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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.

OHIO

Access To The Arts
Cleveland, OH
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support music performances for elderly audiences. Monthly performances by conservatory-educated young musicians will take place in nursing homes, hospices, and senior centers.

American Folklore Society, Inc.
Columbus, OH
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Next Steps Development Program. The project will support technical assistance consultancies for community-based folk arts organizations and cultural specialists.

Butler Institute of American Art
Youngstown, OH
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the production and publication of a new full-color catalogue of the permanent collection and a companion DVD. Masterworks from the Butler Institute of American Art will be published on the occasion of the museum's 90th anniversary this year.

Cityfolk, Inc.
Dayton, OH
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 2009 Cityfolk Festival and Culture Builds Community project. The project will include the 13th annual traditional music, dance, and arts festival and the continuation and expansion of residency programs for folk artists.

Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, OH
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the reinstallation of the antiquities galleries. This will be the second phase of the museum's seven-year renovation and expansion project.

Columbus Museum of Art
Columbus, OH
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the Art Matters Collection Project, including the preparation and relocation of the museum's collections during large-scale renovation and expansion of its building.

Contemporary Youth Orchestra
Cleveland Heights, OH
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Music and Its Industry: Commercials and Television, a concert and education project. Plans include concerts and Community Connections workshops that will focus on music of contemporary culture as it is used in commercial advertising and television programs.

Dayton Contemporary Dance Guild, Inc. (aka Dayton Contemporary Dance Company)
Dayton, OH
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the restaging and tour of choreographer Ulysses Dove's Vespers. The project will include an educational component, which will offer lecture-demonstrations for underserved communities and a study guide for teachers.

Jazz Arts Group of Columbus
Columbus, OH
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Jazz Academy components: Jazz in the Community and Jazz in the Schools. Programming includes music theory classes, workshops, performance ensembles, a mentorship program, and sessions on the music business.

Jazz Arts Group of Columbus
Columbus, OH
$22,500
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support performances of the music of Louis Armstrong by members of the Columbus Jazz Orchestra. The project will include educational and outreach activities, including artist workshops, pre-concert talks, lectures, and a film screening.

KIACA (aka KIACA Gallery)
Columbus, OH
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support an exhibition series featuring the work of contemporary African American and African diaspora artists. Participating artists will be those who reside or have ties in the Ohio region.

Mad River Theater Works
West Liberty, OH
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a collaborative, play-making process with the residents of farms and small towns. Founding Artistic Director Jeff Hooper will be the playwright and music director, and performer Bob Lucas will compose the songs.

Massillon Museum
Massillon, OH
$45,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts Touring
To support a touring exhibition of Midwestern modernist art, with accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will highlight the artistic tradition of a region of the country often overlooked in discussions of the development of modernism in the United States.

Ohio Arts Council
Columbus, OH
$1,023,600
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Professional Flair, Inc. (aka The Dancing Wheels Company & School)
Cleveland, OH
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Donald McKayle for the Dancing Wheels Company & School. The project will also include the development of a complete training manual and DVD of the Dancing Wheels Company technique.

Slowik Music Institute
Oberlin, OH
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a community outreach program of chamber music. String students participating in the Credo Chamber Music Summer Festival will perform in non-traditional settings, such as hospitals, prisons, and public housing facilities, to reach underserved communities in Ohio.

YS Kids Playhouse
Yellow Springs, OH
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support a summer theater arts program. Led by local, national, and international artists, students will write, produce, and perform two full-scale summer dramatic performances.


Number of Grants: 17          Total Amount: $1,416,100

 
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