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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.

UTAH

Bad Dog Rediscovers America (aka Bad Dog)
Salt Lake City, UT
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Through the Eyes of Youth. An exchange program between low-income youth in Salt Lake City and Las Cruces, New Mexico, the program focuses specifically on digital photography.

Moab Music Festival, Inc.
Moab, UT
$18,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Masterpieces in the Red Rocks, a project celebrating 17 years of composers-in-residence at the festival. The residency will feature chamber music by composers Paquito D'Rivera and Kenji Bunch, as well as John Musto, Jon Deak, and Bruce Adolphe.

Ririe-Woodbury Dance Foundation (aka Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company)
Salt Lake City, UT
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support dance residency activities in communities across the United States. The project will include lecture-demonstrations, creative movement classes, teacher workshops, open rehearsals, master classes, parent/child workshops, and performances.

Ririe-Woodbury Dance Foundation
Salt Lake City, UT
$30,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the restaging of Duet, created in 1995 by choreographer Bill T. Jones. The project will be part of the company's annual summer workshop and will include classes in improvisation and technique.

Spy Hop Productions, Inc.
Salt Lake City, UT
$33,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Youth Documentary Arts Program, a media arts education program. The project will include Reel Stories, a summer documentary filmmaking workshop; Documenting Communities, a year-long exploration of communities; Loud and Clear, a youth-produced radio program; and Pitch-Nic Young Writer/Director, a mentorship program.

Sundance Institute
Park City, UT
$150,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Feature Film Program. The program offers emerging screenwriters, directors, producers, and composers the opportunity, support, and resources needed to successfully create new work.

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
$80,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Tanner Dance program's Side-by-Side Teacher Training Residency. Students in kindergarten through sixth grades and their teachers will acquire and practice dance skills on a weekly basis through in-school residencies and professional development workshops for teachers.

Utah Arts Council
Salt Lake City, UT
$838,400
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Utah Humanities Council
Salt Lake City, UT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the 13th annual Utah Humanities Book Festival. Events will take place at City Library in downtown Salt Lake City, as well as in rural communities across the state. The festival is estimated to reach 17,000 people in 12 communities around Utah.

Utah State University (Consortium)
Logan, UT
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support a folklorist position. In collaboration with the Utah Arts Council, the project will support a folklorist based at Utah State University to document traditions in the Great Basin/Rocky Mountain region of northern Utah and southeastern Idaho.


Number of Grants: 10          Total Amount: $1,254,400

 
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