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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.

WASHINGTON

Blue Mountain Arts Alliance
Walla Walla, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Windows on the Past, a public art installation. The installation will include window niches of a hand-carved sandstone façade filled with historic and contemporary photographs of cultural groups, artifacts, and significant events that shaped Walla Walla between 1850-1950.

Brendan-Brown, Sean
Olympia, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Broadway Center for the Performing Arts
Tacoma, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Community Driven/World Class presenting series of music, dance, and storytelling. Activities will include performances, lecture-demonstrations, student matinee performances, and teacher training programs.

Carter Family Puppet Theater (aka Northwest Puppet Center)
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the adaptation and American debut production of the French puppet play The Grand Hand by Louis Emile Duranty. Project director and translator Stephen Carter will collaborate with Christine Carter, Northwest Puppet Center's co-artistic director, to adapt the play.

Cascade Land Conservancy
Seattle, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the Creative Crossroads conference and related activities. The conference will provide a case study of how urban design tools can be used to preserve and create an arts and cultural district in areas where new transit infrastructure is created.

Center for Religious Humanism (on behalf of Image: A Journal of the Arts & Religion)
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the production and promotion of, as well as increased writers' fees for, Image: A Journal of the Arts & Religion. The journal will increase its national reach through a direct-mail campaign.

Confluences (aka The Confluence Project)
Vancouver, WA
$32,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support a landscape art installation by artist/architect Maya Lin at Celilo State Park. The installation will be located near The Dalles, Oregon, where one of North America's largest waterfalls was once located.

Copper Canyon Press
Port Townsend, WA
$84,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, promotion, and national distribution of books of poetry. Proposed authors include Richard Jones, Benjamin Alire Saenz, Jean Valentine, Ruth Stone, Stephen Dobyns, Juan Ramon Jiménez, and Chase Twichell.

Corporate Council for the Arts (aka ArtsFund)
Seattle, WA
$24,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the redesign of ArtsFund's TakePartInArt.org website. The project will expand the website's use as a centralized calendar of arts and cultural offerings in King and Pierce Counties of Washington state.

Early Music America, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a national conference for the early music field. The three-day conference will offer professional development sessions and an early music marketplace in connection with the Berkeley Festival and Exhibition.

Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle
Seattle, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 22nd annual Earshot Jazz Festival. The festival features more than 250 jazz musicians in more than 50 concerts in concert halls, community centers, and other venues across Seattle.

Hedgebrook
Langley, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artists Communities
To support the Writers in Residence program. No-cost residencies will be targeted to women writers at the retreat located on Whidbey Island.

Merc Playhouse Society
Twisp, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the feasibility study and associated costs for the renovation and expansion of the Merc Playhouse. The organization will conduct meetings with community stakeholders about the needs for the space while also working with Balance Associates Architects on the project's technical aspects.

Methow Music Festival Association
Winthrop, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Methow Valley Chamber Music Festival featuring the Finisterra Trio and Parker Quartet. Additional artists will include pianist Craig Sheppard, violinst Jing Wang, and cellist Lee Duckles. Several concerts, including a performance targeting families, will be offered free for the community.

Music of Remembrance
Seattle, WA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Artistic Resistance: Lessons from the Holocaust, a series of music concerts and lectures. Free programs will feature repertoire from the period of the Holocaust and the commissioning and premiere of a new work by American composer Lori Laitman.

Northwest Film Forum
Seattle, WA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a curated film exhibition series. The project will present director retrospectives, premieres, films for children, and thematic programming in Northwest Film Forum's two theaters.

Northwest Heritage Resources
Lake Forest Park, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support field research and production of the second Audio Cultural Heritage Tour Guide for Washington's Cascade Loop Highway. The project will document the traditional artists living along Route 20, from Anacortes on the Puget Sound to Enttait on the Columbia River.

Northwest Indian College
Bellingham, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the maintenance and expansion of the Traditional Art of Coast Salish Basketry program. Through a series of conference activities and classes, practitioners and students will learn about the art of Coast Salish basketweaving, preserving this important component of Native American cultural heritage.

Northwest Native American Basketweavers Association
Seattle, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 2010 Annual Gathering of Basketweavers. The gathering will honor traditional Native American basketmakers as well as offer an opportunity for indigenous weavers to showcase their work, share techniques with one another and the public, and teach Native American young people about the cultural and artistic significance of basketry.

Northwest Symphony Orchestra
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the project East Meets West - Music of the Pacific Rim and Northwest Student Composers. The organization will partner with the Highline School District to feature composer Glenn Crytzer and timpanist Michael Crusoe in concerts, master classes, composition workshops, and lectures.

On the Boards
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a series of dance presentations and outreach activities. The project will include presentations by Bruno Beltrao/Grupo de Rua (Brazil), choreographer Morgan Thorson (Minneapolis), the Northwest Series production of a new work by Olivier Wevers (Seattle), the 27th annual NW New Works Festival, a monthly performance lab 12 Minutes Max, and the filming of a new work by choreographer Crystal Pite (Netherlands).

One Reel
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Wings of Laughter, a music and theater project. An adaptation of the cabaret experience employed by Teatro ZinZanni will enable individuals with special needs to attend the production.

Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival
Eastsound, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Summer Concert Series. Related activities will include seminars as well as pre- and post-performance discussions. Past guest artists have included pianist Jon Kimura Parker, violinist William Preucil, and cellist Anne Martindale Williams.

Pacific Northwest Ballet Association
Seattle, WA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Balanchine in America Festival. The festival will include presentations of George Balanchine's works by Pacific Northwest Ballet, as well as a variety of education and outreach activities, including lectures, demonstrations, and question-and-answer sessions with dancers, choreographers, and artistic staff.

Pat Graney Performance, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support an arts residency program for incarcerated women and girls. Keeping the Faith: Transitions will offer female ex-offenders a quarterly schedule of classes in dance, writing, and visual arts to culminate in quarterly readings and an annual performance to help them transition from prison to the community.

Pilchuck Glass School
Seattle, WA
$25,000
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 variety of residency opportunities including the John Hauberg Fellowship, a summer residency, and an emerging artist program.

Seattle Children's Theatre Association
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world-premiere production of In the Northern Lands: Norse Myths, a dramatization of Nordic Myths as told by Carole Shieber. Artistic Director Linda Hartzell and dramaturg Rita Giomi co-created the work with Shieber, a renowned storyteller of Nordic Myth.

Seattle Chinatown-International District Preservation and Development Authority (aka SCIDpda)
Seattle, WA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support a neighborhood revitalization project. The project will engage community members in Seattle's Chinatown International District in a series of workshops, presentations, and publications aimed at bringing new energy and community participation to the process.

Seattle Opera
Seattle, WA
$80,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Amelia, by composer Daron Hagen and librettist Gardner McFall. Performances of the opera will be accompanied by preview talks, lectures, and radio broadcasts.

Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$21,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support American Composers Project, featuring works by John Adams, Samuel Barber, and Leonard Bernstein. Music director Gerard Schwarz and guest conductor Robert Spano will lead orchestral performances, public lectures, and discussions at Benaroya Hall.

SIFF (aka Seattle International Film Festival)
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 36th Seattle International Film Festival. More than 400 films will be presented to an audience of 150,000 people.

Spectrum Dance Theater
Seattle, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the development and presentation of FAREWELL: A Fantastical Contemplation on America's Relationship with China. Through text, music, and movement, the project will explore critical human rights and social justice issues involving the United States and China.

Tacoma Opera Association
Tacoma, WA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) and related educational outreach activities. With a focus on Figaro, activities will include workshops for educators such as Enriching Curriculum through Opera and Student Night at the Opera for school groups and military families from nearby Fort Lewis.

Unidentified Moving Objects Company, Inc. (aka UMO Ensemble)
Vashon, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the final development and performance of Zen Tales, a physical theater production based on a collection of teaching tales gathered from Chinese, Japanese, and Indian folklore. The work will be created by ensemble members and will feature mask, movement, puppets, aerial, tightrope, and other physical theater techniques.

Velocity Dance Center (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the SCUBA National Touring Network for Dance. In partnership with The Southern Theater in Minneapolis, the project will create touring opportunities for emerging dance artists.

Village Theatre
Issaquah, WA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the final development and production of a new musical Gypsy King by composer, lyricist, and book writer Randy Rogel to be directed by artistic director Steve Tompkins. The musical is a clever, fast-paced comedy with themes of love, innocence, home, and family.

VSA arts of Washington
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support ArtSpring!, an arts festival highlighting works by professional artists with disabilities. The festival will provide an opportunity for students with special needs to participate in interactive arts activities and attend performances by professional artists with and without disabilities. The project also will include an exhibition of works created by visual artists with disabilities.

Washington State Arts Commission (Consortium)
Olympia, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Washington State Folk Arts Digital Archives. In collaboration with the Washington State Archives, the project will digitize and permanently archive the collection of images documenting folk arts in Washington.

Washington State Historical Society
Tacoma, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the second annual With Our Hands: World Folk Art Traditions of Washington State. The project will include a folk arts demonstration, an exhibit, a gallery guide, and public performances.

Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission
Olympia, WA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Folk and Traditional Arts in the Parks. Featuring festivals, concerts, and storytelling evenings, the project strives to increase diversity in the parks, better utilize the state parks as venues for cultural activities, and increase the use of community cultural resources for interpretive purposes in the state parks.


Number of Grants: 40          Total Amount: $916,000

 
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