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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.

NEW MEXICO

Mimbres Region Arts Council, Inc.
Silver City, NM
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Youth Mural Program, which will pair youth with professional artists to create murals expressing the culture and history of the Grant County region. Selected artists will work with students ages seven to 18 to interview area residents and incorporate local history and aesthetics in the mural designs.

Music at Angel Fire, Inc.
Angel Fire, NM
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Music from Angel Fire's 30th Anniversary Chamber Music Festival. Activities include the world premiere of a commission by composer-in-residence NEA Jazz Master Chick Corea; a Young Artists Series; classroom concerts under the Music in Our Schools program for local area youth in the rural Northern New Mexico communities of Angel Fire, Las Vegas, Raton, and Taos; chamber music concerts and free family/youth concerts; open rehearsals; and lecture-discussion presentations.

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Socorro, NM
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a performance and associated outreach activities featuring Street Beat, an urban dance and recycled percussion troupe. Activities will include a Family Night Percussion event, interactive lectures and demonstrations for K-12 students, and Re-Purposed Percussion, a series of hands-on percussive workshops for high school students.

New Mexico Literary Arts
Santa Fe, NM
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Alzheimer's Poetry Project, providing arts programming to people living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia. Bilingual poets will lead a series of workshops with a culminating presentation of readings at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque that will feature poet Valerie Martinez and the poetry workshop participants.

NewArt New Mexico, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support JOURNEYS: A Global Celebration of Contemporary Dance. Artists to be presented include Nora Chipaumire (Zimbabwe/United States), Phillipe Blanchard (Sweden/France), Reggie Wilson/Moseses (United States) and Boyzie Cekwana& Panaibra Gabriel (South Africa/Mozambique).

Outpost Productions, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
$22,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 8th annual New Mexico Jazz Festival. A partnership with the Lensic Performing Arts Center and the Santa Fe Jazz Foundation, the 17-day festival will feature free and ticketed concerts with artists such as NEA Jazz Masters Herbie Hancock and Branford Marsalis; workshops; open rehearsals; Meet the Artist sessions; a visual arts exhibit; and a spoken-word component.

Parallel Studios Inc.
Santa Fe, NM
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support currents 2013. To be held in June and presented at El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, this event will include video art, single- and multi-channel installations, web art, gaming, sound installations, and multimedia performances.

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Ltd.
Santa Fe, NM
$42,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 41st annual Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival featuring a diverse range of repertoire, guest composers, and world premieres, as well as free community and youth concerts, and national radio broadcasts. Key artists will include Artistic Director Marc Neikrug; the Orion, Shanghai, Johannes, Miami, and Flux Quartets; as well as pianist Garrick Ohlson, the festival's 2013 artist-in-residence.

Santa Fe Opera
Santa Fe, NM
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Oscar. The co-commission and co-production with Opera Company of Philadelphia is based on the life and words of Oscar Wilde and will be brought to the stage by the creative team of director Kevin Newbury, composer Theodore Morrison with a libretto by Theodore Morrison and John Cox, scenic designer David Korins, lighting designer Rick Fisher, costume designer David C. Woolard, and conductor Evan Rogister, along with singers including David Daniels, Heidi Stober, and Dwayne Croft.

Southwestern Association for Indian Arts
Santa Fe, NM
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Santa Fe Indian Market. Contemporary and traditional Native American artists will present demonstrations, musical performances, readings, and films.

Spencer Theater for the Performing Arts Inc.
Alto, NM
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a series of dance workshops and performances by Odyssey Dance Theatre. Proposed outreach activities include dance workshops serving residents affiliated with the Mescalero Apache Reservation.

University of New Mexico Main Campus (on behalf of Tamarind Institute)
Albuquerque, NM
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support printmaking residencies for Native Americans at the Tamarind Institute in New Mexico and at Northern Editions in Darwin, Australia. The artists will receive a stipend, a materials budget, travel costs, and a portfolio that includes the work of all project artists. Artists will be in residence for two weeks with master printers to create new work that will be exhibited in both locations.

Working Classroom, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Multicultural Street Conservatory, a year-round introductory, intermediate, and advanced level program of theater and visual arts residencies by nationally prominent artists from diverse backgrounds for 10 to 18-year-old students. Students will study playwriting, performance, and visit exhibitions. Advanced students will produce work for theater productions, public art projects, and gallery installations.


Number of Grants: 13          Total Amount: $315,000

 
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