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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.

MISSOURI

Center of Creative Arts (aka COCA)
St. Louis, MO
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support three dance outreach programs. The Pre-Professional Dance program will provide intensive dance training to students (ages 11 to 18); the Talent Identified Program prepares intermediate students for advanced study; the Dance Outreach program will provide dance instruction in jazz, modern, hip-hop, and tap to elementary school children in St. Louis public schools.

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
Saint Louis, MO
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the expansion of The Front Room, an ongoing series of short exhibitions featuring the work of emerging artists and experimental curatorial trends. The project will increase the number of artists invited to create works on-site, expand community outreach for the exhibitions, produce a Pocket Guide to Pronunciation, and publish a retrospective catalogue of the more than 100 artists and curators represented in The Front Room since its debut in 2008.

Coterie Theatre
Kansas City, MO
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the final development and production of The Red Badge of Courage Project, a new play by Melissa Cooper, directed by Metro Theater Company artistic director Carol North. This co-commission, the contemporary response to Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, follows five young American soldiers over the course of a year's deployment in a remote outpost and explores the experiences of combat soldiers at war and at home.

Curators of the University of Missouri at Columbia
Columbia, MO
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, promotion, and related expenses for the print, digital, and audiobook versions of The Missouri Review. The review is available in a digital and audio format that creates a dynamic presentation of literature, allowing for new ways of engaging the public with artworks and providing greater accessibility; the online format also will capture detailed breakdowns of subscriber usage, including time spent on specific pages and listening to audio recordings.

Dance Saint Louis (aka Dance St. Louis)
St. Louis, MO
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support dance presentations and related activities. As part of the Speaking of Dance series, hosted by artistic and executive director Michael Uthoff, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Ensemble Espanol, Joffrey Ballet, and Pilobolus will perform at the Touhill Performing Arts Center at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and will offer master classes and pre-performance talks to local dance students and teachers.

International Institute of Metropolitan St Louis
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support performances by Cobu, a group that combines elements of Japanese traditional taiko drumming with rhythmic tap dancing. The group will perform as part of the Festival of Nations.

Jazz St. Louis (aka Jazz at the Bistro)
St. Louis, MO
$17,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Jazz St. Louis Artist Residency Program in local elementary, middle, and high schools, and an after-school music education program. Matt Wilson's Arts and Crafts, Orbert Davis, and the Clayton Brothers Quintet will each perform, conduct master classes, provide private lessons for exceptional student musicians, coach public schools' big band programs, and work with students involved in other educational activities.

Kansas City Ballet
Kansas City, MO
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the performance of Les Gentilhommes, choreographed by Peter Martins. The piece, set to Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 2 (Largo) (1739) by Georg Friedrich Handel, originally premiered on the New York City Ballet.

Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the world premiere production of The Great Immensity, written and directed by Steve Cosson, with music and lyrics by Michael Friedman. The piece explores the issue of global climate change and its impact on the environment, as well as the social, political, and economic dimensions of the phenomenon.

Kansas City Symphony
Kansas City, MO
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the world premiere of new works by composers Stephen Hartke and Daniel Kellogg and related educational activities. The premiere of the new works, part of a series of events celebrating the fountains of Kansas City, will commemorate the inaugural performance season performing in Helzberg Hall at the new Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.

Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$16,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support Nixon in China by composer John Adams. Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the historic presidential visit, local partnerships with the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and the University of Kansas will engage a larger audience of first-time attendees to the new Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (Consortium)
St. Louis, MO
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the premiere of The Two Sides of Love by jazz composer Terence Blanchard with libretto by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winner Michael Cristofer. In partnership with Jazz St. Louis, the organization will create and produce an innovative, 21st-century work that blends the American tradition of jazz with the dramatic and expressive capabilities of opera.

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
St. Louis, MO
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the U.S. premiere of Alice in Wonderland by composer Unsuk Chin and librettist David Henry Hwang. The new production and reduced orchestration of the opera will be realized by a creative team that includes director James Robinson, fashion icon Isaac Mizrahi as costume designer, set designer Adrienne Lobel, and conductor Michael Christie.

Pro Musica
Joplin, MO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a residency by the Cavani String Quartet. In addition to a public concert followed by a question-and-answer session, the artists will present lecture-demonstrations for Joplin public school students.

St. Louis Classical Guitar Society (aka Guitarstlouis)
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support student matinee performances and outreach activities featuring the Beijing Guitar Duo and the Brasil Guitar Duo. Fifth-through-eighth graders will be bused to the Ethical Society to hear a performance by Meng Su and YamengWang of the Beijing Guitar Duo. Joao Luiz and Douglas Lora, of the Brasil Guitar Duo, will travel to local schools and present demonstrations for students, as well as master classes specifically for guitar students.

University of Central Missouri
Warrensburg, MO
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 2012 Show Me Justice Film Festival. Films will include feature-length narratives, animated, and documentary films, as well as short films that address issues of social injustice.

Washington University (on behalf of Edison Theatre)
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a performance by Ballet Hispanico and related outreach activities. A special outreach effort called Creando Algo Nuevo that includes workshops for adults with local folkloric dancer Carmen S. Dence leading to a master class led by Eduardo Vilaro, the artistic director of Ballet Hispanico.

Washington University (on behalf of Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum)
St. Louis, MO
$34,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life 1928-1945 at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, and accompanying catalogue. The exhibition, organized in collaboration with the Phillips Collection, will present more than 40 paintings examining Braque's (1882-1963) lifelong exploration of the still life, an overlooked period in the career of this founding father of Cubism.

Webster University (on behalf of Community Music School)
St. Louis, MO
$5,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Community Music School's Pre-College Student Preparatory Program (PREP). Designed to augment the individual study of exceptionally talented music students in the St. Louis area, the program trains students in chamber music, music theory, music history and literature, and provides performance opportunities and artistic mentoring.

William Jewell College (on behalf of Harriman-Jewell Series)
Liberty, MO
$7,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Discovery Concerts, free recital performances by emerging musicians in the Harriman-Jewell Series. Pianist Freddy Kempf, violinist Ray Chen, pianist Conrad Tao, and pianists Christina and Michelle Naughton in a dual recital will be presented free at the Folly Theater and the Kauffman Concert Hall in downtown Kansas City.


Number of Grants: 20          Total Amount: $410,500

 
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