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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.

OHIO

American Folklore Society, Inc.
Columbus, OH
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Best Practices Technical Assistance Program, providing technical assistance and cultural expertise to folk and traditional arts organizations across the country. In its third year, the project will arrange short-term consultancies to advise organizations in crucial areas such as fieldwork, archiving, event production, publication design, or organizational management, and facilitate professional development opportunities for the staff of organizations engaged in folk and traditional arts work.

Cityfolk, Inc.
Dayton, OH
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 2011 Cityfolk Festival, an annual presentation of traditional music, dance, and visual arts, and the related Culture Builds Community project, a residency program placing folk artists in local schools. The festival presents some of the nation's most outstanding traditional artists in a free, three-day event.

Cleveland Public Theatre, Inc. (Consortium)
Cleveland, OH
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Y-Haven Theatre Project. Conducted in partnership with Y-Haven, a transitional home and treatment center for homeless men, the project will provide participants with the opportunity to create and tour an original play to social service, educational, and community settings.

Columbus Museum of Art
Columbus, OH
$23,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Columbus In-Focus, a digital photography education program. Students will work together to explore the power of documentary photography as an art form that captures history, culture, communities, and individual stories by examining original art at the museum. They will receive first-hand experience with practicing artists and create their own documentary photography using digital cameras.

Dayton Contemporary Dance Guild, Inc. (aka Dayton Contemporary Dance Company)
Dayton, OH
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Dancing to the Curriculum, an in-school dance residency program. Program components include weekly arts integrated dance instruction for students and professional development for educators, focusing on integrating dance into the curriculum.

GroundWorks Dancetheater
Cleveland Hghts, OH
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support guest artist residencies with Broadway director Lynn Taylor-Corbett and Philadelphia Dance Company choreographer Roni Koresh. Each artist will develop a new work for the company during their residencies, including Taylor-Corbett's work that will be inspired by the music and lyrics of rock legend and Akron native, Chrissie Hynde.

Kent State University Main Campus (on behalf of Wick Poetry Center)
Kent, OH
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support readings, workshops, and multidisciplinary events targeting students, teachers, veterans, and senior adults at the Wick Poetry Center. Among the programs offered is Traveling Stanzas, which sponsors workshops and discussion groups in schools, hospitals, and veterans organizations throughout northeast Ohio that will result in poetry posters displayed on mass-transit, animated videos, and e-greetings.

Mad River Theater Works
West Liberty, OH
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the creation of a new play with music in partnership with immigrant populations and migrant work forces in the industrial and agricultural sectors of rural Ohio. The work will be created through a collaborative process with families, businesses, and advocacy agencies and tour throughout the state with plays from the company's repertoire of original productions.

Ohio Arts Council
Columbus, OH
$1,018,100
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Progressive Arts Alliance, Inc.
Cleveland, OH
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Access Arts and Media, a program providing multidisciplinary arts residencies for kindergarten through eighth-grade students and the RHAPSODY Hip-Hop Summer Arts Camp for middle and high school students. Students at Carver and Orchard Schools will learn printmaking, stop motion animation, West African drumming, and documentary film making; summer camp students will create complex rhythms tracks, design and create large-scale paintings, write poetry, and produce hip-hop events.

Thurber House, Inc.
Columbus, OH
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a summer writing camp for children in grades two through eight, and writing workshops for older children and adults.

Wexner Center Foundation (aka Wexner Center for the Arts)
Columbus, OH
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support an artist residency and presenting program. Artists will receive technical and professional services that will enable them to create, complete, and present works in the performing and visual arts.

YS Kids Playhouse
Yellow Springs, OH
$22,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Summer Theater Arts Immersion program. Led by local, national, and international artists, students will write, produce, and perform two full-scale summer dramatic performances of original works that explore important themes and cross-cultural issues of our time.


Number of Grants: 13          Total Amount: $1,363,100

 
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