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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.

KENTUCKY

Actors Theatre Of Louisville, Inc. (aka Actors Theatre)
Louisville, KY
$80,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the 36th Annual Humana Festival of New American Plays, a showcase of new theatrical work featuring American playwrights. Actors Theatre will fully produce seven full-length plays, multiple ten-minute plays, and an anthology project written by multiple playwrights to be performed by its Acting Apprentice Company.

Appalshop, Inc.
Whitesburg, KY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Appalachian Media Institute, a documentary arts film and radio program for high school students. Professional independent filmmakers and media artists will teach students the history, aesthetics, ethics, and practice of documentary media, resulting in the production of documentary films and radio programs.

Appalshop, Inc. (on behalf of WMMT-FM)
Whitesburg, KY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Pick and Bow: Traditional Arts in Community, a series of afterschool programs that offer instruction in traditional music to students of the Appalachians. In addition to instruction, the project will provide performance opportunities for students, as well as radio broadcasts of traditional music.

City of Munfordville, Kentucky
Munfordville, KY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Experience Munfordville, a cell phone tour and Web site promoting the area's historic architecture and traditional arts. Content for the cultural tourism project will be developed by consultants Joanna Hay and Judy Sizemore with City of Munfordville/Tourism staff, the Hart County Historical Society, the Kentucky Folklife Program, the Kentucky Oral History Commission, and local folk artists and tradition bearers.

Kentucky Dance Council, Inc. (aka Louisville Ballet)
Louisville, KY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the acquisition of Lady of the Camellias, by choreographer Val Caniparoli, as part of Louisville Ballet's Repertoire Enhancement Project. Lady of the Camellias is based on the 1848 novel by Alexander Dumas, and is choreographed to music by Chopin.

Liberty Hall, Inc.
Frankfort, KY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the creation of the Frankfort Tour of Public Art and Architecture, a cultural tourism project promoting county landmarks through a cell phone tour and Web site. Kentucky State University students will conduct oral history interviews, based on training from the Kentucky Oral History Commission and the Kentucky Folklife Program, that will be included in the narration.

Sarabande Books, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$21,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of collections of short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Scheduled authors include Michael J. Lee, Paula Bohince, T. Fleischmann, Steven Cramer, and Elena Passarello.

Yeiser Art Center, Inc.
Paducah, KY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support an artist-in-residence program for visual artists to create and present new work. Artists selected from an open call for submissions will receive a stipend, housing, exhibition, and outreach opportunities during their week- to month-long residency.


Number of Grants: 8          Total Amount: $201,000

 
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