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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.

TENNESSEE

Ballet Memphis
Memphis, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support AbunDANCE, an evening of dance performances which will consist of repertory work and a commissioned world premiere. The company will perform Trey McIntyre's High Lonesome, Julia Adam's Crossing, Shapiro and Smith's George and Betty's House, and Ballet Memphis dancer Steven McMahon will create a new ballet focused on family.

Ballet Tennessee
Chattanooga, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support guest dance artists in a residency celebrating the Pas de Deux (dance for two) in Chattanooga. Residency activities will include a public performance at the Tivoli Theater, free community outreach classes, and intermediate and advanced-level master classes at facilities throughout the city, targeting low-income youth and aspiring young dance students.

Collage Dance Collective, Inc.
Memphis, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support RISE, the cuminating event of an arts education series hosted by Collage's professional company in honor of Black History Month. Featuring the choreography of Kevin "Lega" Jeff, the performance will take place at the Buckman Performing & Fine Arts Center for Memphis audiences.

Creative Aging Memphis
Memphis, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a series of musical performances and arts workshops for older adults living in nursing homes in the Mid-South. Conducted by selected local visual and performing artists, the programming will offer opportunities for creative experience and expression to all nursing home residents, regardless of physical, cognitive, or financial limitations.

Germantown Performing Arts Centre
Germantown, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support SoLe Sanctuary - A Hoofer's Meditation on the Art of Tap, featuring tap dancer Savion Glover. The Centre's Arts Access program will provide free tickets and ticket subsidies for low-income residents and Glover's community outreach activities will include a lecture and demonstration for low-income, African American students attending Title I schools and a post-performance discussion for the general public.

Jubilee Community Arts, Inc. (aka The Laurel Theater)
Knoxville, TN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support traditional music programming at the Laurel Theater that is also broadcast on local radio. Jubilee Community Arts will support fieldwork to identify, document, and present local traditional musicians, as well as present recognized regional and national traditional artists, such as NEA National Heritage Fellows Clyde Davenport, Ralph Stanley, and Kevin Burke.

Knoxville Opera Company
Knoxville, TN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the Fanciulla Project, a six-week immersion in Puccini's La Fanciulla del West. The work serves as the foundation of a variety of educational activities including performances at K-12 schools and colleges, seminars for undergraduate students and the public, master classes, an exhibition at the Knoxville Museum of Art, a screening of the 1938 film, and a free concert at a local high school that will target underserved groups in the Appalachian region as well as the inner-city.

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Inc. (aka The Brooks)
Memphis, TN
$55,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a traveling exhibition and catalogue featuring the contemporary artist Marisol (b. 1930). The retrospective of approximately 50 works -- both sculptures and works on paper -- will demonstrate the artist's use of various media including bronze casting, wood carving, assemblage, plaster casts, and terra cotta.

Museum of Appalachia
Clinton, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Student Heritage Day, a multidisciplinary, Appalachian cultural festival targeting youth in rural Tennessee. Economically disadvantaged youth will participate in a series of workshops covering pottery, fiber arts, vocal instruction, dulcimer music, and buck dancing among other traditional Appalachian art forms.

Nashville Ballet
Nashville, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new ballet choreographed by Gina Patterson. The work will be accompanied by live music performed by local artists, which the company has been committed to presenting for several years.

New Ballet Ensemble and School
Memphis, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the creation and performance of an original dance work based on Anansi the Spider, a fictional character who plays a prominent role in a series of popular West African folk tales. Combining African, modern, and ballet dance, the performance will be choreographed by Adrian Couch, be adapted and directed by Anthony Horne, and will target economically disadvantaged African American families.


Number of Grants: 11          Total Amount: $175,000

 
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