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2011 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence

[ March 11, 2010 deadline ]

Artists Communities | Dance | Design | Folk & Traditional Arts | Literature
Local Arts Agencies | Media Arts | Museums | Music | Musical Theater
Opera | Presenting | Theater | Visual Arts

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

Artists Communities

18th Street Arts Complex (aka 18th Street Arts Center)
Santa Monica, CA
$30,000
To support artist residencies. American and international artists of various disciplines will be hosted for periods ranging from one month to one year. Artists will participate in open-studio visits and exhibitions or performances.

Alliance of Artists Communities (Consortium)
Providence, RI
$30,000
To support staff salaries and documentation of a series of residencies for young, emerging Arab authors, resulting in a publication, in partnership with La Napoule Art Foundation.

Alliance of Artists Communities
Providence, RI
$50,000
To support forums and workshops at the 20th anniversary conference of the Alliance of Artist Communities and six other sites. The programs will encourage best practices and educate people about artist communities.

Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Inc.
Red Wing, MN
$10,000
To support residencies for visual artists and writers. Ranging from two to four weeks, residencies will provide uninterrupted time and space for artists to advance a work-in-progress or initiate new work.

Anderson Ranch Arts Foundation
Snowmass Village, CO
$15,000
To support an artist residency program.  While in residence, visual and media artists will receive studio space, equipment and materials, meals, housing, travel, and exhibition opportunities. Also included is an optional structure of critical study, such as studio visits with faculty, visiting artists, and critics, and public lectures by visiting artists and critics.

Art Students League of New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a residency program for professional and emerging artists and art educators. Artists will receive a room, one meal a day, a private studio, shared large studio space, access to classes and instructors, trips to Manhattan arts locations, and the opportunity for an open studios event at the end of their residency.

Atlantic Center for the Arts, Inc.
New Smyrna Beach, FL
$40,000
To support interdisciplinary residencies for emerging and mid-career artists. Master artists will collaborate with resident artists in visual arts, literature, music, and the performing arts.

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
Omaha, NE
$50,000
To support residencies for artists to create new work. Participating artists will receive housing, workspace, technical assistance, and a monthly stipend for two- to four-month residencies.

Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation (aka Watermill Center)
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
To support artist residencies and community programs at the Watermill Center. Emerging artists and performing groups from a range of backgrounds will receive opportunities to develop new work. The project also includes education programs for area schools, open rehearsals, and artist talks available free-of-charge to the community.

Corporation of Yaddo (aka Yaddo)
Saratoga Springs, NY
$25,000
To support month-long residencies for mid-career artists at Yaddo. Artists from various disciplines will receive housing, meals, and a fully equipped studio or workspace.

Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Woodside, CA
$25,000
To support artist residencies. The project will provide studios, living accommodations, meals, and professional assistance to American visual, media, performing, and literary artists.

Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Inc.
Provincetown, MA
$15,000
To support the Winter Fellowship Program for Emerging Artists and Writers. The project will provide living accommodations, studios, and monthly stipends to 20 selected poets, fiction writers, and visual artists.

Friends of A Studio in the Woods (aka A Studio in the Woods (ASITW))
New Orleans, LA
$10,000
To support the residency program Changing Landscape: A Dialogue Between Arts and the Environment. Lodging, meals, materials expenses, transportation, stipends, and studio space in a rustic setting will be provided. Up to five literary, visual, and performing artists will present their work to the public through an on-site salon and performance presentation.

Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences, Inc.
Rabun Gap, GA
$10,000
To support the Hambidge New Artist Initiative residencies. The initiative will provide residencies to both emerging and established artists with a special focus on targeting applicants who broaden diversity.

Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito, CA
$45,000
To support residencies for emerging and mid-career artists. Resident artists will receive stipends, room, meals, travel expenses, and studio space in which to create new work, investigate surrounding communities, and share ideas and their works with other artists.

Hedgebrook Foundation
Langley, WA
$15,000
To support the Writers in Residence program. No-cost residencies will be targeted to women writers at the retreat located on Whidbey Island.

Hermitage Artist Retreat, Inc.
Englewood, FL
$10,000
To support artist residencies. Participants will be drawn from accomplished playwrights, composers, and creative artists from other disciplines with the lead artist receiving a substantial commissioning fee to produce a major work.

Kala Institute (aka Kala Art Institute)
Berkeley, CA
$40,000
To support artist residencies in visual arts, video, performance, digital media, and book arts. American and international artists will receive stipends, technical support, and access to working facilities.

MacDowell Colony, Inc.
Peterborough, NH
$40,000
To support residencies for artists who have not previously had residencies at the MacDowell Colony. Twelve composers, writers, media artists, visual artists, interdisciplinary artists, and architects from all regions of the United States will be invited to reside on the grounds of the MacDowell Colony and create or complete works.

McColl Center for Visual Art
Charlotte, NC
$30,000
To support residencies for visual artists. Participating artists will receive housing, workspace, technical assistance, transportation costs, a materials budget, and a monthly stipend for a three-month residency.

Millay Colony for the Arts, Inc.
Austerlitz, NY
$15,000
To support artist residencies for composers, writers, and visual artists. Six artists will receive one-month residencies between April and November, enabling 48 artists to be served.

Montalvo Association (aka Montalvo Arts Center)
Saratoga, CA
$30,000
To support the Lucas Artists Program, an artist residency program at the Montalvo Arts Center. Artists working in the performing, visual, and literary arts also will have the opportunity to present or exhibit their work at Villa Montalvo and other Bay Area venues.

PlatteForum (Consortium)
Denver, CO
$15,000
To support The Confluence Project, a shared artist-in-residence program between PlatteForum and the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. The artists in residence will work with teens from PlatteForum's ArtLab and MCA Denver's Teen Council.

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Inc.
Skowhegan, ME
$20,000
To support a residency program for emerging visual artists. Artists will receive a private studio, full room and board, and weekly private and group critiques by a faculty of leading professional artists.

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (aka VCCA)
Amherst, VA
$10,000
To support international artist residencies. The project will support American artists participating in two- to six-week residencies abroad and international artists residencies in the United States.

 

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