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.

WASHINGTON

5th Avenue Theatre Association
Seattle, WA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support productions of Leonard Bernstein's On the Town, directed by Associate Artistic Director William Berry, and Candide, directed by Producing Artistic Director David Armstrong. The productions are part of a city-wide Bernstein festival, taking place in spring of 2010.

Artist Trust: A Resource for Washington
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Information Services, a series of professional development resources for Washington state artists along with online resources for artists nationwide. Information will be shared through comprehensive training sessions, print publications, Web sites, bi-weekly e-mail bulletins, a toll-free phone line, and community workshops.

Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a series of audio production workshops and mentorships for visually impaired adults and youth. The program will introduce visually impaired people to the creative possibilities and latest techniques of audio production.

Arts Northwest
Port Angeles, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support professional development services. Activities will include seminars, workshops, roundtable discussions, forums, peer networking, mentoring, and job-alike sessions targeted to arts administrators.

Associated Recreation Council (aka Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center)
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Redshirts by Dana Yeaton at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center. Artistic Director Jacqueline Moscou will direct.

Bellingham Festival of Music
Bellingham, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Bellingham Festival of Music. The two-week summer festival will feature orchestral and chamber music concerts at venues throughout the community.

Book-It Repertory Theatre
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Book It All Over! Education and Outreach Program. The program will bring curriculum-based touring performances of adapted literature to students throughout the state of Washington.

Central District Forum for Arts and Ideas (aka CD Forum)
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support CD Forum's 10th anniversary series of multidisciplinary performances by African American artists, with accompanying educational activities. Project components will include music and dance performances, Black to the Future II: Black Sci-Fi Revisited, the Creation Project Showcase, community workshops, and artist talks.

Centrum Foundation
Port Townsend, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Jazz Port Townsend festival dedicated to the music of NEA Jazz Masters Art Blakey (1988) and Benny Golson (1996). As part of the festival, pianist Benny Green and trumpeter Terrell Stafford will conduct workshops and create combos using community musicians.

Centrum Foundation (Consortium)
Port Townsend, WA
$11,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Dance This, a residential dance workshop for high school students in Seattle, Washington. In partnership with Seattle Theater Group, the program will offer classes in dance technique as well as choreography and improvisation.

Confluences (aka The Confluence Project)
Vancouver, WA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support community outreach and education activities for  The Confluence Project, which comprises seven permanent art installations by artist/architect Maya Lin for the Columbia River Basin to commemorate the Lewis and Clark Expedition in the Northwest. Participants will include service clubs, visitor bureaus, chambers of commerce, arts councils, and outdoor recreation and environmental groups.

Cultural Development Authority of King County (aka 4Culture)
Seattle, WA
$36,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support a series of jury-selected, site-specific performances. Conducted in partnership with local arts agencies, performances will take place throughout King County.

Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support Genius + Soul = Jazz: Revisited. A series of concerts and educational activities will celebrate  the musical kinship of NEA Jazz Master Quincy Jones and the late Ray Charles with a focus on their 1961 Impulse! recording Genius + Soul = Jazz.

Glass Art Society, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the 39th annual conference. To be held in Corning, New York, the conference will include a series of exhibitions, lectures, panels, and workshop demonstrations.

Museum of Glass
Tacoma, WA
$64,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Science of Art, a visual arts education program that encourage students to recognize the intersection between scientific exploration and the creative process. Students will identify and apply the processes of observation, rigorous experimentation and problem-solving, and visual literacy in the creation of glass art.

Northwest Heritage Resources (Consortium)
Mountlake Terrace, WA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Folk and Traditional Arts Infrastructure program. The project, in collaboration with the Washington State Arts Commission, will expand and develop awareness of heritage traditions throughout the state.

One Reel (aka Bumbershoot)
Seattle, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support AfroFuturism, a component of the Bumbershoot Festival. A series of literary programs, exhibitions, film screenings, and music, dance, and multimedia performances will be presented.

Orcas Center
Eastsound, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the K-6 Dance Program. Orcas School District students in kindergarten through sixth grade will receive in-class dance instruction, have the opportunity to perform, and see a high-quality professional dance performance.

Pacific Northwest Ballet Association
Seattle, WA
$40,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the restaging, reconstruction of sets and costumes, and presentation of choreographer Ulysses Dove's Serious Pleasures. The piece will be presented in an all Dove performance at the Marion Oliver McCaw Hall in Seattle.

Pacific Northwest Ballet Association (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support DISCOVER DANCE Consortium. In partnership with Seattle Public Schools, teaching artists will provide dance residencies to students and will partner with classroom teachers to develop and implement a set of dance-infused lesson plans.

Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Port Angeles, WA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Adventures in Music, an educational outreach program. Activities will provide K-5 students with live performing arts programs supported by educational curriculum materials.

Puget Sound Educational Service District
Renton, WA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Arts Impact: Artistic Pathways to Learning. Elementary classroom teachers will be trained to provide dance, theater, and visual arts lessons that are implemented across the curriculum of the whole school.

Richard Hugo House
Seattle, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support New Voices, New Work: An Innovative Literary Community, a series of programs to encourage the creation of new work and introduce new writing to broader audiences. Key activities include the Hugo Literary Series, offering readings and panels surrounding new commissioned works; a New Ideas forum, encouraging discussion of current events and issues; and the Hugo Writers Fund, which provides space, technical assistance, and other resources to groups presenting literary events at the Richard Hugo House.

Seattle Arts and Lectures, Inc. (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support readings and conversations with distinguished poets, as well as intensive writing classes for youth and adults. In partnership with the Richard Hugo House, the organizations will present readings and engage selected poets from the series to conduct day-long poetry classes for both published and emerging writers.

Seattle Arts and Lectures, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Getting the Word Out. The project will advance student writing through publications, recordings, readings, performances, and collaborations with community partners.

Seattle Chamber Players
Seattle, WA
$17,500
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support Icebreaker V: American Chamber Music Set to Dance, with accompanying educational activities. The ensemble will perform works written by American composers John Cage, Henry Cowell, Morton Gould, and Charles T. Griffes.

Seattle International Children's Festival
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Seattle International Children's Festival and Festival in Tacoma, with related education and outreach activities. The combined festivals will feature an array of world cultures and disciplines, including traditional and contemporary music, dance, theater, puppetry, circus arts, and storytelling.

Seattle Opera (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Opera Goes to School. In partnership with the Auburn Arts Commission, the program will provide week-long residencies to elementary schools in which Seattle Opera staff, teaching artists, and professional singers teach students about opera.

Seattle Repertory Theatre (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Bringing Theater Into the Classroom. In partnership with the Seattle Children's Theatre, the program will provide professional development and follow up classroom residencies in which professional artists and teachers combine theater education and concepts of literacy into their classroom curriculum.

Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support ACCESS, an outreach performance and education program for underserved communities. In partnership with the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center, the orchestra will engage children and families in diverse Seattle neighborhoods through activities such as artist residencies, school concerts, and teacher training workshops.

Seattle Theatre Group
Seattle, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Art in the Community. Artists will participate in performances, workshops, master classes, lectures, discussions, radio interviews, and school residencies.

SouthEast Effective Development (aka SEED)
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support SummerSTAGE and Middle School Theatre Camp, summer theater training programs for youth. Youth will learn all aspects of theater production and create original plays based on Native American themes.

Tears of Joy Theatre
Vancouver, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of Malika, Queen of the Cats, based on a Palestinian folk tale for the puppet stage. Written by Artistic Director Nancy Aldrich and directed by Jon Ludwig, the show will tour to Portland, Oregon, and be performed as part of the Family Series and Theatre Adventures programs.

Town Hall Association
Seattle, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Global Rhythms series. Traditional and international artists will perform in concerts and participate in lecture-demonstrations, classes at local high schools, panel discussions, and mini-performances at community centers.

University of Washington
Seattle, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the staging of choreographer Alwin Nikolais's Pond (1982). The University of Washington's Chamber Dance Company will present Trajectories: A Centennial Celebration of the Heritage and Legacy of Alwin Nikolais, a concert featuring Pond contextualized by choreographers who came before and after Nikolais, including Loie Fuller, Mary Wigman, Oskar Schlemmer, Tandy Beal, and Llory Wilson.

University of Washington (on behalf of UW World Series)
Seattle, WA
$60,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the reconstruction and presentation of choreographer Trisha Brown's Opal Loop/Cloud Installation #72503 (1980) by the UW World Series, with accompanying educational activities. The Trisha Brown Dance Company will join Japanese visual artist Fujiko Nakaya for an evening of repertory works at Meany Hall for the Performing Arts.

Vashon Allied Arts, Inc.
Vashon, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Vashon Artists in Schools. Professional artists who live and work in the island community, and visiting artists who practice ethnic art forms, will collaborate with classroom teachers to design, implement, and evaluate artist residencies in Vashon Island public schools.

Washington State Arts Commission
Olympia, WA
$837,500
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Youth in Focus
Seattle, WA
$38,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Core Curriculum Photography Classes program. Underserved high school students will work with professional artists during after-school hours and summer months to improve their proficiency in photography.

Number of Grants: 39          Total Amount: $1,804,000

 
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