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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.

WASHINGTON

5th Avenue Theatre Association
Seattle, WA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a production of Rogers' and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, with direction by producing director Bill Berry and new choreography by Donald Byrd, artistic director of Spectrum Dance Theater. The project will include teen musical theater workshops; special dance training with members of Spectrum Dance Theater; a free "SpotlightNight" with guest speakers from the show; and a free all-day community event with performances, lectures, classes, and a hoe-down.

Artist Trust: A Resource for Washington
Seattle, WA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support career training and resources to artists throughout Washington State. Career training is offered statewide through free workshops on artist resources, grant writing, and a 50-hour program for visual artists, writers, and film/media artists

Arts Corps
Seattle, WA
$55,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Teen Artist Program that provides Seattle area youth after-school advanced arts classes in music, spoken word, theater, and dance taught by professional teaching artists. Arts Corps will provide professional development for artists and manage classes that take place in a community center with a media lab, movement studio, full theater, classroom space, and recording studio.

Arts Northwest
Port Angeles, WA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the 31st annual Northwest Booking Conference and Shadow Pack/Shadow Pro. The conference will include professional development initiatives, workshops, panels, and performances; the program will allow students to shadow leaders in the Presenting Field.

Cascade Land Conservancy
Seattle, WA
$33,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support Building Great Communities through Design, Historic Preservation, and Economic Development. The conservancy will develop case studies, identify stakeholders, and facilitate a workshop bringing together small business owners, civic leaders, members of the design community, and interested citizens in several cities on the Olympic Peninsula.

Central District Forum for Arts and Ideas (aka CD Forum)
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a performing arts series featuring African American artists. The project will include performances and outreach activities by spoken word artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph and pianist Eric Lewis. The Creation Project Showcase will present new works by local artists assisted by CD Forum.

Centrum Foundation (Consortium)
Port Townsend, WA
$8,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Dance This at Centrum, a week-long intensive residential workshop for high school dancers. In partnership with the Seattle Theatre Group, participants will be trained by dance artists in a range of genres culminating in a showcase performance.

Cultural Development Authority of King County (aka 4Culture)
Seattle, WA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support Site Specific, an annual series of innovative site-specific events in a variety of community settings and cities throughout King County, Washington. Now in its sixth year, this program works in collaboration with a network of more than 25 King County local arts agencies to facilitate art creation partnerships among local cities, businesses, arts organizations, and individual artists.

Degenerate Art Ensemble
Seattle, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the development and premiere of the Red Shoe Project. The site-specific, multidisciplinary performance will be presented at the Frye Art Museum in conjunction with a retrospective exhibition of the Degenerate Art Ensemble.

Freehold Theatre Lab Studio
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Shakespeare's Pericles that will tour to culturally underserved communities. Performances will be augmented by workshops and extended community residencies in which participants will use creative writing, movement, theater, and spoken word to create original performance pieces.

Gage Academy of Art
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Teen Art Studios. Professional visual art instruction will be offered free-of-charge to Seattle-area teens between the ages of 13 and 18.

Glass Art Society, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Glass Art Society's 41st annual conference in Seattle. The conference will offer lectures, panels, demonstrations, discussion groups, and a technical display trade show of glass-related supplies and services.

Jack Straw Foundation (aka Jack Straw Productions)
Seattle, WA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support programs for artist support, writers, and the new media gallery. Artists will participate in residencies, workshops, and public presentations involving sound art.

Methow Arts Alliance
Twisp, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support artists residencies and field trips for kindergarten through sixth-grade students in rural northeastern Washington State school districts. The project will begin with professional development for participating artists, classroom teachers, and school administrators in the summer and lead to sequential lessons in visual arts, music, dance, theater, and literary arts during the school year.

Music of Remembrance
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a performance and educational outreach program of free chamber concerts featuring repertoire from the period of the Holocaust. Titled Sparks of Glory/Musical Witness, the 90-minute presentations and in-school visits by the ensemble will take place in diverse venues throughout Seattle and at Central Washington University in Ellensburg for approximately 3,000 people, including 750 children.

Northwest Heritage Resources (Consortium)
Lake Forest Park, WA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Building New Audiences for Traditional Arts in Washington's Underserved Communities. In collaboration with the Ethnic Heritage Council, the project will expand traditional arts presentations (concerts, workshops, and artist demonstrations) in state parks to include parts of the state that are not currently reached by such programs.

Pacific Northwest Ballet Association (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$58,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Discover Dance Consortium, a project that provides dance education to Seattle Public Schools. Pacific Northwest Ballet teaching artists give professional development workshops and resources for classroom teachers and are in residence in classrooms, teaching students to learn and develop basic dance skills, including concepts and movement dynamics that will eventually be used to create a new piece.

Puget Sound Educational Service District
Renton, WA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Arts Impact: Artistic Pathways to Learning, a two-year professional development program for kindergarten to fifth-grade classroom teachers in King and Pierce Counties, Washington State. Teachers receive in-depth and sustained training from experienced artist-mentors to gain knowledge in state standards-based arts concepts and skills and to develop confidence and competence to infuse the arts into other content areas of their teaching.

Richard Hugo House
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support residencies, one-on-one mentoring, group shows, and commissioned new work. The programs are designed to encourage the creation of new work and introduce new writing by both established and emerging writers to broader audiences.

Seattle Arts and Lectures, Inc. (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support readings and conversations with distinguished poets, as well as intensive writing classes with those poets targeting both youth and adults. In partnership with Richard Hugo House, the organization will select poets from the series to conduct day-long poetry classes for both published and emerging writers.

Seattle Arts and Lectures, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Writers in the Schools program. Working with professional writers-in-residence throughout the year, students will focus on creative writing and performance; read their poems, plays, and stories in school and for their community; and produce anthologies that showcase each school's student work.

Seattle Repertory Theatre (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$39,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Bringing Theatre into the Classroom, a professional development program for teachers. A partnership with the Seattle Children's Theatre, the program will provide summer professional development and follow-up classroom residencies in which professional artists and teachers combine theater education and concepts of literacy into their classroom curriculum.

Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support ACCESS, an outreach performance and education program for underserved communities. In partnership with Seattle School District No. 1, the orchestra will engage children and families in diverse neighborhoods of Seattle.

Seattle Theatre Group
Seattle, WA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Art in the Community. Mark Morris Dance Group, with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, will perform The Hard Nut; Intiman Theatre will perform Black Nativity; and artists will also participate in master classes, discussions, and school residencies.

Spokane Symphony Society
Spokane, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Bestfest, a two-day community music festival which will be presented in the Fox Theater Spokane. Programming will range from orchestral and chamber concerts to jazz and folk music.

Sweet Bird Classics, Inc. (Consortium)
Edmonds, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a summer workshop, Accademia d'Amore. In partnership with Pacific MusicWorks, the 10-day, multidisciplinary workshop offers advanced singers and continuo players training in the musical and dramatic elements of 17th-century opera.

Sweet Bird Classics, Inc.
Edmonds, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and distribution of the radio series America's Music Festivals. Hosted by conductor Marin Alsop, the 26-week series will showcase live performances from some of the most dynamic music festivals in the country.

Town Hall Association (aka Town Hall Seattle)
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Global Rhythms series. Traditional and international artists will perform in concerts and participate in lecture-demonstrations, workshops, festivals, and performances at schools and community centers.

University of Washington
Seattle, WA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support a series of programs that will present the traditional arts of Washington's Coast Salish people. These programs will include a festival, a regional art guide, video documentaries, and art resources on the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture's (University of Washington) website.

Velocity Dance Center
Seattle, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Strictly Seattle Summer Dance Intensive, a dance training festival that engages professional dance artists with student dancers and culminates in the creation and performance of new works. During an intensive three-week period, students participate in daily technique and compositional classes and rehearse with a choreographer in preparation for a weekend of performances.

Washington State Arts Commission (Consortium)
Olympia, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Teaching Artist Training Lab, a professional development program for teaching artists to work with assessing standards-aligned arts lessons for kindergarten through 12th-grade students. In partnership with Seattle's Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, the project begins with a two-day training session, followed by periodic professional development workshops during school residencies, and concludes with a final two-day workshop.

Washington State Arts Commission
Olympia, WA
$891,200
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Washington State Historical Society
Tacoma, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support In the Spirit: Contemporary Northwest Native Arts Exhibit. The project will feature traditional artists from across the state who will display their work, demonstrate their skills, and conduct gallery tours in the museum. A performance area will allow Native artists to share storytelling, drumming, dancing, and song.

Washington State University
Pullman, WA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support workshops for youth and adult leaders to experience exemplary works of art, receive docent training, produce art under the mentorship of artists, and receive curriculum to bring arts instruction back to their local 4-H clubs. Multi-level evaluation strategies will be employed in order to assess the efficacy of leader training and improve workshops and curriculum.

Youth in Focus
Seattle, WA
$22,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support core photography classes offered free of charge to underserved youth, including up to four quarters of sequential film and digital photography classes. Students will participate in open critique sessions, review and analyze professional work, participate in at least one field trip to a local art museum, and curate an exhibition of students' best work.


Number of Grants: 35          Total Amount: $1,844,200

 
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