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State District Organization Name Discipline / Field City Project Description Fiscal Year Grant Amount State District Organization Name Discipline / Field City Project Description Fiscal Year Grant Amount To support the translation from the Spanish of the novel "Jaguars' Tomb" by Argentine writer Angelica Gorodischer. The author of 30 novels, short story collections, and essays, Gorodischer (b. 1928) is known for her science fiction, fantasy, crime, and feminist writing. She is the recipient of numerous national and international awards, including the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement previously won by such writers as Ray OR 0 Gladhart, Amalia Literature Eugene 2018 $12,500 Bradbury, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Stephen King. Published in 2005, "Jaguars' Tomb" is a 218-page novel of 3 distinct parts that addresses the abductions and disappearances that occurred during the military dictatorship in Argentina's "Dirty War" of 1976-83. Each of the sections repeats images from the others and circles a central space that, though it serves different functions in each section, always has a sense of loss at its center. OR 0 Van Landingham, Corey Literature Ashland N/A 2017 $25,000 To support a performance project, A Fond Farewell. The project will celebrate the legacy of the late Portland-based American singer, songwriter, and musician Elliott Smith, who died in 2003 at the age of 34. Third Angle musicians will collaborate with the theater ensemble Hand2Mouth in a program inspired by Smith's songs from his six studio albums. Community engagement activities will involve a partnership with Outside In, the homeless Third Angle New Music OR 1 Music Portland youth shelter in Portland. Residents of the shelter will have an opportunity to assist with 2017 $10,000 Ensemble Inc. lighting, set design, and other technical elements relating to the production. Other activities will include post-concert question-and-answer sessions, panel discussions on the collaborative process, Smith's place in the history of American music, and a screening of "Heaven Adores You," the 2014 documentary film on Smith by director Nickolas Dylan Rossi. To support introductory circus arts training and public performance opportunities. The Presenting & program will teach fundamental skills in tumbling, partner acrobatics, juggling, object OR 1 Circus Project Portland 2018 $20,000 Multidisciplinary Works manipulation, and performance to youth, many of who will be from underserved communities. Workshops will culminate in student performances open to the public. To support The Right Brain Initiative. Professional development for classroom teachers, arts specialists, principals, and teaching artists will provide strategies to ensure effective arts-integrated learning that is aligned with Common Core State Standards, promotes Regional Arts & Culture OR 1 Arts Education Portland 21st-century skills, and creates environments where students thrive academically and 2017 $30,000 Council artistically. The Right Brain Initiative will broaden access by reaching out to Title I Portland area schools with high free or reduced lunch percentages as well as those in rural communities with limited access to the arts. To support a performance tour to underserved communities in Alaska. The company plans to tour to Alaskan communities, which have little to no access to artistic OR 1 BodyVox Dance Portland performances by professional contemporary dance companies. In each community, 2017 $10,000 BodyVox will engage in outreach activities that may include community conversations, student performances, open rehearsals, dance classes, and choreography workshops. To support a year-round transmedia arts project for Oregon youth from underserved communities. The Geography of We program includes an overnight summer arts camp, in- school and after-school arts learning sessions, Saturday classes, spring break workshops, and professional development for teaching artists. Focused on storytelling techniques OR 1 Caldera Arts Education Portland 2017 $35,000 that range from traditional forms to digital media, professional artists in film, animation, photography, writing, music, painting, sculpture, and design will guide students to explore their identity through the central theme of air. Students will create and showcase both web-based and physical maps that link their art to a sense of place. To support JAW: A Playwrights Festival. Named for the phrase "Just Add Water," the JAW Festival brings together playwrights with directors, dramaturgs, and actors to develop new work in an artist-focused process. The festival will be augmented with community OR 1 Portland Center Stage Theater Portland 2017 $25,000 activities including a Promising Playwrights program for local high school writers, Community Artist Labs focused on professional development, and Press Play Performances featuring site-specific performances by local artists. To support JAW: A Playwrights Festival. Named for the phrase "Just Add Water," the JAW Festival brings together playwrights with directors, dramaturgs, and actors to develop new work in an artist-focused process. Plays nurtured at JAW have advanced to full OR 1 Portland Center Stage Theater Portland productions at professional theaters around the globe. The festival will be augmented 2018 $15,000 with community activities including a Promising Playwrights program for local high school writers, Community Artist Labs focused on professional development, and Press Play Performances featuring site-specific performances by local artists. To support the commission and performance of a multimedia dance work by artists with disabilities. Artists Alice Sheppard, Michael Maag, and John Jeanrenaud, all wheelchair Peter Britt Gardens Music users, will create and perform "Descent - Kinetic Light" at Crater Performing Arts Center. OR 2 and Arts Festival Challenge America Medford Led by Sheppard, dancers will use a variety of mobility devices to dance on a ramped 2017 $10,000 Association stage, interacting with light and projections of Auguste Rodin's sculptures of incomplete human forms. Outreach activities including lecture-demonstrations and master classes in dance techniques with mobility devices are planned. To support residencies for artists and scientists. Residencies will provide fieldwork and collaboration opportunities for artists and scientists investigating the issues surrounding Summer OR 2 Playa Artist Communities climate change. Residents will receive lodging in fully equipped cabins, studio space, and 2017 $20,000 Lake meals. In addition, a symposium and monthly presentations will be offered and selected works related to the field will be published. To support residencies for artists and scientists and related activities. Visual, literary, and performing artists will collaborate with scientists about environmental themes through residencies and related activities. Residents will have opportunities for fieldwork, Summer collaborative interaction, and other resources to produce their work. As part of this OR 2 Playa Artist Communities 2018 $10,000 Lake project, an exhibit about the intersections of art and science, complemented by a full color printed catalogue and a series of artist presentations, will tour to multiple local venues such as Atelier 6000 (Bend, Oregon) and the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University (Salem, Oregon). To support the 17th Ashland Independent Film Festival and related public programming. Held in the spring, the festival presents independent feature-length and short narrative, documentary, and animated films, as well as art installations, live cinema, and interactive media offerings. With a special focus on regional filmmaking, the festival offers free film contests and screenings such as the Locals Only filmmaking program and a student Southern Oregon Film OR 2 Media Arts Ashland filmmaking competition. Additional festival activities include a series of educational panels 2018 $10,000 Society and community conversations featuring industry leaders, scholars, and experts. Recent panel topics include women in independent filmmaking and transmedia and virtual reality platforms in documentary film, featuring artists such as Mridu Chandra ("Out in the Night"), Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing ("Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You"), Brad Lichtenstein ("As Goes Janesville"), and Helen De Michiel ("Lunch Love Community"). To support after-school arts programming culminating in a public art project. ArtSpeak, a series of after-school arts classes, is intended to serve middle school students in a rural Crossroads Creative and OR 2 Challenge America Baker City and high-poverty community in Eastern Oregon. Local teaching artists will lead students 2018 $10,000 Performing Arts Center, Inc. through the creation of a series of mini-murals on canvas, which will be installed temporarily on a fence surrounding the Crossroads Arts Center. To support artist fees for the world premiere of "UniSon," a new work written and performed by the multidisciplinary ensemble UNIVERSES. The production will be directed by Robert O'Hara and based on a suite of unpublished poems by the late August Wilson. Oregon Shakespeare OR 2 Theater Ashland The poems traverse Wilson's entire career, from his early years to the end of his life at the 2017 $70,000 Festival Association age of 60. Working in their signature theatrical aesthetic, UNIVERSES will fuse Wilson's poetry with rhythm, music, lyrics, and percussive storytelling, creating a work that explores the passage of legacy through language, music, and memory. To support the Summer Fishtrap Gathering of Writers and Fishtrap
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