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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.

TENNESSEE

ArtsMemphis
Memphis, TN
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the production of a series of arts events featuring Memphis arts organizations and artists for the benefit of identified underserved communities. In addition to selected individual artists, among the several arts organizations participating in the series are Ballet Memphis, the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis Symphony Orchestra, Opera Memphis, and Playhouse on the Square.

Beale Street Caravan, Inc.
Memphis, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and national broadcast of the public radio series Beale Street Caravan. Weekly, one-hour programs featuring performances by blues artists will be broadcast on more than 280 public, community, and college radio stations nationwide.

Center for Southern Folklore
Memphis, TN
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support a project called Urban Memphis and the Rural Delta: Its Voices, Its Beats which will organize and digitize various media, including audiotapes, videotapes, films, slides, and photographs. The material will be made available to the public through the creation of searchable online databases and exhibits.

Country Music Foundation, Inc. (aka Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum)
Nashville, TN
$45,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support a songwriting program in schools for students in third to twelfth grade in Nashville, Knoxville, and Chattanooga. Museum staff and professional songwriters train language arts and music teachers to use the Country Music Foundation Words & Music Teachers Guide to teach students the process of writing song lyrics.

Cumberland County Playhouse, Inc.
Crossville, TN
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a production of Dreamgirls, with music by Henry Krieger and book and lyrics by Tom Eyer. The piece celebrates the history and growth of the Motown sound and the African American artists who created it.

Friends of the Cumberland Trail Inc.
Caryville, TN
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support The Cumberland Trail Music and History Project, which will present traditional music found in the 11-county Cumberland Trail corridor of Tennessee's Cumberland Mountain region. The project will use two platforms to present traditional music: performances and a recording label that will make music from the regional traditional musicians available.

Knox County, Tennessee (on behalf of Knox County Public Library)
Knoxville, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the 8th annual Children's Festival of Reading at the Knox County Public Library. The free, one-day festival will feature more than 30 children's authors, illustrators, storytellers, and musicians.

Nashville Shakespeare Festival
Nashville, TN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the 24th annual free outdoor Shakespeare in the Park production of Romeo and Juliet, directed by David Wilkerson. The production will provide numerous opportunities to developing artists, including student internships and 50 hours of intensive theater training, and will cast a diverse group of 12-14 high school and college students from across the Middle Tennessee region in supporting roles.

Nashville Symphony Association
Nashville, TN
$32,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a recording project featuring works by composer Roberto Sierra. Conducted by Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero, the orchestra's live performances of Sierra's Sinfonia No. 4, Carnaval, Fandangos, and Alegria will be recorded in the Schermerhorn Symphony Center and the compact disc will be released on the Naxos label.

Nashville Symphony Association (Consortium)
Nashville, TN
$18,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support One Note, One Neighborhood, a free music education program. In partnership with W.O. Smith/Nashville Community Music School, professional musicians will provide hands-on music lessons, concerts, field trips, and teacher professional development during and after school.

Tennessee Arts Commission
Nashville, TN
$819,300
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Tennessee Performing Arts Center
Nashville, TN
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the presentation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, adapted and performed by Théâtre Tout a Tràc. The Canadian troupe, which has placed the classic story in a library full of books that transform into set pieces, will perform six performances for mid-Tennessee area students and teachers, as well as two public weekend performances as part of the Arts Center's Family Field Trip Series.

Upper Cumberland Broadcast Council (aka WCTE-TV)
Cookeville, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the post-production costs for the public television series Jammin at Hippie Jack's. The program presents music by original singer-songwriters, as well as blues, bluegrass, and folk music.


Number of Grants: 13          Total Amount: $1,134,800

 
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