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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.

MASSACHUSETTS

Artists for Humanity, Inc.
Boston, MA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a youth painting and photography apprenticeship program. Studio courses in painting and photography will be offered to under-resourced high school students providing them with access to arts education, cultural enrichment, and an entrepreneurship program to develop creative skills under the tutelage of professional artist mentors.

Arts Boston, Inc. (Consortium)
Boston, MA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the second phase of the Berkshire Audiences Initiative. In partnership with the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, this project will identify trends from the data collected in Phase I to create the first data-driven portrait of cultural participation in the Berkshires Region. This will help organizations understand their existing audiences, broaden and increase those audiences, and improve marketing effectiveness.

Atlantic Public Media Inc (aka APM)
Woods Hole, MA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Transom.org, a website that acts as a showcase, workshop, audition space, library, and master class for producers. The project encourages both emerging and experienced independent audio producers to tell their stories on public radio.

Barrington Stage Company, Inc.
Pittsfield, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a production of Fiddler on the Roof, with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, directed by Artistic Director Julianne Boyd. The theater will engage audiences through special exhibits and lectures on the immigrant experience conducted in partnership with community organizations including the Berkshire Immigrant Center and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.

Berklee College of Music, Inc.
Boston, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival in the Boston's South End. The 2012 outdoor festival is titled Celebrate Women in Jazz and will include free performances from renowned musicians including Geri Allen and JoAnne Brackeen, as well as educational events, multi-media installations, and live-Internet streaming of interviews with female jazz musicians.

Boston Landmarks Orchestra (aka BLO)
Boston, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a school residency, commission, and performances of a new work by composer Michael Gandolfi. The composer will work with students at the Conservatory Lab Charter School to create a new work for double orchestra that will be premiered by student and BLO musicians.

Boston Lyric Opera Company, Inc. (Consortium)
Boston, MA
$17,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support Music! Words! Opera! and Vacation Week Institutes, in-school and out-of-school opera and theater education programs. In partnership with Wheelock College's Family Theatre, the programs will engage Boston school children.

Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, Inc. (Consortium)
Boston, MA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support performances of Mozart's The Magic Flute. In partnership with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, 105 young instrumentalists of the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra will benefit from the inclusion of opera repertoire incorporated into their orchestral training, culminating in the performance of a full, semi-staged opera with professional musicians and singers.

Center for Independent Documentary, Inc. (aka True Support for True Films)
Sharon, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the second phase of the interactive website, Our Mother Tongues, and its related community outreach activities. The website will expand to include thematic modules, podcasts, story circles, video updates of the documentary film We Still Live Here, and additional educational materials.

City of Salem, Massachusetts
Salem, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the planning for public art in downtown Salem, Massachusetts. Urban design consultants will be engaged to develop schematic designs for the Essex Street Pedestrian Mall, including recommendations for locations and types of public art installations and performance spaces.

Filmmakers Collaborative, Inc.
Waltham, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support completion of Fiddles on Fire. The documentary film will feature fiddlers representing various fiddle traditions, such as Cajun, Jazz, Scottish, Old Time, and Bluegrass.

Filmmakers Collaborative, Inc.
Waltham, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a national engagement initiative for the release of the feature length documentary, Joe Papp in Five Acts. Engagement plans will include a website, social media tools, and an education initiative designed to reinvigorate a nationwide discussion about the value of the arts in everyday life.

From the Top, Inc.
Boston, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support educational outreach activities. Musicians that appear on From the Top, the weekly classical radio program, will take part in Arts Leadership workshops and perform concerts in school classrooms and community venues.

From the Top, Inc.
Boston, MA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of the public radio series From the Top. The weekly, hour-long radio program features performances by young classical musicians ages eight to 18. From the Top is distributed by National Public Radio to 226 stations nationwide and reaches a weekly audience of 600,000.

Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
$17,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Research
To support a study of causal factors pertaining to the "birth" and "death" rates of arts and cultural institutions. This project will analyze IRS Form 990s for nonprofit arts and cultural institutions in six major U.S. urban centers in order to produce and compare survival rates over a 20-year period (1989-2009).

Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc.
Becket, MA
$65,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the expansion of Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive. The online video exhibit currently gives access to more than 100 dance performances drawn from the Jacob's Pillow archive. Other project activities include developing an interactive dance company guessing game and creating a mobile version for smartphones and tablets.

Learning By Design in Massachusetts, Inc.
Boston, MA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Architecture: Teaching by Design. Using Boston architecture as a basis for observation and study, a core group of teachers and designers will plan and execute a series of professional development workshops for kindergarten through eighth-grade teachers from underserved area schools.

Lexington Symphony, Inc.
Lexington, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Orchestrating Kids through Classics, a music education and outreach project. Plans include in-school presentations by small ensembles in 36 metropolitan Boston elementary schools and five full orchestral concerts in Lexington and Framingham, Massachusetts.

Lowell Festival Foundation
Lowell, MA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 25th annual Lowell Folk Festival, a showcase of high-caliber traditional artists from a variety of cultures that represent the region's diverse ethnic and immigrant populations. Performance fees will be provided for traditional craft demonstrators and performers, and as many as 100 artists will participate.

Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Boston, MA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Summer Studios, an intensive 4-week summer visual arts program for high school students entering grades 11 and 12 to attend an intensive 4-week summer visual arts program. Students will participate in morning core classes that build a strong foundation in drawing, painting, and figurative sculpture. Students also will develop critical thinking skills through the study of art history, contemporary art, and current events, and take elective studio classes.

Massachusetts Cultural Council
Boston, MA
$889,100
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc. (aka MASS MoCA) (Consortium)
North Adams, MA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Assets for Artists. In partnership with The Midas Collaborative, Inc., this program supports low income artists in all disciplines through financial education, small business training, and individual development accounts that provide matching funds as targeted investment in specific projects.

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc. (aka MASS MoCA)
North Adams, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production and post -production for Work in Progress, a series of short documentaries featuring selected projects from Mass MoCA's visual and performing arts residency program. The documentary will include interviews with artists and show the works of art in various stages of progress and completion. Each documentary will be available for free on the Mass MoCA website as well as on Vimeo and YouTube.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (aka MFA, Boston)
Boston, MA
$88,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the Korean Collection Access Initiative. The two-pronged project will include publication of a collection catalogue and the reinstallation of the museum's world-class Korean collection in a new 1,200-square-foot gallery space.

New England Foundation for the Arts
Boston, MA
$1,058,300
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum (aka The Boston Athenaeum)
Boston, MA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the American Painting and Sculpture Project at the Boston Athenaeum. Through this effort, the Athenaeum will document, photograph, and make widely available images and detailed information about its historic collections of American painting and sculpture.

PRX, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Public Radio Remix, a 24/7 channel on XM Radio, which is also available as an Internet stream, and to support expansion of the channel onto mobile platforms. To date, Public Radio Remix has aired more than 1,200 programs from independent radio producers including broadcasts from the Third Coast International Audio Festival, works from the Kitchen Sisters' archive, and contemporary pieces by Youth Radio and Radio Rookies.

Shakespeare & Company, Inc.
Lenox, MA
$55,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Fall Festival of Shakespeare, a theater arts residency program. The series of classroom and after-school sessions will focus on a language-based exploration of a Shakespearean play through master classes, rehearsals, text analysis, and student performances, as well as professional development for classroom teachers.

Underground Railway Puppets & Actors, Inc. (aka Underground Railway Theater, Inc)
Cambridge, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Tony Kushner's translation of Brundibar, a family opera by Hans Krasa and Adolf Hoffmeister, and But the Giraffe!, a one-act play that Kushner wrote as its partner. A collaboration with Facing History and Ourselves, Longy School of Music, and the Terezin Music Foundation, related programming will include an arts immersion institute for teachers, a training and mentoring program for young performers, pre-show symposia, post-show conversations, story-telling events, and a lobby installation.

University of Massachusetts at Amherst (on behalf of University Museum of Contemporary Art)
Amherst, MA
$100,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a symposium, commissioning of art works, and an exhibition exploring the contemporary relevance of W.E.B. Du Bois at the University Museum of Contemporary Art. Designed to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Du Bois' death and the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, the project will examine his influence on social justice, women's rights, higher education, the arts, political action, and environmentalism.

Williams College
Williamstown, MA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Kidspace, a visual arts education program. The program will offer students the opportunity to study and make visual art under the direction of professional artists and provide numerous professional development opportunities for teachers.

Williams College, The President and Trustees of
Williamstown, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Research
To support a study that will examine whether a causal link exists between cultural activities and economic prosperity, and which investigates the tendency of arts and cultural organizations to cluster in specific neighborhoods. This study uses two novel methodologiesfrom other, non-arts sectorsto establish a causal relationship between increases in per-capita arts program expenditures and long-run gains in GDP within urban areas.

Worcester Art Museum (aka WAM)
Worcester, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support Teen Artists @ WAM. The project consists of two elements: a non-competitive, sequential art class with students working with artist-mentors and the museum's collection, and a competitive art-making event in which nominated students from throughout Massachusetts will work with professional artists to create large-scale installations during a two-day period.

Yard, Inc.
Chilmark, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the 40th anniversary residency project. Yard, an artist and performance center on Martha's Vineyard, will host multi-disciplinary group artist residencies focused on creation, community participation, and presentation, as well as performances and special events such as film installations.

Youth Design, Inc.
Boston, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support Youth Design: Engage for a Change campaign. The campaign includes the creation of a mobile pop-up exhibit that showcases winning designs from the Time to Design Competition and an online broadcast of the Professional Development Seminar Series that profiles career paths for young designers.


Number of Grants: 35          Total Amount: $3,094,900

 
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