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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.

TENNESSEE

Arts Center of Cannon County (Consortium)
Woodbury, TN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support production of concise web-based programs that explore the cultural context of Southern traditional music. In collaboration with the Center for Popular Music at Middle Tennessee State University, the Arts Center of Cannon County will use primary sources from its archives and the Center for Popular Music to create programs that explore song histories, traditional musicians, tune variants, and other subjects related to traditional music from the Southern states.

Country Music Foundation, Inc. (aka Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum)
Nashville, TN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Words & Music, a program to teach students in grades 3-12 to write original songs with a professional songwriter. Language arts and music teachers will be trained to guide their students through the process of lyric writing. A final workshop will take place with a professional songwriter who demonstrates adding melodies to the students' own songs.

Humanities Tennessee
Nashville, TN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the 2012 Southern Festival of the Book. The free festival takes place over a weekend in October and features approximately 120 sessions with 250 authors; 8 to 10 sessions run concurrently throughout each day.

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Inc.
Memphis, TN
$44,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the museum's Art Therapy Access program. Targeted to at-risk youth, adults, and families and undertaken in partnership with Memphis-based social service organizations and licensed art therapists, the program will combine art making and the unique environment of the museum to facilitate interactive group experiences.

Nashville Academy Theatre and Nashville Children's Theatre Association (aka Nashville Children's Theatre)
Nashville, TN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Don't Tell Me I Can't Fly by Y York, directed by Artistic Director Scot Copeland. Inspired by the childhood and artwork of collage artist Della Wells, the play portrays a nine-year-old girl growing up in a working class African American home in Milwaukee in 1964, whose desire to be an artist is at odds with her parents' fears and pragmatism.

Nashville Opera Association (Consortium)
Nashville, TN
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the new production and southern premiere of David Lang's The Difficulty of Crossing a Field. In partnership with the Alias Chamber Ensemble, the production will showcase the company's commitment to new and contemporary works through a series of lectures, post-performance discussions, school presentations, and programs.

Nashville Shakespeare Festival
Nashville, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the 25th annual free outdoor Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Artistic Director Denice Hicks. The production will provide numerous opportunities to developing artists including student internships, 50 hours of intensive theater training, and will cast a diverse group of 12-14 high school and college students from across the Middle Tennessee region in supporting roles.

Nashville Symphony Association
Nashville, TN
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a recording project featuring works by composer Stephen Paulus. Conducted by music director Giancarlo Guerrero, the orchestra's live performances of Paulus' Grand Concerto for Organ with organist Nathan Laube and Concerto for String Quartet (Three Places of Enlightenment) will be recorded in the Schermerhorn Symphony Center and the compact disc will be released on the Naxos label.

Salama Urban Ministries, Inc. (aka The Salama Institute)
Nashville, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a presentation of The Wiz, with book by William F. Brown and lyrics by Charlie Smalls.The project will offer opportunities for at-risk youth to develop team work, discipline, and critical thinking through participation in classroom and performance activities.

Tennessee Arts Commission
Nashville, TN
$768,600
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

University of Memphis (on behalf of Art Museum of the University of Memphis)
Memphis, TN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the publication Paul Revere Williams, American Architect by the Art Museum of the University of Memphis. This scholarly publication will profile the life and work of Paul Revere Williams (1894-1980), the first African American member of the American Institute of Architects and the first elected fellow.

Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Research
To support an analysis of the relationship between creative practice and subjective well-being in individuals studied by three national surveys. Using data from the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP), the DDB Needham Life Style Survey, and a Teagle Foundation-funded study of students with double-majors, researchers will explore potential correlations between art-making and quality of life.


Number of Grants: 12          Total Amount: $1,037,600

 
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