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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.

OHIO

Apollo's Fire, The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra
Cleveland Height, OH
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support national tour performances, educational activities, and a radio broadcast of Come to the River: An Early American Gathering. The program, featuring singer-actors, a baroque/folk fiddler, a period guitarist/banjo player, a virtuoso hammered dulcimer player, an Irish/baroque flutist, percussive dancers, and a narrator/harpsichordist, will explore the music and traditions of early America including shape-note singing, New England barn dances, and southern revival hymns.

Cincinnati Association for the Performing Arts
Cincinnati, OH
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support an exhibition by Cincinnati-based multimedia artist Anthony Luensman (b. 1966) at the Weston Art Gallery in the Aronoff Center for the Arts. Luensman will create new work for the exhibition using sculpture, photography, video, and sound pieces based on themes of childhood, loss, and the evanescence of life. The exhibition -- along with a gallery talk, educational workshop and performance -- will be featured as part of FotoFocus, the first biennial month-long celebration of photography, film, and video organized by the Cincinnati Art Museum.

Cincinnati Opera Association
Cincinnati, OH
$30,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of a documentary film by Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar, chronicling the creation of an American work of opera. The Opera Fusion: New Works program offers an environment where a composer/librettist team can focus on their new work using resources from Cincinnati Opera and students from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. The film is intended for national broadcasting and film screenings.

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Cincinnati, OH
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support free outdoor Concerts in the Park and related educational activities. Reaching venues in southwest Ohio, northern Kentucky, and southeast Indiana, the five community concerts will include educational activities for children and families, such as hands-on artmaking activities for children and pre-concert lectures with the conductor and musicians.

Cityfolk, Inc.
Dayton, OH
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 2012 Cityfolk Festival, an annual presentation of traditional music, dance, and visual arts. The project will feature leading traditional artists, including NEA National Heritage Fellow Mavis Staples, and a special exhibition, Folkways: Mexico, that will include performances, lecture-demonstrations, and workshops dedicated to the traditional arts of Mexico.

Cleveland Play House
Cleveland, OH
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Classroom Matinee Touring Program. Components include a commissioned version of a main stage play designed for in-school performances, preparatory classroom workshops, and teacher and student education materials.

Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra Association
Dayton, OH
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Classical Connections, a series of adult educational concerts. Accompanied by a Listener's Guide, the first half of each concert will offer audiences an in-depth look into the music through discussion about and demonstration of important passages of a particular work and will be followed in the second half by a full performance of the work.

Design Impact
Cincinnati, OH
$39,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the American cohort of Design Impact designers. Designers are selected and paired with not-for-profit organizations in India to design solutions that improve access to basic needs, such as a clean water, shelter, or safe environments.

GroundWorks Dancetheater
Cleveland, OH
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support guest artist residencies for New York choreographers Doug Elkins and Kate Weare. Portions of each residency will take place in Cleveland and Akron and include the creation and performance of a work as well as numerous outreach activities such as master classes, open rehearsals, artist talks, and educational programs at local schools.

Kent State University Main Campus
Kent, OH
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support an exhibition titled Shifting Paradigms of Identity: Creative Technology and Fashion, with related public programs at the Kent State University Museum. Project activities include an exhibition that examines the effects of pioneering applications of technology on fashion, accompanying lectures series, public workshops, and website.

Mayerson Foundation
Cincinnati, OH
$45,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Artistic Excellence Program, weekly, year-round music, dance, visual art classes for high school students in the School for Creative & Performing Arts in Cincinnati. The program will include private lessons, ensemble coaching, master classes with visiting artists, and artists in residence from the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Ballet, and the Contemporary Arts Center.

Ohio Arts Council
Columbus, OH
$980,000
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Professional Flair, Inc. (aka The Dancing Wheels Company & School)
Cleveland, OH
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the commissioning of new works by choreographers David Rousseve and Michael Uthoff. The works will premiere in Cleveland in a program titled Diversity in Dance: The Dancing Wheels Company's 32nd Season, and then will be excerpted for educational and touring purposes.

Thurber House, Inc.
Columbus, OH
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a summer writing camp for children in grades two through eight and writing workshops for older children and adults. Participants can focus on one topic or genre over a six-week period, or take different workshops each week on such issues as character development and writing for television.

University of Akron Main Campus
Akron, OH
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the development of the Synesthetic Augmented Reality Application (SARA).The application will allow users to translate visual images taken with their mobile devices into sonic compositions. Once developed, the application will be available through iTunes and the Android store, and will be presented at new media festivals.

University of Dayton
Dayton, OH
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Research
To support a study of the relationship between arts engagement and quality of life, as reflected by economic well-being and civic engagement patterns. The study will examine data from several waves of the Current Population Survey (CPS) and its Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA) supplements in order to explore this relationship.

Westcott House Foundation (Consortium)
Springfield, OH
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the Westcott Design Studio targeted to high-school students. In collaboration with Springfield Preservation Alliance, the project will offer students an opportunity to interpret significant historical landmarks through digital media and produce new media artwork.


Number of Grants: 17          Total Amount: $1,359,000

 
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