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.

MONTANA

Art Mobile of Montana
Dillon, MT
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support ArtMobile, a traveling exhibition and visual art education program in Montana. A specially equipped van will travel throughout the state, providing access to original artworks by Montana artists and art instruction.

Helena Presents (aka Myrna Loy Center)
Helena, MT
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of commissioning, presenting, touring, and residency projects at the Myrna Loy Center. Guest artists will create and present works in collaboration with local and regional artists.

Mainstreet Uptown Butte, Inc.
Butte, MT
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the First Peoples' Gathering component of the Montana Folk Festival. The gathering will provide a prominent place for Native American artists from across Montana and the Intermountain West to highlight their culture and heritage through the presentation of traditional music and dance, as well as traditional and contemporary visual arts.

MCT, Inc. (aka Missoula Children's Theatre)
Missoula, MT
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support Missoula Children's Theatre's national performing arts residency tour in underserved communities and on U.S. military bases. During an estimated 1,200 residencies, touring actors and directors will cast 55-65 local youth in original musicals, rehearse, and perform within a week's time.

Montana Arts Council
Helena, MT
$814,500
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Montana Committee for the Humanities (aka Humanities Montana)
Missoula, MT
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the 2011 Montana Festival of the Book. The four-day event will feature authors and presenters discussing and reading their work before a sizeable audience.

Montana State University
Bozeman, MT
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Montana Shakespeare in the Parks summer tour. The company will work with local tour coordinators and regional press in at least 60 communities to promote performances in Montana, Northern Wyoming, Eastern Idaho, and Western North Dakota.

Tundra Club (aka Hearing Voices: Radio Art)
Bozeman, MT
$33,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Vox Popic Music, a radio series that will explore the history of popular music from the 1940s to the present. To be produced by Barrett Golding, with each hour will be devoted to a particular decade, the seven-hour series will include interviews with everyday people describing how music affected their lives, juxtaposed with the songs that are mentioned.

Tundra Club
Bozeman, MT
$40,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and national distribution of the public radio series Hearing Voices. This weekly, one-hour program showcases the expressive medium of radio including audio sound-portraits, slam poets, documentaries, radio dramas, long-form features, and found-sound.

Young Men's Christian Association of Billings (aka YMCA Writer's Voice)
Billings, MT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a reading tour in Billings and around eastern Montana of writers from Montana, Idaho, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. The YMCA of Billings will promote the events through local libraries; Yellowstone Public Radio, which reaches all of the participating communities; and The Billings Gazette, the state's largest newspaper.

Number of Grants: 10          Total Amount: $1,097,500

 
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