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FY 2009 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence I/Challenge America Fast-Track Grants/Creativity & Aging/Literature Fellowships (Poetry)

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

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Americans for the Arts, Inc. (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support training and professional development for members of the State Arts Action Network (SAAN). In partnership with the Kentucky Assembly of Local Arts Agencies, the project will provide technical assistance and training designed to help strengthen SAAN members' organizational capacity, as well as enhance their ability to deliver services and manage leadership transitions.

ARCH Development Corporation
Washington, DC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Social Arts Initiative for the Anacostia neighborhood of the District of Columbia. Projects in the visual, literary, and performing arts will center on themes from the traditional fairy tale Beauty and the Beast.

Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (aka ACSA)
Washington, DC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support 64 Ways to Home: Four Designs, Four Critics, Four Symposia on Innovative Design Strategies for Affordable Housing. A series of coordinated peer-reviewed design projects and regional symposia will be conducted to stimulate innovative design approaches to affordable and mixed-income housing.

Choral Arts Society of Washington
Washington, DC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the presentation and national radio broadcast of the 21st annual Choral Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Choral Arts Society and singers from regional gospel choirs will combine forces for performances conducted by music director Norman Scribner.

Chorus America Association
Washington, DC
$85,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support services and technical assistance to the choral field. Activities will include an annual conference, publications, a chorus impact study, and leadership development forums for conductors, board members, and managers.

Chorus America Association (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Choral Conducting Workshop and Master Class. In partnership with the Houston Chamber Choir, conducting workshops will take place in Houston and with the Young People's Chorus in New York City.

City Arts, Inc.
Washington, DC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the creation of mosaics for installation in Watts Branch/Marvin Gaye Park in Washington, DC. Led by professional artists, student apprentices who participate in City Arts' year-round Urban Arts Mentoring Program will assist in the research, design, and creation of the mosaics.

Cultural Landscape Foundation
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the production of an interactive documentary interview series. The Pioneers of American Landscape Design Oral History Series will present the biographies, education, design philosophies, and work of several 20th-century landscape architects.

Dance/USA
Washington, DC
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support professional development services and expansion of research and technology capabilities. The project will include an annual Roundtable, Winter Forums, Artistic Director Leadership Training, and a Dance Presenters Leadership Forum.

Dance/USA (on behalf of Dance/NYC)
Washington, DC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a series of professional development programs for emerging and established artists by Dance/NYC. These programs, titled 101s and 201s, offer information and skills for managing a nonprofit dance organization.

DC Heritage Tourism Coalition, Inc. (aka Cultural Tourism DC)
Washington, DC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Passport DC, a series of events providing access to international arts and culture programming at embassies located in Washington, DC. From Ethiopia and Ghana to Pakistan and Mexico, this cultural tourism program will feature authentic art exhibitions, dance and musical performances, films, and lectures, offered at little or no cost for local residents and visitors.

District of Columbia Jewish Community Center
Washington, DC
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Voices from a Changing Middle East Festival, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Theater J will produce the English-language premiere of Hillel Mittelpunkt's domestic drama The Accident, directed by Sinai Peter, and the American premiere of Cameri Theatre's ensemble work Plonter, written and directed by Yael Ronen.

Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital
Washington, DC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Environmental Film Festival, featuring films, performances, and guest artist discussions focused on environmental issues. Among the films that will be screened are Sea Change, featuring author and award-wining actress Lisa Harrow and the Sunrise Earth series by filmmaker David Conover.

GALA Inc., Grupo de Artistas Latinoamericanos (aka GALA Hispanic Theatre) (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the ArteAmericA 2009 series of the GALA Hispanic Theatre. In partnership with the Washington Performing Arts Society, the project will include performances and residencies celebrating Latino cultures throughout the Americas.

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Washington, DC
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of Modern Masters, celebrating the work of America's leading contemporary choreographers. The companies featured will be Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Mark Morris Dance Group, Limón Dance Company, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, and Paul Taylor Dance Company.

National Museum of Women in the Arts, Inc.
Washington, DC
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Royalists and Revolutionaries: Women Artists from the Great French Museums, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will present an opportunity to explore the contributions that women artists made in France between 1750 and 1848.

National Symphony Orchestra Association of Washington, DC
Washington, DC
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support educational and outreach programs. The project will include free educational and family concerts as well as a festival at the Town Hall Arts and Recreation Campus (THEARC) in southeast Washington, DC.

Opera Lafayette
Washington, DC
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the contemporary American premiere of French composer Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny's 1769 Le Déserteur. The opera comique will be presented in concert version in Washington, DC, and New York City.

Post-Classical Ensemble, Inc.
Washington, DC
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Adams Snapshot, a concert of works by composer John Adams. The orchestra, directed by music director Angel Gil-Ordonez, will perform Phrygian Gates (1978) and Gnarly Buttons (1996) at the Lansburg Theatre of the Harman Center for the Arts in Washington, DC.

Shakespeare Theatre (aka Shakespeare Theatre Company)
Washington, DC
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Ion by the Greek playwright Euripides, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Artistic Director Michael Kahn will direct the American premiere of David Lan's translation and adaptation.

Studio Theatre, Inc.
Washington, DC
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of The Magical Thinking Series, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. The theater will present plays about women who face adversity and employ hope, creativity, and individuality to survive challenges in their worlds.

Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (aka The Corcoran)
Washington, DC
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring exhibition of the work of British/American artist Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition represents the first retrospective in 50 years to investigate and fully survey every aspect of the career of this pioneering photographer.

Vocal Arts Society (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a festival of American vocal music. In partnership with Master Chorale of Washington, concert programming will include solo and duo vocal recitals, choral music for large and small ensembles, and jazz and folk song arrangements performed in venues in the greater Washington, DC metropolitan area.

Vocal Arts Society
Washington, DC
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the presentation of solo vocal recitalists. Performances will be held in the Terrace Theater at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and other venues in Washington, DC.

Washington Bach Consort
Washington, DC
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support free, noon-time concerts of Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas. The monthly concerts will be held at the Church of the Epiphany in downtown Washington, DC.

Washington Concert Opera
Washington, DC
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support concert performances of rarely performed operatic works. The concerts will be presented at George Washington University's Lisner Auditorium in Washington, DC.

Washington DC International Film Festival, Inc. (aka Filmfest DC)
Washington, DC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 23rd annual Filmfest DC The event includes free films for children, older people, and underserved communities.

Washington Drama Society, Inc. (aka Arena Stage)
Washington, DC
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a world premiere of Beyond Voltaire by Karen Zacarías. The Arena Stage production will be directed by Artistic Director Molly Smith.

Washington National Opera (consortium)
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Wagner's Siegfried. The production will be created in partnership with San Francisco Opera.

Washington National Opera
Washington, DC
$55,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the production of a concert version of Wagner's Gotterdammerung

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Washington, DC
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a world premiere production of Antebellum by Robert O'Hara. The production will be directed by Chay Yew.


Number of Grants: 31          Total Amount: $887,500

 
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