National Endowment for the Arts—2014 Fall Grant Announcement
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National Endowment for the Arts—2014 Fall Grant Announcement Art Works, Challenge America, and Creative Writing Fellowships State Listings Project details are as of November 24, 2014. For the most up to date project information, please use the NEA's online grant search system. Art Works grants supports the creation of art that meets the highest standards of excellence, public engagement with diverse and excellent art, lifelong learning in the arts, and the strengthening of communities through the arts. Click the state or jurisdiction below to jump to that area of the document. Grants are sorted by city then name of organization after state. Alaska Indiana Nebraska South Carolina Alabama Iowa Nevada South Dakota Arizona Kansas New Hampshire Tennessee Arkansas Kentucky New Jersey Texas California Louisiana New Mexico Utah Colorado Maine New York Vermont Connecticut Maryland North Carolina Virginia District of Columbia Massachusetts North Dakota Washington Florida Michigan Ohio West Virginia Georgia Minnesota Oklahoma Wisconsin Hawaii Mississippi Oregon Wyoming Idaho Missouri Pennsylvania Illinois Montana Rhode Island Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Page 1 of 234 ALASKA Number of Grants: 10 Total Dollar Amount: $210,000 49 Writers, Inc. $10,000 Anchorage, AK FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America To support a literary tour featuring author Melinda Moustakis, including workshops, readings, and related activities. Planned in partnership with "Alaska Quarterly Review" (AQR), a virtual book discussion of Moustakis's book "Bear Down Bear North" will take place using the Alaska OWL (Online With Libraries) videoconferencing system. The virtual discussion will benefit remote, rural Alaska communities. The OWL sessions can be recorded and posted online, providing a long-term benefit for audiences. Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc. $20,000 Anchorage, AK FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts To support a series of public performances featuring Native Alaskan music and dance. The performances will feature the Alaska Native Heritage Center Dancers and highlight traditional dances, drumming, and songs from each of Alaska's major indigenous cultural groups. The performances will take place during the summer at various locations, including presentations in Peratrovich Park in downtown Anchorage, at larger regional festivals, and at the Alaskan Native Heritage Center. Anchorage Museum Association $25,000 Anchorage, AK FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum To support Northern Initiative: Polar Lab. Designed to engage the community and artists in discussions about the Arctic and climate change, Polar Lab will connect artists with scientists and other traditional researchers in addition to policymakers, business and cultural leaders, and indigenous populations through a series of public programs and presentations. Artists selected from an open call will have access to the museum's collection and archives of photographs, as well as the Smithsonian collection of the Arctic Studies Center. The project will culminate with a major exhibition, online website and publication. A series of residencies, performances, and installations will complement the exhibition. Fairbanks Concert Association $10,000 Fairbanks, AK FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America To support performances by African Guitar Summit, a music ensemble featuring musicians from Guinea, Kenya, Burundi, Rwanda, and Madagascar. The project will include free outreach performances in the rural Alaskan communities of Healy, Delta Junction, and Fort Greely, as well as performances for K-12 students attending the Tri- Valley School. Hill, Sean $25,000 Fairbanks, AK FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry Bunnell Street Arts Center $10,000 Homer, AK FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works To support artist residencies and performances that engage the community. Local artists from Alaska as well as artists from the rest of the United States will work together during fivemonth residencies. Partners for this Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Page 2 of 234 community-based project will include the City of Homer, a local women's shelter called Haven House, and the REC Room, an area center for teens. Juneau Jazz & Classics, Inc. $15,000 Juneau, AK FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music To support the Juneau Jazz & Classics Festival. Programming includes free and ticketed blues, classical, and jazz events in venues throughout Juneau and surrounding areas including school auditoriums, native villages, and restaurants. The festival will open with the Count Basie Orchestra. Confirmed artists-in-residence are jazz trumpeter and vocalist Bria Skonberg with her quintet as well as the WindSync wind quintet. Festival musicians will visit schools to coach band and orchestral ensembles and perform at school assemblies. The festival musicians also will jam with student and local adult musicians. Alaska Arts Southeast, Inc. $65,000 Sitka, AK FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education To support classes at the Sitka Arts Camp, a residential multidisciplinary arts camp for students from throughout the state of Alaska. Alaska Native artists and educators will lead classes in dance, theater, music, creative writing, visual arts, and Alaska Native arts for middle and high school students. Teaching artists from throughout Alaska and the nation will teach students to increase knowledge and skills in their primary art forms as well as art forms that are new to them. In addition to working together in class, students and faculty will live on the same campus, eat in the same cafeteria, and attend the same performances. For many students, especially those from isolated Alaska communities without connection to any road system, this will be first opportunity to learn from professional artists. Island Institute $10,000 Sitka, AK FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artist Communities To support collaborative and independent residencies and related activities. For the collaborative residency, an author and artist of another discipline will work together while engaging with the community through workshops, readings, school visits, and other events. The independent residents will have similar opportunities and may work collaboratively if they choose. All residents will be able to participate in TEDx Sitka, an annual conference affiliated with the network of TED and TEDxconferences. Sitka Summer Music Festival Inc. $20,000 Sitka, AK FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music To support a touring and outreach project in cities and rural towns of Alaska. The festival brings professional musicians from around the world to Alaska each year to rehearse and perform in small ensembles in as many as 25 concerts and more than 40 educational and community outreach activities. Covering more than 586,000-square miles, the project will reach the communities of towns such as Anchorage, Fairbanks, Hoonah, Kiana, Kotzebue, Sitka, and Soldotna. Community populations range from approximately 375 people in Kiana to more than 300,000 in Anchorage. Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Page 3 of 234 ALABAMA Number of Grants: 9 Total Dollar Amount: $160,000 Alabama Dance Council, Inc. $25,000 Birmingham, AL FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance To support the Alabama Dance Festival. The statewide festival will feature performances and activities such as a residency by Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion in Montgomery, Selma, and Birmingham and a New Works Concert. The festival also will showcase regional dance companies, offer master classes and workshops, and a Dance for Schools Program in Birmingham. The centerpiece of the project is Kyle Abraham's new collection of dance works, "When the Wolves Came in," inspired by the 1960 jazz album "We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite," which celebrated the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation and highlighted the growing civil rights movement in South Africa and the U.S. The project will include a variety of local partners that will help organize lecture-demonstrations and community conversations about Kyle Abraham's work and the civil rights movement. Magic City Smooth Jazz $10,000 Birmingham, AL FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America To support Jazz in the Park, a series of free concerts taking place at municipal neighborhood and state parks throughout Alabama. Intended to serve low income and rural underserved residents, the concert series will include performances by local and national jazz musicians. Space One Eleven, Inc. $20,000 Birmingham, AL FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts To support a series of collaborative storefront window exhibitions by established Alabama-based visual artists and their mentees. Each artist and mentee pairing will be asked to create new work that addresses themes of tolerance, social justice, and civil rights. Additional programming will include workshops, artist talks, and open forums about the program designed to engage the local community in discussions about contemporary art practices. Studio $10,000 Centreville, AL FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America To support a music and dance performance series intended to serve economically disadvantaged residents. Related outreach activities will include master classes for underserved students, pre-concert discussions with guest artists, and educational film screenings about a diversity of artistic disciplines. Marshall County Retired Senior Volunteer Program, Incorporated $10,000 Guntersville,