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FY 2010 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence | Challenge America Fast-Track Grants | Literature Fellowships (Prose)

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

GEORGIA

Art Papers, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support publication of the journal Art Papers, and its related lecture series, Art Papers Live!, and development of a new website. In its 33rd year, Arts Papers is a bi-monthly visual arts publication that presents the work of contemporary regional and emerging artists who otherwise would not be recognized.

Athens-Clarke County Unified Government Department of Leisure Services (on behalf of The Morton Theatre)
Athens, GA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Morton Theatre Centennial Celebration. Project activities will include a one-day festival featuring national and regional artists and a vaudeville performance at the theater to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Morton Theatre, the major entertainment facility for Athens's African American community for many years.

Atlanta Ballet, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of James Kudelka's Four Seasons, set to music by Antonio Vivaldi. The work will be performed at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre as part of Atlanta Ballet's 80th anniversary celebration.

Atlanta Opera
Atlanta, GA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute). The company will develop a program tailored for middle and high school students of area public schools and an educational touring production that will reach student and adult audiences in several Atlanta public schools.

Center for Puppetry Arts
Atlanta, GA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the puppet theater production of Paul Bunyan & the Tall Tale Medicine Show adapted from folktales by Artistic Director Jon Ludwig. Clint Thornton will direct the production.

Clayton State University (on behalf of Spivey Hall)
Morrow, GA
$9,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Project Jupiter, a residency with the Jupiter String Quartet in Spivey Hall. Two week-long residencies will include workshops, master classes, school performances, and concerts.

Georgia College & State University
Milledgeville, GA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support performances by Rennie Harris Puremovement. The company will also present a workshop for underprivileged youth from Baldwin County Youth Enrichment Services.

Georgia Shakespeare Festival, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and production of a world premiere adaptation based on Homer's Odyssey. Producing Artistic Director Richard Garner will adapt and direct the work, and original music will be composed by Kendall Simpson.

Independent Media Artists of GA, Etc. Inc. (aka Atlanta Film Festival)
Atlanta, GA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 34th Atlanta Film Festival. The festival presents the best of current independent film and video to an audience of 13,000 people.

Joseph, Sheri
Atlanta, GA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

LaGrange Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
LaGrange, GA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Music Tells a Story, concerts exploring the region's American Indian heritage. Lee Johnson will compose orchestral music and Gayle Ross will write narration exploring the Cherokee Indian's experience during the Trail of Tears.

Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the Working Artists Project. The project provides established Georgia artists with a one-year residency including a stipend, a studio assistant, an exhibition, and a full-color catalogue.

National Black Arts Festival
Atlanta, GA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the DNA Project, a multidisciplinary artist collaboration. American artists will participate in a residency in the country of their heritage, collaborate with artists in that country, and perform the work during Atlanta's festival.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc. (on behalf of Atlanta Symphony Orchestra) (Consortium)
Atlanta, GA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support A King Celebration, a project of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra that will celebrate the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In collaboration with Morehouse College, the project will include performances, educational outreach activities, and a national radio broadcast.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc. (on behalf of Alliance Theatre)
Atlanta, GA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition and the world premiere of the winning production, Tennis in Nablus by Ismail Khalidi. The competition invites final year graduate students from MFA programs across the country to submit their best work, resulting in a production of the winning play.

Sautee Nacoochee Community Association, Inc. (aka Sautee Nacoochee Center)
Sautee Nacoochee, GA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the continued development of Headwaters: Birth, Death and Places In-Between. The Sautee Nacoochee Center will re-conceive and remount the original community-based performance piece performed in 2009.

Savannah Music Festival, Inc.
Savannah, GA
$17,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 2010 Savannah Music Festival. The programs will introduce artists of different genres including world music, music and dance tradition of Latin America, traditional songs from coastal Georgia, chamber music masterworks from Europe, and American jazz musicians performing in the jazz tradition.

Seven Stages, Inc. (aka 7 Stages)
Atlanta, GA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of the English translation of Bernard Marie Koltès' The Day of Murders in the History of Hamlet. The production will be the second in a ten-year project established to translate and produce six of Koltès' plays.

Sumner, Melanie
Rome, GA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature


Number of Grants: 19          Total Amount: $379,000

 
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