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National Endowment for the Arts December 2013 Grant Announcement National Endowment for the Arts December 2013 Grant Announcement Comprehensive Grant List by State Art Works, Challenge America Fast-Track, Creative Writing Fellowships Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval. 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. Challenge America Fast-Track grants offers $10,000 matching grants to support projects that extend the reach of the arts to underserved populations whose opportunities to experience the arts are limited by geography, ethnicity, economics, or disability. Creative Writing Fellowships in Prose (fiction or creative nonfiction) enable recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement. Non-matching grants are for $25,000. Click the state or territory below to jump to that area of the document. Within the state, organizations are listed by city and then alphabetically by organization. Alabama Kentucky Ohio Alaska Louisiana Oklahoma Arizona Maine Oregon Arkansas Maryland Pennsylvania California Massachusetts Rhode Island Colorado Michigan South Carolina Connecticut Minnesota Delaware Missouri Tennessee District of Columbia Montana Texas Florida Nebraska Utah Georgia Nevada Vermont Hawaii New Hampshire Virginia Idaho New Jersey Washington Illinois New Mexico West Virginia Indiana New York Wisconsin Iowa North Carolina Wyoming Kansas North Dakota Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval. Page 1 of 224 Alabama Number of Grants: 9 Total Dollar Amount: $150,000 Alabama Dance Council GRANT CATEGORY: Art Works FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance $10,000 Birmingham, AL To support the presentation of the Alabama Dance Festival. The statewide festival will feature a residency and performances by Bridgman/Packer Dance, a residency by Koresh Dance Company, showcases of regional dance companies, master classes, workshops, pre- and post- performance talks, a Dance for Schools Program, and a festival on tour by Bridgman/Packer Dance in Montgomery. Alabama Educational Television Foundation Authority GRANT CATEGORY: Art Works FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts $50,000 Birmingham, AL To support "Journey Proud II," a television series documenting Alabama traditions. The 30- minute programs will present various Alabama artistic and cultural traditions and include web- based resources for educators to complement the series. Metropolitan Arts Council GRANT CATEGORY: Challenge America Fast-Track $10,000 Birmingham, AL To support the Birmingham Storytelling Festival, featuring storytelling and musical performances. Local and national storytellers from diverse cultural backgrounds will participate in the festival, which will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement. University of Alabama at Birmingham GRANT CATEGORY: Challenge America Fast-Track $10,000 Birmingham, AL To support a free dance performance by Ailey II for economically disadvantaged students, as well as associated outreach activities. Following the performance there will be a complementary question-and-answer session for the student audience. University of North Alabama GRANT CATEGORY: Challenge America Fast-Track $10,000 Florence, AL To support Art and Technology, an exhibition and related outreach activities. The exhibition will feature artwork that incorporates technology, interactive games, robotics, and virtual environments. Mobile Symphony GRANT CATEGORY: Challenge America Fast-Track $10,000 Mobile, AL To support a series of performances with the Kalman Balogh Gypsy Cimbalom Trio. The Trio will engage in a series of outreach concerts designed to benefit an underserved, rural community, including an elementary school performance for a Title I school that has a high percentage of low-income, Native American students. Outreach will also include a free public performance and pre-concert lectures. Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval. Page 2 of 224 Alabama Shakespeare Festival GRANT CATEGORY: Art Works FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater & Musical Theater $20,000 Montgomery, AL To support The Southern Writers' Project for the commissioning, development, and production of new plays about the South and works by Southern playwrights. The festival will produce the world premiere of Edward Morgan's "Twenty Seven," an adaptation of William Faulkner's short story "Old Man," about a convict trapped during the great Mississippi flood of 1927. One of the plays to be developed is a piece about the Poarch Band of Creek Indians by Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder. DesignAlabama GRANT CATEGORY: Challenge America Fast-Track $10,000 Montgomery, AL To support the DesignAlabama Mayors Design Summit. Mayors from northwestern Alabama will work with professionals from diverse design fields on specific issues facing their communities. University of Alabama GRANT CATEGORY: Art Works FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music $20,000 Tuscaloosa, AL To support a week-long residency with NEA Jazz Master Anthony Braxton. The week-long engagement will include rehearsals with Braxton and the university's percussion ensemble and Big Band, as well as an extended rehearsal and performance of Braxton's "Sonic Genome Project." The residency also will feature a performance by Braxton's Diamond Curtain Wall Trio and rehearsals of his "Pine Top Aerial Music" interdisciplinary piece with student dancers and musicians, faculty, and local dancers culminating in a world-premiere performance. Master classes and workshops are open to university and local high school students. Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval. Page 3 of 224 Alaska Number of Grants: 6 Total Dollar Amount: $122,500 Anchorage Concert Association GRANT CATEGORY: Art Works FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works $20,000 Anchorage, AK To support a series of performances and related activities. Featured performers will include artists such as the California Guitar Trio, the Montreal Guitar Trio, NEA Jazz Master Chick Corea, Bela Fleck, International Blues Express, and yMusic. Anchorage Museum Association GRANT CATEGORY: Art Works FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum $20,000 Anchorage, AK To support the exhibition "GYRE," presenting works by artists engaged in the global problem of marine debris. The exhibition will feature works by artists such as Susan Middleton, Pam Longobardi, Mark Dion, Alexis Rockman, Andrew Hughes, Edward Burtynsky, and Sonya Kelliher-Combs. Perseverance Theatre GRANT CATEGORY: Art Works FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater & Musical Theater $20,000 Douglas, AK To support the presentation of the world premiere production of "Rush at Everlasting" by Alaskan playwright Arlitia Jones. The play follows an unlikely pair of women as they plot a bank heist against the backdrop of the Great Depression. Presented first as part of the theater's mainstage season in Juneau, the production will also transfer to Anchorage as part of the third full season of programming at the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts. Fairbanks Concert Association GRANT CATEGORY: Challenge America Fast-Track $10,000 Fairbanks, AK To support performances by Lunasa, an acoustic music ensemble performing jazz, blues, and traditional Irish music. The project will include free outreach performances in the rural communities of Healy and Fort Greely, as well as performances for K-12 students attending Fairbanks North Star Borough school. Alaska Arts Southeast GRANT CATEGORY: Art Works FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education $40,000 Sitka, AK To support Sitka Fine Arts Camp. Alaska-Native artists and educators will lead classes in dance, theater, music, creative writing, and visual arts for middle and high school students. Professional artists from throughout Alaska and the nation will teach Alaskan 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. Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval. Page 4 of 224 Sitka Summer Music Festival GRANT CATEGORY: Art Works FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music $12,500 Sitka, AK To support the Sitka Summer Music Festival: Touring and Outreach project in cities and rural towns of Alaska. The festival, under the artistic leadership of Artistic Director and cellist Zuill Bailey, will bring professional musicians from around the world to Alaska each year to rehearse and perform in small ensembles of two to eight performers in as many as 25 concerts in a variety of settings, from a concert hall to a school gym or a community center. Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval. Page 5 of 224 Arizona Number of Grants: 9 Total Dollar Amount: $160,000 Grand Canyon Chamber Music Festival GRANT CATEGORY: Art Works FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education $30,000 Grand Canyon, AZ To support the Native American Composer Apprenticeship Project (NACAP). Students in Navajo and Hopi reservation high schools will study
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