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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.
LOUISIANA
Arts Council of New Orleans
New Orleans, LA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the Artist as Entrepreneur e-course, a visual arts marketing, self-promotion, and career-planning course for Louisiana artists. Proposed training sessions include writing marketing materials, working with the web, small business basics, media training, working with galleries, goal-setting, and designing a career path. Louisiana Folk Roots, Inc.
Lafayette, LA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Dewey Balfa Cajun and Creole Heritage Week. The project will teach and present cultural heritage including music, dance, foodways, crafts, and narrative through hands-on workshops, artist demonstrations, dances, and performances. Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
New Orleans, LA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Envisioning Louisiana: Viewing the Natural Environment through Music, a performance and education project. Plans include a free concert of music that will explore how composers have envisioned Louisiana's natural environment, a composer competition, chamber performances, a symposium and art exhibition in collaboration with the Historic New Orleans Collection, and educational materials on CD and DVD. National Performance Network, Inc. (aka NPN)
New Orleans, LA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support national dance programs including the Creation Fund, the Forth Fund, Performance Residencies, Freight Fund, Community Fund, and NPN's annual meeting. The programs will enable contemporary U.S. dance artists and presenters to create, commission, tour, and engage new work with diverse communities across the country. New Orleans Ballet Association
New Orleans, LA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of dance companies and related education and outreach programs. Presentations will include Jessica Lang DANCE, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, and the Martha Graham Dance Company. New Orleans Film and Video Festival, Inc. (aka New Orleans Film Society)
New Orleans, LA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 24th New Orleans Film Festival and other year-round programming. Films include narrative, documentary, and shorts, and come from the United States and abroad. New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Crescent City Blues and BBQ Festival. Staged in downtown New Orleans, the project will feature performances of the blues music of Louisiana and the Delta South; local crafts and foodways; and a stage where scholars will interview blues artists. New Orleans Opera Association
NEW ORLEANS, LA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support performances of Dvořák's Rusalka. The project will utilize video projections for scenic design and engage various local institutions such as the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, the New Orleans Opera Chorus, Tulane University, and K-12 public, private, and charter schools around the region to provide free outreach activities. Northwestern State University of Louisiana
Natchitoches, LA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Natchitoches-NSU Folk Festival. The festival will celebrate Louisiana's ranching culture with traditional music from the region, as well as material culture displays, demonstrations, and narrative stages focused on the state's horse and cattle culture. Shreveport Regional Arts Council
Shreveport, LA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support critics' fees and administrative costs associated with the artspace Critics' Series, featuring Robert Pincus. The Series is an innovative program designed to develop the professional capacity of Northwest Louisiana visual artists and advance the dialogue of visual arts critcism through curatorial review. Southern Rep
New Orleans, LA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the world premiere of Mold, the third play in a trilogy by John Biguenet about the effects of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans. Set sequentially after the trilogy's first two plays, Shotgun and Rising Water, Mold tells the story of a man who decides to rebuild his mold-encrusted home a year after the disaster, even though no one else in the neighborhood has returned.
Number of Grants: 11 Total Amount: $295,000
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