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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.

VIRGINIA

Barter Foundation, Incorporated State Theatre of Virginia (aka Barter Theatre)
Abingdon, VA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the commissioning, development, and production of a new play based on the novel Where Trouble Sleeps by Clyde Edgerton. Playwright Catherine Bush will work with the theater's resident company of actors and artists to adapt the novel for the stage.

Blue Ridge Traditional Arts, Inc. (aka Blue Ridge Music Center) (Consortium)
Galax, VA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support traditional music programming at the Blue Ridge Music Center. In collaboration with the City of Galax, the performing arts facility will celebrate and showcase the historical music and dance traditions of the Appalachian Mountains.

Charlottesville Community Design Center
Charlottesville, VA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the project Expanding the Dialogue: Community Based Design. The Charlottesville Community Design Center with local nonprofit organizations will host a series of seminars, workshops, presentations, and exhibition programs addressing the issues of shelter, health, mobility, water, and education.

Conductors Guild, Inc.
Richmond, VA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support conductor training workshops. Participants will receive instruction from experienced conductors and have the opportunity to conduct orchestral, opera, and wind ensembles at venues around the country.

Eastern Shore of Virginia Barrier Islands Center
Machipongo, VA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Barrier Island Center Performance Plus: Patchwork of Virginia Music Festival. Project activities will include performances, lectures, and the creation of an accompanying brochure featuring distinctive musical traditions from various parts of Virginia. Proposed guest artists include historian Gregg Kimball, state folklorist Jon Lohman, bluesman Jeffrey Scott, a cappella gospel group The Paschal Brothers, and bluegrass ensemble Broken Wire.

Folkstreams, Inc. (aka Folkstreams.net)
Delaplane, VA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the preservation of, and public access to, documentary films about American traditional arts and culture. The project will add new films to the Folkstreams website.

Latin Ballet of Virginia, Inc.
Richmond, VA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support performances  A Lorca, by choreographer Antonio Hidalgo. The company will perform the piece at CenterStage in Richmond, Virginia, as well as provide lecture/demonstrations throughout Virginia, North Carolina, and the District of Columbia targeting students from low-income families.

Northern Virginia Regional Commission
Fairfax, VA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support design plans for the Four Mile Run Tidal Restoration Demonstration project. The project will develop a design strategy to improve the urban industrial waterway known as the Four Mile Run, which flows from Arlington to Fairfax counties in Northern Virginia.

Richmond Ballet, Inc.
Richmond, VA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the restaging and presentation of works previously commissioned by the Richmond Ballet. The company will perform two programs of works created for the ballet during a week-long engagement at the Joyce Theatre in New York City.

Signature Theatre, Inc.
Arlington, VA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the development and world premiere of Sycamore Trees as part of American Musical Voices Project new work development series. Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble member and nationally acclaimed director Tina Landau will direct the musical with music and lyrics by Ricky Ian Gordon.

Twentieth Century Consort (aka 21st Century Consort)
Round Hill, VA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 21st Century Consort's commissioning and performance of Characters, a new work by composer Thomas Albert, based on poetry by Amy A. Young. Characters will be premiered at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC.

Virginia Arts Festival, Inc.
Norfolk, VA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Encore: Cultivating Community Through Dance at the 14th annual Virginia Arts Festival. Companies to be presented include the Birmingham Royal Ballet, Garth Fagan Dance, Pilobolus, and Richmond Ballet.

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Amherst, VA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artists Communities
To support residencies targeted to minorities and artists of limited financial means. The project will provide stipends to and will fully support artists participating in two- to six-week residencies.

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (Consortium)
Amherst, VA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artists Communities
To support residency retreats for African American poets. In collaboration with Cave Canem Foundation of New York City, artists will focus on their creative projects at the organization's Mt. San Angelo facility at the foot of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains.

Virginia Opera Association, Inc.
Norfolk, VA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the production of the American classic Porgy and Bess, written by George Gershwin, libretto by DuBose and Dorothy Heyward. In celebration of the work's 75th anniversary, the production will be accompanied by statewide educational and outreach activities designed for both students and adults.

Vollmer, Matthew
Blacksburg, VA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts
Vienna, VA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support professional training programs for singers and fully staged opera performances. Filene Young Artists and Opera Studio Artists will receive individualized training from music and language coaches, directors, and conductors.


Number of Grants: 17          Total Amount: $320,500

 
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