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.
MISSOURI
Better Family Life, Inc.
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Black Dance-USA: A Celebration in Movement. The project will consist of dance workshops, concerts by dance companies, lecture-demonstrations, and video, literature, and audio tapings. Central Missouri State University (on behalf of Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing and Pleiades Press)
Warrensburg, MO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication of Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing. Upcoming issues will feature such neglected writers as poets Laura Jensen and Dunstan Thompson. Coterie, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the development and production of U:bug:Me, a new folk rock musical for young audiences by writer/composer/arranger Jeremiah Clay Neal. The project will be developed as part of the Coterie Theater's Lab for New Family Musicals. Curators of the University of Missouri at Columbia (on behalf of Missouri Review)
Columbia, MO
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, promotion, and related expenses for The Missouri Review. Audiobook versions of the journal also will be produced. Dance Saint Louis
St. Louis, MO
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of Armitage Gone! Dance Theater and the Kansas City Ballet as part of the Made in America Series. Performances will take place at the Touhill Performing Arts Center and the Fox Theater in St. Louis. Friends of Chamber Music
Kansas City, MO
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support presentations of chamber music, solo piano, early music, and educational programs. Six concerts and three What Makes It Great? educational programs will be presented. Jazz St. Louis
St.Louis, MO
$9,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support an artist residency program for local elementary, middle, and high schools. Jazz performers and educators Greg Osby (saxophone) and John (bass) and Jeff Clayton (saxophone) will participate in two separate residencies. Kansas City Ballet Association
Kansas City, MO
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the commissioning of a new work by choreographer Karole Armitage. The work will premiere at the Lyric Theatre in Kansas City. Kansas City Symphony
Kansas City, MO
$17,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Connecting Worlds Apart, performances of works by composers Charles Wuorinen and John Tavener. Wuorinen?s work, ?Flying to Kahani,? and Tavener's violin concerto, Lalishri, will feature violinist Nicola Benedetti. Metropolitan Arts Council of Greater Kansas City (aka Arts Council of Metropolitan KansasCity)
Kansas City, MO
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the redesign and upgrade of the Council's Web site. The Council's primary purpose is to increase awareness of the arts, increase funding for the arts and cultural initiatives, and develop community leadership for the arts. Missouri Association of Community Arts Agencies (aka MACAA)
Hannibal, MO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the Out-State Initiative. The project will include the redesign of the Missouri Association of Community Arts Agencies (MACAA) Web site, training, and increased marketing services for MACAA's constituents. Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
St. Louis, MO
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production and adaptation of The Ghosts of Versailles, by composer John Corigliano and librettist William Hoffman. The company will produce this alternative version specifically developed for small and mid-size companies. Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra (Consortium)
St. Louis, MO
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the presentation of a series of orchestral works choreographed and performed by Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. In partnership with Dance St. Louis, the series will feature works by W.A. Mozart, Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky, J.S. Bach, and Leonard Bernstein. Southeast Missouri State University
Cape Girardeau, MO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a performance by the Russian National Ballet Theatre. Discounted and free tickets will be offered to education, community, and civic organizations. Unicorn Theatre
Kansas City, MO
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a production of Bare: a Pop Opera by playwrights Damon Intrabartolo and John Hartmere. Jeff Church will direct with musical direction by Molly Jessup and choreography by Anthony Humrichouser. Washington University (on behalf of Kemper Art Museum)
St. Louis, MO
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Chance Aesthetics at the Kemper Art Museum, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition examines chance as a major composition principle in modernism from the early 20th century through the 1960s. William Jewell College (on behalf of Harriman-Jewell Series)
Liberty, MO
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support recital performances as part of the Harriman-Jewell Series. The series will present Polish pianist Rafal Bachacz, American tenor Lawrence Brownlee, and Russian pianist Yevgeny Sudbin free of charge at Folly Theater in downtown Kansas City.
Number of Grants: 17 Total Amount: $281,500
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