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.

WASHINGTON

A Contemporary Theatre, Inc. (aka ACT)
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of the Pacific Highway South/Highway 99 Project. Playwright Andrea Allen and actor/playwright Todd Jefferson Moore will collaborate on the development of the piece.

Arts Northwest
Port Angeles, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity & Aging   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: AccessAbility
To support Songwriting Works on the Olympic Peninsula. The project will include an interactive song composition program with older adults and professional musicians.

Carter Family Puppet Theater (aka Northwest Puppet Center)
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of a puppet play based on Miguel de Cervantes' 1605 classic Don Quixote de La Mancha. Northwest Puppet Center artistic directors and founders Christine and Stephen Carter will lead the project and perform with Executive Director Dimitri Carter.

Center for Religious Humanism (on behalf of Image Journal)
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the production, promotion, and increased writers' fees for Image: A Journal of the Arts & Religion. The journal will increase its national reach through a direct-mail campaign.

Cinema Seattle (aka Seattle International Film Festival Group)
Seattle, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 34th Seattle International Film Festival. More than 400 films will be presented to an audience of 160,000 people.

Copper Canyon Press
Port Townsend, WA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, promotion, and national distribution of books of poetry. Proposed authors include Jim Harrison, Gregory Orr, Alberto Ros, Benjamin Alire Senz, and Chase Twichell.

Early Music America, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support services to the early music field. Plans include the first annual catalogue/touring artists roster of professional early music ensembles, showcases of member early music ensembles at national conferences, and Web site enhancements.

Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle
Seattle, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 21st annual Earshot Jazz Festival. Featuring international and regional jazz artists in numerous concerts and outreach activities, the festival programs will be held in multiple venues across Seattle, including concert halls, jazz clubs, community centers, art galleries, schools, coffee houses, shopping centers, and film centers.

Esoterics
Seattle, WA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances of a cappella choral music, including commissioned works. Each of the four concerts will include a commissioned work by composers Eric Banks, Paul Crabtree, Donald Skirvin, and Martha Sullivan.

Green, Samuel
Waldron Island, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Henry Gallery Association, Inc. (aka Henry Art Gallery)
Seattle, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artist Kiki Smith (b. 1954), with an accompanying gallery guide and education programs. The first comprehensive survey of Smith's "captured images" will include six distinct strands of her work using photography as a medium.

Jack Straw Foundation
Seattle, WA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Artist Support Program. Artists will participate in residencies, workshops, mentorships, and public presentations involving sound art.

Methow Music Festival Association (aka Methow Valley Chamber Music Festival)
Winthrop, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Methow Valley Chamber Music Festival, featuring artist residencies and performances by the Biava Quartet and the Finisterra Piano Trio. Other festival artists will include cellist Craig Weaver, flutist Paul Taub, and pianist Stephen Beus.

Northwest Film Forum
Seattle, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a curated film exhibition series. The project will present director retrospectives, premieres, films for children, and thematic programming in Northwest Film Forum's two theaters.

Northwest Folklife
Seattle, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Alaskan-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Centennial: A Living Legacy. The project will present the ethnic and traditional groups that were first presented at the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exhibition.

Northwest Heritage Resources
Mountlake Terrac, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support production of an audio cultural heritage tour guide for Washington's Cascade Loop Highway. The project will document the traditional artists and the culture they represent along Route 97A and Route 153, from Wenatchee to Winthrop, and compile this information into an audio driving guide.

Northwest Indian College
Bellingham, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Maintaining and Expanding the Traditional Art of Coastal Salish Basketry. The project will offer instruction in weaving baskets to Native Americans through conferences.

Northwest Native American Basketweavers Association
Seattle, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 2009 Annual Gathering of the Northwest Native American Basketweavers Association. The project will present an opportunity for indigenous weavers to share basketweaving techniques with each other and the general public.

Northwest Symphony Orchestra
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Sounds of the Northwest, a concert featuring music by local composers and an educational outreach project. The project will also includes educational clinics, presentations, and master classes featuring cellist Joshua Roman and composer Glenn Crytser.

On the Boards (aka OtB)
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the New Performance Series and the Under the Boards outreach programs. Related activities will include master classes for artists, post-performance question-and-answer sessions, online audio interviews with artists, podcast discussions, a performance blog, and workshops.

Pacific Northwest Ballet Association
Seattle, WA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support The Broadway Project, a program of four works inspired by Broadway musical theater, and related outreach activities. The program will feature Susan Stroman's TAKE FIVE...More or Less, Christopher Wheeldon's Carousel (A Dance), George Balanchine's Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, and Jerome Robbins' West Side Story.

Pilchuck Glass School (aka Pilchuck)
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a summer artist residency program. Up to ten artists will be provided with resources, facilities, and technical assistance to experiment with new work in glass.

Powell, Joseph E.
Ellensburg, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Seattle Art Museum
Seattle, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Target Practice: Critiques of Painting: 1949-1978, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will be international in scope examining radical approaches to painting during a particularly intensive period in art history.

Seattle Chamber Music Festival
Seattle, WA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support summer chamber music festivals at Lakeside School in Seattle and the Overlake School in Redmond. The festival concerts will be curated by artistic director and founder Toby Saks and associate artistic director James Ehnes.

Seattle Children's Theatre Association
Seattle, WA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a world premiere production of Pharaoh Serket and the Lost Stone of Fire, a new play by John Olive. The play will bring to life the culture of ancient Egypt for students studying world history and the rise of civilization.

Seattle Opera
Seattle, WA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro). Performances of the opera will be accompanied by preview talks, lectures, and radio broadcasts.

Seattle Repertory Theatre
Seattle, WA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support The Seafarer by Conor McPherson. The production will be directed by Wilson Milam.

Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support American Conductors: Perspectives on the Symphony Orchestra. Music director Gerard Schwarz and guest conductors JoAnn Falletta, Leonard Slatkin, and Dennis Russell Davies will lead orchestral performances, public lectures, and discussions at Benaroya Hall.

University of Washington (on behalf of UW World Series)
Seattle, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support performances and educational activities by international artists presented by the UW World Series. Performers from the United States, France, and South Africa will provide audiences with opportunities to experience unique traditions and diverse art forms.

Velocity Dance Center (consortium)
Seattle, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the SCUBA National Touring Network for Dance. In a partnership with the Southern Theater in Minneapolis, ODC Theater/San Francisco, and Philadelphia Dance Projects, the project will create touring opportunities for emerging dance artists.

Village Theatre
Issaquah, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the development and production of Stunt Girl, a new musical by lyricist/book writer Peter Kellogg and composer David Friedman. The piece will tell the story of the adventurous life of Nelly Bly (1864-1922), New York's first female reporter, world traveler, and captain of industry.

Washington State Historical Society (aka State Capital Museum)
Tacoma, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support With Our Hands: World Folk Art Traditions of Washington State. The project will present a folk arts demonstration, an exhibit, catalogue, teachers' workshop, and public lectures.

Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission (aka Washington State Parks)
Olympia, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support multicultural festivals, concerts, and folk arts presentations. The program will produce a series of events in Washington's state parks that will feature the cultural diversity of the Pacific Northwest.

Washington State University (on behalf of Museum of Art)
Pullman, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artist Chris Jordan (b. 1963) at the Museum of Art, with accompanying catalogue. Jordan's large-scale photographic work comments on modern society's inclination toward disposable commodities.

Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a traveling exhibition and catalogue examining artists' responses to environmental issues in the Pacific Northwest. The exhibition will feature works in the traditional media of painting, sculpture, photography, and crafts that are easily presented in a gallery setting.

Number of Grants: 36          Total Amount: $795,000

 
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