Arts Midwest and the National Endowment for the Arts Partner to Invest in Indiana
For more than 25 years, Arts Midwest and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), in partnership with the Indiana Arts Commission, have provided enriching cultural opportunities to Indiana artists, arts organizations, and audiences—fostering and sustaining vibrant, diverse communities throughout the state.
Federal Funding for the Arts Publically-funded arts organizations such as the NEA, the Regional Arts Organizations, and State Arts Agencies are uniquely situated to ensure that all Americans—regardless of geographic location, economic situation, or educational background—have access to the arts.
Federal funding for the NEA not only supports national programs that provide services throughout the country, but also supports targeted programming provided by State Arts Agencies. These Agencies have a deep understanding of the specific needs of their communities and have the capacity and insight to increase access to the arts in areas where arts opportunities can be scarce. Service at a Glance
Thanks to this structure, arts organizations across Indiana ■ Arts Midwest Touring Fund: awarded receive grants that allow them to reach more audiences, $29,100 to 11 performing arts maintain their significant role in local economies, support organizations, and supported the touring of artists at livable wages, and provide your constituents access four Indiana ensembles, which will earn to valuable arts experiences in their communities. $28,250 for their work ■ Arts Midwest World Fest: $50,000 in About Arts Midwest services per year for two years of artist Arts Midwest is one of six Regional Arts Organizations in the residencies in Wabash/Hartford City United States, created by the State Arts Agencies and the ■ Arts Midwest Conference: provided NEA to transcend state boundaries and give citizens access business, learning, and networking to a broad variety of arts experiences. opportunities to 32 individuals from 22 Indiana organizations in 2012 We serve more than one million people annually through ■ Leadership: continued professional performing, visual, and literary arts and leadership development and networking opportunities development programs, as well as a series of national for state arts agency staff and leaders initiatives, managed on behalf of the NEA and the U.S. Department of State. Our programs reach across our nine Learn more by visiting member states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, www.artsmidwest.org. North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin, and are an integral part of our position as an essential cultural resource for the entire Midwest and beyond.
Arts Midwest Touring Fund
Arts Midwest Touring Fund encourages performing arts touring by providing financial support to arts presenting organizations in the Midwest.
Arts Midwest Touring Fund provides fee support up to $5,000 to performing arts organizations to bring dance, theater, and music to audiences across Arts Midwest’s region. Each engagement includes in-depth educational activities and public performances, and aims to reach underserved audiences.
Through the FY13 Arts Midwest Touring Fund cycle (2012–2013 performance season), Arts Midwest awarded $29,100 to 11 performing arts organizations in Indiana.
Grantee City Artist Grant
Jasper Community Arts Commission Jasper Tall Stories' production of "The Gruffalo" $2,000
Civic Hall Performing Arts Center Richmond The Broadway Boys $3,200
Blues at the Crossroads II: Muddy and the Clowes Memorial Hall at Butler University Indianapolis $4,000 Wolf
Ensemble Music Society of Indianapolis Indianapolis JACK Quartet $1,600
Fort Wayne Dance Collective Fort Wayne Keigwin + Company $3,000
Community Arts Series at Hanover College Hanover MOJO and the Bayou Gypsies $1,600
Honeywell Center Wabash Steve Seskin $4,000
Lotus Festival Bloomington JPP $700
Walton Performing Arts Center at Marion Marion Chicago Tap Theatre $3,000 Community School of the Arts DeBartolo Performing Arts Center at Notre Dame Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater $4,000 University of Notre Dame
Young Audiences Indiana Indianapolis Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo $2,000
The Fund is also supporting four projects featuring four Indiana ensembles touring to other Midwestern states during 2012–2013. In total, the artists will earn $28,250 by participating in Arts Midwest programming. Arts Midwest World Fest
Arts Midwest World Fest connects small and mid-sized Midwestern communities to world cultures through week-long residencies with global performers.
Arts Midwest World Fest’s mission is to instill appreciation for “Exposure to international musicians is very rare for people in Wabash and diversity and acceptance of other cultures. Over a two-year cycle, Blackford Counties. With the median four global musical ensembles conduct week-long residencies in income in the communities hovering Midwestern communities. Residencies include public concerts, K-12 below $35,000 per year, many children school workshops, and community outreach activities such as family have never traveled outside their state. and senior citizen workshops and master classes. The program is This creates a very limited world view for committed to reaching communities that lack access to high-quality children who have had no exposure to international arts and education programming. Arts Midwest invests people and places that are different from approximately $100,000 to bring this program to Indiana for the two- them. To think about traveling halfway around the world to Western China or year cycle; and local communities are only responsible for school Israel is unfathomable. World Fest is busing, hall rental, and hospitality costs. bringing the world to these children.”
The current 2011–2013 Arts Midwest World Fest cycle features -Teresa Galley Yamma Ensemble (Israel), Tarim: Uygur Song and Dance (People’s The Honeywell Center Republic of China), Qawal Najmuddin Saifuddin & Brothers (Pakistan), and Cudamani (Indonesia).
The fall 2011 tour featured Yamma Ensemble. During their week-long stay in Wabash/Hartford City, the artists conducted 16 educational and performance events and reached more than 6,269 residents, including more than 5,450 youth.
Location City Description Youth Adults Honeywell House Wabash Wabash Welcome Reception 0 25
Northside School Wabash Concert with grades 4-6 350 25
Southside School Hartford City Concert with grades K-3 410 30 Lake Placid Conference Hartford City Hartford City Welcome Reception 0 50 Center Honeywell Center Wabash K-6 grade bus-in concert 1200 100
Honeywell Center Wabash 7-12 grade bus-in concert 700 50
Montpelier School Montpelier Concert for grades K-6 students 260 20
Blackford High School Hartford City Concert for junior high students 300 20
Blackford High School Hartford City Concert for senior high students 600 40
Manchester Middle School North Manchester Concert for grades K-4 390 20
Manchester Middle School North Manchester Concert for grades 9-12 300 10
Manchester Middle School North Manchester Concert for grades 5-8 390 20
Charley Creek Inn Wabash Impromptu performance at Green Hat Lounge 0 25
Honeywell Center Wabash Concert for grades 7-12 535 40
Honeywell Center Wabash Public performance with a hosted reception 15 343 The spring 2012 tour featured Tarim: Uygur Song and Dance. During their week-long stay in Wabash/Hartford City, the artists conducted 12 educational and performance events and reached more than 6,310 residents, including more than 5,620 youth.
Location City Description Youth Adults
Honeywell House Wabash Wabash Welcome Reception 0 25
Northside School Hartford City Concert to 4-6 grades 350 25
Southside School Hartford City Concert to K-3 grades 410 30
Lake Placid Conference Center Hartford City Hartford City Welcome Reception 0 50
Honeywell Center Wabash K-6 Bus-in Concert 1300 100
Honeywell Center Wabash 7-12 grades Bus-In Concert 1300 100
Montpelier School Montpelier Concert for grades K-6 260 20
Blackford High School Hartford City Concert for junior and senior high 900 60
Manchester Middle School North Manchester Concert for grades K-4 390 20
Manchester Middle School North Manchester Concert for grades 9-12 300 10
Manchester Middle School North Manchester Concert for grades 5-8 390 20
Public performance with a hosted reception Honeywell Center Wabash 20 232 following The fall 2012 tour featured Qawal Najmuddin Saifuddin & Brothers. During their week-long stay in Wabash/ Hartford City, the artists conducted 17 educational and performance events and reached more than 5,700 residents, including more than 5,100 youth.
Location City Description Youth Adults
Informal meeting between the group and Modoc's Market Welcome Wabash members of the Honeywell Center Board of 0 20 Reception Directors and staff.
Montpelier Elementary School Montpelier Workshop with grades K-6 277 25 workshop Workshop with High School and Junior Blackford Jr-Sr High School Hartford City High School students;
Northside Elementary Hartford City Workshop for grades K-3 350 25
Southside Elementary Hartford City Workshop for grades 4-6 425 31
Hartford City Zion Lutheran Hartford City Blackford County Welcome Reception 75 Church
Workshop for LaFontaine Elementary Southwood High School Wabash 600 35 grades 5 - 6, Southwood Jr High grades 7-
Q&A session with high school band & choir Southwood High School Wabash 191 5 students
Workshop for Sharp Creek Elementary Northfield High School Wabash 592 32 grades 5-6, Northfield Jr High grades 7-8,
Q&A session with high school band & choir Northfield High School Wabash 202 2 students Manchester Community North Manchester Workshop for grades K-4 390 20 Schools Manchester Community North Manchester Workshop for grades 9-12 300 10 Schools Manchester Community North Manchester Workshop for grades 5-8 390 20 Schools
Workshop for Wabash City Schools grades Honeywell Center Ford Theater Wabash 4 - 12, Emmanuel School, St Bernard 1352 103 School, and various Homeschool groups
Honeywell Center Ford Theater Wabash Public Performance with reception 20 225
Kiwanis of Blackford County Hartford City Presentation 17 0
Rotary of Blackford County Hartford City Presentation 25 0
Since the program’s inception in 2003, we have brought engaging international performers to five communities across Indiana: Columbus, Jasper, Portland, Terre Haute, and Wabash/Hartford City.
Learn more at www.artsmidwesworldfest.org. Arts Midwest Conference
The preeminent annual booking and education conference for the Midwest performing arts industry.
The only meeting of its kind in the Midwest, our Conference attracts top presenters from across the United States and around the world. The goals of the Arts Midwest Conference are to connect arts administrators, foster and sustain the dynamic performing arts industry, and promote the vibrant local arts scene in the Conference city.
In 2012, 905 arts professionals convened in Grand Rapids, Michigan from September 12 –15 to network, conduct business, engage in in-depth professional development sessions, experience live performance showcases, and gain new insights into the world of performing arts touring and presenting. Representatives from Indiana included 32 individuals from 22 different arts organizations.
The 2013 Arts Midwest Conference will take place September 9–12 in Austin, Texas and we expect to serve a broad sector of Indiana artists, presenters and arts organizations at the event. Flamenco Vivo performs at the 2012 Conference. Photo by Joshua Feist.
2012 Attendees City Arts Place Inc Portland Bay View Music Festival Indianapolis Civic Hall Performing Arts Center Richmond Clowes Memorial Hall Indianapolis Dance Kaleidoscope Indianapolis Earlham College Richmond Emens Auditorium Muncie Heller Magic Productions Auburn Historic Farmland USA Farmland Honeywell Center Wabash Indiana Arts Commission Indianapolis Indiana University Southeast New Albany Jasper Community Arts Commission Jasper Marian University Indianapolis Meet The Beetles Schererville Pike Performing Arts Center Indianapolis Purdue University Convocations West Lafayette Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Terre Haute Switchback Griffith
The Center for the Performing Arts Carmel University of Notre Dame Notre Dame Vincennes University Vincennes NEA Big Read
The Big Read is a literary initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, designed to restore reading to the center of American culture.
Through this program, we bring partners across the country together to encourage reading for pleasure and enlightenment. We were thrilled to present Vigo County Public Library in Terre Haute and Frankfort Community Public Library in Frankfort with grants for the 2012–2013 Big Read cycle.
Shakespeare in American Communities
Shakespeare in American Communities is a national theater program that reaches middle- and high-school students in underserved schools throughout the United States by supporting high-quality, professional productions of Shakespeare’s plays and comprehensive educational resources.
In partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, we were able to present Indiana Repertory Theatre in Indianapolis with a grant to perform A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the 2012–2013 cycle.
Leadership
Twice annually, Arts Midwest convenes a summit of the state arts agency executive directors representing Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Through this effort, Lewis Ricci, the Executive Director of the Indiana Arts Commission, participates in leadership development and knowledge sharing with key professionals in the public art sector.
Indiana continues to be strongly represented on Arts Midwest’s Board of Directors and governance committees through Sandi Clark from Bloomington.