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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.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

American Association of Museums
Washington, DC
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the technology component and content development phases of the Reinvention of Accreditation project, a multi-year undertaking. Designed to promote best practices, ethics, and standards of excellence in museum operations, the accreditation program will be streamlined to encourage greater participation in what is presently seen as a largely inaccessible system.

Americans for the Arts, Inc.
Washington, DC
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support Field Forward, an initiative designed to engage the leadership of the national local arts agencies network in peer exchanges, skill-building sessions, and group learning dialogues. A published compendium will compile the Field Forward trend research, commissioned and solicited writings, and leadership forum reports for distribution to the field at large.

Arena Stage
Washington, DC
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere of Mary T. & Lizzy K., a new play written and directed by Tazewell Thompson. Employing a non-linear story structure in which the audience watches the protagonists revisit and relive the past, the play is based on the relationship between First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and her personal dressmaker and close confidante Elizabeth "Lizzy" Keckly, a former slave who bought her own freedom.

Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
Washington, DC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the digital Journal of Architectural Education. This online publication will provide a digital platform for the production and dissemination of architectural scholarship and design experimentation that will reach new audiences with scholarly publications in design.

Chorus America Association
Washington, DC
$90,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support services and technical assistance to the choral field. Activities will include an annual conference, Web-based services, publications, and leadership development forums for conductors, board members, and managers.

Cultural Landscape Foundation
Washington, DC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the Pioneers Oral History Series. The series, available on the Cultural Landscape Foundation's Web site, includes modules that feature filmed interviews with renowned landscape architects, visual materials, transcripts, and artists' biographies that capture a historical record of significant works of landscape architecture.

Cultural Tourism DC, Inc.
Washington, DC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Passport DC, a program that promotes access to artistic programming at Washington, DC embassies for residents and visitors. From Australia to Zambia, the cultural tourism promotion highlights art exhibits, dance and musical performances, lectures, and films presented at more than 65 embassies.

Dance Heritage Coalition, Inc.
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the design, testing, and implementation of the Dance Heritage Coalition Records-Management System, a range of adaptable records-management tools and technical assistance for dance companies and artists. Access to rich, but easy-to-use support materials, and guidance on records-management will immediately increase organizational and programmatic capacity.

Dance/USA (on behalf of Dance/USA Philadelphia)
Washington, DC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Dance/USA Philadelphia's presentation of the 2012 Philadelphia Dance Showcase. As a means of encouraging collaboration, the showcase at the Jeanne Ruddy Performance Garage will be an opportunity for Philadelphia artists, national and international presenters, and producers to meet and find new ways of connecting.

Dance/USA (on behalf of Dance/NYC)
Washington, DC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Dance/NYC's series of professional development programs and town hall meetings for dancers, choreographers, and managers. These programs will cover topics such as cultivating administrative and management skills for dancers and administrators, technology, financial management, fundraising, marketing, programming, education, and legal issues.

Dance/USA
Washington, DC
$80,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support professional development services for the professional nonprofit dance field. The activities will include a national roundtable (San Francisco, CA), a mentoring program for emerging leaders, capacity building for the research department, upgrading the Web site, and a dance forum.

District of Columbia Jewish Community Center
Washington, DC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 23rd Washington Jewish Film Festival. More than 50 feature-length narrative films, documentaries, and short works will be presented.

Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital (aka DC Environmental Film Festival)
Washington, DC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the annual programming that will include screenings of environmentally focused films, discussions with filmmakers, and related activities. Events are free-of-charge and take place at theaters and public libraries for local public and charter school students from low-income Washington, DC neighborhoods.

Festivals DC (aka DC Jazz Festival)
Washington, DC
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 2012 DC Jazz Festival. World renowned and DC-based musicians will perform for the public in free and ticketed events in venues around the city including the National Mall, the Kennedy Center, libraries, theaters, and museums and participate in master classes and student concerts at schools and universities.

Ford's Theatre Society (aka Ford's Theatre)
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere of a new work by Richard Hellesen about Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, directed by Jennifer Nelson. The play will bring new light to the dynamic friendship between Lincoln and Douglass that helped shape Lincoln's views on slavery and the fair treatment of African Americans.

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Washington, DC
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Look Both Ways: Street Arts Across America. A series of performances, exhibitions, and educational programs, this eight-day festival will pay tribute to street arts.

Manseau, Peter
Washington, DC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

National Building Museum
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support Welcome Home, a media exhibition. Welcome Home will bring visitors inside the interiors of architecturally designed American homes through projection techniques, serving as the centerpiece of House and Home a five year-long exhibit that will showcase the evolution and diversity of American domestic architecture and design.

National New Play Network
Washington, DC
$45,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support productions of new plays through the Continued Life of New Plays Fund. NNPN will create a consortium of three theaters, committed to producing the same new play, which playwrights will develop with three different creative teams within a 12-month period resulting in a rolling world premiere.

Shakespeare Theatre
Washington, DC
$70,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Strange Interlude by Eugene O'Neill, directed by artistic director Michael Kahn. Kahn's abridgement of the five-hour master work will utilize video and projection technology and a simple set to explore the controversy surrounding the work in O'Neill's time, and its position in the canon of American theater history.

Studio Theatre, Inc.
Washington, DC
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the U.S. premiere of Sucker Punch by playwright Roy Williams, directed by Leah C. Gardiner. The new play received critical acclaim in the United Kingdom and depicts two poor black athletes negotiating in a white world of power, trying to use their athletic prowess as a means to success.

Theatre Lab (aka The Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts)
Washington, DC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support The Life Stories Outreach Program for Adults. Playwright Jennifer Nelson will work with clients of the N Street Village, a not-for-profit serving low-income and homeless women, to create a play that will be performed by the project participants at a professional theater venue.

Vocal Arts Society (aka Vocal Arts DC)
Washington, DC
$14,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the presentation of solo vocal recitalists in the Terrace Theater at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Embassy of Austria, and other venues in Washington, DC. Founded in 1990 by Dr. Gerald Perman, Vocal Arts Society presents accomplished singers, often in the early stages of their careers, in a full range of repertoire.

Washington Ballet
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of All American Tharp, an evening of work by choreographer Twyla Tharp. The featured ballets will be Push Comes to Shove, Nine Sinatra Songs, and Surfer at the River Styx and the project will include education and outreach activities such as a one-night lecture by Tharp, open studio rehearsals and lectures about Tharp, and the creation of student educational materials.

Washington Concert Opera
Washington, DC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a concert opera presentation of Samson and Delilah by Camille Saint-Saens. The cast will include tenor Brandon Jovanovich (Samson), mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung (Delilah), and baritone Gordon Hawkins (High Priest).

Washington DC International Film Festival, Inc. (aka Filmfest DC)
Washington, DC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 26th annual Filmfest DC. The festival presents American independent films, cinema from around the world, classic restored Hollywood productions, movies for children, and special events for the senior population.

Washington National Opera
Washington, DC
$45,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Verdi's Nabucco. The creative team will comprise director Thaddeus Strassberger and music director Philippe Auguin, and will feature Italian baritone Franco Vassallo (King Nabucco) and Hungarian soprano Csilla Boross (Abigaille).

Washington Performing Arts Society
Washington, DC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Jazz/World Music Series. Seven soloists and ensembles will be presented: NEA Jazz Masters Dave Brubeck (1999), Herbie Hancock (2004), Wynton Marsalis (2011) with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and Sonny Rollins (1983); Chris Botti, Anoushka Shankar, and The Chieftains.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Washington, DC
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere of Mr. Burns, a new play by Anne Washburn, featuring music by Michael Friedman. The play imagines a post-apocalyptic civilization confronting questions of what to rebuild and what to live without following a catastrophic event.


Number of Grants: 29          Total Amount: $879,000

 
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