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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.

MARYLAND

Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County
Silver Spring, MD
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support Coordinated Technology Services (CTS), a suite of electronic tools that will enhance the council's digital services to its constituency. CTS will enhance the council's web presence by providing a mobile website for smartphone users, and providing access to power2.give.org, a crowdfunding website.

Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Poetry in Song, a choral program pairing different musical settings of the same poems or Biblical texts written by two different composers with related educational activities. The program will include Langston Hughes' I Dream a World set to music by NEA Jazz Master Dave Brubeck and Rosephanye Dunn Powell; settings of James Agee's Sure on This Shining Night by Renee Claussen and Samuel Barber; Frank Ticheli's and Dale Warland's treatment of Sara Teasdale's There Will Be Rest, among others.

Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts
Baltimore, MD
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support a marketing and audience development campaign for Free Fall, a city-wide festival designed to engage new audiences in arts experiences across all disciplines. Funding will support the hiring of a marketing/audience development consultant to work one-on-one with arts organizations focusing on smaller organizations to develop and implement marketing plans.

Center Stage Associates, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$55,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support Bruce Norris's Pulitzer-winning drama Clybourne Park, presented in repertory with the premiere of Beneatha's Place by Kwame Kwei-Armah as part of The Raisin Cycle. As a response to Lorraine Hansberry's landmark masterpiece A Raisin in the Sun, Clybourne Park raises questions about urban gentrification; Beneatha's Place follows a woman's journey to academia, where questions and expectations of affirmative action, identity, and identity politics could manifest.

Class Acts Arts, Inc.
Silver Spring, MD
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Project Youth ArtReach. The program will provide multidisciplinary residencies and performances to juvenile offenders in Maryland correctional facilities by such artists as poet Lyubomir Nikolov; actor Sasha Olinick; and visual artists David Amoroso, Carien Quironga, Peter Krsko, and Maria Anasazi.

Episcopal Community Services of Maryland (aka ECSM)
Baltimore, MD
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Pay it Forward, a community mural in Baltimore City featuring the work of Quentin Gibeau. The mural content and design, to be installed in the Collington Square community, will be developed through a series of community meetings and art classes led by Gibeau.

Imagination Stage, Inc. (aka Imagination Stage)
Bethesda, MD
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the east coast premiere of Anime Momotaro, co-created by Alvin Chan and Eric Johnson, artistic director of the Honolulu Theatre for Youth. Johnson will direct the re-telling of Japan's folktale about a boy who sprang from a peach and will draw inspiration from the visually rich world of Japanese anime to teach powerful lessons about inner strength and one's ability to stand up against bullying.

Morgan State University
Baltimore, MD
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the exhibition Artifact to Art: The Effect of Traditional African Art Objects on Contemporary Art and related outreach activities. Associated activities will include an African dance performance, a dance workshop, panel discussions about African art, and related educational field trips for youth and senior citizens residing in Baltimore.

National Council for the Traditional Arts
Silver Spring, MD
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the National Folk Festival in Nashville, Tennessee. The festival, a large outdoor event that showcases the nation's finest traditional artists, will present an array of music and dance performances, workshops, storytelling, and crafts, as well as regional and ethnic foods prepared by community members.

National Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorale of Montgomery County, Inc.
North Bethesda, MD
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support The American Virtuoso Violin concert featuring violinist Elena Urioste and the Maryland Classical Youth Orchestra, with related outreach activities. Urioste and the orchestra will travel to Ward Five, located in Washington, DC, and provide master classes for students at Doar Charter School.

Partners Achieving Success CDC, Inc. (aka PAS)
Bowie, MD
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the annual Conductors National Summit in Nashville and 105 Voices of History Concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. The national initiative will provide talented students from 105 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) the opportunity to participate in advanced artistic training with HBCU choral conductors in repertoire ranging from traditional spirituals, works by African American composers, to jazz and gospel.

Wide Angle Youth Media, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the expansion of Baltimore Speaks Out! a media arts project for middle school students. Students will learn how to create and showcase their own videos about issues facing youth in their community.

Young Audiences of Maryland, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Rural Access for All program. The program provides theater, dance, music, and other arts experiences led by professional artists to youth and families in rural, low-income communities in Maryland.


Number of Grants: 13          Total Amount: $310,000

 
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