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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.

VIRGINIA

Blue Ridge Traditional Arts, Inc.
Galax, VA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support traditional music programming at the Blue Ridge Music Center. The project will present concerts, lectures, and workshops celebrating music and dance traditions of the Appalachian Mountains, and will feature local and regional talent, including NEA Heritage fellows Wayne Henderson and Doc Watson.

Chateauville Foundation
Great Falls, VA
$17,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the fourth Castleton Festival, which takes place annually on a farm in rural Virginia and includes opera performances with orchestral accompaniment. The festival's mission to engage young artists will be met by the residency program that will allow 40 advanced voice students to live, study, and perform onsite during the festival.

Conductors Guild, Inc.
Richmond, VA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Conductor Training Workshops. Seven workshops will take place in Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, Ann Arbor, and Rochester featuring conductors Marin Alsop, Cliff Colnot, Allan Dennis, David Effron, Gustav Meier, Patrick Pearson, Carl Topilow, Joel Smirnoff, and Lawrence Leighton Smith as instructors.

Eastern Shore of Virginia Barrier Islands Center (aka Barrier Islands Center)
Machipongo, VA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Patchwork of Virginia Music Festival. A one-day event including lecture-demonstrations and performances, the festival will feature traditional roots music of Virginia and also explore the history and style of Mariachi music from the western part of Mexico as a means of engaging an increasing Latino population in the area.

Latin Ballet of Virginia, Inc.
Richmond, VA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the production of Volver, a new dance theater work created by choreographer Catherine Marie Davalos that relflects Chicano culture. The production will tour to inner-city and rural areas in Virginia and North Carolina.

National Symphony Orchestra Association of Washington, DC
Arlington, VA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support The Music of Budapest, Prague, and Vienna, a month-long tribute to that region's impact on the history of Western music, directed by music director Christoph Eschenbach. Programming will include orchestral and chamber works by Bela Bartok, Antonin Dvorak, Franz Liszt, Zoltan Kodaly, and the Strauss family, and will feature guest artists Anne Schwanewilms, Nathalie Stutzman, Steve Davislim, Rogert Holl, and the Washington Chorus.

Richmond Ballet
Richmond, VA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the re-staging and presentation of Rodeo by choreographer Agnes de Mille. Rodeo, performed to the Aaron Copland score, will be presented during the Richmond Symphony's Pops concert series, Richmond Ballet's first such collaboration with the orchestra.

Shenandoah University
Winchester, VA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Performing Arts Live Series and outreach activity featuring Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Ailey II. In addition to performing, each artist will lead a workshop for middle school students and community members.

Signature Theatre, Inc.
Arlington, VA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the rehearsal of a new musical, Brother Russia, by the award-winning team of Dana P. Rowe and John Dempsey, and directed by artistic director Eric Schaeffer. A Russian theater troupe performs its ramshackle adaptations of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky for local farmers, and one night, its star, the seemingly immortal Brother Russia, enlists his fellow actors to help dramatize his own life story, the mystical saga of Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin.

Tamworth Music Festival (aka Staunton Music Festival)
Staunton, VA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Noon-Time Concert & Outreach Series, free performances featuring artists including violist Amadi Azikiwe, violinist Diane Pascal, and violinist Antti Tikkanen. Concert locations will include the Booker T. Washington Center, the Virginia Correctional Center for Women, the Monterey Community Center, and the Augusta Medical Center.

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Amherst, VA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artist Communities
To support four- to six-week residencies for artists creating artworks for social media platforms. Five artists will be given a stipend, room and board, and the possibility of publication via electronic broadcast or narrowcast outlets.

Virginia Opera Association, Inc.
Norfolk, VA
$17,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a production of Orfee by composer Philip Glass and early 20th-century librettist, Jean Cocteau. The creative team will include director Sam Helfrich and conductor Steven Jarvi who will be joined by baritone Matthew Worth, soprano Sara Jakubiak, soprano Heather Buck, tenor Jeffrey Lentz, and bass Christopher Temporelli.


Number of Grants: 12          Total Amount: $207,500

 
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