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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.

WASHINGTON

826 Seattle
Seattle, WA
$36,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Creating a Community of Young Authors, a free writing program. Project activities include writing workshops, field trips, student performances, and publication of student work. Taught by professional staff and trained community volunteers, the project is targeted to youth ages 6-18 in underserved Seattle schools.

Artist Trust: A Resource for Washington
Seattle, WA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support career training and resources to artists throughout Washington State. Training will be offered statewide at the Creative Career Center through free workshops on artist resources, grant writing, and a 50-hour program for visual artists, writers, and film/media artists.

Arts Corps
Seattle, WA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support year-long arts education residencies in Madrona Elementary School in Seattle. Students in kindergarten to fifth grade will study drawing, sculpture, collage, and still-life painting while students in grades six to eight will study percussion, spoken word, and poetry.

Arts Northwest
Port Angeles, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the 32nd annual Northwest Booking Conference and professional development programs. In addition to the conference, this project will continue to support Shadow Pack/Shadow Pro, a mentoring program for young and aspiring presenters.

Associated Recreation Council (on behalf of Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center)
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Moms Mabley at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center. The project will bring artists and intergenerational community members together to create a play based on the life and work of Jackie "Moms" Mabley.

Book-It Repertory Theatre
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Book-It All Over, a touring educational program. Elements include touring productions of culturally diverse stories; workshops; in-school residencies; Bringing Theatre into the Classroom, a professional development program for teachers; and internships for young theater professionals.

Centrum Foundation
Port Townsend, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Centrum Music of the Americas Workshops. This series of four week-long, total-immersion workshops at Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend for pre-professional and semi-professional musicians will feature educational intensive programming culminating in public performance opportunities and concerts by faculty including Maria Muldaur and Molly and Tim O'Brien.

Cultural Development Authority of King County (aka 4Culture)
Seattle, WA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support 4Culture's Site Specific program, producing an annual series of innovative events in a variety of community settings and cities throughout King County, Washington. Now in its seventh year, the program provides support for the creation and presentation of original site-specific work in any discipline by selected artists and organizations, while providing suburban and rural King County communities access to high-quality contemporary arts experiences.

Freehold Theatre Lab Studio A WA Corp.
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater

To support the touring of a production of Shakespeare's King Lear to culturally underserved communities. Produced as part of the theater's Engaged Theater program, the production will be accompanied by workshops in drama, movement, creative writing, and spoken-word, as well as extended residencies that will lead participants through explorations of the themes of King Lear.

Jack Straw Foundation (aka Jack Straw Productions) (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$67,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Do Tell: Multicultural Family Stories, a multicultural audio arts program that serves Seattle and Tukwila Washington schools with highly diverse student populations. In partnership with Northwest Folklife, teams of artists will teach English Language Learners to write, perform, and record their own stories around family cultural traditions through workshops at the schools and in the Jack Straw Productions' recording studios.

Jack Straw Foundation (aka Jack Straw Productions)
Seattle, WA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support programs for artists and writers and the New Media Gallery. Artists will participate in residencies, workshops, and public presentations involving sound art.

Methow Arts Alliance
Twisp, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the performances series Connecting Audiences: Building Arts Participation in Rural Washington State Project. Among the proposed artists are Pat Graney, Pendulum Aerial Arts, Obo Addy and his ensemble Okropong, Portland Taiko, and 605 Colllective, a dance ensemble.

Nordic Heritage Museum Foundation
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the fourth annual Nordic Knitting Conference. Internationally-acclaimed knitting experts will lead the three-day conference provide in-depth instructions in a variety of traditional pan-Nordic knitting and spinning techniques.

Northwest Heritage Resources
Lake Forest Park, WA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the position of Executive Director of Northwest Heritage Resources. Salary support will allow the organization to provide statewide services, including updating its successful heritage audio tours; expanding its website; integrating folk arts into educational curricula; and presenting folk arts in state parks.

Northwest Heritage Resources
Lake Forest Park, WA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Building New Audiences for Traditional Arts in Washington's Underserved Communities. Now in its second year, the project will expand traditional arts presentations (concerts, workshops, and artist demonstrations) in state parks located in areas that are not currently reached by such programs.

Northwest Indian College
Bellingham, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Skills Enhancement for Northwest Native American Basketweavers. The project will sponsor a series of conferences and workshops for students and experienced basketweavers offering instruction about the art of Coast Salish basketweaving, preserving this important component of Native American cultural heritage.

On the Boards (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the commissioning and touring of a new work created by the recipient of the 2012 Spalding Gray Award. A partnership with the Andy Warhol Museum, the work will be created by an artist or arts group that exemplifies the writing and performance aspects of the late solo performer Spalding Gray. It will tour to Seattle (On the Boards), Minneapolis (Walker Art Center), Pittsburgh (Andy Warhol Museum), and New York (PS 122).

On the Boards
Seattle, WA
$90,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of evening -length performance films for online viewing. On the Boards plans to film, edit, produce, and present online 18 to 24 new films of contemporary performance works. The subscription-based On the Boards website have received more than 30,000 unique site visits and more than 8,000 people have created user accounts.

Pratt Fine Arts Center
Seattle, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Master Artist and Artist-in-Residence programs. The program for established and emerging international and Northwest-based artists will include workshops, lectures, and exhibitions offered to the public free-of-charge. Previous artists-in-residence include Kevin O'Dwyer (Ireland), Davide Salvadore (Italy), Deborah Horrell (Portland, OR), and Scott Fife (Seattle, WA).

Richard Hugo House (aka Hugo House)
Seattle, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support readings, open mic nights, performances, and commissioned new work in an effort to introduce new writing by established and emerging writers to a broad audience. Activities include a regular gathering for writers in which local authors provide creative writing prompts and performances of newly commissioned one-person plays.

Seattle Arts and Lectures, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Writers in the Schools, a residency and professional development program for students and their teachers. Working with professional writers-in-residence throughout the year, students will focus on creative writing and performance; read their poems, plays, and stories in school and for their community; and produce anthologies that will showcase each school's student work. In addition, teachers will participate in hands-on professional development workshops.

Seattle Repertory Theatre (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Bringing Theatre Into the Classroom, a professional development program for teachers. Designed and implemented partnership with the Seattle Children's Theatre and Book-It Repertory Theatre, the project will provide summer professional development and follow-up classroom residencies in which professional artists and teachers integrate theater education and concepts of literacy into their classroom curriculum.

Shunpike Arts Collective
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Partner Artists program. This project provides fiscal sponsorship and back-office services to art groups across Washington State.

University of Washington
Seattle, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the staging, presentation, and documentation of a suite of modern dance solos from 1928-44 choreographed by Jean Erdman, Helen Tamiris, and Ethel Winter. The dances will be performed by the University of Washington's Chamber Dance Company, comprised of MFA students, and will be recorded and housed in the Chamber Dance Company Archive in the university's library.

University of Washington (on behalf of UW World Series)
Seattle, WA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the presentation of Giving Voice: Initiating Social Change through the Live Performing Arts at Meany Hall for the Performing Arts. Artists including singer/songwriter Vusi Mahlasela (South Africa), Mexican-American ensemble La Catrina String Quartet, physically-integrated troupe AXIS Dance Company, and musician Kathy Mattea will perform and participate in community events, residencies, master classes, and workshops.

Washington State Arts Commission (Consortium)
Olympia, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Teaching Artist Training Lab, an eight-month professional development program in partnership with Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs for a cohort of teaching artists working in a variety of artistic disciplines. Master teaching artists will lead experiential workshops and follow-up sessions to support innovative practices in planning, implementing, and assessing standards-aligned arts lessons that will to improve and expand quality arts learning experiences for K-12 students in Washington State.

Washington State Arts Commission
Olympia, WA
$804,400
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission (Consortium)
OLympia, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the salary of the Folk Arts Program Manager of the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission's Folk and Traditional Arts in the Parks Program. In collaboration with the State Arts Commission, the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission will produce festivals, concerts, an ethnic puppet theater performance, and supplementary programming, presenting high-quality folk, ethnic, and indigenous artists.

Wing Luke Memorial Foundation (aka Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific America)
Seattle, WA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support development of a digital media tour of the museum's galleries. Visitors will be able to instantly obtain information about permanent art installations by scanning the barcode with a compatible camera-enabled phone, web-enabled device, or with an iPod touch loaned free-of-charge by the museum.


Number of Grants: 29          Total Amount: $1,642,400

 
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