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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.

NORTH CAROLINA

American Dance Festival
Durham, NC
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the What is a Dance Movement? series. Honoring the 50th anniversary of the Judson Church dance movement, the presentations will feature artists from that era including Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs, and David Gordon, as well as some of their proteges and seminal choreographers who came before such as Paul Taylor and Alwin Nikolais.

Boggs, Belle
Pittsboro, NC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Center for Documentary Studies
Durham, NC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 15th Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. The event will showcase work by emerging, established, and international documentarians.

Cucalorus Film Foundation
Wilmington, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 18th Cucalorus Film Festival. The festival programs American independent films, foreign films, shorts, documentaries, experimental work, and films by students.

Dreams of Wilmington, Inc. (aka DREAMS Center for Arts Education)
Wilmington, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support North Side Arts Festivals, a series of multidisciplinary arts events for the North Side of Wilmington. Proposed guest artists include Chuck Davis and the African American Dance Ensemble, theatrical performer Mike Wiley, slam poet and musician Dasan Ahanu, and performance poet Glenis Redmond.

Lake Eden Arts Festival (aka LEAF)
Black Mountain, NC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support The LEAF in Schools & Streets outreach program as part of the LEAF Blues Festival. Performances (accompanied by educational and contextual explanations) will be held at the festival and at various community centers and schools.

McColl Center for Visual Art
Charlotte, NC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artist Communities
To support residencies for visual artists. Participating artists will be provided housing, workspace, technical assistance, transportation costs, a materials budget, and a monthly stipend for a three-month residency.

North Carolina Opera
Raleigh, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the production of Philip Glass's Les Enfants Terribles. The performance will align with the company's new commitment to present an annual mainstage production of a contemporary work and also will coincide with the composer's 75th birthday.

Project H Design
Windsor, NC
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support Studio H, a community design/build and public education program in rural Bertie County, North Carolina. Through an intensive high school design curriculum, 16 high school students will design and build a contextually responsive and socially transformative architecture project to house programming that benefits the public.

RiverRun International Film Festival
Winston-Salem, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Films with Class. Throughout the school year, RiverRun will partner with 25 elementary, middle, and high schools to screen American independent and international work to students and will produce a curriculum to accompany the program.

Stecoah Valley Arts, Crafts & Educational Center, Inc. (aka Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center)
Robbinsville, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support An Appalachian Evening Performing Arts Series. To be held in summer 2012, the concert series will feature traditional Appalachian music and entertainment such as old-time, bluegrass, Celtic music, dancing, and storytelling, and will include informal demonstrations to deepen the audience's understanding of Appalachian culture.

The Light Factory-Contemporary Museum of Photography
Charlotte, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support several curated film series. Programs include Indie Spotlight, Outdoor Film Screenings, the Teen Film Series, and Meet the Artist.

Tryon Palace Commission
New Bern, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Mapping: The New World in 1590 and Our World Today, an exhibit of mezzotints and prints created by Julie Niskanen based on the works by 16th-century engraver Theodor de Bry. Niskanen will develop her work on-site and will lead a series of public workshops.

University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Wilmington, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of the journal Ecotone, as well as books of poetry and fiction. The bi-annual journal seeks to bridge the gap between the literary world and the worlds of science and environmentalism.


Number of Grants: 14          Total Amount: $265,000

 
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