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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.

WASHINGTON

Celtic Arts Foundation
Mount Vernon, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Masters of Scottish Arts Concert and Celtic Arts Instructional Schools. The project will produce a concert of traditional Scottish music, performed by recognized masters of Scottish bagpipes, Scottish-style drums, and fiddling from the United Kingdom and Canada; additionally, the master musicians will present instructional classes for aspiring Scottish-style musicians.

Columbia Basin College
Pasco, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Mid-Columbia Literary Festival (Litfest). The annual author reading series sponsored by Columbia Basin College and its literary partners features guest authors selected by the LitFest steering committee. Authors previously presented have included Sherman Alexie, Sandra Cisneros, Alex Sanchez, Gary Soto, and Richard Yancey.

Copper Canyon Press
Port Townsend, WA
$65,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, promotion, and national distribution of books of poetry in both traditional and electronic book formats. Scheduled authors include James Arthur, Robert Bringhurst, Cyrus Cassells, Natalie Diaz, Dan Gerberk, Tung-Hui Hu, W.S. Merwin, Lucia Perillo, David Wagoner, and Dean Young.

Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle
Seattle, WA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Earshot Jazz Festival. Performances of more than 250 artists in approximately 60 concerts in various Seattle venues including the Seattle Art Museum, Kirkland Performance Center, and Cornish College of the Arts, will occur along with rare jazz film screenings, photo exhibits, multimedia art installations, artists' panels, residencies, and educational programs.

Fisher, Karen
Lopez Island, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Hedgebrook Foundation
Langley, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artist Communities
To support the Writers in Residence program. No-cost residencies will be available to women writers at the retreat located on Whidbey Island.

Kirkland Center Of The Performing Arts (aka Kirkland Performance Center)
Kirkland, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the premiere of ASTITVA: Heroines and Revolutions of India, a new dance work by Dr. Ratna Roy featuring vocalist Srivani Jade, and related outreach activities. Additional activities include a pre-performance lecture by University of Washington faculty and in-school residencies by the artists.

Museum of Glass
Tacoma, WA
$34,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the Visiting Artist Residency Program. The program provides week-long access to state-of-the-art equipment, supplies, and assistance from the Museum's Hot Shop team for as many as 24 artists from all over the world.

Music of Remembrance
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the commission and premiere performance of a new chamber music work by American composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer and the Sparks of Glory concert series tour.

Northwest Film Forum
Seattle, WA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a curated film exhibition series. The project will present director retrospectives, premieres, films for children, and thematic programming in Northwest Film Forum's two theaters.

Northwest Native American Basketweavers Association
Black Diamond, WA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the annual gathering of basketweavers, youth weaving programs, and mini-gatherings. The gathering offers an opportunity for indigenous weavers to showcase their basketry and share their artistic techniques with one another and the general public; the mini-gatherings provide opportunities for people in remote communities to engage in and learn about weaving techniques and learn about the historical and cultural significance of basketry.

Northwest Symphony Orchestra
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support 25 X 125, a series of activities commemorating the organization's milestone of performing 125 works by Northwest composers over the past 25 years. Project activities involving guest artist composer and guitarist Michael Nicolella will include a commission of a new concerto, a concert featuring the new work, and presentations for students of the Highline School District.

On the Boards
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a series of dance presentations and associated educational and outreach activities. Through performances and outreach activities such as the filming and OntheBoards.tv's distribution of new works, a regional choreography competition, the 12 Minutes Max Performance Lab, online podcasts, audience review blogs, and master classes, approximately 6,400 individuals will be reached.

Pacific Northwest Ballet
Seattle, WA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of Repertory Program 4 New Works. The program will include the Pacific Northwest Ballet premiere of David Dawson's A Million Kisses to my Skin, and the world premieres of Cylindrical Shadows by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa and a newly commissioned work by Victor Quijada.

Pilchuck Glass School
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support an artist residency program. Artists will be provided with resources, facilities, and technical assistance for a variety of residency opportunities including the John Hauberg Residency for distinguished artists whose medium is not glass, summer artists' residency, and emerging artists' residency.

Ray, Shann
Spokane, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Seattle Chamber Music Festival
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support summer chamber music festivals at Benaroya Hall in Seattle. The concerts will be curated by new artistic director James Ehnes and associate artistic director Toby Saks and will feature artists such as pianists Anton Nel, Jeremy Denk, and Anna Polonsky; violinists James Ehnes, Stefan Jackiw, and Amy Schwartz Moretti; violists Richard O'Neill and Cynthia Phelps; and cellists Robert deMaine and Ronald Thomas.

Seattle Children's Theatre Association
Seattle, WA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere of A Single Shard adapted by playwright Robert Schenkkan from the book by Linda Sue Park. The play portrays an impoverished orphan boy in 12th-century Korea who in search for a better life, is devoted to an older disabled man.

Seattle Opera
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the new production of Orphee et Eurydice by composer Christoph Willibald Gluck. Educational events will include preview lectures, post-performance question-and-answer sessions, and the company's Experience Opera program, which allows students to experience in-class presentations and dress rehearsals for free.

Seattle Repertory Theatre
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris with direction by associate artistic director Braden Abraham. Home is where the heart and history reside in Clybourne Park as it spins the events of the classic play A Raison in the Sun to tell an unforgettable new story about race and gentrification in America.

Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the American Composers Project: Commissions and Premieres and Made in America Festival: Part 3. The programming will feature premieres of new works by Daron Aric Hagen, David Diamond, Michael Hersch, and Nico Muhly, as well as performances of works by John Adams, Leonard Bernstein, Charles Ives, William Bolcom, Howard Hanson, Augusta Read Thomas, Bernard Rands, Samuel Jones, Ellen Taafe Zwilich, and W. Schuman.

Spatz, Gregory
Spokane, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Theatre Puget Sound
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the marketing of Arts Crush, a collaborative arts festival in the Puget Sound region. The project will promote programming at more than 200 arts organizations and other featured events. It will also announce discounted tickets and free admission.

Unidentified Moving Objects Company, Inc. (aka UMO Ensemble)
Vashon, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and production of a physical theater piece entitled Maldoror. Founding artist Janet McAlpin will collaborate with Seattle musician Andre Sanabria to create a buffoon-influenced performance inspired by 19th-century Surrealist writer le Comte de Lautreamont (pen name for Isidore Ducasse).

Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission
Olympia, WA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support a continuation of Celebrating Cultures: Multicultural Celebrations & Concerts Series in Washington State Parks. The project will present a series of concerts and festival celebrations in state parks, diverse urban centers, and rural locations, featuring occupational poetry, traditional music, craft demonstrations, and Chinese puppetry.

Whatcom Museum Foundation
Bellingham, WA
$34,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition, Vanishing Ice: Alpine and Polar Landscapes in Art, 1775-2012. The exhibition will examine the artistic legacy of the planet's frozen frontiers -- glaciers, icebergs, and fields of ice-- now jeopardized by climate change through the presentation of 75 works by artists such as Caspar Wolf (1735-98), Johann George Foster (1754-94), and Frederic Church (1826-1900), and contemporary artists such as Rachel Whiteread, Antony Gormley and Paul D. Miller/DJ Spooky, Stuart Klipper, Camille Seaman, and Xavier Cortada.


Number of Grants: 26          Total Amount: $593,000

 
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