FY 2006 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence/Literature Fellowships

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

NEW MEXICO

Anapol, Michele Bay
Santa Fe, NM
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Chamber Music Albuquerque
Albuquerque, NM
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 65th annual June Music Festival. Among the activities will be the presentation of three chamber ensembles and scholar-led lecture-demonstrations at the Simms Center for the Performing Arts at Albuquerque Academy.

Institute for Spanish Arts (aka Maria Benitez Teatro Flamenco)
Santa Fe, NM
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the 16th annual International Spanish Dance and Music Workshop. The program offers adult and youth students from around the world the opportunity to study with Flamenco dance and music instructors from the United States and Spain.

Millicent Rogers Museum, Inc.
Taos, NM
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the reinstallation of the museum's permanent collection, with accompanying education materials, on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. The project will spotlight the museum's extraordinary collection of Southwestern art.

Music at Angel Fire, Inc. (Music from Angel Fire)
Angel Fire, NM
$14,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Music at Angel Fire's 23rd Anniversary Festival. The festival will tour the rural, northern New Mexico communities of Angel Fire, Las Vegas, Raton, and Taos and will feature diverse chamber ensembles specifically programmed for each of the communities, as well as Music in the Schools classroom concerts.

New Art New Mexico, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Global Dance Fest, a presentation of national and international experimental dance and dance-theater, including residencies and performances by Stephen Petronio Dance Company and Yin Mei. Residency activities will emphasize outreach to underserved youth and to Native American communities and Albquerque's growing population of Asian Americans.

Santa Fe Art Institute
Santa Fe, NM
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Artists and Writers Residencies Program. Up to 30 emerging and mid-career artists and writers will be provided with living and working space, allowing them to focus on the creation of new work.

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
Santa Fe, NM
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 34th annual Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. The festival, which annually reaches more than 16,000, will include a diverse range of repertoire, guest composers, and world premieres, as well as free community and youth concerts.

Santa Fe Opera
Santa Fe, NM
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the American premiere of The Tempest by Thomas Adès. Community outreach efforts will include complimentary tickets to organizations serving underserved children, transportation and one-dollar tickets for children at local Native American pueblos and reservations, and pre-performance interactive presentations by musicians and educators.

Theatre Grottesco North America, Inc. (Theater Grottesco)
Santa Fe, NM
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of a collaborative work by women writers and performance artists. Associate Artistic Director Elizabeth Wiseman will direct Swimming in the Gases of Jupiter and Motherland, one-act plays by Ana Bogaard and Barbara Zuckerman.

VSA arts of New Mexico, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of a community-based theater work. Undesirable Elements/Secret History is an ongoing series of oral history theater works by Ping Chong & Company that explore the effects of history, culture, and ethnicity on the lives of community members.

Number of Grants: 11          Total Amount: $206,000

 
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