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FY 2012 Grant Awards: State Listings

Art Works II/Arts in Media/Partnerships

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

GEORGIA

Alternate ROOTS, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the 36th Annual Meeting. The 2012 conference will be the third and final conference of a three-year-program focusing on diversity in the southern United States.

Atlanta Opera (Consortium)
Atlanta, GA
$17,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support performances of Scott Joplin's Treemonisha. In partnership with Morehouse College in Atlanta, Atlanta Opera will produce a revival production that not only will provide the public and Morehouse students the opportunity to see the lone surviving opera by the famous African American composer and pianist, but also will serve as a model for future collaboration between opera companies and colleges and universities in close proximity to them.

Atlanta Shakespeare Company (aka The New American Shakespeare Tavern)
Atlanta, GA
$33,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Shakespeare performance residencies and a festival of plays. Middle and high school students will learn all aspects of performance and technical theater, attend professional productions, and mount fully staged productions at school and on the professional stage.

Georgia Department of Economic Development, Georgia Council for the Arts
Atlanta, GA
$770,200
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Georgia Tech Research Corporation
Atlanta, GA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Research
To support a two-phase study investigating: (1) the value of time spent by Americans on arts-related activities, and (2) an analysis of the impacts of arts districts on neighborhood characteristics. The first phase of the study will examine activities such as the costs of traveling to and from arts events, based on data from the U.S. Department of Labor's American Time Use Survey (ATUS) and the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey (CPS).

Horizon Theatre Company, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the New South Young Playwrights Festival. The project consists of an annual national play competition for high school and college playwrights through which competitively selected writers are invited to participate in a free, week-long playwriting intensive that culminates in a public reading of the students' works.

Kennesaw State University Research & Service Foundation (on behalf of KSU Art Museum and Galleries)
Kennesaw, GA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a multi-media installation by artist Matt Haffner (b. 1967) on the Kennesaw State University campus. The work, to be displayed in the foyer of the visual arts building, will use video portraits of working-class individuals projected over vinyl cutouts that detail aspects of the urban environment in which they live.

Push Push Theater Company
Decatur, GA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the development of the process used to create, produce, market, and distribute the GRFX (graphics) Series, a cross-platform narrative film project. The GRFX Series is about the fictional firm Dresher's Publishing. The series will be designed to exist simultaneously on network television, DVD, and the web. PushPush will work with artists both here and abroad to produce each hour-long episode. The development process includes workshops, storyboarding, webisode production, and testing on various platforms.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc. (on behalf of Atlanta Symphony Orchestra)
Atlanta, GA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support ASO Around Georgia, a statewide touring and community partnership initiative of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. The project will be led and conducted by Music Director Robert Spano and Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra conductor Jere Flint.

South Arts Inc. (aka frmly, Southern Arts Federation, Inc.)
Atlanta, GA
$1,431,000
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Spelman College (aka Digital Moving Image Salon)
Atlanta, GA
$100,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support HERadventure, a multi-episode, augmented reality computer game. Targeted to young women ages 18-25, HERadventure's story focuses on a young female superhero sent to Earth to save her own planet from devastation because of climate changes caused by social issues impacting women and girls. The game will be designed to be accessible online, on mobile platforms, Facebook, and Twitter and is designed and led by filmmaker and digital media artist Ayoka Chenzira with a team of artists.

University of Georgia
Athens, GA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Research
To support a qualitative research analysis to generate a hypothesis about community-built practices to inform policies and programs. The term "community-built" describes a practice whereby artists and designers involve local community volunteers in the design, organization, and construction of projects such as playgrounds, mosaic sculptures, murals, community gardens, and amphitheaters

Urban Youth Harp Ensemble, Inc.
East Point, GA
$34,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Urban Youth Harp Ensemble. The program provides daily harp instruction to students at Carver School of the Arts, and is designed to teach harp technique, music theory, and music history.


Number of Grants: 13          Total Amount: $2,570,700

 
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