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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.

NEW MEXICO

Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces Foundation (on behalf of Las Cruces International Marichi Conference)
Las Cruces, NM
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Las Cruces International Mariachi Conference. The conference will perpetuate traditions of mariachi music and Mexican folkloric dance through workshops, performances, and a festival.

Center for Contemporary Arts of Santa Fe, Inc.
Santa Fe, NM
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support digital media education and presentation programs. Classes and performances by artists experimenting with digital technologies will offered to community teens and adults.

Central Consolidated School District #22
Kirtland, NM
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support an adaptation and production of Yellowcake from the novel by Ann Cummins at the Navajo Nation's Phil L. Thomas Performing Arts Center. The author will work with professional artists and the students of Shiprock High School to produce the play's world premiere performances.

Chatter - A Chamber Ensemble
Albuquerque, NM
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances and video recordings of works by composers interned in the Theresienstadt prison camp during World War II. A performance of Brundibar, a children's opera composed by Hans Krasa in 1943, will be performed by teenage singers with Chatter's ensemble members. The project also will include educational activities for fourth- and fifth-grade students.

City of Santa Fe, New Mexico (aka City of Santa Fe Arts Commission)
Santa Fe, NM
$50,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support ArtWorks. Based on the Lincoln Center Institute's model of Aesthetic Education, professional development training will be offered to elementary school teachers, school staff, and teaching artists, resulting in lesson plans and curricula that will be implemented during the school year.

Cornerstones Community Partnerships
Santa Fe, NM
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the Summer Youth Training Program. Participants in the program will receive paid, hands-on training in traditional building skills while helping to restore the 17th century San Miguel Chapel in Santa Fe.

Fine Arts for Children and Teens, Inc.
Santa Fe, NM
$38,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support after-school visual arts education programs for underserved youth. Students will learn to draw, paint, collage, sculpt, and make prints and mixed-media works.

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Santa Fe, NM
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the conservation of works by American artist Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) in the permanent collection. Project activities will include photographic documentation, technical analysis, and treatment of a select group of paintings spanning the artist's career.

National Hispanic Cultural Center Foundation
Albuquerque, NM
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of multi-genre visual, literary and performing arts events, and statewide touring to underserved communities. The presentations will be complemented by a seminar for teachers on Hispanic arts and outreach activities by artists.

New Mexico Arts
Santa Fe, NM
$727,300
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

New Mexico Symphony Orchestra
Albuquerque, NM
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a statewide tour to small, rural, and underserved communities of New Mexico. The project also will offer educational activities in Albuquerque-area schools, such as in-school ensembles, youth concerts, and an Ambassador of Music program.

Outside In Productions
Santa Fe, NM
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Youth With Promise in consortium with El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe. The program offers classes in dance, guitar, and visual arts for adjudicated youth while they are incarcerated and after they have been released.

Santa Fe Art Institute
Santa Fe, NM
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support MEMORY: Shadow and Light. The multi-faceted project will bring artists of international prominence to Santa Fe for lectures, workshops, and exhibitions.

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Ltd.
Santa Fe, NM
$15,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support the American Composer Residency Project. The festival will host composers Steven Stucky, Chinary Ung, Cynthia Lee Wong, and Artistic Director Marc Neikrug for performances and master classes.

Santa Fe Desert Chorale
Santa Fe, NM
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a choral festival commemorating the 250th anniversary of George Frideric Handel's death. The chorus will perform the composer's sacred and secular choral music in concert and offer free community outreach performances in different venues in Santa Fe.

Tricklock Company
Albuquerque, NM
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Revolutions International Theatre Festival. The project will host companies from around the world performing in venues throughout Albuquerque and Santa Fe.

University of New Mexico Main Campus
Albuquerque, NM
$100,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts Touring
To support the touring exhibition Impressive Impressions: Fifty Years of Tamarind Lithographs, with accompanying catalogue. The parameters of and artists' accessibility to printmaking in general and lithography in particular have expanded significantly due in part to the creative and educational activities provided by Tamarind.

Working Classroom, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Multicultural Street Conservatory. The project will provide year-round, tuition-free visual arts and theater education to youth ages 12 to 18.


Number of Grants: 18          Total Amount: $1,207,800

 
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