar Festival. The project will support a series of performances celebrating traditional Korean culture, including music, dance, and drumming, as well as workshops and demonstrations of traditional ceremonies, crafts, and foodways.

Lyric Foundation, Inc. (aka Lyric Opera Baltimore)
Baltimore, MD
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support performances of Puccini's La Bohème. Led by director Bernard Uzan and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, performances will feature young artists and will be part of a five-year plan to re-institutionalize the art form across the region following the recent loss of Baltimore's resident opera company.

Magical Experiences Arts Company, Ltd.
Baltimore, MD
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the presentation of interactive performances to children and adolescents with severe disabilities. Ongoing evaluation methods will follow the progress of participants in developing self-expression and communication skills.

Maryland State Arts Council
Baltimore, MD
$731,200
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$1,537,900
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

National Dance Education Organization (Consortium)
Silver Spring, MD
$70,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Phase I of the DELTA project (Dance Entry Level Teacher's Exam), an online certification exam in dance to determine base-line competencies of entry level dance teachers applying for state K-12 licensure. In partnership with State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education, competencies tested will include dance content, education theory and practice, and performance.

National Dance Education Organization
Silver Spring, MD
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the development of six online courses for the National Dance Education Organization Online Professional Development Institute. The courses will be targeted to dance educators and teaching artists working in higher education, K-12, private studios, performing arts organizations, and community centers.

National Dance Education Organization (aka NDEO)
Silver Spring, MD
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Research
To support a project to identify, analyze, and summarize data that demonstrate the value and impact of dance education across multiple domains. The researchers will mine the Dance Education Literature and Research descriptive index (DELRdi), a database including 5,000 citations of dance education research from 1926 to the present day.

University of Maryland at College Park (on behalf of Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center)
College Park, MD
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support collaborative commissioning projects at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. The project will consist of residencies and performances in dance, theater, and music, including such artists as dance/theater ensemble Lucky Plush Productions, performer Laurie Anderson, Kronos Quartet, choreographer Bill T. Jones, and theater artist Anne Bogart.

University of Maryland at College Park
College Park, MD
$23,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Research
To support analysis of the cognitive, behavioral, and social outcomes of adolescents who study the arts in comparison with teenagers who do not. Analysis will be conducted with data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, a multi-year study of American adolescents that tracked participants through adolescence to early adulthood.

Ward Foundation, Inc. (aka Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art)
Salisbury, MD
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Carving Out Future Decoy Makers. Master decoy makers from across the country will train aspiring carvers to make a functional hunting decoy, with the resulting works judged at the 2012 Chesapeake Wildfowl Expo.


Number of Grants: 16          Total Amount: $2,712,100

 
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