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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.

TEXAS

Amphibian Productions, Inc. (aka Amphibian Stage Productions)
Fort Worth, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Tadpoles, a new outreach program that will develop a curriculum and focus on Mexico and the Aztec heritage.

Art House at the Jones Center (aka Arthouse)
Austin, TX
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support studio-based art education programs for Austin-area high school students. The programs will provide social and educational opportunities for potential at-risk youth to develop portfolios; participate in hands-on workshops led by professional artists; visit local museums, galleries, and artists' studios; and work with artist-mentors to develop a group exhibition and catalogue.

Austin Chamber Music Center
Austin, TX
$39,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support year-round chamber music instruction. Professional musicians will provide chamber music coaching, teach music theory and composition classes, and conduct master classes for students.

Austin Classical Guitar Society
Austin, TX
$35,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Educational Outreach Program. Classical guitar instructors will provide weekly, individual lessons for students and will assist with the direction and curriculum planning of guitar classes in up to 14 Austin-area schools.

Austin Film Festival, Inc.
Austin, TX
$8,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Storytelling through Film. Teaching artists will work with high school students for 11 weeks, providing instruction on story structure, screenwriting, and film production.

Austin Film Society (Consortium)
Austin, TX
$35,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support AFS Film Club, an after-school filmmaking program. In partnership with the Austin Independent School District, students will develop and create original short films, which are then showcased to the public via community screenings and an online film festival.

Ballet East Dance Company
Austin, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of Hear Me/See Me, a multimedia presentation of movement, spoken work, and live music, led by local choreographer Sharon Marroquin. The work will be based on stories of immigrant children and their families living in Austin's East Side, which will be translated into movement and narration with traditional elements of folk art.

Brownsville Society for the Performing Arts
Brownsville, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Brownsville Latin Jazz Festival. Activities will include free outdoor concerts and community activities such as music and dance clinics, master classes, school presentations, film screenings, a visual arts exhibition, and artist talks for students of music and dance.

City of Irving, Texas (on behalf of Irving Arts Center)
Irving, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support KEYS (Khan Education for Youth & Schools), an educational program for Genghis Khan: The Exhibition. The interactive exhibition of more than 200 artifacts presents the historical figure through the perspective of arts and culture, history, and geography.

Conspirare, Inc.
Austin, TX
$37,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a tour to Midwestern states. A concert program titled Spirituals: A Cornerstone of the American Choral Legacy will be performed in communities in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, along with open rehearsals, workshops, free community "sings," and question-and-answer sessions.

Contemporary Art for San Antonio (aka Blue Star Contemporary Art Center) (Consortium)
San Antonio, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a contemporary sculpture exhibition series and symposium. In partnership with Mid-South Sculpture Alliance, the exhibition will be offered outdoors at the San Antonio Botanical Garden, and indoors at Blue Star Contemporary Art Center.

Dallas Black Dance Theatre
Dallas, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the restaging and presentation of Pigs and Fishes, choreographed by Elisa Monte. The work will be performed as part of the company's 35th anniversary opening performance at the AT&T Performing Arts Center Dee & Charles Wyly Theatre in Dallas.

Dallas Museum of Art
Dallas, TX
$85,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support Archival Exhibition Resources Online. The project is designed as a public portal for long-term access to digital content created for and during an exhibition. The project team will create a template through which content can be published by staff for public interaction with video and audio recordings, images, and other exhibition-related documents.

Dallas Opera (Consortium)
Dallas, TX
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the School Performances Program. A partnership with the arts learning organization Big Thought, the project will feature Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), with accompanying outreach and educational components including the development of teachers' guides, CDs, DVDs, lesson plans, and educational games for youth.

Diaz Music Institute
Houston, TX
$17,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a three-week Latin Jazz/ Afro-Caribbean Summer Workshop and Concert Series involving interdisciplinary residencies for at-risk and underserved youth. Students will receive instruction by master artists such as Ndugu Chancler and Marcie Chapa (United States), and Justo Almario (Columbia) in music theory, music history, ear training, improvisation, composition, dance, performance, and Latin and Afro-Caribbean rhythms, and attend voice and instrument master classes.

DiverseWorks, Inc. (aka DiverseWorks ArtSpace)
Houston, TX
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the DiverseDialogue Series. Artists will be commissioned to create and present works in the visual and performing arts while in residence.

Documentary Arts, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support a revision of Masters of Traditional Arts Education Guide, an education guide that focuses on curriculum-based themes related to the folk and traditional arts represented by the recipients of the NEA National Heritage Fellowship. The guide will be enhanced by integrating audio and video recordings, biographical information, and photographs of the artists along with lesson plans and activities into an interactive website.

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association, Inc.
Fort Worth, TX
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a touring program. Concerts and educational programs will take place in rural communities in Texas such as Glen Rose, Waxahachie, Killeen, Mesquite, Stephenville, Graham, and Southlake.

Gemini Series, Inc. (aka Gemini Ink)
San Antonio, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the fall 2011 season of University Without Walls, featuring workshops, readings, and other literary events in South Central Texas. Aimed at working adults, classes and other events are nominally priced and scheduled to accommodate jobs and families, with topics ranging from family oral histories to journaling.

Houston Arts Alliance
Houston, TX
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Houston Folklife and Traditional Arts Program, which will identify and present the folk arts of the city. The projects include documenting the occupational traditions of the Houston port and ship channel, spiritually-inspired music programming, and a concert series focused on the city's musical legacy.

Houston Grand Opera Association, Inc. (Consortium)
Houston, TX
$31,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the Student Matinee Program, featuring performances of Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville). In partnership with the Houston Independent School District, transportation and tickets will be provided to middle school students to attend mainstage performances by young artists from the company's internationally-renowned training program.

Indian Performing Arts Samskriti
Houston, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Indian Dance in a Global Context Festival. The three-day international festival will feature lecture-demonstrations, performances, workshops, master classes, and panel discussions in Indian classical, folk, and contemporary dance styles.

Inprint, Inc.
Houston, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series. Invited speakers for the 2011-12 season include Mary Gaitskill, Mark Jarman, Nicole Krauss, Jhumpa Lahiri, Gary Shteyngart, Cornelius Eady, Deborah Eisenberg, and Haruki Murakami.

International Tap Association
Austin, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the further development of Tap History Now, a website, archive digitization, database editing, and publication project designed to address the lack of documentation in tap dance. Activities will include designing and linking scholar Constance Valis Hill's essay "Tap Dancing America-A Cultural History" through the Library of Congress's website, the continued digitization of tap artists, and the International Tap Association's publication On Tap, as well as continued access to the Tap Anthology.

Mercury Baroque Ensemble
Houston, TX
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Mozart Under the Stars, a free outdoor concert in Houston's Hermann Park. The 16-member orchestra, under the direction of Artistic Director Antoine Plante, will perform a concert program that will include Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Serenade No. 13 for Strings in G major, K. 525).

Musiqa, Inc.
Houston, TX
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the educational outreach programs Around the World with Musiqa and Musiqa Remix. The chamber ensemble will perform concerts for Houston-area youth and their families at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, as well as in schools, reaching approximately 7,000 children.

National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (aka NALAC)
San Antonio, TX
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Leadership Institute and three regional arts training workshops. The Leadership Institute will train approximately 30 arts leaders, and the regional workshops are expected to convene more than 250 people in San Antonio, Chicago, and New York City.

Orange Show Foundation (aka Orange Show Center for Visionary Art)
Houston, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a conservation survey of The Orange Show, a visionary art environment created by Houston postman and self-taught artist Jefferson Davis McKissack (1902-1980). McKissack used common building materials such as bricks, tiles, and fencing to transform a small suburban home into an architectural maze of walkways, balconies, and brightly painted iron figures. Areas requiring attention will be assessed and analyzed to develop a conservation plan to address weather- and foundation-related structural and superficial deterioration.

Riverwalk Jazz
San Antonio, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the weekly public radio jazz series Riverwalk Jazz. Distributed by Public Radio International to 167 stations nationwide, each hour-long program features the Jim Cullum Jazz Band along with guest performances with interviews, oral histories, and historical recordings to celebrate important artists and eras in jazz history.

Rude Mechanicals-A Theatre Collective (aka Rude Mechs)
Austin, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the re-creation of Mabou Mines' 1975 play B. Beaver Animation. The project will be the second production in the company's Contemporary Classics Series, in which the collective attempts to re-create the rehearsals and performances of modern American classics, exposing audiences in Central Texas to rarely-performed canonical works.

SAY Sí (aka San Antonio Youth YES!)
San Antonio, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Project Say Sí, a multidisciplinary "open studio" visual arts program. High school students will conceptualize, produce, refine, and eventually exhibit and sell their own artwork in a manner that parallels the working process of professional artists.

Society for the Performing Arts
Houston, TX
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Preserving the Legacy project. The project will include a photography exhibition, discussions, master classes, and performances celebrating a unique style of the blues created in Houston post-World War II, featuring blues legend Buddy Guy.

Telling Project
Austin, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and performance of the original work Telling: Donaldson State Penitentiary. In collaboration with the Alabama Prison Arts and Education Project), Executive Director Jonathan Wei will work with incarcerated veterans to create a script about their enlistment, deployment, and return to civilian life.

Texas Commission on the Arts
Austin, TX
$988,600
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Texas Folklife Resources (Consortium)
Austin, TX
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support A Place at the Table, the second year of a three-year project researching and documenting traditional food in 29 West Texas counties. In collaboration with the Texas Commission on the Arts, the project will use traditional cuisine and the customs surrounding ritual dining as the entry point into the dynamic and diverse cultural communities of Texas.

Texas State University - San Marcos
San Marcos, TX
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Texas State Black and Latino Playwrights' Conference. The conference provides an opportunity for Black and Latino playwrights to develop new, unpublished, and unproduced plays through a week-long rehearsal process culminating in staged reading presentations.

Theatre Under The Stars, Inc. (aka TUTS)
Houston, TX
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the expansion of programs offering children with disabilities the opportunity to experience the physical and developmental benefits of musical theater. As TUTS merges its outreach with The River Performing and Visual Arts Center in Houston, expanded programming will include a fine arts summer camp, an off-site program, a Saturday morning program, a musical theatre workshop, and a performance troupe, in which students with disabilities receive professional instruction in musical theater.

University of Houston (on behalf of Blaffer Gallery)
Houston, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the young artist apprenticeship program, a free after-school arts education program. Students will work with two artist mentors four days a week for six weeks each fall and spring and exhibit their work at the Blaffer Art Museum.

University of Texas at Dallas (on behalf of American Literary Translators Association)
Richardson, TX
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the annual conference in Kansas City, Missouri, of the American Literary Translators Association. The conference features bilingual readings and panel discussions on such topics as professional development for translators, getting published, conveying the author's voice, the future of language, and teaching translation.

University of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the South Texas Plains Folklife Documentation Project. The project will plan and carry out a fieldwork project to identify, document, and present folk artists at the Texas Folklife Festival and in a museum exhibit.

Van Cliburn Foundation, Inc.
Fort Worth, TX
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a website project with a free online library of digitally archived performances and materials. In celebration of its 50th anniversary in 2012, the organization will upgrade its website (www.Cliburn.org) and add content for public access, including materials from previous Cliburn piano competitions and amateur competitions, as well as documentation and historical material about Cliburn.

Writer's Garret
Dallas, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Writers' Community and Mentorship Project (CAMP), featuring workshops, seminars, and classes for emerging writers. Attendees may participate in a work exchange program in which they help with outreach, teaching, marketing, and other tasks in exchange for free attendance at readings, events, panels, and manuscript clinics.

Writers In the Schools (aka WITS)
Houston, TX
$48,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Many Voices, One Houston, year-long creative writing workshops for students. Professional writers will visit classrooms to provide instruction on the creative writing process of brainstorming, drafting, editing, revising, and publishing; students will have writing opportunities each day, perform in classroom readings at the end of the year, and will be published in an anthology of student writing.


Number of Grants: 43          Total Amount: $2,114,600

 
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