National Endowment for the Arts  
About Us
 
 

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.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

African Continuum Theatre Coalition, Inc. (aka ACTCo)
Washington, DC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Blues for an Alabama Sky by Pearl Cleage. The production will be directed by Walter Dallas.

American Association of Museums
Washington, DC
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the redesign of the American Association of Museums Registrars Committee (RC-AAM) website. The website will serve registrars and collections professionals by providing practical information, contacts, resources, and links for collections management.

American University (on behalf of Center for Social Media)
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Evolving Documentary Project. Through this initiative, the Center for Social Media will explore the aesthetic and strategic challenges facing documentary filmmakers.

Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Inc. (aka Arts Presenters)
Washington, DC
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Arts Presenters' Leadership Development Institutes. The series of institutes will engage mid-career professionals in exploring competency areas to be later shared with the field.

Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Inc. (aka Arts Presenters) (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Under the Radar Devised Work Development Program. President & CEO Sandra Gibson will collaborate with Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and independent curator/presenter Mark Russell to lead a program for theater and presenting professionals to discover new work and forge alliances.

Blues Alley Jazz Society
Washington, DC
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a big band jazz music program for youth. Students from the Blues Alley Youth Orchestra and others at the Blues Alley Summer Jazz Camp will benefit from the expertise of guest artists NEA Jazz Masters Quincy Jones (2008), Wayne Shorter (1998), and McCoy Tyner (2002).

Capital Concerts, Inc.
Washington, DC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support staging and related costs for The National Memorial Day Concert and A Capitol Fourth, two patriotic concerts at the United States Capitol to be nationally broadcast live on PBS in 2010. A national television audience of 10 to 12 million watches these 90-minute programs each year.

CityDance Ensemble, Inc. (aka CityDance Ensemble)
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the final notation of Poem, created in 1973 by choreographer Sophie Maslow (1911-2006). The work will be restaged for Sophie Maslow's 100th Birthday Celebration at the Music Center at Strathmore Concert Hall in Bethesda, Maryland.

Cultural Development Corporation of the District of Columbia
Washington, DC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Business Centers at Flashpoint and the Source. Each center's network of management tools and capacity-building services for artists and arts organizations will provide residency and technical assistance programs as well as opportunities for affordable exhibition, performance, and office spaces in conjunction with other business amenities.

Cultural Landscape Foundation (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the extension of What's Out There, an online catalogue of designed American landscapes. The project, to be realized in partnership with the Maine Historical Society, will add to the searchable online database of significant historic designed landscapes.

D.C. Wheel Productions, Inc. (aka Dance Place)
Washington, DC
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the commissioning and presentation of dance performances and accompanying residency activities at Dance Place. Touring and local artists will represent a variety of dance forms including African, Latino, tap, contemporary, step, and hip-hop.

Dance Heritage Coalition, Inc.
Washington, DC
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the addition of 10 Irreplaceable Dance Treasures to the Dance Heritage Coalition's Treasures website, to become an Online Treasures Exhibition. The project will provide unrestricted access about the American dance legacy to the general public, dance communities, students, and scholars world-wide.

Daniel Phoenix Singh & Company (aka Dakshina)
Washington, DC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 7th Annual Fall Festival of Indian Dance in Washington, DC. Dakshina's project will explore traditional dance forms from India and feature performances and workshops from noted Indian dancers.

District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Washington, DC
$816,200
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Festivals DC, Ltd. (aka Duke Ellington Jazz Festival) (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 2010-11 Duke Ellington Jazz Festival's education program in Washington, DC. A series of five concerts and recitals is designed to empower young people to experience music as a source of personal enrichment and to promote a greater appreciation for jazz.

Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation
Washington, DC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the workshop TechFocus I: Caring for Video Art. Instructors will cover technical, aesthetic, curatorial, and historic issues involved in the preservation and presentation of video art.

GALA Inc., Grupo de Artistas Latinoamericanos (aka GALA Hispanic Theatre)
Washington, DC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of El Caballero de Olmedo (The Knight from Olmedo) by Spanish classical master Lope de Vega. The play will be performed in Spanish with English surtitles, and a commissioned adaptation will make the work accessible to contemporary audiences.

George Washington University
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Coharie Heritage Empowerment Program. The project will provide instruction in traditional art forms, including storytelling, quilting, basketry, and carving to at risk youth of the Coharie Tribe.

International Arts & Artists, Inc.
Washington, DC
$60,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Lois Mailou Jones: A life in Vibrant Color, with accompanying publication. Highlighting the prolific, seven-decade career of Jones (1905-1998), the exhibition will include approximately 70 artworks spanning the late Harlem Renaissance to her contemporary synthesis of African, Caribbean, American, and African American iconography.

Levine School of Music
Washington, DC
$28,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Early Childhood Music program. Music educators will provide free, weekly music classes to young children in underserved neighborhoods in Washington, DC.

National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (aka NASAA)
Washington, DC
$742,155
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support national leadership services in the area of education and technical assistance, development of new partnerships, and advanced information services.

National Museum of Women in the Arts, Inc.
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support adult and youth educational programming related to the exhibition Lois Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color. An American painter, teacher, book illustrator, and textile designer, Lois Mailou Jones's (1905-1998) work has been represented in more than 70 group shows and 20 one-woman exhibitions since 1937.

National New Play Network, Ltd.
Washington, DC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a conference on new play development practices. Member organizations will meet with leaders in the field of new play development to brainstorm on the creation and expansion of collaborative play development programs.

National Public Radio, Inc. (aka NPR)
Washington, DC
$125,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Music Discovery Initiative

National Public Radio, Inc. (aka NPR)
Washington, DC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and distribution of segments from the NPR radio series 50 Great Voices. The series identifies and celebrates influential vocalists of the recorded era.

PEN/Faulkner Foundation
Washington, DC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the annual PEN/Faulkner Reading Series and the Writers in Schools Program. The foundation will bring writers to local high school classrooms, work with teachers to prepare them for the visit, and distribute resource materials and books to participants.

Phillips Collection
Washington, DC
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the expansion of the online collection database project. Digitalization of objects from its permanent collection will make the museum's primary resources, library, and archival holdings accessible via the website.

Post-Classical Ensemble, Inc.
Washington, DC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Sublime Confluence: Lou Harrison and Gamelan, a festival focused on the life and works of composer Lou Harrison (1917-2003). The partnerships with Georgetown, George Washington, and Wesleyan Universities will include linked courses, a free conference, a student concert, and film screenings of a Harrison documentary, A World of Music by filmmaker Eva Soltes.

Shakespeare Theatre (aka Shakespeare Theatre Company) (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$45,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Text Alive! Curriculum Enhancement Program. In partnership with the District of Columbia Public School System, the program will enable high school teachers and students to explore Shakespeare's work through a series of in-school, humanities-based workshops and an in-depth rehearsal and performance process.

Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz
Washington, DC
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the New Orleans Community Outreach Program for public school students and adults. Noted local and internationally renowned jazz musicians will conduct free master classes and participate in public performances as part of the institute's commitment to revitalize the city post-Hurricane Katrina.

Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$65,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Peer-to-Peer Jazz Education Tour. In partnership with Los Angeles County School for the Arts Foundation, the project will join gifted students from leading performing arts high schools with renowned jazz musicians for a week-long tour of performances at underserved public high schools in Atlanta, Annapolis/Baltimore, Omaha, and Denver.

Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (aka The Corcoran)
Washington, DC
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support conservation treatment of Rembrandt Peal's (1778-1860) Washington Before Yorktown and its original frame. The monumental portrait painted in 1824 stands at a remarkable 11 1/2 by 10 1/2 feet and is of central importance to the Corcoran's world-renowned collection of historic American works.

Washington Bach Consort
Washington, DC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support free noontime concerts. Performances of Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas will be presented monthly at the Church of the Epiphany in downtown Washington, DC.

Washington Ballet
Washington, DC
$45,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the restaging of Twyla Tharp's Push Comes to Shove at the Harman Center for the Arts in Washington, DC. The work will also be reprised at the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater.

Washington Theatre Awards Society (aka The Helen Hayes Awards)
Washington, DC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Helen Hayes Awards' The Washington Theatre Legacy Project. The outreach education program provides theater curriculum to students in Washington, DC public schools and area Boys and Girls Clubs.

Young Playwrights' Theater, Inc. (aka YPT) (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the YPT Express Tour. Producing Artistic Director David Andrew Snider will lead a two-month development and professional tour of plays written by young playwrights that will culminate with a four-day showcase of evening performances at GALA Hispanic Theatre.

Young Playwrights' Theater, Inc.
Washington, DC
$60,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the In-School Playwriting Program. Teaching artists will provide interactive workshops in which students learn to craft a play using improvisation, writing, editing, rehearsal, and performance.


Number of Grants: 37          Total Amount: $2,755,855

 
< Back to States List
 

Privacy Policy          Important Notices          Contact Us          USA.gov
 
Grants Recent Grants