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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.

NORTH CAROLINA

American Dance Festival, Inc.
Durham, NC
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support What is Dance Theater?, a series that will include works that blur the line between dance and theater. American Dance Festival will present a variety of American and international companies as well as commissioned new works.

Appalachian State University (on behalf of Center for Appalachian Studies)
Boone, NC
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Black Banjo Gathering Reunion at the Center for Appalachian Studies. The project will convene a conference consisting of performances, workshops, exhibits, and lectures that demonstrate the African origins of the five-string banjo.

Brevard Music Center, Inc.
Brevard, NC
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Quartet-in-Residence Program. The Harlem String Quartet will offer coaching sessions and master classes and will perform concerts for resident students (high school through post-graduate level) in a seven-week summer program.

Carolina Ballet, Inc.
Raleigh, NC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by principal guest choreographer Lynne Taylor-Corbett. The work will be presented at the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium at the Progress Center for the Performing Arts.

Doc Arts, Inc. (aka Full Frame Documentary Film Festival)
Durham, NC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 13th Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. The event will showcase work by emerging, established, and international documentarians.

Eastern Music Festival, Inc.
Greensboro, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Eastern Music Festival including concerts, educational, and outreach activities. The festival will feature chamber and orchestral concerts for adults and children by resident faculty musicians and guest artists.

Elsewhere, Inc (aka Elsewhere Artist Collaborative)
Greensboro, NC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a residency opportunity for emerging visual artists. Artists will be given the opportunity to spend one month engaged in the creation and presentation of artistic work using the unique inventory of a former thrift store.

Greensboro Symphony Society, Inc.
Greensboro, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Annual Community Gospel Concert featuring conductor Dr. Henry Panion and choristers selected from area colleges and churches. The concert will celebrate the opening of the International Civil Rights Center and Museum.

Lake Eden Arts Festival
Black Mountain, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support LEAF's Caribbean Traditions Project, a series of performances, teaching residencies, master classes, and workshops by music and dance artists. Activities will take place at Camp Rockmont, as well as in schools and community centers in Asheville, North Carolina.

Mallarme Chamber Players, Inc.
Durham, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a concert featuring the operetta Soul Gone Home by William Banfield, with vocalist Nnenna Freelon. The work will be presented in conjunction with Thomas Jefferson Anderson's Spirit Songs, a piece for cello and piano.

McColl Center for Visual Art
Charlotte, NC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artists Communities
To support residencies for visual artists. Participating artists will be provided housing, workspace, technical assistance, transportation costs, a materials budget, and a monthly stipend for a three-month residency during the center's 10th anniversary year.

North Carolina Dance Theatre
Charlotte, NC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a new work by resident choreographer Dwight Rhoden, and the presentation of Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux's Cinderella, Mark Godden's Constructing Juliet, and George Balanchine's Apollo. The performances will be accompanied by significant educational and outreach activities.

Penland School of Crafts, Inc.
Penland, NC
$90,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support an artist residency program. Artists will be provided with resources, facilities, and technical assistance for a two year project period in a variety of residency opportunities including the Resident Artist program, the Core Fellowship, and the Duensing Letterpress and Print Residencies.

Piedmont Opera, Inc.
Winston-Salem, NC
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Robert Ward's The Crucible (1961). The company will work in cooperation with the University of North Carolina School of the Arts on the production.

RiverRun International Film Festival
Winston-Salem, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support travel and related costs for filmmakers and industry professionals to attend the 12th RiverRun International Film Festival. Held in the spring, the event presents approximately 100 films to an audience of 13,000 people.

Roanoke Island Historical Association
Manteo, NC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the presentation of Paul Green's The Lost Colony. The historical outdoor drama will be presented at the Waterside Theatre at Fort Raleigh National Historic Site in the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

Southern Appalachian Historical Association, Inc.
Boone, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the presentation of the production of Kermit Hunter's historical outdoor drama Horn in the West. The drama depicts mountain life during the American Revolution.

Stecoah Valley Arts, Crafts & Educational Center, Inc.
Robbinsville, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support An Appalachian Evening. The performing arts series promotes traditional arts connected to Appalachian heritage and has featured such artists as the Welch Family Singers, High Windy Band, Molasses Creek, and The Wilson Brothers.

Sun Publishing Company, Inc. (aka The Sun)
Chapel Hill, NC
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support printing extra copies of The Sun to distribute free to community college libraries across the country. The Sun is a monthly magazine with 65,000 subscribers featuring prose, poetry, interviews, creative nonfiction, and photography.

Triad Stage, Inc.
Greensboro, NC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and world premiere of Providence Gap, a new play by Preston Lane with original music by Laurelyn Dossett. The project will be the centerpiece event for a summer festival produced in partnership with the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (on behalf of Ackland Art Museum)
Chapel Hill, NC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the Ackland Art Museum exhibition Thornton Dial: Thoughts on Paper (1990-1991), with accompanying catalogue, education programs, and a symposium. An African American artist, Dial (b. 1928) has only recently turned to drawing as a mode of expression.

University of North Carolina at Wilmington (on behalf of Ecotone)
Wilmington, NC
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of a trade paperback collection of Edith Pearlman's work. Other planned activities include raising artists' fees and a cross-promotion of this series with the biannual journal Ecotone, which seeks to bridge the gap between the literary world and the worlds of science and environmentalism.


Number of Grants: 22          Total Amount: $429,500

 
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