FY 2012 Grant Awards: State Listings

Art Works I | Challenge America Fast-Track Grants | Literature Fellowships (Prose)

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

ALASKA

Alaska Design Forum, Inc. (Consortium)
Anchorage, AK
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support Elemental, a research and implementation project to identify solutions for providing sustainable, affordable housing in rural Alaska. In collaboration with Renewable Energy Alaska Project, this project will include public roundtable discussions, design charrettes, and an exhibit, toolkit and master plan for a rural village.

Anchorage Concert Association, Inc.
Anchorage, AK
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of performing arts presentations at the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts. Participating artists will include pianist Mike Garson, jazz trumpeter Chris Botti, soul singer Bettye Lavette, Latin band leader Tito Puente Jr., and music ensemble Imani Winds

Anchorage Museum Association (aka Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center)
Anchorage, AK
$34,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support an exhibition and publication featuring Dena'ina Athabascan traditional art forms. The exhibition, to include 18th- and 19th-century art works from museums in Russia, Germany, England, and Finland, will bring together for the first time, the finest examples of Dena'ina caribou clothing, quillwork, and beadwork, as well as works in bone, horn, antler, birch bark, wood, and metal.

Anchorage Opera Company
Anchorage, AK
$11,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support Verdi's Macbeth, as part of the company's 50th anniversary season. Educational outreach, seminars, and public lectures highlighting the achievements of the composer will take place in public schools and community centers in the metropolitan area and throughout the state's south-central region, home to a significant indigenous population.

City of Saxman, Alaska
Ketchikan, AK
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the construction of Strengthening Our Community Totem Pole. Native American (Haida) Master Carver Donnie Varnell will collect stories from Native youth about the community of Saxman and work with them to incorporate these stories into a totem pole, which he and the youth will carve.

Juneau Jazz & Classics, Inc.
Juneau, AK
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 26th annual Juneau Jazz & Classics Festival. Programming includes free and ticketed concerts-- with artists such as Ingrid Jensen, Robert Dick & Ursel Schlicht, and the Jasper String Quartet-- back-to-back performances in an outdoor setting workshops, master classes, auditorium concerts for school children, lectures, and performances in outlying communities.

Perseverance Theatre, Inc.
Douglas, AK
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. A seminal work in the development of African American theater, as well as a study of the issues of race relations, the play portrays an African American family living in Chicago's South Side during the 1940s and examines the American dream of children striving to rise above their parents' accomplishments.

Seward Association for the Advancement of Marine Science (aka Alaska SeaLife Center) (Consortium)
Seward, AK
$39,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support an expedition and planning of the exhibition, GYRE, that will engage artists and scientists in the global problem of marine debris. In partnership with the Anchorage Museum, a group of artists including Pam Longobardi, Mark Dion, Alexis Rockman, Andrew Hughes, and Sonya Kelliher-Combs will accompany a team of scientists aboard the ship R/V Norseman in a research expedition to expose artists to the impact of marine debris on various ecosystems.

Number of Grants: 8          Total Amount: $194,500

 
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