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FY 2011 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/ 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.

GEORGIA

Atlanta Shakespeare Company (aka The New American Shakespeare Tavern)
Atlanta, GA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Total Access Shakespeare, an educational arts enrichment project. At-risk students at four schools in the Atlanta Public Schools system will see professional Shakespeare productions, participate in workshops and in-school residencies, create new theater works, and witness members of their own community perform in theater productions.

City of Atlanta, Georgia (on behalf of Office of Arts and Culture) (Consortium)
Atlanta, GA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the Cultural Experience Project (CEP), a multidisciplinary arts program providing youth with exposure to local arts and culture performances. A partnership with the Atlanta Public School System, the CEP will provide Atlanta school children the opportunity to attend a performance at selected arts or cultural venues throughout the city.

City of Atlanta, Georgia (aka Office of Cultural Affairs )
Atlanta, GA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support ARTSCOOL, a summer arts employment program that will provide apprenticeships for youth ages 14 to 18 in visual, literary, media, and performing arts, culminating in public exhibitions and performances. Under the guidance of a team of professional artists, apprentices will earn a stipend while researching, studying, performing, and exhibiting works of art that they create.

Cobb County School District (Consortium)
Marietta, GA
$24,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Alliance Theatre/Georgia Wolf Trap Early Learning Through the Arts, a professional development program for teachers. Through seminars, residencies, and one-on-one mentoring led by professional teaching artists, early childhood educators will learn to use standards-based theater arts strategies in the classroom to enhance student learning.

Georgia Council for the Arts
Atlanta, GA
$799,900
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Horizon Theatre Company, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the New South Young Playwrights Contest and the New South Young Playwrights Festival. Plays are solicited from high schools, colleges, training programs, conservatories, and theaters nationwide for the contest; the winners are invited to participate in the Young Playwrights Festival, a tuition-free, week-long playwriting intensive training program that culminates in a public reading of the students' works.

Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Inc. (aka MOCA GA)
Atlanta, GA
$24,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the Working Artists Project. The project provides two Georgia artists with a one-year residency including a stipend, a studio assistant, an exhibition, and a full-color catalogue. Artists are selected in a statewide, juried competition based on their talent, professionalism, and their proven ability to complete the project.

Phoenix Theatre Academy, Inc. (aka Academy Theatre)
Avondale Estates, GA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Academy Theatre for Youth's Artists-in-Schools tour and the Thoroughly Modern Senior Ensemble. The Artists-in-Schools tour offers original plays that address relevant issues facing young people and is performed by a diverse ensemble of professional actors in schools, churches, and community centers, with accompanying educational activities.

Push Push Theater Company
Decatur, GA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Open Planning Program, a career-building initiative for theater and media artists. The program will provide artists with professional development, connections to collaborators, physical space, promotional resources, and production support for their work.

Seven Stages, Inc. (aka 7 Stages)
Atlanta, GA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and premiere of All Blues by Robert Earl Price in collaboration with professional artists and faculty of Washington College of Chestertown, Maryland. In 1948, Ray Sprigle, a white journalist, disguised himself as a light-skinned black man in an effort to find out what it meant to be black in the South.

South Arts Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$1,484,200
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Urban Youth Harp Ensemble, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Urban Youth Harp Ensemble. The program provides daily harp instruction to students at Carver School of the Arts, and is designed to teach harp technique, music theory, and music history.

Youth Ensemble of Atlanta
Atlanta, GA
$38,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Workshop Training Program, a free, audition-based program that provides beginning, intermediate, and advanced-level classes in music, dance, theater, creative writing, and storytelling. Students will collaboratively create an original musical drama to be performed in a variety of venues that focuses attention on issues youth are facing in their daily lives..


Number of Grants: 13          Total Amount: $2,555,100

 
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