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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.

OREGON

Artists Repertory Theatre (aka Artists Rep)
Portland, OR
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of August Wilson's Seven Guitars. Artists Repertory Theatre will participate in Portland's first community-wide August Wilson Cultural Festival with one of the 10 plays in Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle, each representing a different decade in an African American neighborhood in Pittsburgh's Hill District.

Arts Central
Bend, OR
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the Art Station and VanGo, two rural community arts programs that provide arts enrichment classes to children and adults in Central Oregon. The classes are taught by professional teaching artists and artist specialists selected through a juried process.

Broadway Rose Theatre Company
Tigard, OR
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a production of The Drowsy Chaperone. The play is an homage to American musicals of the Jazz Age, examining the effect that musicals have on the fans who adore them.

Corvallis Arts Center (aka The Arts Center)
Corvallis, OR
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Art in Rural Storefronts, a series of contemporary art installations. Newly commissioned work from regional artists will be selected by a jury and installed in unused, commercial sites in five rural communities. Installations will be accompanied by a custom telephone messaging system providing pre-recorded messages from each artist describing the work and giving audiences an opportunity to provide immediate feedback.

Eugene Ballet
Eugene, OR
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support regional dance touring and outreach activities in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. The company will present a repertory program, including Artistic Director Toni Pimble's Concerto Grosso, choreographer Gillmer Duran's Without the Cover, and choreographer Gerald Arpino's Light Rain, as well as a touring production of a new ballet, Jungle Book: Mowgli's Adventure.

Media Working Group, Inc.
Portland, OR
$100,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support post-production and related outreach and distribution costs for a documentary by Helen DeMichiel. The Lunch Love Community Documentary Project is about the school lunch reform movement that began in Berkeley, California, and is now spreading across the United States.

Nature of Words
Bend, OR
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Nature of Words Literary Festival. The five-day festival showcases Oregon and Northwest authors, authors who address environmental issues in their writing, and authors whose writing fits with the theme of the events.

Oregon Arts Commission
Salem, OR
$730,700
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Oregon Symphony Association
Portland, OR
$17,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a performance and recording project,which will culminate in a program at Carnegie Hall in New York titled “Premonitions.” Directed by Music Director Carlos Kalmar, programming will include Narong Prangcharon, Kurt Weill, and Arnold Schoenberg.

Portland Art Museum
Portland, OR
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the Northwest Art Initiative. Designed to offer national and international exposure of Northwest artists, the project includes digitization and dissemination of works from its permanent collection comprised of objects from the 19th century to the present, including paintings, sculptures, ceramics, crafts, prints, drawings, video, and installation works.

Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (aka PICA)
Portland, OR
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Time Based Art Festival and related educational activities. The festival will feature local, national, and international artists working in dance, theater, music, visual arts, film, and multidisciplinary forms.

University of Oregon (on behalf of Oregon Folklife Network)
Eugene, OR
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Preserving and Sustaining Oregon's Cultural Traditions. The project will continue a folk arts apprenticeship program, allowing master folk artists to teach art forms to apprentices. Additionally, a folk arts survey will identify folk arts resources and produce folklife smartphone applications designed make to Oregon's regional folklife easily accessible to the public.

Western Alliance of Arts Administrators Foundation (aka Western Arts Alliance)
Portland, OR
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support professional development content for the Western Arts Alliance Conference. The program will help artists via scholarships, technical assistance, pitch sessions, and an online program utilizing social media.

Wisdom of the Elders, Inc.
Portland, OR
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Northwest Indian Storytellers Association's (NISA) Apprenticeship Project and Emerging Tribal Storytellers Workshop. The project will engage underserved tribal and urban Indian communities in the Pacific Northwest, identifying potential artists and supporting their participation in storytelling workshops held at the seventh annual Northwest Indian Storytelling Festival and the second annual NISA Retreat.

Wisdom of the Elders, Inc.
Portland, OR
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and national distribution of the Wisdom of the Elders radio program. The series features the voices of traditional Native American elders, storytellers, musicians, cultural leaders, educators, and scientists from tribal communities in Alaska, Hawaii, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. Wisdom of the Elders is broadcast on 52 Native American radio stations and community and college stations.

Wordstock
Portland, OR
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Wordstock Book and Literary Festival in October 2012. The week-long festival will include a two-day book fair featuring 100 authors on eight author stages, more than 150 exhibitors, a special children's literature stage, and a series of workshops for writers and K-12 teachers.


Number of Grants: 16          Total Amount: $1,168,200

 
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