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.

UTAH

Bad Dog Rediscovers America (aka Bad Dog Arts)
Salt Lake City, UT
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Bad Dog Teen Art Apprenticeship Program. Small groups of at-risk underserved teens will partner with a professional artist to design and complete a multi-week art project that culminates in a public art exhibit.

Center for Documentary Arts
Salt Lake City, UT
$22,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Exhibits That Teach, an artist-in-residency program. Students will engage in long-term projects that involve the study of the documentary arts genre; explore the cultural contexts based on the exhibits Sacred Images: A Vision of Native American Rock Art, and Reawakened Beauty: Tillman Crane's Jordan River Photographs; and create original artworks.

Ririe-Woodbury Dance Foundation (aka Ririe-Woodbury Dance Co.)
Salt Lake City, UT
$45,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support dance residency activities and performances in Georgia, Louisiana, and Utah. The project will include lecture-demonstrations, creative movement classes, teacher workshops, open rehearsals, master classes, parent/child workshops, artist talks, and performances.

Salt Lake City Film Center & Artists Collaborative (aka SLC Film Center)
Salt Lake City, UT
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support post-production costs for a documentary film by Fred Wiseman. Berkeley Film (working title) focuses on the students, professors, administrators, regents, and the public at the University of California, Berkeley.

Spy Hop Productions, Inc. (Consortium)
Salt Lake City, UT
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Sending Messages, a radio documentary podcast project for youth enrolled in juvenile detention programs throughout Salt Lake Valley. In partnership with the Utah State Office of Education, the project will provide a creative platform and mentorship program for youth to share their stories, express themselves artistically, and think creatively while earning high school arts credit.

Sundance Institute
Park City, UT
$125,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Feature Film Program. The program offers emerging screenwriters, directors, producers, and composers the opportunity, support, and resources needed to successfully create new work. More than 1,000 artists apply to the program, which offers two screenwriter labs, one filmmaker lab, a screenplay reading series, an independent producers conference, a composers lab, film festival networking opportunities, and a Native American initiative.

Utah Arts Council
Salt Lake City, UT
$718,500
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Utah Humanities Council
Salt Lake City, UT
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Authors on Main Street, a year-long series of readings and discussions, and the annual Utah Humanities Book Festival. The festival will take place in different communities around Utah, with each community offering its own workshops, readings, and discussion opportunities.

Number of Grants: 8          Total Amount: $1,060,500

 
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