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FY 2010 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.

ARIZONA

Arizona Commission on the Arts
Phoenix, AZ
$938,600
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Arizona Theatre Company (Consortium)
Tucson, AZ
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a Theater Education Residency in Santa Cruz and Cochise Counties, Arizona. Associate Artistic Director/Director of Education Samantha Wyer will lead a residency program to introduce new audiences to theater and support Arizona teachers.

Arts for All, Inc. (aka Third St. Kids)
Tucson, AZ
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Out-of-School Time Arts Classes by the Third St. Kids. Daily classes in dance, drama, music, visual art, and ceramics will be taught by artists with and without disabilities.

Ballet Arizona
Phoenix, AZ
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support free ballet performances in local parks in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Ballet Under the Stars will be performed in Fountain Park, Fountain Hills; Tempe Center for the Arts Amphitheatre; Steele Indian School Park, Phoenix; and Sahuaro Ranch Park, Glendale.

Drawing Studio, Inc.
Tucson, AZ
$17,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support The Art of Summer, a visual arts program for youth and teens. The program will introduce students ages 9 to 18 in the metropolitan Tucson area to the role studio art practice plays in the development of visual intelligence.

Grand Canyon Chamber Music Festival
Grand Canyon, AZ
$27,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Native American Composer Apprentice Project. Students will study one-on-one with a composer-in-residence and create original works that will be performed by the ETHEL String Quartet while on tour to reservation schools.

Rosie's House: A Music Academy for Children
Phoenix, AZ
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Music Education Program, a semester-long, tuition-free music instruction program. Professional musicians teach group and private instrumental lessons to up to 50 students in the Phoenix metropolitan area.

SharMoore Children's Productions
Tucson, AZ
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Stories that Soar!, a literacy and performing arts program that brings original children's stories to life through theater. The program will be conducted in Tucson and Phoenix elementary schools and an interactive website.

Sonoran Art Foundation, Inc. (aka Sonoran Glass Art Academy)
Tucson, AZ
$18,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Youth Glass Arts Education Program. Through school-based and community-based programs, youth will receive intensive arts instruction through classroom instruction, workshops, and special events.

Tucson Symphony Society (Consortium)
Tucson, AZ
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Southern Arizona Residency. In collaboration with the Bisbee Community Chorus, the project will consist of an educational component and a public concert in rural communities in southern Arizona.

Tucson Symphony Society (aka Tucson Symphony Orchestra)
Tucson, AZ
$14,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Young Composers Project. Students will learn to compose music for orchestra, culminating in a reading and recording of their newly composed pieces by the Tucson Symphony Chamber Orchestra or the Tucson String Quintet.

University of Arizona (on behalf of Poetry Center)
Tucson, AZ
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a series of events to celebrate the Poetry Center's 50th anniversary. Proposed presenters include Luis Rodriguez, Gary Snyder, Peggy Shumaker, Adrienne Rich, Mark Strand, and Tony Hoagland.

University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a visiting artist lecture series. The series will bring scholars, artists, and curators directly to the Tucson community to explore issues in contemporary art.


Number of Grants: 13          Total Amount: $1,189,600

 
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