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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.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

American Association of Museums (aka AAM)
Washington, DC
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the next phase of the Reinvention of Accreditation project. The project will include the development of online communities, a strategy for accreditation as public policy, and a new peer review system.

Americans for the Arts, Inc.
Washington, DC
$100,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the District Project, a comprehensive national initiative to provide reports, training, and other tools to assist local arts agencies and other entities charged with creating, maintaining, and evaluating cultural districts. The project will provide free online technical resources including how-to guides, downloadable templates, sample documents, and case studies that reflect a variety of district models.

ARCH Development Corporation
Washington, DC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Legacy: Jazz Artists Renowned and Unsung, an exhibition series featuring photography of internationally known jazz legends and local Washington, DC, jazz artists by photographers John Lawson and Antoine Sanfuentes. Project activity will also include accompanying jazz concerts featuring local jazz artists Nasar Abadey, Roger "Buck" Hill, Freddie Redd, and Edward "Butch" Warren.

Chorus America Association
Washington, DC
$100,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support services and technical assistance to the choral field. Activities will include an annual conference; web-based services; publications; conducting master classes at Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and at the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and Chorale; and leadership development forums for conductors, board members, and managers.

CityDance Ensemble, Inc.
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Conservatory Professional Guest Artist Project. Pre-professional dance students, ages 13 to 19, will study diverse dance styles and artistic viewpoints with internationally known guest choreographers and dance companies, such as Maleek Washington, Vishal Kanoi, and the Moscow Ballet.

Cultural Tourism DC, Inc.
Washington, DC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Passport DC, a program that promotes access to artistic programming at Washington, DC, embassies for residents and visitors. From Australia to Zambia, the cultural tourism promotion highlights authentic art exhibits, dance and musical performances, lectures, and films presented at more than 75 embassies.

Dance/USA (on behalf of Dance/USA Philadelphia)
Washington, DC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Dance/USA Philadelphia's presentation of the 2013 Philadelphia Dance Showcase. The showcase at the Christ Church Neighborhood House will be an opportunity for Philadelphia artists, national and international presenters, and producers to meet, network, and find new ways of collaborating.

Dance/USA (on behalf of Dance/NYC)
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Dance/NYC's series of professional development programs and town hall meetings for dancers, choreographers, and companies, as well as the expansion of programs on the website DanceNYC.org. The programs will cover topics such as cultivating administrative and management skills for dancers and administrators, technology, financial management, fundraising, marketing, programming, education, and legal issues.

Dance/USA
Washington, DC
$80,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support professional development services for the professional nonprofit dance field. Activities will include the annual conference in Philadelphia, a mentoring program for emerging leaders, ongoing and new research initiatives, and a dance forum.

District of Columbia Jewish Community Center (on behalf of Theater J)
Washington, DC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support Voices from a Changing Middle East: Dialogues in the Desert, a festival exploring culture and conflict in the Middle East that will include the English language premiere of Boged: An Enemy of the People by Israeli playwrights Boaz Gaon and Nir Erez. The project will explore the Negev Desert, known for its industrial resources and growing population of Jewish and Arab Bedouin communities, and include a modern adaptation of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People that speaks to contemporary Israeli social, political, and environmental issues.

Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital (aka DC Environmental Film Festival)
Washington, DC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 2013 Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital. The festival will present approximately 175 environment-themed narrative, documentary, and short films to an estimated audience of 30,000 people.

Festivals DC, Ltd. (aka DC Jazz Festival)
Washington, DC
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 2013 DC Jazz Festival. More than 120 DC-based jazz artists and other national and international musicians such as NEA Jazz Masters Paquito D'Rivera, Hubert Laws, and Randy Weston will be presented during the 10-day festival at DC-area venues including libraries, theaters, and museums.

Levine School of Music
Washington, DC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Early Childhood and Elementary Music program. Music educators will provide free, weekly music classes to young children and their daycare providers in four underserved neighborhoods in Washington, DC.

National New Play Network, Ltd. (aka NNPN)
Washington, DC
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support a residency program. Targeted to early-career playwrights and producers at mid-size theaters across the country, the residency program will allow the participants an opportunity to develop new work.

National Symphony Orchestra Association of Washington, DC (aka NSO)
Washington, DC
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the NSO In Your Neighborhood: Howard University/Shaw/U Street project. The orchestra will participate in a week-long residency, which will include two full-orchestra concerts, one led by Music Director Christoph Eschenbach and the other by NSO Pops principal conductor Steven Reineke; small ensemble concerts; and education and outreach activities in community venues of the Shaw neighborhood of DC.

Opera Lafayette
Washington, DC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support performances in New York City and Washington, DC, of Felicien David's 1862 opera Lalla Roukh. Featuring Indian dance company Kuchipudi Kalanidhi and the Opera Lafayette Orchestra and Chorus, the performance and accompanying programs will explore the representation of exoticism to attract new audiences to opera including DC public school students and their families, as well as visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Patricia M. Sitar Center for the Arts (aka Sitar Arts Center)
Washington, DC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Youth Documentary Filmmaking Program. Underserved middle and high school students will create a documentary film profiling a local community hero.

Phillips Collection
Washington, DC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life: 1928-1945. Organized in collaboration with the Kemper Art Museum, the exhibition will provide new insight into the artistic process and critical reception of the great French modernist Georges Braque (1882-1963) through a study of his still life paintings during an important though long overlooked period of his career.

Post-Classical Ensemble, Inc.
Washington, DC
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Dvořák and America, a week-long festival of performances and related activities. Performances conducted by Music Director Angel Gil-Ordoñez will include the world premiere of a "Hiawatha Melodrama" by author Michael Beckerman and artistic director Joseph Horowitz that will be recorded by Naxos; as well as scripted, interdisciplinary presentations of readings and connecting commentary developed by Horowitz, bringing to life the composer's work and his time and place.

Shakespeare Theatre (aka Shakespeare Theatre Company)
Washington, DC
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support a production of Friedrich Schiller's Wallenstein, directed by Michael Kahn. The work will use a script adapted and translated by former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky to introduce Washington audiences to one of the masterpieces of world literature, which is largely unknown to American audiences.

Studio Theatre, Inc.
Washington, DC
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the development of a new musical about Washington, DC, by Stew and Heidi Rodewald. With a focus on race and culture in the District, the artists will feature musical styles that reflect the city's diverse and unique cultures and will interview members of the community, visit landmarks, and conduct research into lesser-known histories of the city.

Theatre Lab
Washington, DC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Life Stories Outreach Program for Youth, offering dramatic arts, storytelling, and music education for male juvenile offenders in Maryland, culminating in a performance that will showcase the participants' accomplishments to a community of incarcerated youth and staff at the New Beginnings correctional facility located in Laurel, Maryland. Participants will explore the African and Caribbean percussive origins of Go-Go music with musician Matt "Swamp Guinea" Miller, who will teach juvenile offenders to use drumming to enhance their storytelling.

Washington Chorus, Inc.
Washington, DC
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the New Music for a New Age performance project, featuring the works of composer Tarik O'Regan. The fifth annual event directed by Music Director Julian Wachner will focus on the choral works of O'Regan and will occur at the Atlas Performing Arts Center in the District of Columbia's newly revitalized H Street Corridor.

Washington Drama Society, Inc. (aka Arena Stage)
Washington, DC
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support a production of The Mountaintop by Katori Hall, directed by Robert O'Hara. This play re-imagines the last night of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Outreach activities include post-performance discussions, expert panels, cafe talks, and online conversations.

Washington National Opera
Washington, DC
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's Show Boat. The creative team will comprise director Francesca Zambello, conductor John DeMain, set designer Peter J. Davison, costume designer Paul Tazewell, choreographer Michele Lynch, lighting designer Mark McCullough, and will feature Rod Gilfry, Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Andriana Chuchman, and Jennifer Holloway.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Washington, DC
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support a production of Danai Gurira's The Convert, a new play with related audience engagement opportunities. The play explores the cultural collision between British colonialism and tribal Africa by telling the story of a young girl who is saved from a forced polygamous marriage by an African Catholic catechist, becoming his protege, and embracing colonial Britain and Christianity.


Number of Grants: 26          Total Amount: $930,000

 
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