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FY 2009 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/American Masterpieces/
Arts on Radio and Television/Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth/Partnerships

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

MISSOURI

Circus Day Foundation
St. Louis, MO
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Circus Harmony, a theatrical circus arts program. Working with professional circus educators, choreographers, costume designers, and musicians, youth learn theatrical circus skills and perform for the public.

COCA - Center of Creative Arts
St. Louis, MO
$55,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Dance Outreach and Pre-Professional Dance Programs. The activities will provide intensive dance training for low-income students and residencies at elementary schools.

Curators of the University of Missouri at Columbia (Consortium)
Columbia, MO
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 25th anniversary of the Missouri Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. In collaboration with the Missouri Arts Council, the project will support master/apprentice partnerships to preserve artistic traditions.

Curators of University of Missouri at St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Public Policy Research Center's Photography Project. The project will provide community members with training in photography and opportunities for exhibiting the resulting work.

Dance Saint Louis
St. Louis, MO
$30,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of the Spring to Dance Festival, featuring works by dance companies of the Midwest region and beyond. The festival will take place at the Touhill Performing Arts Center on the University of Missouri's St. Louis campus.

Dance Saint Louis (Consortium)
St. Louis, MO
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Extended Residency program. In partnership with St. Louis Public Schools, professional dancers from Noche Flamenca and José Limón Dance Company will conduct three-week residencies in schools and community centers.

Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey, Inc. (Consortium)
Kansas City, MO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a residency for Ailey II as part of the celebration of Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey's 25th anniversary. In partnership with the YWCA of Greater Kansas City, the project will include public and school performances and community outreach programs.

Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support AileyCamp and AileyCamp/The Group dance education programs. AileyCamp is an intensive summer dance program of jazz, tap, modern, and ballet; The Group is a continuation of the summer training and takes place during the school year.

Mid-America Arts Alliance (aka M-AAA) (on behalf of ExhibitsUSA)
Kansas City, MO
$50,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts Touring
To support the touring exhibition Sketches to Steel: The Design Process of Sculptor Albert Paley, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition, organized by M-AAA's ExhibitsUSA, presents an overview of Paley's (b. 1944) design processes for both his site-specific projects and his studio work.

Mid-America Arts Alliance
Kansas City, MO
$1,273,900
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Missouri State Council on the Arts
St. Louis, MO
$761,500
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Missouri State University
Springfield, MO
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Gordon McCann Collection Digitization Project. The project will digitize analog recordings of traditional Ozark fiddle music.

Nelson Gallery Foundation (aka Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art)
Kansas City, MO
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a project intended to engage the participation of the Native American community with the Nelson-Atkins Museum through activities such as the incorporation of Native American voices into audio tours and the creation of programming that provides Native-American artists, historians, curators, community leaders, elders, and activitists a strong voice in the interpretation of museum exhibits.

ReStart, Inc. (Consortium)
Kansas City, MO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Arts at reStart for Adults. In partnership with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the project is designed to provide homeless adults with three levels of weekly art presentations and instruction and subsequent opportunities to exhibit or perform their work.

ReStart, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Arts at ReStart for Children and Youth. Working alongside professional artists, homeless children will participate in multidisciplinary arts workshops.

Robert L. Reed Tap Heritage Institute
Saint Louis, MO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of the 18th annual St. Louis Tap Festival. The festival will include concerts, panel discussions, lectures, archival video showings, and workshops.

St. Louis African Chorus (aka African Musical Arts, Inc.)
St. Louis, MO
$12,500
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support multi-state artist residencies by composers of African descent and educational activities organized by African Musical Arts, Inc. Activities will take place in St. Louis; Chicago and Elsah, Illinois; Waterville, Maine; Olympia, Washington; Salem, Oregon; and New York City.

Stages St. Louis
Chesterfield, MO
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the production of the Tony Award-winning musical The Drowsy Chaperone, with accompanying outreach and educational activities. Artistic Director Michael Hamilton will direct the work with music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison, and book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar.

That Uppity Theatre Company
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of new work in the DisAbility Project, with accompanying outreach and educational activities. Company actors and community members, with and without disabilities, will create and perform original work exploring the culture of disability.


Number of Grants: 19          Total Amount: $2,477,900

 
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