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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.

FLORIDA

African Caribbean Dance Theatre, Inc.
Tallahassee, FL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Florida African Dance Festival. The event will include dance and drum workshops taught by African immigrant artists representing Senegal, Guinea, Mali, and Cote d'Ivoire as well as a performance.

Artist Series of Tallahassee, Inc.
Tallahassee, FL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support The Artist Series, featuring performances and associated outreach activities by the Jupiter String Quartet. The project will take the award-winning Jupiter String Quartet into several classrooms and venues throughout Tallahassee, Havana, Quincy, and Greensboro, FL, providing students and community members with interactive, hands-on experiences in contemporary classical music.

Atlantic Center for the Arts, Inc.
New Smyrna Beach, FL
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artist Communities
To support artist residencies for emerging and mid-career artists as well as a summer writing workshop for teenagers. Master artists will collaborate with resident artists in visual arts, literature, music, and the performing arts. Approximately 24 artists and 2,500 attendees are expected to benefit from the activities.

Center for Contemporary Dance
Winter Park, FL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support performances of Moore Dance Project's Sacred Slave Stories, featuring narration by film actor Harry Burney and radio personality Monica May, as well as vocal performances by gospel choir Lane & Company. Featuring modern dance vignettes inspired by African American slave narratives originating from Florida, project activities will take place at the Osceola Performing Arts Center in Kissimmee, FL, and will serve underserved middle-school students from Osceola County Title I Public Schools.

DeEtte Holden Cummer Museum Foundation, Inc. (aka The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens)
Jacksonville, FL
$37,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support an exhibition examining late Medieval devotional art work in relation to the museum's Mother of Sorrows (c. 1470) by the Master of the Stotteritz Altar. The artistic and devotional contexts of the painting will be explored through 21 artworks by noted 15th-century masters of Nuremberg such as Hans and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, Michael Wolgemut (the teacher of Albrecht Dürer), and the German painter/printmaker Martin Schongauer.

Enzian Theatre, Inc.
Maitland, FL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 22nd Florida Film Festival. More than 160 American independent, foreign, and short films and documentaries will be presented.

Florida Dance Association, Inc. (aka Florida Dance Festival)
Miami, FL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Florida Dance Festival, Fall into Dance, and the State Dance Festival. The Florida Dance Festival in Tampa is hosted by the University of South Florida, Fall into Dance takes place in Miami and Miami Beach, and the State Dance Festival is co-hosted by the University of Florida School of Theater and Dance and the Santa Fe College Division of Visual and Performing Arts in Gainesville.

GableStage, Inc.
Coral Gables, FL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support a production of Shakespeare's Hamlet, adapted and directed by playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney. Commissioned by the English Royal Shakespeare Company, McCraney's adaptation transports the play's themes of madness, revenge, family, and mortality into a modern, multi-cultural context to explore the heart of Shakespeare's tragic tale.

Hermitage Artist Retreat, Inc.
Englewood, FL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artist Communities
To support artist residencies. Participants will be drawn from accomplished playwrights, composers, and creative artists from other disciplines and awarded up to six weeks of residency time to be used in a two-year period. Approximately 45 artists will participate in residencies which include community engagement programs reaching an estimated audience of 5,000.

Hippodrome State Theatre, Inc. (aka Hippodrome Theatre)
Gainesville, FL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the development and production of Leveling Up by Deborah Zoe Laufer. The blurring of reality and virtual reality is explored when a young gamer is recruited to use gaming as a weapon for modern warfare.

Historical Association of Southern Florida, Inc. (aka HistoryMiami)
Miami, FL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Heritage Spotlight Series, public events and school programs featuring Caribbean and South American folk artists of area ethnic communities. Artists nominated for the 2013 series include flamenco performers Paco and Celia Fonta, Haitian drummer Joseph Senatus, Peruvian music and dance ensemble Perú Expresión, junkanoo artists Bahamas Junkanoo Revue, and others. In addition, project activities will be documented through interviews, photographs, and videos, and then posted online as an educational resource.

Inspirit, Inc.
Lake Worth, FL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Juvenile Detention Center Interactive Arts Program, featuring vocalist and violinist Nicole Yarling. Yarling will perform at the Palm Beach Regional Juvenile Detention Center for youth who will also be given the opportunity to perform.

Miami City Ballet, Inc.
Miami Beach, FL
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a world premiere of a new work by British choreographer Liam Scarlett. This will be Scarlett's second ballet created for the company.

Miami Music Project, Inc.
Miami, FL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the presentation of the Amernet String Quartet. The quartet will perform with the Miami Music Project Honors Orchestra and students enrolled in the Miami Music Project Orchestral Academy chapters in Doral, FL, and the Little Haiti neighborhood in Miami.

Miami-Dade County, Florida (aka Parks & Rec )
Miami, FL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support an artist residency for visual and performance artists to create a series of workshops, a symposium, and a community-wide ecoart exhibit. Project participants will plan and create interrelated exhibitions, performances, film screenings, and artist talks to educate audiences about the function and purpose of ecoart and to facilitate dialogue about sustainability and how to incorporate art and science collaborations in environmental stewardship activities.

New World Symphony, Inc.
Miami Beach, FL
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Musician Professional Development Program. Under the artistic direction of Michael Tilson Thomas, the program will utilize performances, coaching, and community outreach activities to prepare young artists for musical leadership positions in the orchestral field.

Sarasota Opera Association, Inc.
Sarasota, FL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support performances of Carlisle Floyd's Of Mice and Men as part of the third year of the American Classics Series, accompanied by significant educational programming. Outreach activities will juxtapose this literary American classic next to Floyd's operatic version in a program titled Spoken and Sung, in which singers will perform arias from the opera and actors will perform correlated scenes from Steinbeck's play.

Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Tallahassee, FL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the presentation of the musical trio Time for Three. Time for Three will perform for economically disadvantaged students attending elementary, middle, and high schools located in Jefferson and Leon Counties, and will also lead master classes for Florida State University students.

Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center (aka Straz Center)
Tampa, FL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Community Reflections multidisciplinary series at the Straz Center. The project include a series of performances, discussions, workshops and community outreach activities featuring solo theater artist Paige Hernandez, a capella group New Directions Veterans Choir, Momix Dance Ensemble, violinist Hillary Hahn, and Indian Classical music performers Shivkumar Sharma and Zakir Hussain.

Thomas Armour Youth Ballet Inc.
South Miami, FL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Dance as a Vehicle for Success project. The program will provide free, weekly classes to students focused on developing ballet, tap, and Horton Modern technique and repertory.

Thomas Armour Youth Ballet, Inc.
South Miami, FL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Dance as a Vehicle for Success project. The program will provide free, weekly classes to students focused on developing ballet, tap, and Horton Modern technique and repertory.

Tigertail Productions, Inc.
Miami, FL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support dance, music, and spoken-word performances, accompanied by related public events. Tigertail will present Japanese percussionist and instrument maker Tatsuya Nakatani, choreographer Emily Johnson, and Montreal-based Marie Chouinard Dance Company, as well as WordSpeak, a series of spoken-word residences for teenagers led by Teo Castellanos.

VSA arts of Florida
Tampa, FL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a performance by vocalist and composer Scott MacIntyre at the University of South Florida. MacIntyre, who has a vision disability, will be the headliner for the annual AccessiBull, an event designed to raise awareness about disabilities.


Number of Grants: 23          Total Amount: $472,000

 
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