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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.

OREGON

BodyVox
Portland, OR
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the world premiere of a new work, choreographed by artistic directors Jamey Hampton and Ashley Roland. The work will be accompanied by a soundtrack of scenes from classic and independent films, along with an original music score composed by Vivek Maddala.

City of Beaverton, Oregon (on behalf of Beaverton Arts Commission)
Beaverton, OR
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Beaverton Ten Tiny Dances, a series of site-specific performances held in Beaverton civic spaces. New work from contemporary and traditional dancers and choreographers highlighting selected public art works will be commissioned and presented in Beaverton's downtown district.

Columbia Arts
Hood River, OR
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support World Performances in the Gorge, a series of dance and music presentations. Proposed artists include Craicmore, a contemporary Celtic music band; Nanda, a dance comedy group; Ache-Brasil, specializing in the performance of popular and traditional Afro-Brazilian music and dance; and Al-Andalus Ensemble, a group that fuses classical, jazz, and contemporary music with traditions from the Middle East, Africa, and Europe.

Eugene Symphony Association, Inc.
Eugene, OR
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Laura Avery Visiting Masters Program, an artistic development program for student musicians. Launched in the symphony's 2005-06 season, the program is an annual series of artistic development activities for student musicians in Eugene, Springfield, and Roseburg, Oregon, offering master classes, coaching sessions, lectures, and workshops by guest artists such as pianist Emanuel Ax and violinist Midori who will be featured in 2012.

Imago, The Theatre Mask Ensemble (aka Imago Theatre)
Portland, OR
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support productions of The Damask Drum and Busu, plays by Yukio Mishima Director Jerry Mouawad will collaborate with Dr. Larry Kominz, director of the Center of Japanese Studies at Portland State University, to reinvent traditional Japanese theater styles with Western sensibilities.

Miracle Theatre Group
Portland, OR
$18,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of Jardin de Suenos, an original Spanish-language play based on pre-Hispanic legends by Sofia May-Cuxim, directed by Christy Drogosch. Originally developed as a children's theater piece centered on the indigenous Mayan and Cocomas myths, the play tells the story of a young girl who rescues a hummingbird that leads her into a garden of dreams where she is transformed by encounters with legendary folk characters.

Oregon Ballet Theatre
Portland, OR
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a world premiere of The Nutcracker, choreographed by Yuri Possokhov and artistic director Christopher Stowell. The choreographers will each direct one act of the work - the first act will be set in a picturesque Bavarian town during the Industrial Revolution; the second act is set inside a toy theater.

Oregon Children's Theatre Company
Portland, OR
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the commission and the production of The Storm in the Barn, an adaptation by playwright Eric Coble of Matt Phelan's novel that won the 2010 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. Set in 1937 Kansas, in the midst of the Dust Bowl, the play portrays a family on the verge of losing their farm and an 11 year-old boy who can barely remember a time with enough rain.

Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association
Ashland, OR
$80,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and world premieres of Universes' Party People and Robert Schenkkan's All The Way, created as part of American Revolutions, OSF's decade-long, public dialogue, commissioning, and production initiative. Artistic director Bill Rauch and director Liesl Tommy will explore the turbulent and pivotal decades of the 1960s and 70s from two radically different perspectives: the rise and fall of the activist groups, the Young Lords and Black Panthers, and the early presidency of Lyndon Baines Johnson.

Portland Center Stage
Portland, OR
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the 14th annual JAW (Just Add Water): Playwrights Festival, which supports playwrights in new work development to enhance the repertoire of the American theater. The two-week festival brings four playwrights to Portland where their work with theater professionals culminates in formal mainstage readings of the playwrights' works.

Portland Opera Association Inc. (aka Portland Opera)
Portland, OR
$17,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support Galileo Galilei by composer Philip Glass and librettists Mary Zimmerman and Arnold Weinstein. The production will serve as the centerpiece of a larger community initiative celebrating the work of Philip Glass and the intersection of art with science, that will culminate with a recording of the work and its first-ever commercial release.

Southern Oregon Film Society
Ashland, OR
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support costs related to the 11th Ashland Independent Film Festival. More than 50 filmmakers will be invited to present and discuss their work, conduct workshops, and participate in panel discussions.

University of Oregon (on behalf of Oregon Bach Festival)
Eugene, OR
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Stangeland Family Youth Choral Academy program. A 12-day summer program of the Oregon Bach Festival, students have the opportunity to study vocal technique with artists such as Helmuth Rilling. Also, teachers and teaching artists attend professional development.

University of Oregon (Consortium)
Eugene, OR
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Native Language Arts Apprenticeship Program. In collaboration with the Confederated Tribes of Grande Ronde, this project will provide opportunities for master native artists to teach art forms such as basketmaking to apprenticeships in their native language.

White Bird
Portland, OR
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support dance performances in the White Bird Uncaged series Kidd Pivot (Canada), Yasmeen Godder (Israel), and other companies will be presented in intimate-sized venues.

Willamette University (on behalf of Hallie Ford Museum of Art)
Salem, OR
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support Extending the Conversation, an artist residency and commissioning project at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. Designed to complement the museum's recently re-installed permanent gallery of Native American art, the commissioned artists are sculptor Joe Feddersen (Colville), Omak, WA; traditional weaver and regalia-maker Robert Kentta (Siletz), Siletz, OR, and multi-media artist Marie Watt (Seneca), Portland, OR.


Number of Grants: 16          Total Amount: $315,500

 
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