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FY 2013 Grant Awards: State Listings

Art Works I | Challenge America Fast-Track Grants | Literature Fellowships (Poetry)

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

COLORADO

Adams State College
Alamosa, CO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the San Luis Valley Museum Mural Project. Led by artist Ian Wilkinson, the mural design will be created through an extensive community engagement process focused on two city youth groups and will be conducted in partnership with the San Luis Valley Museum, where the mural will be installed on an exterior wall.

Anderson Ranch Arts Foundation (aka Anderson Ranch Arts Center)
Snowmass Village, CO
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artist Communities
To support an artist residency program for emerging and established artists. Visual and media artists will receive studio space, equipment and materials, meals, housing, and travel. Established in 1985, the program enables up to 28 artists to be in residence and to interact with approximately 700 community members via exhibitions and lectures.

Aspen Santa Fe Ballet
Aspen, CO
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a national tour of dance performances. In addition to performances, activities will include master classes with local dance schools and universities, audience question-and-answer sessions, and open rehearsals.

Boulder Community Media
Boulder, CO
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Dutch Hop Film Documentation, a film and website presenting the traditional music and dance of the Volga German communities of western Nebraska, southeastern Wyoming, and northeastern Colorado. The film will trace the development of Dutch Hop music and dance, as well as present the tradition in different contexts, from public dances to private celebrations.

Bravo! Colorado at Vail-Beaver Creek (aka Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival)
Vail, CO
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the annual Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival. The summer festival will feature chamber music; orchestral concerts by the Dallas Symphony, New York Philharmonic, and the Philadelphia Orchestra; open rehearsals; public workshops; the Young Professionals-in-Residence Program; and educational outreach concerts.

Central City Opera House Association
Denver, CO
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Ned Rorem's Our Town to be a part of the Summer Opera Festival. Based on the classic play by Thornton Wilder, the recent work premiered in 2006 with libretto by poet J. D. McClatchy.

Colorado Film Society (aka Boulder International Film Festival)
Boulder, CO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 9th Boulder International Film Festival. The four-day event features approximately 50 films, including narrative, documentaries, and short works.

Creede Repertory Theatre, Inc.
Creede, CO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Young Audience Outreach Tour (YAOT). The 2013 YAOT will provide professional children's theatrical performances for kindergarten through sixth-grade children in rural and underserved communities throughout Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Utah.

Crestone Performances, Inc.
Crestone, CO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Crestone Music Festival's Cultural Enrichment Initiative. Performances for audiences in the rural San Luis Valley by local, regional, national, and international musicians playing music from a variety of cultures and genres will be presented, including Malian singer and guitarist Vieux Farka Touré; Celtic band Solas; reggae artist Judy Mowatt; Portuguese singer, composer, guitarist, and percussionist Sara Tavaras; and conga player/singer Pedrito Martinez, among others.

Curious Theatre Company
Denver, CO
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the regional premiere of Tarell McCraney's The Brothers Size. This playful drama swirls together the Louisiana bayou and West African mythology in a tale about two brothers who walk the line between law and liberty and the fierce tug-of-war for their own souls.

Denver Art Museum
Denver, CO
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a residency project featuring a contemporary Native American artist. Marie Watt, an Iroquois visual artist from Portland, Oregon, will work on-site in a studio setting that is both visible and accessible to museum visitors, create new work, lead workshops, and collaborate with community organizations.

Denver Center for the Performing Arts
Denver, CO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the premiere of Lauren Feldman's Grace or The Art of Climbing. Rock climbing is both metaphor and action in this tale of a young woman in her mid-20s suffering from depression after a break-up with her boyfriend and her father's stroke, who decides to take up climbing to achieve mastery over her life.

New Dance Theatre, Inc. (aka Cleo Parker Robinson Dance)
Denver, CO
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of TARA, by choreographer Kun-Yang Lin. The work draws its inspiration from Tara, the Buddhist goddess, and explores the transcendent power of dance as ritual.

Opera Colorado
Lakewood, CO
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the first fully-staged professional production of Lori Laitman's The Scarlet Letter, based on the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Director Beth Greenberg, set designer Erhard Rom, and projections designer Wendell Harrington will create a production featuring Elizabeth Futral as Hester Prynne, Morgan Smith as Robert Chillingworth, and James Valente as Arthur Dimmesdale.

Southeast Mental Health Services
La Junta, CO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the collaborative creation of a ceramic mural, involving residents in Lamar, Colorado, who will work with lead visual artist Catharine Magel. Located at the entrance to a new mental health center building, the mural will reflect the surrounding community by incorporating thematic references to Hispanic and Native American culture.

Su Teatro
Denver, CO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Neruda Poetry Festival and Barrio Slam featuring Nicolas Valdez, a storyteller who utilizes music, spoken word, and theater. The multidisciplinary event includes literary arts, music performances, theater, and workshops geared toward musicians, slam poets, spoken word artists, and youth.

York, Jake A.
Denver, CO
$
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature


Number of Grants: 17          Total Amount: $300,000

 
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